Although imagined as a queer subcultural practice drag seems to be everywhere we look from AI filters on TikTok to brunchtime entertainment from state legislations to political rallies. Yet as drag enters the mainstreamlargely due to the intense global popularity of reality TV competitionamp160RuPauls Drag Raceamp8212some kinds of genderbased performance fall out of the purview of what we could call drag.amp10Decolonize Dragamp160details the ways that gender is used as a form of colonial governance to eliminate various types of expression and tracks how contemporary drag including that onamp160Drag Race both replicates and disrupts these institutional hierarchies. This book focuses on several gender performers that resist and laugh at colonial projects through their aesthetic practices. It also features the voice of Khubchandanis drag alter ego judgmental South Asian aunty LaWhore Vagistan. From the firsthand perspective of a drag artist LaWhore describes encounters with depoliticized versions of drag that leave her disappointed and perplexed and prompts Khubchandani for context and analysis.amp10Their dynamic sets the tone for the book investigating how dragamp8212and gender more broadlyamp8212has been privatized and delimited so that its only available to certain people.amp160Decolonize Dragamp160argues for more abundance in and access to fashioning gender and considers how drag changes meaning and efficacy as it shifts across geographies.