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CRAVING FALL

Indulge your sweet tooth with five local treats perfect for the turn of the season PAGE 6

THIS IS ACTUALLY A DRILL Vox explores the mechanics behind Marching Mizzou’s football halftime shows PAGE 15

LONG LIVE THE QUEEN Shawn James, aka Veronika Versace, makes a name for himself as Columbia’s rising drag star PAGE 8

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September 21, 2017 VOLUME 19 ISSUE 23 | PUBLISHED BY THE COLUMBIA MISSOURIAN

FEATURE Strut your stuff, and take a look inside Columbia’s drag community. You’ll discover some of the faces, flair and family that made drag a safe space for Shawn James to express his originality. PAGE 8 NEWS & INSIGHT Working moms find a haven at The Hatchery, a local business that helps combat the misconception that moms must choose between working or parenting. PAGE 4 THE SCENE Ditch the snow cones and ice cream; it’s time to spice up your taste buds with these five fall desserts from local eateries. PAGE 6 MUSIC OK, Tigers, now let’s get in formation. Vox learns what exactly goes into orchestrating Marching Mizzou’s halftime shows. PAGE 15 ARTS & BOOKS Fiction lovers, thrill-seekers and poets, unite.

We have your guide to the fall reads that will satisfy any interest. PAGE 17

DISCOVER A NEW FAVORITE MUSICAL Are you a fan of Wicked, Hamilton or Dear Evan Hansen? Don’t let your love of musical theater stop there. The best cast albums to suit your taste are only a few clicks away.

WHEN ART MAKES A STATEMENT Created by victims of sexual assault, the “It Happened” exhibit takes an artistic approach to confront gender violence and assault through a variety of media.

LONG-FORM ENTHUSIASTS Vox revamps its list of excellent long-form journalism sites to bring you recommendations including Narratively, Snapzu and more.

EDITOR’S LETTER

Q&A: KATE CANTERBURY This social advocate and mother discusses parenting, progress and the importance of speaking up for what you believe in. PAGE 18 COVER DESIGN: ALEXANDRA WOZNICZKA COVER PHOTO: OLIVIA LIU For the cover, Shawn James came into Vox’s photo studio, and we took a picture of his transformation to Veronika every seven minutes.

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The first time I met a drag queen, I was on stage with her. My grandma’s hairstylist, Anthony, was performing “Proud Mary” as Tina Turner at a local gay bar and needed backup dancers. Because my two cousins and I happened to be dancers, our grandma volunteered us for the job.

I was 14 at the time, so my dad needed to come along to get me into the bar. He happily stood in a sea of drag queens at Red Carpet Lounge in Charleston, West Virginia, to cheer me on. I was fascinated, to say the least — the hair, the makeup, the dresses. Anthony spent thousands of dollars on his look for the night and made sure every detail was precise.

Shawn James is just as meticulous with Veronika Versace’s look. He spends hours putting on makeup and months preparing for a performance.

This week’s feature (Page 6) follows James’ journey from coming out to his parents to emerging as a star in Columbia’s drag scene. James has played a part in shaping Columbia’s drag community and providing a safe space for queer MU students.

James started out admiring those first drag queens he saw as a freshman and spending hours watching YouTube tutorials. He learned how to freely express himself, and now, he’s one who future drag queens look up to.

I haven’t done any more backup dancing for drag queens since my debut.

I’m happy to sit back and admire the beauty and dedication of those people who create and rule the stage for free expression.

VOX STAFF Editor: Madison Fleck Deputy Editor: Sten Spinella Managing Editor: Kelsie Schrader Digital Managing Editor: Lea Konczal Multimedia Editor: Meg Vatterott Online Editor: Brooke Vaughan Art Directors: Keegan Pope, Alexandra Wozniczka Photo Editor: Erin Bormett News & Insight Editors: Lauren Puckett, Rachel Treece The Scene Editors: Brea Cubit, Brooke Kottmann, Lily Zhao Music Editors: Lis Joyce, Amanda Lundgren Arts & Books Editors: Karlee Renkoski, Mary Salatino, Micki Wagner Contributing Writers: Taylor Banks, Emma Beyer, Kristin Blake, Alex Edwards, Jasmine-Kay Johnson, Kaylin Jones, Caroline Kealy, Meghan Lally, Rick Morgan, Rachel Phillips, Bianca Rodriguez, John Sadler, Samantha Stokes, Caroline Watkins, Meghan Weinewuth, Catherine Wendlandt, Chloe Wilt Editorial Director: Heather Lamb Executive Editor: Jennifer Rowe Digital Director: Sara Shipley Hiles Office Manager: Kim Townlain

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RADAR

Vox’s take on the talk of the week

A TALE OF TWO REACTIONS State leaders revealed differing opinions about the protests following the Jason Stockley verdict, which found the St. Louis officer not guilty of the 2011 shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith.

“These aren’t protestors (sic), these are criminals.

Criminals, listen up: you break a window, you’re going to be behind bars.”

–Gov. Eric Greitens “As I’ve stated before, we may not understand our neighbor, our friends, or even our family member’s reactions, but it is up to each of us to try.” – St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson

Fulton feels the Bern

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders gives the Green Foundation Lecture at Westminster College in Fulton today on global politics. But he’s not the only speaker who has visited this private college of 876 students. Other notable figures have traveled to Missouri universities: Winston Churchill gave his famous Iron Curtain speech at this same lecture series in 1946.

Decades later in 1992, Mikhail Gorbachev attended the series to declare the end of the Cold War and the start of peace.

In the first decade of Washington University’s Assembly Series lectures, Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech in 1957, and Eleanor Roosevelt spoke in 1954 and 1957.

RUN, TECH, RUN And the Emmy goes to ... diversity!

Nike, Adidas and Vodafone are sponsoring elite runners at this Sunday’s BMW Berlin Marathon. Aiming to break the world record and two-hour mark, Nike and Adidas created custom shoes for Kenyan runners Eliud Kipchoge and Wilson Kipsang, respectively.

Vodafone is working with Ethiopian runner Kenenisa Bekele to promote its wearable technology such as a smartwatch app intended to improve training.

Donald Glover won two awards, and his win for outstanding director for the comedy series Atlanta was one for the books, as he’s the first black director to win this award. Here are some other 2017 Emmys’ firsts: Lena Waithe, the first black woman to win for comedy writing for Master of None Sterling K. Brown, the first black actor to win for acting in a drama series for This Is Us

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Riz Ahmed, the first South Asian actor to win for acting in the miniseries The Night Of Catch the season-three premiere of This Is Us Tuesday night on NBC. You can also watch Atlanta on Hulu, Master of None on Netflix and The Night Of on HBO.

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NEWS & INSIGHT

Working moms find a parenting partner in The Hatchery CoMo entrepreneurial moms team up to balance businesses and child care

BY MAXWELL FILLION It’s 3:15 p.m., and Moe Brown races down the driveway toward his mother’s office.

His mother, Kristen Brown, has just paused a podcast discussion on workplace gender disparities to smother her sheepish 6-year-old with kisses.

This mother-son duo are among the lucky ones in Columbia. Corporate expectations and lackluster policy support make it difficult for most moms to be parents in their work environments, so some have taken it into their own hands.

Brown, owner of Hoot Design Co., examines work-life harmony with female colleagues on a podcast she started in May named “Profresh.” As part of her commitment to female entrepreneurs, she recently decided her company would sponsor The Hatchery, a new business venture featuring shared, rented office spaces and on-site child care.

The Hatchery is the brainchild of Columbia entrepreneur Amanda Quick.

Quick was plagued by work-life balance struggles when she tried to sell real estate, do network marketing and raise her 2-year-old, Ellie — all while her husband traveled out of town every week. She quit selling real estate and hired a nanny so she could work mornings, but when she tried to parent in the afternoon, her business was still stuck in her head. She felt guilty for missing time with either.

Quick solved her own problem in July 2017 when she opened The Hatchery and

joined the nationally growing co-working trend. Quick’s venture stands out from other sites because it offers on-site child care. The building lies just off South Providence Road in the Corporate Lake Properties. Quick’s modest setup is outfitted with one conference room, two smaller office spaces, four open work areas, two child care rooms with children’s toys littered throughout ­— partnered with four child care workers to clean them up — and a nursing room for new mothers.

Brown says The Hatchery would have made a “night and day” difference for her in the early days of parenthood.

It’s only been two months since The Hatchery opened its doors, but Quick has already formed connections with mothers working there.

“Something you’ll get out of here is your own tribe,” Quick says. “It’s not my space, but it’s ours.”

Brown says one of the biggest hurdles facing working parents today is that the United States is the only industrialized country that doesn’t offer guaranteed paid parental leave. This is especially difficult for small business owners who simply can’t afford to pay mothers during maternity leave. Even if mothers do get the Family and Medical Leave Act-mandated six weeks of maternity leave, the problems don’t stop once they return to work.

Brown says many working moms feel guilty for leaving their young children in the care of others, and their hours spent at work can throw off their breastfeeding schedules. She remembers sitting on the floor of the bathroom and pumping milk

The Hatchery, founded by Amanda Quick (above), offers packages ranging from $20 for one day per month to $300 for five days per week. Child care services are offered separately with access varying from $25 for four hours to $400 for 80 hours.

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Working it out

in the office building where she worked The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation when Moe was born. She often found released a 2016 report on entrepreneurship herself balancing a kid on her hip while and motherhood. Here’s how working managing conference calls. moms compare: Jaime Freidrichs acted as a sounding lower salary offered to board for Quick as she got her business equally qualified working off the ground. Freidrichs is the director moms on average of the Missouri Women’s Business Center, a program of the nonprofit decrease increase Central Missouri Community Action in mothers’ in fathers’ Agency devoted to supporting women in incomes incomes entrepreneurship. Freidrichs says more for every for every child born child born mothers are bringing their children to to them to them their workspaces because it creates a chance to educate them.

“It’s nice to see women aren’t afraid as likely to be promoted as to show their kids what they’re doing,” their male counterparts Freidrichs says.

Although these mothers are shedding stigmas both for themselves and their Mothers were Mothers were also children when they bring kids to meetings, Freidrichs says mothers shouldn’t feel judged for it. She believes kids in workspaces are becoming more and more less likely to be hired more likely than compared to equally fathers to say accepted in Columbia’s businesses. qualified candidates that parental “We have to not just tolerate that but responsibilities welcome that,” Freidrichs says. country without made career a parental leave Moving forward, Brown says true advancement policy ­— the change comes from children’s perceptions more difficult United States more than adults’. She’s pushing for a new normal by having her son repeat phrases such as, “Real men wear pink” and calling her daughter a “leader” instead of “bossy.” the amount of financing, on Although not all mothers want or have average, with which female the luxury of child care in the workplace, entrepreneurs start businesses, in Brown and Quick are happy that the comparison to men, who receive option is available. It’s just one small $135,000 on average step toward a CoMo that embraces its mothers as businesswomen, too.

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Miriam Knight and Carrie Clark get to take a break to see their children in The Hatchery’s child care rooms. “Co-working with child care, it’s definitely a growing thing,” Quick says. “It’s really just figuring out how to make it work.”

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THE SCENE

Raking in the sweet flavors of fall Embrace the season with these five autumnal desserts in Columbia

BY AMANDA POSTMA It’s that time of year when some of your favorite desserts get saturated with warm spices and tastes such as pumpkin and apple. Baked and mixed treats of sweet glory are aplenty in Columbia. So before you wrap up in a cozy blanket and turn on your favorite Netflix show, try ordering some of these desserts from restaurants around town to fulfill your confectionery needs this season.

GINGERBREAD COOKIE, $2

Amity’s Cookie Shoppe 4615 Blackford Court

These delicate delights are just mild enough that you don’t have to feel guilty about indulging. Owner Amity Mains describes the gingerbread cookies she makes in her home as “light and fluffy.” “They do have that ginger taste that a normal gingerbread cookie would have, but they’re not that overwhelming ginger,” Mains says. She started making them this past December when they became popular among her customers. The secret behind these cookies is the recipe, which was passed down from her aunt.

PUMPKIN CHIFFON PIE, $7 for

year. During the fall, Chef Jeremy Bowles says the fruits that usually go into the cobbler are apples, peaches and apricots because they are in season.

It’s a restaurant favorite because it’s a Midwestern–style dessert, he says, meaning it’s reminiscent of the same cobbler that local customers’ parents or grandparents made.

two slices Peggy Jean’s Pies 3601 Buttonwood Drive

Nourish Café & Market 1201 E. Broadway

Owner Jean Plumley came up with the recipe after discovering her daughter and co-founder Rebecca Miller didn’t like the heavy taste of pumpkin. To lighten it up, Plumley makes the pumpkin filling and adds her homemade whipped topping. “It makes it so light and airy with a good pumpkin taste to it,” Plumley says. This is the one thing she missed when she closed the shop in 2005. When she reopened the shop, she sat down and finished off a 9-inch pie in one sitting.

For the fall enthusiasts, there’s no shortage of flavors in the Pumpkin Bread Pudding at Nourish Café & Market. Co-owner Kalle LeMone says this comfort food creates a nostalgic feeling with its rich pumpkin flavor and vanilla, cashew and cream cheese icing.

Chef Kimber Dean makes the pudding from brown rice flour, pumpkin puree, maple syrup and house-made almond milk. An added health bonus of the pudding is that it’s free from gluten, corn, soy and refined sugar.

SEASONAL BERRY COBBLER, $7.50 Room 38 Restaurant and Lounge 38 N. 8th St.

APPLE HAND PIE, $7 Barred Owl Butcher & Table 47 E. Broadway

Room 38’s Seasonal Berry Cobbler is constantly changing throughout the

If you want something to make your taste buds tingle, this fall treat will do

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PUMPKIN BREAD PUDDING, $5

Room 38’s Seasonal Berry Cobbler (top) and Peggy Jean’s Pumpkin Chiffon Pie (bottom) will satisfy your seasonal sweet tooth.

the trick. The Apple Hand Pie comes with extra zest. Owner Joshua Smith says the flavors consist of roasted apples and allspice. But it’s not as aggressive as a shot of bourbon, he says. His pie

has several components that will leave you wanting more. In addition to apple and allspice, the dessert also has a salted caramel sauce and vanilla semifreddo, a semi-frozen, mousse-like side.

PHOTOS BY JACOB MOSCOVITCH

Shawn James found fame striking a pose in Columbia’s drag scene. Now, he inspires young performers to show their true colors.

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hawn James considers his drag anniversary to be Jan. 1 — the first time he put on a full face of makeup. He was home in Blue Springs, a suburb of Kansas City, during winter break his freshman year at MU in 2014 and found himself newly engrossed in RuPaul and YouTube makeup tutorials. James was completely bewitched after witnessing a particular performer at his first drag show at the now-closed SoCo Club in Columbia during his fall semester. A week after coming out as gay to his mom, he came out with something else: wanting to perform in drag. “She was all about it,” James says. “She’s very much into makeup, too, so my mom kind of thought it was a bonding thing for us. And she always wanted to buy me makeup. I was like, ‘I need drag makeup; it’s very different from normal makeup.’”J

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F or the performers, the show and its corresponding venue provide an opportunity to perform different gender identities, to express personality and their sexuality and to defy social constructs.

ames is striking. He has jet-black hair that’s shaved on the sides with a high bun that’s difficult to miss. He has thick, bushy black eyebrows set against eggshell-white skin and straw-like eyelashes that curtain dark-brown eyes — his eyes are the one unmistakable feature of Veronika Versace, his drag persona, despite her covering her brows and extending her lashes. At 5-foot-7-inches tall, James is far from towering but has a palpable presence and quiet confidence.

Growing up, James was a creative kid who loved drawing and painting.

He came from an artistic family, with one brother, Grant, who is two years his senior, and a mom who painted frequently when the boys were young.

His dad, who worked for Ford Motor Co., tried pushing him and his brother into sports, but it never stuck. His mom didn’t care as much; James remembers his mother raising him and his brother as rather gender-neutral, allowing them to play with Barbies and whatever else they wanted. At a certain age, though, he remembers her pushing them toward Legos, which he sees as the boy’s toy expectation.

Perhaps the most telling sign of his eventual future in drag is his love of dressing up and favorite holiday, Halloween. “I was a vampire a lot; I had a Star Wars phase where I wanted to be Yoda, and then I wanted to be Darth Vader,” James says. “One year, I was going to be a wizard or a witch — I

wanted to be a witch, but I couldn’t, so I had to be a wizard instead.” His mom wouldn’t let him, but James isn’t fully convinced it was a gendered decision. “She just didn’t like that I was so obsessed with witches. Which, part of that could be because it wasn’t a boy thing to like, but I wanted to wear witch hats like all year long, not just for Halloween.”

Following his winter break revelation, and after four months of practice, James performed in and co-hosted the MU drag show in April 2015. It was his first official show. James became a fixture in the production of MU’s drag show and a rising star in the Columbia drag community as Veronika Versace, a weekly performer at Yin Yang Night Club. Through spring 2017, James was vice president of the Triangle Coalition. Founded in 1978, Tri-Co is MU’s longest-standing queer student organization. James had also been producing, hosting and performing in the semesterly MU drag show at Stotler Lounge since spring of 2015.

Two years later, the Let’s Get Loud Drag Show on April 26, 2017, was cohosted by James as Veronika and student performer Ayana Byers as Coco Cream, who is the current vice president of TriCo. Byers is a woman who sometimes performs in female drag, often referred to as a bio (biological) queen. Although there’s still a lot of controversy in the drag community about whether it’s fair to regard these women differently from traditional drag queens, aka cisgender

men (see “What’s in a word” on page 11), both Yin Yang and the MU drag show have hosted bio-queen performers.

In total, there were five performers, three queens and two kings, kings being self-identified women who perform in male drag. James estimates that there were about 250 people at the spring 2017 MU drag show, which was a larger crowd than Yin Yang typically pulls in for its Thursday night drag show. The atmosphere at the spring 2017 show was festive and upbeat, filled with mostly young, undergraduate faces. When Veronika polled the crowd to see who had been to a drag performance before and who was attending one for the first time, the results were pretty evenly split.

What’s perhaps most notable about the MU show is the idea of a safe, queer-friendly space for young people to express themselves. For the performers, the show and its corresponding venue provide an opportunity to perform different gender identities, to express personality and their sexuality and to defy social constructs. “It’s a space where it feels comfortable to feel in the moment and express yourself however you want, and if you want to express that kind of energy, then go for it,” James says.

The crowd included a mix of identities: Same-sex couples, straight supporters, students of color and different organizations all got a chance to talk about their respective causes between performances. The show as a whole was attuned to social activism.

A large majority of the audience are high-school age and wouldn’t be able to get into a nightclub like Yin Yang, which is 18 and over. For those kids, these types of events are the only places where they can experience a drag show in a protective environment on campus.

Following the spring MU show, a group of 17-year-old kids approached Veronika for pictures. After she told them to follow her drag profile on Facebook, one fan asked for advice and how he could get started. “He was like, ‘Can you be my drag mom?’ And I was like, ‘Slow down a little bit,’” Veronika says.

“But, yeah, it was kind of exciting; that show was something that was open for all ages, so someone who can’t get into

James likes to take his time when transforming into Veronika before a show at Yin Yang Night Club.

Usually it takes him four hours, but he says it’s possible for him to do it in two.

UNDERSTANDING LGBTQ TERMS, courtesy of GLAAD Media Reference Guide CISGENDER: Another word for non-transgender, or people whose gender identity/expression corresponds with the sex they were assigned at birth.

To onlookers at a show, Veronika and the other queens might seem a bit catty, a personality trait they often use as performers. But ultimately, the queens form a community that supports one another, writing congratulatory and positive comments on one another’s Facebook pages.

the bars yet who maybe really wants to start doing this has that opportunity.

And now, he’s reached out to me. Who knows? Maybe in a year he’ll be able to perform at Yin Yang.”

Taking on the role of becoming a drag mom is not something to take lightly. Like a mentor, committee chair or godparent, it demands trust, time, commitment and respect. It requires a belief that you are as invested in your craft as you appear to be. For James, and his stage persona Veronika, it took time.

The MU drag show in Stotler Lounge is starkly different from a performance at Yin Yang Night Club.

Stotler lacks the blanket of anonymity supplied by a dark nightclub, and every face in the crowd is plainly visible. The MU performances are also considerably more tame than those at Yin Yang, as certain rules are put in place by the university and Tri-Co that don’t exist at Yin Yang. James says MU shows don’t allow drug or alcohol references, offensive language in music, or cultural appropriation.

Yin Yang, on the other hand, is widely considered a free-for-all with regard to performance. Many students involved in the MU show are also highly involved with activism on campus, and issues about appropriation and excessively sexual performances have come up occasionally, James says.

For the most part, however, the MU productions run smoothly. “We’ve set up restrictions to make sure that students feel comfortable and feel welcome — a space for performers to

express themselves without making other people feel unwelcome,” James says.

ackstage at Yin Yang Night Club, James and close friend Dan Dujakovich, who is 21 years old, prepare for a Saturday night performance. Dujakovich’s chosen stage name is Molly Alice Minx. They typically arrive around 6:30 p.m. to get ready for a 10 p.m. show, and they sit in a fluorescent-lit room no bigger than a walk-in closet. Wooden stools accompany five large, gold-plated mirrors with four blazing light bulbs lined atop the frames for stronger makeup lighting. Each station has its own magnifying mirror and its own set of personalized makeup.

A disheveled rack of costumes sits behind them. Twenty-four Sephora brushes sit neatly in a box in front of Dujakovich.

All of his makeup is from Sephora after working at the cosmetic store.

Both queens have distinct looks and a multitude of personas. “She’s very highdrag — very old-school, ’50s housewife,” Dujakovich says, referring to Veronika.

Veronika’s known for her massive wigs — envision Kate Pierson of the B-52s meets Dolly Parton’s adage “the bigger the hair, the closer to Jesus.” Dujakovich, on the other hand, describes Molly as sometimes “androgynous hippy-dippy,” other times party girl meets Luna Lovegood, a reference to the character from Harry Potter.

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INTERSEX: A term used to describe people born with a sexual anatomy and chromosome pattern that can’t be classified as male or female.

TRANSGENDER: People whose gender identity and/or gender expression differs from what is associated with the sex they were assigned at birth.

DRAG SHOW LINGO, courtesy of Shawn James BIO QUEEN: A self-identified woman who performs in female drag.

DRAG CHILD: A drag-queen hopeful who acquires the mentorship of a more experienced drag queen.

DRAG KING: A self-identified woman who dresses up in male drag.

DRAG MOM: An experienced drag queen who takes on a young person looking to get into drag. Often the drag mom teaches aspiring queens how to do makeup, hair, costume (including sewing), dance and other staples of drag performance.

HIGH DRAG: Think Liza Minnelli. Think B-52s.

Think Ursula from The Little Mermaid. It’s big hair, exaggerated makeup and a bit of a dark undertone.

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Everyone performing drag at Yin Yang Night Club has one dresser with all of their costumes and makeup. The queens often bring suitcases and overnight bags with clothing, including their padding. The padding in James’s costuming is used to shape the body and give it Veronika’s look. James has to wear five pairs of tights to smooth out the pads.

James and Dujakovich identify as cisgender males, which means their gender identities match what they were assigned at birth, and drag is very much a performance art for each of them. Both have a background in theater and see drag as an opportunity to amplify themselves and their personas. A common misconception about drag performance is that the term drag queen is synonymous with transgender, which is not the case.

James and Dujakovich acknowledge that for some, drag is an opportunity to explore the gender spectrum, but the bottom line is that drag doesn’t always mean transgender.

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aversion to the idea of wanting to be a woman but a resentment toward the assumption. “I’ve been a stage actor since five,” Musica says. “This is acting. I don’t want to be a girl.”

D’Rihanna continues: “I look good as one, but I don’t want to be a girl.

That’s a common misconception.”

When masculinity is brought up shortly thereafter, D’Rihanna laments, “It takes more balls to walk down the street in a dress than it does to walk down the street in a crop top.”

Matthew Jeffrey, a frequent patron of the Yin Yang drag shows and a recent graduate from MU’s master’s program in geology, acknowledges the misconception between drag and transgender individuals and says he believes that much of it stems from the way media outlets mishandle

transgender issues. “(People) see transgender in the news media, and then if they go to a drag show or read something online about a drag queen, they see a man dressing up as a woman,” Jeffrey says. “And that’s really all they get.” Musica acknowledges the fact that these identities are not synonymous but also recognizes that you can perform in drag as a transgender individual or however you identify, as long as you stick to the costume. Referring to one such queen, Musica recalls a celebrity transgender woman who goes by Tiffany: “She’s got bigger eyelashes than anybody, bigger hair than anybody, bigger rhinestones on her gown than anybody; there are just certain things that must take place. But, you also have to allow people to express themselves because it’s their art form, not yours.”

Whether at school, at home or anywhere in between, space matters.

On the infrequent occasion that James shops for women’s clothes (he typically makes his own), he prefers having female friends with him in order to avoid unwanted attention. Veronika has never gotten a hard time from strangers, though she has been followed and received unwanted advances from men, which serves as its own form of harassment. Veronika is very careful about the spaces she occupies. She doesn’t go out to straight bars in drag, and when she’s in full face in the MU Student Center to advertise the MU drag show, she’s sure to have a table of other members from the LGBTQ Resource Center working with her.

James, on the other hand, hears slurs directed at him on a regular basis

walking around campus. The slurs are pretty much only from guys, though he gets looks from girls, too. And his nerves heighten whenever he sees a large group of guys walking toward him. Despite harassment for being gay, James insists it doesn’t bother him anymore. “You know, the word does hurt,” James says, referring to a slur, “(but) I’m a part of this community, I love this community, and I don’t care.

And being gay affects literally every single thing that I do. There’s that piece of me everywhere.”

Mike Dykstra, who worked the door at SoCo Club between 2000 and 2001, before it changed owners and became

Veronika says there are two types of performers: comedy queens and pageant queens. She says comedy queens are people who make the audience laugh because they are men dressed in women’s clothing, whereas pageant queens are people who compete for best looks.

WHO INVENTED THESE PHRASES FIRST? Much of current phraseology, as told in the 1990 documentary Paris is Burning, is taken from “ball” culture, or ballroom culture, a subculture of the LGBTQ community that emerged as a result of people of color being excluded from white LGBTQ spaces.

Many young people were kicked out of their own homes, but ball culture gave them a supportive community. Today, people completely dislocated from the culture use its terminology frequently. Take the show Broad City and the podcast 2 Dope Queens, for example. Although these shows comprise different subcultures of society, as a whole, it’s still taken from a group that had to make space for itself in the 1980s.

“Fierce” means fire. It’s a little dated, but remember Project Runway winner Christian Siriano, who was known for using “fierce” 46 times in Season 4?

That wasn’t original.

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Let’s have a “kiki.” A “kiki”is a party for calming nerves and feelings of listlessness, usually by dressing up, locking the doors and gossiping. You don’t have to admit to being a Glee fan to have watched its “Let’s Have a Kiki” scene.

“Yaas queen”is taking over social media, memes and everyday talk. As a phrase used to express support for someone or anything applause-worthy, it was brought to a wider audience in 2015 on the show Broad City.

American drag queen Dorian Corey threw shade when she said,“I don’t tell you you’re ugly, but I don’t have to tell you because you know you’re ugly.” Throwing shade ­— or reading people to point out their flaws in a direct yet indirect way — is a key element in the sass on TV competition RuPaul’s Drag Race.

“Voguing” is a dance from the late ‘70s, singularized by people making precise, quick movements between striking powerful poses.

But you’re not alone if you thought Madonna coined the phrase “strike a pose” from her hit “Vogue” in 1990.

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Yin Yang Club, recalls a co-worker being physically pulled out by his military father on multiple occasions.

Having a space to express one’s self free from the threat of harassment is part of what makes drag shows so important to the LGBTQ community.

Perhaps the most egregious invasion of space comes from mainstream culture’s borrowing — or taking — of terminology that originated in not just drag queen culture but specifically from people of color in ball culture (see “Culture Vulture” on p. 13) in the 1980s.

People young and old might know “voguing” from Madonna; “reading” and “shade” from RuPaul’s Drag Race; “Let’s have a kiki” from Glee; “Yaas queen” from Broad City; “fierce” from Christian Siriano, who won Project Runway; but every one of these terms (and far more used today) can be found in the 1990 documentary Paris is Burning, a film following the ball culture of New York City in the mid-to-late 1980s focusing completely on people of color who comprised this culture. Jeffrey, a Yin Yang patron, communicates this point of recognizing underrepresented groups in drag culture. “Even within the gay community, there’s a lot of people who don’t understand that those terms are really lended from black culture,” Jeffrey says. “They think that because RuPaul or all these other modern-day icons say it, they think that it came from gay culture. So the gays have always tried to claim it when, in reality, those terms are lended from black culture from way earlier.” A secure space also means acknowledging and respecting when space has been usurped from other communities, specifically the black community, for a very long time.

ack at Yin Yang, it’s 9 p.m. as showtime approaches, and Molly and Veronika reach the final stage of their makeup routine before costume. Veronika’s “highdrag” look includes painted eyebrows, faux eyelashes that could reach the opposite wall and bold contour lines of lustrous bronze on her cheekbones.

Molly, known especially for her skill in makeup, paints her eyes like a mermaid with fluorescent colors and then adds a full lip and cat-eye contacts. She hasn’t decided on a wig, so only a hairnet sits atop her head. As she ponders her look, a tall, vivacious queen walks in with a turban wrapped around her head, “high-drag” makeup strikingly similar to Veronika’s and a 14

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Veronika Versace struts onto the stage in Rose Music Hall at the 2017 Pridefest. Her high-drag look includes dramatic makeup and big wigs, which add to her vibrant personality.

full beard. The energy in the room spikes as Molly explains that this is Jennicka Fierz, the performer who inspired Shawn James’ drag revelation at the ripe age of 18 and Veronika’s current drag mom who has taken Veronika under her wing.

Today, Veronika acts as a drag mom to young people looking for the same inspiration that catalyzed her initial interest in drag. Her guidance serves as a security cloak for her drag child in the safe confines of Yin Yang.

She’s come a long way from the cocky

queen who burst onto the scene in 2014. Now, Veronika embodies the persona of her own drag mom ­— a creative, exaggerative queen giving young performers the confidence to be themselves and the space to grow into their own queen-like personas.

MUSIC

The making of a Missouri game day marvel When it comes to Marching Mizzou’s intricate drills and design, the beat is the beginning BY MADI SKAHILL Every home football game, after the players jaunt back to the locker room for a halftime pep talk, 245 marchers take to Faurot Field and fill the stands with the sound of tradition. Marching Mizzou, affectionately nicknamed “The big M of the Midwest,” lives up to its moniker with its time-honored tunes and dynamic halftime shows. The game day performances are polished and proud, but the process to create them is nothing shy of nitty-gritty. Here’s a breakdown of the energetic show and, most importantly, its musical heartbeat.

IT’S ALL IN THE MUSIC

The concept for a Marching Mizzou halftime show is born from the music. Director of Marching Mizzou Amy Knopps chooses the songs that will be performed well in advance so members can work on music while she builds the drill.

Coming into her first year as director, Knopps pulls much of her inspiration from pop culture. For Missouri’s game against South Carolina, Marching Mizzou played an Elvis Presley mix to honor the king of rock ’n’ roll, as 2017 marks the 40th anniversary of his death. This year also marks the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album release, so Knopps plans to create a Sgt. Pepper’s-themed show for the Nov. 4 game.

“We’re not just doing rock; we’re not just doing classical; we’re not just stuck in one genre,” Knopps says about her music selections. “We’re offering a different item for everyone.”

SOUND DESIGN

Once she has selected the songs, Knopps listens carefully to how the music flows and builds the drill from there. She listens for specific places in the music to use for transitions, as well as parts of songs that demand attention, such as a chorus. Knopps makes sure the band is parked in a solid visual for these moments, which she calls impact points. For these points, she determines where specific band sections need to be placed based on who is carrying the melody or where their sound can project best.

The majority of the sound comes out of the center of the field — the “power zone.” Performers on the field who aren’t playing music, such as the color guard or the Golden Girls, typically occupy the edges of the power zone. To create drill formations that are visually appealing, Knopps focuses on symmetry. Using the software Pyware, she constructs each set and breaks down exactly how marchers will move from one set to another. She can place virtual pawns on a grid that represent every member of the band, each labeled by instrument. Even with the help of technology, finding PHOTOS BY EMILY JOHNSON

coordinates that assemble 245 members in a balanced formation requires plenty of calculations.

“I’m constantly using math when I’m drill designing,” Knopps says. “Math is everywhere.”

PRACTICE NOTES

Sound is the priority, so the band typically spends the first few practices of the week fine-tuning the music and adds the drill a few days before the game.

Marching Mizzou trumpet player Chris Dade says the band sticks to tradition and learns drill with paper printouts of individual sets. “Every member gets a sheet of paper with their specific points — coordinates,” Dade says. “You have this little 3-by-5 inch sheet of paper that you carry around with you, and it’s like your little Bible basically.”

The band then starts working through the drill, set by set, until everyone has it memorized. Hash marks and yard lines are the marchers’ keys to navigating the sea of turf. Steps are calculated down to the inch; marchers know that each step should be 22.5 inches long and that it should take eight steps to travel 5 yards. Dade says most of the people in Marching Mizzou did marching band in high school, so even new members know how the group is supposed to move on the field. “When you know the music, it makes it so much easier to understand where you’re supposed to be moving,” Dade says.

GAME DAY RHYTHM

Once the music is put to drill, the only thing missing is the magic of game day. Each Marching Mizzou show is guaranteed to be different than the last. Unlike marching bands that compete, Marching Mizzou never repeats shows or songs, aside from the traditional fight song and the Missouri Waltz.

Jeremiah Wooten, an MU junior and drum major who performs about once a month for Music City Drum and Bugle Corps in Nashville, Tennessee, can’t

Marching Mizzou drills different songs in preparation for the Missouri vs. South Carolina football game.

help but “watch” Marching Mizzou performances with a technical ear. He’s used to listening for abstract concepts, tight runs in the music and swift sixteenth notes; but with Marching Mizzou, Wooten notices a distinct entertainment factor that the marching band has mastered. At a football game, you’ll likely lose crowd members to the concession stands for the first few minutes of halftime, so things like impressive visuals and sound techniques are key to an engaging performance.

“You can tell the shows are designed to be very easily understood,” Wooten says. “Having that theme that’s really easy and really obvious helps everyone enjoy it, even if you’re a 5-year-old kid or a 90-yearold grandpa who had to get his popcorn.”

At the core of Marching Mizzou’s sheer volume, exciting drill and crowd-pleasing themes is the music, and it’s what makes the band a staple of the classic college football experience.

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Memphis-based Lucero brings its southern-rock sound to The Blue Note on Friday.

THIS WEEK IN MUSIC

Southern rock and synth-pop acts take on The Blue Note

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Lucero returns to The Blue Note for the second time in a year. The Memphis, Tennessee, natives infuse their southern roots into traditional rock to create a genre-defying sound.

Americana artist Adam Lee will join the band, which has been playing tunes since 1998. The group demonstrates an intimate dynamic on stage after playing together for nearly 20 years. It’s more of a family than a band of friends, and the connection between members is palpable. Friday, doors at 7 p.m.; show at 8 p.m., The Blue Note, $15 in advance; $18 day of, 874-1944, thebluenote.com

Sylvan Esso

Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn made their debut as indie band Sylvan Esso in 2013 with popular hits such as “Hey Mami,” and the two have been touring ever since. The electro-pop duo mix catchy pop lyrics with pounding synth, a welcoming balance of Meath’s tender voice and Sanborn’s bombastic sound. The result is infectious tracks guaranteed to make you move. The group will stop in Columbia to perform songs off its newest album, What Now. Monday, doors at 7 p.m.; show at 8 p.m., The Blue Note, $21.50 in advance; $24 day of, 874-1944, thebluenote.com

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ARTS & BOOKS

Leaf through fresh fall releases Let these five novels spice up your booklist BY ANNA MAPLES Snuggle into fall with a brand-new read. We’ve scoured through autumn book launches for the most exciting and anticipated debuts. Whether you’re looking for an inventive page turner or want a challenging biography, here are a few books to add to your shelf this season.

Fiction lovers

Jojo lives with his little sister, his grandparents and, occasionally, his drug-addicted mother, Leonie, in rural Mississippi.

When his father is released from the Mississippi State Penitentiary, Leonie packs up her children and takes them on a journey inspired by The Odyssey, the Old Testament and William Faulkner. It’s a tale of family, hope and struggle on both an intimate and epic scale.

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward, published Sept. 5, available locally at Barnes & Noble

Following President Trump on the campaign trail, NBC News correspondent Katy Tur was repeatedly singled out by the president as “third-rate” and “not nice.” This book retraces her experiences reporting on Trump and discusses the current state of news media, the election cycle and reality TV stars.

Unbelievable: My FrontRow Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History by Katy Tur, published Sept. 12, available locally at Barnes & Noble

Poetry admirers

YouTube comedian and vlogger Gabbie Hanna (creator of “The Gabbie Show”) showcases her voice in her first book. She put together a poetry collection that includes refined, confessionalstyle verses as well as rhymes that mimic the pattern of children’s songs. Alongside intriguing illustrations, Hanna’s poems use internet slang and biting comedy to communicate her experiences of feeling simultaneously too young and too old.

Adultolescence by Gabbie Hanna, published Sept.

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Thrill-seekers

The fifth installment of the Robert Langdon series continues as he desperately tries to uncover the secrets of his former student’s groundbreaking discovery, which will answer two of the fundamental questions of human existence. With a mystery focusing on religion and buried quasi-history, this novel promises to maintain the pace of Langdon’s previous adventures.

Origin by Dan Brown, publishing Oct. 3, available locally at Barnes & Noble

History buffs

From the author of Alexander Hamilton, this novel describes the life of the historically misunderstood Ulysses S. Grant. From Grant’s early life as a failed businessman to his successful rise through the Union Army ranks and tenure as the 18th president, author Ron Chernow seeks to educate us on the man Walt Whitman describes as “nothing heroic ... and yet the greatest hero.”

Grant by Ron Chernow, publishing Oct. 10, available locally at Barnes & Noble

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KATE CANTERBURY opens up about life as a part-time social advocate and full-time mother

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ate Canterbury’s morning routine appears typical for a mother of two: wake her 10-yearold twin girls for school, make them breakfast, prepare lunches and send them off to their classes before tending to emails and work duties. After the kids leave the house and she finishes her work as a freelance technical writer, Canterbury’s day becomes a little more atypical. In addition to her mom and work hats, she is also a social activist.

Canterbury works to promote change and address national and local issues. Growing up, she was surrounded by all sides of the political spectrum and says she believes everyone’s voices deserve to be heard.

After the 2016 presidential election, she found herself disappointed with the Columbia community, as well as with all levels of government. Canterbury was hungry for change. She is now one of the leaders of CoMo for Progress, a group advocating for policies that affect freedom, equality and humanity in local and global communities. Vox met with Canterbury to see how she balances her life as a freelancer, mother and activist.

How did you get involved with CoMo for Progress?

I was really just flattened by the election. I was surprised by the response, not so much because of the dynamic of Democrats or Republicans. It just really was the president and his vulgarity and his xenophobia toward people. I was just really surprised to see this public endorsement of it. I had been involved in a lot of 18

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different things locally, but I hadn’t been involved very much with the Democratic Party. I wasn’t sure that’s where I wanted to put my energy, so I went to the meeting, and there’s like five or six women there, and we talked a lot about different organizations. Another woman that was there was like, “We really need to get on doing things with this group.”

It just really made me see how the election had made people feel like outsiders, which I hadn’t really seen with my own eyes. And that’s when it kind of became a part-time job.

When was the first time you felt a sense of social injustice? What was your response?

I grew up in a social justice-focused Catholic community talking about things like the death penalty and abortion. Even though I’m pro-choice now, I think part of the reason I came to the decision is because someone took the time to really talk to me about things. I will never forget saying to a priest, “Why should I stay involved in the Catholic Church when you don’t let women be priests?” He was like, “Well, it’s never going to change if everyone who feels that way leaves.”

What’s it like being a mother while balancing work and CoMo for Progress?

I think that being a mom is really hard. I love it. My kids are the most important things in my life. I’m

given a great privilege in raising them and helping them. I face some extra challenges with them, and that’s made me realize how privileged I am to be able to work part time and to be able to advocate for them. Not everyone gets to be an advocate.

What is your message to people who don’t see the point in protesting?

You’re letting the person that represents you in Congress and in the Missouri House and Senate speak for you then because they’re able to say, “Well, I never hear about this from constituents.”

If you don’t say anything, then you’re letting someone else speak for you. I think everyone has an issue that’s important to them, and maybe it’s not big national issues like health care. Maybe it’s the fact that you really don’t like the way your garbage is picked up. The city doesn’t know that unless you call and say something. These people work for us. We pay their salaries. If you had someone working for you in your place of employment, you wouldn’t just let them do whatever they want. So why do we let the people who represent us in government do that? ­­— MADISON HUMMEL PHOTO BY MONIQUE WOO

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this week in Columbia

ARTS & CULTURE Poetry in the Park

MUSIC Rock ‘n’ Roll River Festival

Student Film Showcase: Best of 2017

SPORTS Yoga Buzz

Come to this event for poems and free food. You might just see the next Maya Angelou or William Least Heat-Moon take the stage as performers display literary talents and share inner thoughts. Today, 6–8 p.m., Traditions Plaza, Free, 882-3780

Watch the “Best of 2017” productions created by Stephens College digital film program students. These include short films, music videos and more. Friday, 7 p.m., Charters Lecture Hall, Free, 876-7168

CIVIC Fall Flea Market

Give a new home to vintage treasures and antique items at this flea market. Shop and select from a variety of items that are bound to have you reminiscing about the past.

Friday, 7 a.m., Artichoke Annie’s Antique Mall, Free, 474-2056

Perspectives on The Lasting World Symposium

Professors from MU, Saint Louis University and the University of Maryland will discuss the influence of artist Simon Dinnerstein, whose work is being showcased in the Museum of Art and Archaeology’s “The Lasting World: Simon Dinnerstein and the Fulbright Triptych” exhibit. Friday, 5:30 p.m., Swallow Hall, Free, 882-3591

10th Annual Fall Festival

Celebrate the season with games, face painting and treats at the 10th Annual Fall Festival. Jump in the bounce house, and enjoy lots of fun family activities. There will be free snacks as well as $1 treats. The proceeds will go to the Ronald McDonald House. Saturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Ranch House BBQ, Free, 814-3316

FOOD & DRINK Columbia Pop-Up Sale

Taste cookies, read magazines and learn about the local food system with CoMo Cookies, Root Cellar and The New Territory, an indie magazine that serves the Midwest.

During this pop-up sale, businesswomen from each company will be there to talk about their products, so be sure to stick around to chat. Today, 3:30–6 p.m., Root Cellar, Free, 443-5055

Columbia’s Great Muslim Food Fest

Grab a plate, and chow down at this cultural food festival co-hosted by The Islamic Center of Central Missouri and CAIR-Missouri. Take a tour of the Islamic Center, and enjoy live entertainment, face painting and other family-friendly activities.

Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Islamic Center of Central Missouri, Free, 636-207-8882

Ready to rock riverside with Money for Guns, Monte Carlos, River Ghost Revue and other live musicians? Bring your kids for a night by the Missouri River during this fun-filled event. Saturday, 1–9 p.m., Cooper’s Landing, Free, 657-2544

BYOM: Bring your own (yoga) mat to International Tap House for an hour-long, all-levels yoga session. iTap will also supply seasonal beer. To get your namaste on, register at yogabuzz.org. Sunday, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., International Tap House, $15, 443-1401

SCREEN Kingsman: The Golden Circle (R) This spy action-comedy takes members of the Kingsman to the U.S. where they discover a spy organization called the Statesman. With the world in disarray, the two groups join forces to face brand-new challenges.

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Whose Streets? (R)

This documentary looks at the 2014 protests in Ferguson and how the shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown affected a community and inspired a movement.

RT RUNTIME = 1:40

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