Sociolinguistic Artifacts

Drag queen Tatianna performs her spoken word piece, "The Same Parts", on RuPaul's Drag Race. The performance utilizes what Rusty Barrett refers to as "construction of a polyphonous identity". The humor in Tatianna's performance comes from her not just performing as a woman, and how convincing her performance is to her patrons, but also "failing" to keep up the image.