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 competitionampamp160RuPauls Drag Raceampamp8212some kinds of genderbased performance fall out of the purview of what we could call drag.ampamp10Decolonize Dragampamp160details 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 onampamp160Drag 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.