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Diane's short note on the nsd wrk shop. The drag king workshop at NSD was with six 1st year students from 11am-9pm on Sunday, March 12. It was the first drag king workshop I presented in India! What excitement! During the workshop each participant gets a make-over with facial hair, five o clock shadow, etc. which is a pre-requisite to their developing a male character. Some of the students went on observational field trips on campus to check out their male counterparts - how the men articulated themselves physically - behavior, gesture, facial expressions, voice, etc. Others in male garb were confronted by some male students, "Why are you doing this? This is a male-dominated culture. You should not be doing this!" (they clearly were offended by this deconstruction of "man") or some male students were sympathetic and wanted a separate class so they could transform to women.