Maybe the performance of difference need not involve ‘camping’!

This WordPress prompt ought to have been a gift to me – with a long history in LGBTQI+ politics, the word ‘camp’ has always had a history to reclaim. But to say ‘word’ in description of the term ‘camp’ here is not enough. I got stopped in my tracks from answering this question as I … More Maybe the performance of difference need not involve ‘camping’!

Why is ‘camping’ just not classy? Or is it? Not for my class upbringing!

Thomas Hiram Holding, supposed to be the great populariser of the activity of camping, outside his camping tent. Whether it has sufficient academic credence (by which is meant referencing to authoritative evidence) or not, the Wikipedia entry on CAMPING fits with my thoughts, memories and, possibly, biases, in understanding what camping as a term means in … More Why is ‘camping’ just not classy? Or is it? Not for my class upbringing!