By Elizabeth Gracen: In our continuing Celebrating Drag series, we highlight and support the unique performance-art tradition of female impersonation and the wide variety of creative expressions throughout history that fall under the category of "drag performance." This week, we feature House of Fawcett: Dripping in Talent—A Visual Poem , the latest cinematic short film from Carter Bowden Films featuring the incomparable Mylique E. Fawcett. "Mylique E. Fawcett is the walkin' piece of art,...

By Elizabeth Gracen: Hugo Armstrong in Whiskers. I made the mistake of doom scrolling first thing this past Sunday morning, and it truly sunk my ship. I should know better, right? I mean, it's the holidays! Why would I do that to myself?! It took me most of the day to recover, but by the time afternoon rolled around, I received a text from my good friend Jim Byrkit . I wasn't sure what it was at first, but in the thumbnail image I recognized the man behind the beard as Hugo Armstrong , my...

By Elizabeth Gracen: Flapper Press has had the good fortune to publish the poetry of Ute Carson over the years, so when she told us about her latest book, Time Did It: A Family Saga, we reached out to talk to her about her dramatic and very personal new work. Time Did It: A Family Saga  tells the true story of Ute Carson and her aristocratic family, whose lives, land, status, and fortune were lost as they escaped Nazi Europe. Ute Maria Elisabeth Gräfin von Hardenberg-Carson was born on the...