Cock-of-the-rock. Male birds engage in ritual dancing ceremonies to entertain both males and females. Catriona Sandilands comments, “Read the cock-of-the-rock as a drag queen both to call into question the ‘naturalness’ of any particular sexuality or gender, and to force us to consider the situatedness of all interpretive practices around ‘nature.’” [i]

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