The On-Going Debasement Of Philosophy: "RuPaul's Drag Race And Philosophy" Edition

Just now, on PHILOS-L:

First, I'd like to stress that I am not making this up.

Second, I especially did not make up the first line:

+++Apologies for cross-posting+++
Call For Abstracts: RuPaul’s Drag Race and Philosophy
*Deadline: November 1st 2018.*
     Abstracts are sought for a volume in Open Court’s Philosophy and Pop Culture Series on RuPaul’s Drag Race. With its 10th season concluding as the most successful yet, RuPaul’s Drag Race has established itself as a major pop-cultural event that mediates drag culture to the broader public. In RuPaul’s own words, we are experiencing the “Golden Age of drag.”
     While RuPaul’s Drag Race started out as a competition-based reality TV show, it has since then become much more. The show’s appeal stems from incorporating a huge variety of subcultural practices, norms, and phrases, offering a blend of references of drag, LGBTIQ+, race and other movements based in identity politics with great philosophical potential.
     This book aims to lift this potential in combining philosophical exploration with the themes and examples of the show. From philosophical issues being discussed on the show directly – theories of gender construction, aesthetics, identity – to interpreting RuPaul’s famous quotes and phrases to taking some practices and occurrences as point of departure for philosophical reflections, RuPaul’s Drag Race offers many docking points for intriguing debate and surprising new approaches to old philosophical problems.
     Thus, we invite thoughtful and thought-provoking contributions from all philosophical perspectives and traditions that pertain to RuPaul’s Drag Race.
     Possible chapter topics include, but are of course not limited to:
Spilling the T: Drag Race on Truth and Truthfulness
You’re Born Naked and the Rest is Drag: Philosophical Approaches to Identity and Self-Perception
If you don’t love yourself…: Self-love, self-criticism, self-hatred
She done already done had herses: Theories of Justice and Injustice
Sashay Away: How to Deal with Loss and Death
Call Me Mother: Drag Race and Different Concepts of Motherhood
Can I get an Amen?: Religion and Drag Race
Eleganza Extravaganza: Hedonism, Epicurus and the Good Life
The Realness: Ontological Questions in Drag Race
Reading is Fundamental: Speech Acts and Philosophy of Language
Fierceness and Virtue Theory
Lip-Syncing as Art Form in its Own Right
Flazéda: Theories on Semantics and the Meaning of Words
Drag as a Performance Art
Facts are Facts: Postmodernism, Post-Truth, and Relativity
Drag ‘Race’: The Role of Racial Identity and Dynamics in Drag Race
Skinny Legend and Obese Icon: Body Aesthetics, Body Images
Drag Race and the Perpetuation of Harmful Female Stereotypes
Plastic Surgery and Fairness in Competition
Ornacia and Theories of Mind
Drag Race Between Irreverence and Offensiveness
Everybody Say Love!: Emotions, Feelings and Affection