Costumed Politics is a timely book series exploring identity politics in relation to the costumed body in performance cultures. The series foregrounds costumed politics as a theatrical medium for visualizing identity in flux, to reframe costume practices in light of the political shift in popular street and hashtag protest eg. #MeToo, Black Lives Matter and LGBTQUIA+ awareness and the heightened global popularity of drag in pop culture.

Costumed Politics titles are intersectional and activist, focusing on gender, race, age, ethnicity, class, disability, nationhood, sexual politics and subcultural and posthuman perspectives both on stage, off-stage and on screen. Exploring costume via three modes - the body in costume; the costumed body and the audience; and the transformative qualities of costume in relation to the socio-political - the series makes an important contribution to scholarship in costume and performance studies, encouraging new research methodologies to match the exciting, refreshed politicization of this area of study.