Stoic Drag Queen Story Hour

Douglas C. Bates
6 min readJun 17, 2023

What drag queens can teach Stoics about how to live an ethical life

Is there room in Modern Stoicism for people who consider each other to be debauchees, homophobes, groomers, or bigots?

Ryan Holiday, the author who is probably responsible for bringing more converts to Stoicism than any other living author through his many books on Stoicism — such as The Obstacle is the Way, The Daily Stoic, and Lives of the Stoics — has done something interesting to bring attention to the Stoic conception of virtue.

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Douglas C. Bates

Ancient Greek philosophies of life. http://www.pyrrhonism.org Author of “Pyrrho’s Way: The Ancient Greek Version of Buddhism.”