Since the mid 2010s, a thriving drag scene has emerged in Belgrade. Within this growing scene a phenomenon has emerged, where drag performers draw on socialist Yugoslav memories and imaginings in their performances. Drawing on my doctoral fieldwork in Belgrade, in this talk I examine how drag performers refashion memories of Yugoslav socialism through this queer performance practice, literally dragging the past into the present. I argue that these performances act as spectral fabulations \u2013 post-human apparitions that intervene in the linear temporality of the postsocialist transition. These spectral fabulations become forms of care, working as a form of witnessing for the postsocialist melancholia that characterises the affective state of contemporary Belgrade. In doing so, I seek to show how Belgrade’s drag performers work with and against their city\u2019s legacies and struggles, to fabulate new ways of being together, and to survive the conditions of the present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n