11/25/2025
SWEET 🍫 BLACK 🖤 MEAT 🍖
so grateful to debut this act at .ette’s Feed Your Family show!
if you’re close to me, you know i’ve been grappling with my feelings about being tokenized as a Black drag king in Boston, as well as my own complicity in it. this number was the ultimate catharsis for processing those feelings.
some relevant history:
- Bert Williams, who sang Nobody, was once one of the world’s most famous entertainers, one of Vaudeville’s greatest, and regularly performed in blackface.
- In the 19th century, white enslavers and sailors would eat Black people as part of their (sexual and overall) domination, often with ho******ic context. (go read The Delectable Negro)
- Black le****ns who did male impersonation like Ma Rainey paved the way for Black drag kings.
- There was a time when Black people could only perform on stages if they were in blackface and/or as minstrels.
here i position myself in a lineage of Black performers who walked onto Vaudeville stages so i could run around the drag scene. i am not distinct from their legacy, rather a continuation of it. i pay homage but also address the horrors of their condition and how they persist a century later. to my beloved mainly white Boston scene, i hope this makes your skin crawl.
inspired by ’s Sid Scoops, Kara Walker and Rebecca Schneider, i was delighted to combine feminist performance art, horror drag, and edible sculpture for this act.
🦶 toes: cow tails with toasted coconut
ni***es: dates
👂 ear: sculpted chocolate rice krispy
👁️ eye: lychee jelly with a skittle pupil
🍆 dick: a snickers bar and lindor truffles wrapped in caramel
thank you to and for sponsoring this act, helping me source materials, and providing the opportunity to explore this concept with academic rigor. thank you to everyone who has booked me so far, as a token or not, and anyone who has supported and tipped me throughout my drag career for eating me up. 😋 i am very proud to make horror that centers around the atrocity of white supremacy, even if inspired by how it feels to be a Black king in this city.
