at the Broad Institute Auditorium, NE30, 7 Cambridge Center. “Too Hot to Handle,” a lecture/demonstration by Nappy Grooves, takes place Wednesday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Anyone who’s open will be inspired by our performance.” This class focuses on developing drag characters that expand what it means to be a drag. “Be they straight or gay or trans or bi or whatever,” said Richardson, “I think drag is useful and challenging to anybody who is open to questioning gender norms. Through group games, solo writing exercises, authentic movement. James, Sigi Moonlight Courtesy of Christian Adore Mettie Ostrowski Corinne Cumming Drag kings are on the rise, and their moment is long overdue. For four days this week, the all-black Nappy Grooves drag king troupe from Oakland, Calif., will be setting up. Richardson, for example, often plays a swaggering black male character who’s a womanizer secretly attracted to men. The drag kings are about to elbow you off stage. At MIT, Nappy Grooves will tackle issues such as racism and politics through music and play-acting. “But the particular crop of people who call themselves drag kings has gained momentum.”ĭrag kings have become more and more a fixture in queer performance events. “People have done gender performances for a very long time,” said Richardson, an English professor at the University of Texas.
The five women of Nappy Grooves, according to member Mattie Richardson, all have different LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual) identities.
Many, but not all, drag kings are members of the LGBTQ+ community. “Bisexual, lesbian, gay, heterosexual, transsexual, asexual, omnisexual. A drag king is a person, who dresses in masculine clothes and hides their regular features (through such things as breast binding) for special occasions, often to perform, entertain, or engage in social activism. “Drag queens and drag kings have all different sexualities,” said Oshima. And stereotypical images of those in drag.
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