Capital of Drag

after separation, what next? after i separate from a conflict-laden situation, i take a step back and take these steps (and why I do it that way, too!)

it would be easy to declare TERFs in our queer spaces “dead to me,” but queer community doesn’t survive MAGA style trauma responses

I have to engage in queer repair, a process that starts with separation from the conflict and then proceeds to this step…

A white half onion sitting upright on a roll of paper towels, the yellow inside layers of the onion representing a candle flame, with a folded U.S. dollar bill tucked into the top like smoke, agaibst a dark smokey-grey wall.

Due to inflation, and the general Greatness of America, this will be our Christmas candle this year.

GET THAT BITCH: on cancelling trans girls and feeling great about it Trans women are people, and many people are kinda shitty actually and maybe that's okay

I get tired of bully culture in Arkansas advocacy.

I feel like the effect is to hold down trans leadership in our state

This guy is such a transphobe. Ugh

A close-up photograph of a small rainbow oil slick on wet asphalt after rain. The surface is dark and speckled, with a vivid arc of color shifting from gold and purple to bright blue. In the lower center, the photographer’s shadow appears reflected in the slick, forming a subtle self-portrait within the rainbow.

a small self-portrait, caught in an oil slick after the rain

it was a gray, dismal day, and this little rainbow made me stop

i flattened the darkest tones to black, the lightest to white, & let the color in between live

the past locked in dark; the future in bright

the present, alive with color

A lavender-painted door with a glass window reflects a street scene outside. In the reflection, a black streetlamp, overhead wires, and a yellow trolley car are visible, along with the seal of the United States District Court for the Eastern and Western Districts of Arkansas printed on the glass above the word “entrance.”

behind the camera
i am in control
not to dominate the image
but to tell the truth
of what
i saw
i show you
what
i saw

as i lived it
and invite you to see it

with me
this is how i want to live

unmasked

My Palace of Time learning to live inside time

i stopped trying to survive time and started living inside it

this week’s post on my Substack blog explores how the idea of the sabbath helled me unmask my autism and build a Palace of Time to heal after autistic burnout

open.substack.com/pub/capitalo...

Gynger St Clare (@gynger) My 🪙🪙: This guide is critical for anyone who claims to be a queer-autistic advocate. This is why what my Drag persona, “The Grotesque Femme” - who appears at clubs as an unmasked Autist - is so impo...

Arkansas queer communities are experiencing a wave of queer kids with autism and a dark history of physical and sexual abuse used to contain them and enforce discipline on queer autistic children.

This may be the 1st time in history queer communities have a chance to prepare

image: a digital collage where a blurred trans woman is on left third Of image smiling in golden light shidt and black pentagon shaped glasses, and on the right two-thirds is a crumpled fabric or skin-like texture in orange tones that looks like a grotesque gargoylesque face. In the center, red handprints emerge ghostlike as a symbol of a jewish blood marking over a door jam suggesting a safe passage from one image to the other. The whole image evokes memory, heat, and buried emotion through layered distortion.

Queer culture was built on secrecy and signals: codes and shade kept us alive.

Autistic culture is built on clarity: words keep us alive.

Are both statements accurate?

How do Autists stay welcome in queer spaces when our need for clarity disrupts the old codes?

Little Rock, Arkansas drag queen Aubi Gold performs in Eden cookies body positive drag show meet at club’s Way in Little Rock, in this image a multicolor light scatter create a soft rainbow effect on Aubi as she performs

Little Rock, Arkansas drag queen and forever Miss Gay Hot Springs 2024, Aubi Gold performs at Eden Cook’s body positive drag show at club sway and Little Rock Arkansas on May 31, 2025;

Shiny golden and cone shaped Pasties cover drag queen Aubi Gold’s nipples; the rest of her torso and had are shown in neon blue and pink cast light

Little Rock, Arkansas drag queen Aubi Gold begins to perform from the “high ropes” on the upper seating deck and club sway during a body positive drag show called meat

Aubi Gold performs at @edencookies.bsky.social Body Positive Drag show at Club Sway in Little Rock, Arkansas on May 31, 2025

Little Known Fact:

Little Rock Arkansas is the Drag Capitol of the United States.

#drag
#art
#pride
#queerart
#transjoy
#dragqueens
#dragshows
#littlerock
#arkansas

Multiple exposure shot of light trails around Arkansas Drag artist performing at Club Sway. Overall color tone is purplish pink

Multiple exposure shot of light trails around Arkansas Drag artist performing at Club Sway.

Multiple exposure shot of light trails around Arkansas Drag artist performing at Club Sway as Miss Pac Man.

Multiple exposure shot of light trails around Arkansas Drag artist performing at Club Sway. Overall color tone is green and purple

Open Stage nights at Club Sway are great places to work on photo skills

I don’t know the artists: I have to be spontaneous

I can practice new techniques like these multiple exposure shots

I dont have show notes to tag the performers

#Drag
#art
#photo
#littlerock
#Arkansas
#transjoy
#misspacman

I have a question:

How did #dragqueens get booked for #drag shows before facebook and sicial media?

Or was drag culture and art different before facebook?

Ok. Kiefster Bunny wins the internet

DragKing Apollo G. Accepted performs to an Elton John mix at a #Dragshow fundraiser at Vinos in #LittleRock. Performer is sitting at a Miniature piano under blue and green lights with. Feathered outfit and swim cap.

DragKing Apollo G. Accepted performs to an Elton John mix at a #Dragshow fundraiser at Vinos in #LittleRock. Performer is standing on stage singing into a microphone under green lights with a Feathered outfit and swim cap.

DragKing Apollo G. Accepted performs to an Elton John mix at a #Dragshow fundraiser at Vinos in #LittleRock. Performer is standing on stage singing into a microphone under pink lights with a Feathered outfit and swim cap.

DragKing Apollo G. Accepted performs to an Elton John mix at a #Dragshow fundraiser at Vinos in #LittleRock. Performer is standing un audience singing into a microphone under orange lights with a Feathered outfit and crowd members giggling and cheering behind her.

#DragKing Apollo G. Accepted performs to an Elton John mix at a #Dragshow fundraiser at Vinos in #LittleRock that raised over $800 for Central Arkansas Harm Reduction.

#photo
#drag
#transjoy
#queerjoy
#fuji
#xt5

Little Rock, Arkansas Drag queen and forever Miss Gay Arkansas America Athena Sinclair performs a drag routine at brunch at El Sur Street Food and taco Company in Soma neighborhood of Little Rock, Arkansas

Little Rock, Arkansas Drag queen Kitty Kouture performs a drag routine at brunch at El Sur Street Food and taco Company in Soma neighborhood of Little Rock, Arkansas

Little Rock, Arkansas Drag queen Alura O’Shaunacy performs a drag routine at brunch at El Sur Street Food and taco Company in Soma neighborhood of Little Rock, Arkansas

It was a thrill to see - and photograph @aluraoshaunacy.bsky.social Athena Sinclair and Kitty Kouture twirling at brunch at El Sur this past Saturday.

El Sur is on my weekly rotation - they r a stalwart Queer advocate in SoMa District of #LittleRock

#drag
#photo
#art
#queerart
#arkansas
#soma

A new arkansas trans podcast

@abs-hart.bsky.social has been an anchor, a fixture in the Arkansas Drag and Queer communities.

Even As he moves to the adventures in his next chapter in life, he remains firmly entrenched in our hearts here in Arkansas.

Abs Hart, Seen here performing at Skinny J’s Drag Brunch in Feb 2025.

Does a bitch host well?
No.
Did I demand they let me do it anyways?
Yes ✨

@melaniemasters.bsky.social

Melanie Masters runs the show at Skinny Js Drag. Brunch in Argenta, #NorthLittleRock

Dont make eye contact.

Never. Make. Eye. Contact.

Jk.

Melanie is one of my favorite performers in Arkansas.

March 15 is the next Skinny J Drag brunch.

#drag
#art
#photo
#fujixt5
#arkansas

Kallaya Minaj showing us what Oklahoma drag is all about at Skinny Js Drag. Brunch in Argenta, #NorthLittleRock

#drag
#art
#photo
#fujixt5
#arkansas

And at 11p at Club Sway, that same night is Titties & Queers, Arkansas’ ONLY lesbian/sapphic drag show.

TRUTH!!!!

Aubi Gold was the first queen I ever photographed

She will be my Forever Queen.

Aubi is so loved in the Little Rock Drag community.

Here she is at Club sway in the finals for Fresh Fish 2024 season 7 (which she went on to win)

#dragsky
#pocdrag
#blackhistorymonth
#art

ILYSM, Aubi. 🫶🤍🧡❤️🩷🌸💅🏽🔥

Even when I was in the military (army artillery 1993 to 2004) there were so many white supremacists. Tim mcveigh?

They have a very different view of what that oath means… And they look to the clause that talks about 4/5 of a person

We do not want the military saving us… Let it burn too

I have a gallery showing of my drag art and imma exploring ur idea. Brilliant!!!

If Sugga Cookies was at Stonewall, she would have been out front throwing the bricks.

Sugga is the real deal. On and off stage.

The first two pics are from a show in May 2024, and the second two were taken at the Gaggy Awards.

In the immortal words of Laura Carleton, when they bully us, “Fly a bigger flag.”

Way to go!! Cant wait to see
Pics of the event

Results?

Arkansas needs a drag cow