Instagram story viewer> @tittsromney> Tagged
295
followers
132
following
MORMON CHILD BRIDE TURNED DRAG KING
Gender is a cult and cults are camp 💅🏼
POSTS STORIES REELS TAGGED
Even I, Outta Syte—first of her name, Queen of the throwback, slayer of disco beats and jive men—need to remind myself of the joy I offer to others and, very importantly, myself. 

Thank you @thatryanoverthere for offering a space to process some of that this past summer. And shoutout to the other outta sight performers that created a fantastic night. 

And thank you @misshoney.nyc for taking some snapshots!

#dragperformance #discodiva #discodrag #blackdrag
11
I have a lot of chosen family but only one true sister. Blood of my blood—the only woman in this world birthed in my primordial soup. A woman who, like me, resists what is often a woman’s birthright: self-hate.

This is no small task for any woman, let alone those who come from a line of polygamists, widows, and sex-trafficked girls. Our family history contains rape and femicide. One of the less-horrifying obituaries is that of our great-great grandmother. The headline: “Aged women closes long, useful life.”

As a teenager, our great-great grandmother traveled with her widowed mother from Sweden to Nebraska, crossed the plains to Utah, and was coerced into polygamy by her husband. Beyond the “15 children she bore from this union,” her obituary does not mention any personal details but this: “She was an ardent church worker.” Labor, sexual oppression, utility. What is an obituary if not homage to birthright?

Kiana was born 70 years later. Here are some personal details: everyone wants to be around her. She is compassionate, whip smart, and uproarously funny. Her humor is sharp but never caustic. Kiana lives without guile, perceptive and present, with a memory like no other. In a Tuesday conversation, she recalls things you once did in the back of a Nissan Quest, sounds you made in 2002, jokes you wheezed through in a bunk bed. 

To be with Kiana is to find yourself saying, “I forgot, but with you I remember.” With Kiana I feel the power of women’s memory. It revises birthrights, and brings what is dead back to live a second time.

Happy birthday to Kiana, my Lazarus girl. You’re the one I want to go through time with.
15
Oh yes....we're BACK❗

🌈 Applications for the Fall 2025 in-person cycle of Between & Beyond Gender: Drag Performance Class are now OPEN! 🌈

❗Submissions are due by midnight on September 1st❗

*Criteria: You must be 21+ years of age and not currently enrolled full time in school in order to participate in this program.

🗓 Wednesday nights from September 24, 2025 through December 13, 2025 
📍 The BAX Annex - 80 Hanson Pl., Brooklyn
(The BAX Annex space is fully accessible. For additional access questions please email info@bax.org)
⏱ 6:30-9:00pm

👢 Class dates: September 24 (first class); Oct 1, 8, 15, 22, 29; Nov 5, 12, 19; Dec 3, 8*, 10 (*extra optional rehearsal). 
👠 Tech Rehearsal dates: Dec 10-12 (still TBC)
🥾 Dress Rehearsal & Culminating Showcase: Dec 13, 2025 (still TBC)

⭐ Facilitated by: Theydy Bedbug AKA Kelindah bee (@theydy.bedbug)

With Guest Artist Facilitators:
⭐ Mocha Lite 💜🔮💜 (@vanillaheavy)
⭐ Nyx Nocturne ✨🖤✨ (@nyxnocturne)

This class focuses on developing drag characters that expand what it means to be a drag queen, king, thing, in between or beyond what we’ve seen. Through group games, writing prompts and discussion, solo and collaborative movement exercises, we give ourselves permission to express the full range of who we are and can be while releasing narratives about how we “should” move, express, or dress based on gender norms we’ve inherited. 

We experiment with the tools of: 
💥 Pantomime
💥 Clowning 
💥 Lip Sync 
💥 Caricature 
💥 Structured improv
💥 Intuitive movement 

...to build towards in-process drag performance acts. While this class is focused primarily on performance skills, we touch upon what goes into making a drag act including: makeup, costumes, creating a musical track, movement choreography and technical production choices.

Apply NOW via Link in Bio! 🔗 💋 

📌 PLEASE NOTE: This class will be filmed as the subject of a short documentary film. Cameras will be present in class for select classes. See the applications webpage for additional information.

📸 1: @sidewalkkilla
📸 2: Theydy Bedbug Headshot @sidewalkkilla
📸 3: @sidewalkkilla

Image Descriptions in comments
11
Drag Class in @rollingstone 😳

for the past 3 months, my @baxarts drag class welcomed reporter @davidmackau into the intimate classroom walls. I made him participate (as Clara Kunt💅🏼) and he did a beautiful job capturing this brilliant cohort’s 12-week transformation. 

truth is, this article dropping and the ensuing big0ts in the comments made me want to hide under a rock (look mom, I have h8rs!). but I’m so proud of this class, every student who has come thru it and the way the alum community lifts each other up. 

I’m humbled by every guest teacher (this time was @queerlyfemmetastic & @vanillaheavy 🥰) and @baxarts staff member (special shout out to my sis @roosyelloww 🙏🏼) and the cheerleaders that keep it going.

I started this class to create the space of warmth, welcome, radical queer acceptance and artistic rigor that I wanted when I started doing drag in 2016. no container is perfect, and I’m constantly pushing myself to improve it. but if half of what the students and alums interviewed in this article said about the impact of this class is true, then this is beyond what I could have dreamed it would be 🥹 I hope you read it! 

here’s to my chosen fam for holding it down in the @rollingstone post comments, trans kin throughout time who deserve spaces to self-express their shininess, every queer putting their identity on the line to burn down empire, and my wife @mxraradarling who made our rescheduled show at @houseofyesnyc happen and who sees a star in me even when I’m crying in the tub 🩷

if you love this class or the sound of it and want it to continue to sustain itself with a scrappy budget that mostly goes to scholarships, check out the donation link in my b10 or send it to someone 💸💸

If you want to TAKE this class in the Fall or know someone who does, hit up the sign-up form! 📝

most of all, keep doing shit that makes big0ts mad 💋 

✍🏼: @davidmackau 
📸: @djdumpling
56
back to up