Tinamarie Ivey is a performing artist and scholar in Dallas. Her writing has appeared in Iconic: Drag Celebrities and Queer Communities, Routledge Focus: Ecodramaturgies, and TxETA Higher Education Research.
Left to right: Mo B. DIck, El Daña, and Buck Wylde at the King of Drag premier, 2025. I attended my first drag king show in 2018. Two friends invited me to join them at Spectrum, a queer nightclub in Eugene, Oregon. I’d seen quite a few drag queen shows
