Ep. 62 - Can You Perform for Crowds But Freeze at the Grocery Store? Drag & Identity with Hummingbird

★WHERE YOU CAN FIND HUMMINGBIRD★ Instagram - @hummingbirdkingthing ★WHERE YOU CAN FIND US★ Website - www.queerolina.org Facebook - Queerolina Instagram - @queerolinaorg BlueSky - queerolinaorg.bsky.social ★Summary★ In this conversation, Hummingbird — drag king and poet based in the Pittsboro area — sits down with Ko at the Durty Bull to talk about stumbling into drag at the first Pittsboro Pride and never quite stopping. Hummingbird shares how drag helped them discover their non-binary identity, the strange experience of being able to perform for a crowd but freezing in everyday social situations, and writing poetry about the exact gap between stage presence and human interaction. The conversation also touches  on being a twin and the assumption that your identity mirrors your sibling's, the history of drag kings as male impersonators, a fresh ADHD diagnosis and what finally having language for your brain feels like, and why drag is inherently political whether  you mean it to be or not. ★Keywords★ drag king, non-binary, queer identity, poetry, social anxiety, ADHD, Pittsboro NC,drag history, male impersonators, neurodivergence, performing, community, North Carolina, twins, identity