Charlene Incarnate

Charlene Incarnate is a Brooklyn-based female performer and writer.[1] She started out her gender transition as a drag queen as part of her life experience.

Early life and education

Charlene grew up in Alabama and moved to New York to attend New York University.[2]

She began exploring the Brooklyn drag scene in the early 2010s.[3]

Work

Charlene is an ambassador and regular performer at the annual Bushwig festival held in Ridgewood, Queens.[4] The weekend-long festival began in 2012 and has showcased more than 750 drag stars, artists, and performers from across the country and around the world. She was crowned Miss Bushwig 2017.[1]

Charlene and Pixie Aventura, amongst other notable drag queens and performers such as Kevin Aviance, Flotilla Debarge, and Amanda Lepore, were featured in Wig, a 2019 documentary by Chris Moukarbel. The film follows the birth of the Wigstock drag festival from the 1980s and 1990s as well as the re-birth of the festival as Bushwig.[4]

She has written and spoken about drag, gender and sexuality, and queer identity and the media for BuzzFeed News and Out Magazine.[5][6]

References
  1. "Charlene is taking over the planet". Time Out New York. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  2. Nichols, James Michael (2015-05-25). "ASSEMBLAGE: Meet Trans Artist And Performer Charlene". HuffPost. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  3. Nast, Condé. "These Trans and Cis Female Drag Queens Have Some WORDS for RuPaul". them. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  4. "HBO's Wigstock Doc Remembers a Time 'When Drag Was Punk Rock'". Bedford + Bowery. 2019-06-18. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  5. "Angel's Gender Identity Is 'RENT's' Most Enduring Mystery". www.out.com. 2019-01-25. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
  6. Incarnate, Charlene. "RuPaul's Version Of LGBT History Erases Decades Of Trans Drag Queens". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 2019-09-25.
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