Interview with Channing Taint

Interview with Channing Taint

Drag community

Drag families

Drag shows

Gender identity

Kimberlin, Sierra Jo

Lesbians

Male impersonators

Performances (creative events)

Political activists

Sierra Jo Kimberlin, stage name Channing Taint, is interviewed by Sarah Steiner as a part of the Gender and Sexuality Oral History project. Taint identifies as a female lesbian and uses drag as an artistic outlet, performing gender fuck drag and as a drag king at The Odditorium, LaZOOM Room, and Ole Shakey’s. She shares her thoughts on drag activism and how her feelings on who can do drag have changed over time. She recalls her first time in drag, discusses drag in western North Carolina, explores how the drag community has changed in Asheville, explains the struggles of being a drag king, and considers the role of drag families.

Taint, Channing

WCU Gender and Sexuality Oral History Project

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

2000s (Decade); 2010s;

2018-03-30

Steiner, Sarah

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

application/pdf; audio/mp3;

sound recordings

transcripts

interviews

eng

Text

Sound

35987

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/35987

2018-11-26

All rights reserved. For permissions, contact Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina U, Cullowhee, NC 28723;

Buncombe County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

0:39:21 (sound recordings)(duration)

9 pages (transcript)(duration)

LGBTQIA+ Archive of Jackson County