She’ll sing, hold space for you, make you laugh, and just when you thought she was done, she’ll flip drag on its head for her own amusement and yours.
Josh Hamilton’s audacious drag persona was born of improv and the beloved character portrayed by Rosalind Russel. The name “is a wink to the gender fuck movement of drag. I like to say that I ‘maim’ the perception of drag … I happily do not shave my beard, and it’s very much a part of my look … Everything else is so completely feminine and a lot of times very like old lady-esque … I’ve been inspired by that movie since I was 6 years old. I always loved the message of the movie … accepting people and giving everybody space to be themselves — and giving everybody space to be happy. When I was young, I was like, ‘that’s what I wanna do! That’s what I wanna be in life!’ Now, I get to do that.”
Auntie Maim loves her audiences — all her audiences. “I get good ol’ boy and I get bachelorettes from like Oklahoma … I just hope that in the back of their mind it helps humanize something, because maybe they just never had that much interaction. All I ever care about — walk away from meeting me and just say, ‘you know what, I’m feeling better than I did the minute before I met you.’ That’s the thing I want people to take away from any interaction with me.”
To borrow from Ms. Russel, “What could be more wholesome or natural?”
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