"[2] boychild's performances relay how bodies have been thrown into arbitrary categoricalness that reiforces cisheteronortmative benefit from these classifications.
[2] Her signature style includes a shaved head, full-body makeup, tinted contact lenses, and neon lighting.
[2] San Francisco is home to the first "gay riot" that broke out in August 1966 when drag queens dining at Compton's Cafeteria on Turk Street fought back against police harassment.
I found in various cultures … a person who used knowledge, cunning, humour, and wisdom to heal; whether through medicine, psychic insight, comedic performances, rituals or a combination of all these things.
[14] boychild's performances often reference idea of cyborgs, which plays with the hybrid of machine and organism and becomes a creature of social reality and fiction.
[15] They "inhabit a kind of queer flesh that vibrates out-with the humanly-accessible spectrum, as if you were suddenly able to see ultra-violet, or heat, in some sort of politicised cyborg becoming that overwhelms your senses.
boychild walked in Hood By Air's 2013 spring/summer show with signature white-out contacts lenses and glowing mouthpieces alongside A$AP Rocky.
[18] Later that year, boychild toured with singer Mykki Blanco and began collaborating with multimedia polymath Wu Tsang.
[19] boychild's collaboration with Wu Tsang has led to numerous performances, videos, and other projects, such as Moved by the Motion, which includes cellist Patrick Belaga, dancer Josh Johnson, electronic musician Asma Maroof, and poet Fred Moten.