Poet Dean Atta explained how his self-described mixed identity and sexuality shape his creativity in a new interview. “I’m Black and mixed and gay and male and a poet and a drag performer and I was raised Christian – and I could go on.
It all influences everything I do, whether I choose to lean into certain things or push against them. They’re all interacting in my psyche all the time,” he said.
The author also broke down how drag feeds into his creative realm: “With drag, I decided to have fun with it all. I decided early on that I’d come onto the stage in a pink outfit and I’d leave the stage in a black outfit – I just had to decide what would happen in the middle part. “That middle part became a performance in which I talk to the