In 2021 alone, East London’s bendiest bitch has crashed the cis-tem with a solo lash on the charts, slain the fashion industry with various editorials and released their debut book, Release the Beast: A Drag Queen’s Guide to Life.
The manifesto, which provides readers with an accessible crash course on gender identity, while also touching upon politics, history, health and fashion, immediately shot into the top 10 of The Sunday Times Bestsellers List.
It made history as the first nonfiction drag queen title to do so. (Trixie & Katya’s Guide to Modern Womanhood was under ‘self-help’.) “I often feel like the conversations that are happening right now around gender are very tricky, because they are heavy in academia,” Bimini tells GAY TIMES