You may know Bay Area-raised drag performer Rock M. Sakura from last year's "RuPaul's Drag Race" Season 12, from her YouTube channel with more than 55,000 subscribers, or from her pre-COVID performances at numerous drag events.
She's also known for her fantastic anime-inspired make-up and outfits, many of which she designs and illustrates herself. You might not know that sex work partly funded her "Drag Race" participation, a past she revealed in tweets just hours after news broke of the March 17 Atlanta-area spa shootings in which eight people died, including six women of Asian descent.
On this week's Out in the Bay radio show and podcast, Sakura, known as Bryan Bradford when not in drag, spoke about her time on "Drag Race;" her new video