Hello my little Nobodies! We’re here to tell you the rumors are true: the grand finale of Mx. Nobody 8 is this Friday, 9/5. But before you head over to Red Eye in your surveillance best, why don’t you take a seat in the center of our panopticon and get a little more dirt on our mysterious finalists.
Our Finalists
Masc.Ari - Week 1 Winner
What’s an album that sums up your competition run?
Purple Rain. Sexy and sad is the brand! It’s been like navigating a meteor shower—chaotic, dangerous, but lit with beauty you can’t look away from. A storm in space, a sermon in the stars, a slow dance under lightning across galaxies.
If any fictional character could join you in the finale, who and why?
I’d invite Garnet from Steven Universe. She’s literally a fusion made of love and rhythm, a celestial being whose presence alone bends gravity. With Garnet by my side, the finale wouldn’t just be a competition—it would be a supernova. Why? Because we’re 🎵STRONGER THAN YOU🎵
Who’s on your creative inspiration family tree?
Prince is my drag ancestor, Bowie is my cosmic compass, Sylvester is the disco heartbeat pulsing like a star at the center of my galaxy, and my drag dad Noctua is the root system keeping me nourished, the gravity that holds me steady in orbit. From there, the branches shoot like comets into disco, emo, and every trans and queer artist who has ever turned survival into a constellation.
If you could have any celebrity as a drag child, who and why?
Janelle Monáe. Not only could I teach them the gospel of emo-disco stardom, but I believe drag children are teachers too. Janelle already carries galaxies of wisdom about queerness, futurism, and freedom—and together we’d build a nebula of sparkle, sorrow, and liberation, glowing brighter with every orbit.
Tell us why you’re going to take the win at Mx. Nobody 8!
LISTEN UP, NOBODIES! It’s Masc.Ari—your drag space prince, your emo-disco messiah, the eyeliner-stained angel streaking through the cosmos! My competitors better suit up, because I’m not just bringing glitter—I’m bringing a supernova of VOCALS. And this mic stand? Baby, it’s not just for singing—it’s a cosmic staff, a meteor waiting to strike down anyone who dares step in my orbit. I’ll scream across the galaxy until your wigs float into another dimension, I’ll lasso you with a boa like Saturn’s rings, and I’ll dropkick you straight into a black hole. Because at the end of the night, all I wanna see you do… is STAND THERE while I reign eternal in the PURPLE RAIN!
Charles Stunning - Week 1 Winner
What’s an album that sums up your competition run?
The KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack because it all came out of nowhere, an unexpected joy to suddenly appear in my life. And since experiencing both Mx. Nobody and KPDH i think about them everyday
If any fictional character could join you in the finale, who and why?
Eda the owl lady from the Owl House, cuz shed magic me some pyrotechnics and give me loving support with the right amount of chaos
Who’s on your creative inspiration family tree?
Carol Burnett is absolutely on my family tree, the goat. Multi-hyphenate comedy icon and i wanna be like her always
If you could have any celebrity as a drag child, who and why?
And for a protege, id pick Sabrina Carpenter. Shes just the best as pop music innuendo, we love a sexually charged sparkly cutie pie
Tell us why you’re going to take the win at Mx. Nobody 8!
As a pro-wrestler, I'm sure its expected I spit fire and pot shots at my Mx. Nobody opponents on September 5th at Red Eye. However, the fact is, seeing these royals of performance art, this literal murder's row of talent who have made it to the finals has me fired up. I have been motivated and inspired to lay out my soul, my mind, and my body for this title in ways I have never imagined. To push myself further as an artist than I have ever before. I plan to wring out every single ounce of me just to be among these deities. The title will be worn with splendor by any and all of my competitors. No question.
But there can be only one champion and as fierce as the competition is, my eye is fixed on gold and has been dedicated to that goal since I earned my finalist spot at Coney. So on Friday, when I, Red Hot Charles Stunning, am crowned Mx. Nobody, my gratitude will be to the titans I shared the stage with. I could never have worked harder without each finalist egging me on with their craft and it will be because of their influence I stand victorious.
Love you. Mean it. Say it back.
The ZanyThing - Philly Bonus Round Winner
What’s an album that sums up your competition run?
SHITHEAD by Nascar Aloe. Cuz I’m a shithead, I don’t dance, and I’m the type o guy to bring a knife to the gun fight.
If any fictional character could join you in the finale, who and why?
God from Bruce Almighty played by Morgan Freeman. Would love to beat God played by Morgan Freeman in a competition. Whatta flex.
Who’s on your creative inspiration family tree?
My bush. My breasts. The politics I believe in and the politics I believe are destroying us. Vaginal rejuvenation. My friends. My enemies. Mariska Hargitay.
If you could have any celebrity as a drag child, who and why?
Victor Jones. I want him in gorgeous clothes and a big wig singing about wanting to be a zookeeper who makes out with your mom.
Tell us why you’re going to take the win at Mx. Nobody 8!
THE ZANYTHING HAS BEEN SEEN DOING EVERYTHING: EATING HER LESBIAN VAMPIRE HUMAN ALIEN BABY, HOPPING ON SPONGEBOB DICK, MILKING THEIR UDDERS, PRODUCING ALT, SAPPHIC, & VARIETY SHOWS, IMPERSONATING EVIL WHITE CELEBRITIES & HAVING THE MOST POWERFUL BUSH IN THE NATION!!!!! & THEY WON BEST NEW PLUS SIZE PERFORMER AT THE PHILLY PHATTYS SO THEY’RE OBVIOUSLY THE BIGGEST COMPETITION!!!!
ZANY CAN DO ZANYTHING AND WILL DO ANY ZANY THING TO WIN 🏆 THE MX. NOBODY CYCLE 8 FINALEEEEE 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼🪓🪓🪓🪓🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸✨✨✨✨✨🛸🛸🛸🛸💩💩💩💩💩💩
Selena Surreal - Week 2 Winner
What’s an album that sums up your competition run?
A-ha's Hunting High and Low 1985
If any fictional character could join you in the finale, who and why?
Tick from Priscilla, how cunt would it be to see what that seasoned classic drag queen would do for Mx. Nobody, also thats agent smith in drag. I just think Hugo Weaving is neat.
Who’s on your creative inspiration family tree?
One of thickest branches is populated by the subversive performance artists of the late 80s and early 90s like Stelarc, Ron Athy, Mark Pauline (Survival Research Labs), and GG Allin. All these people's careers span well into the 70s and into the 2000s but they are at their peak then.
I have to include the Catholic church and Alejandro Jodorowsky for very similar reason, they both present violence in the most beautiful way, though Jodorowsky is far more than just that, he's more of philosophical kin. id call him part of the roots before id qualify him as just a branch.
Other branches include absurdists and existentialists, like Eric Andre and Albert Camus. All this supported by a powerful trunk made up of Sade, New Wave music, and Loveshadow, I have performed too many of their songs (6 or 7 so far) to not say their music itself inspires me!
If you could have any celebrity as a drag child, who and why?
Okay, so hear me out, Ariel Pink. BECAUSE he needs someone to tell him that (s)he can be transfemme and a lesbian, I think it would solve a lot of things in his life. He doesn't need a drag mom he needs a trans mom, let me save you Ariel Pink, I used to be like you and I love your music, just transition please.
Tell us why you’re going to take the win at Mx. Nobody 8!
Yall think youre weird? You merely adopted the Alt. I was born in the basement of bizarre, molded by the weird, I didn't see the Metropolitan until I was already a Woman, and by then it was nothing to me but windmills!
Venus - Week 2 Winner
What’s an album that sums up your competition run?
Alligator Bites Never Heal by Doechii
If any fictional character could join you in the finale, who and why?
Any one of the vegetarian dishes from Food Wars that immediately makes me lose all my clothes and has me experience the only foodgasm
Who’s on your creative inspiration family tree?
Many black female artist, my own drag family/community, ballroom
If you could have any celebrity as a drag child, who and why?
I’m gonna go with FKA Twigs or Yoko Ono as a drag child
Tell us why you’re going to take the win at Mx. Nobody 8!
Why I feel I’m taking home the crown is because I’m a damn good performer. I think my stage presence and delivery as a drag artist can be kind of raw, and while I love stunts, I love production, hell, I love all forms of drag, and its many presentations. However, I will be giving what I do best and that’s being a damn good at just giving what needs to be gave. Which in many competitions I have participated in and won, is a captivating and winning performance
What it would mean to win is another moment of being recognized by the community I hold dear. Another moment of feeling closer to the Brooklyn queers, and I won’t lie, it always feels good to add another winning title to my drag resume
Soraya Sis - Week 3 Winner
What’s an album that sums up your competition run?
Hereditary Original Soundtrack Album
If any fictional character could join you in the finale, who and why?
CeraThey cause we’re the same lotion size
Who’s on your creative inspiration family tree?
Soraya Montenegro gasps in Spanish, Nina Simone, Salvador Dali (pre sell-out)
If you could have any celebrity as a drag child, who and why?
Mark Ruffalo - I think she’d make a FIERCE She/Her/Hers-Hulk
Tell us why you’re going to take the win at Mx. Nobody 8!
Soraya just smiled…how elusive and mysterious…
Sapphic Fire - Wild Card
What’s an album that sums up your competition run?
Keep Them Confused - No Use for a Name
If any fictional character could join you in the finale, who and why?
Marshmallow from Bob’s Burgers.
Who’s on your creative inspiration family tree?
I don't want to assign roles to specific people, but it’s a supernova amalgamation of the following people:
Grace Jones.
Tiffany Pollard.
The mouse from “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie”.
The Fury Sisters.
Sisqó.
The disembodied voice of whoever sings “Jones BBQ & Foot Massage”
If you could have any celebrity as a drag child, who and why?
Yoshi. He literally eats the competition up, and then re-births them.
Tell us why you’re going to take the win at Mx. Nobody 8!
Oxygen. Heat. Fuel. The three components it takes to start a fire.
Take one away? Completely extinguished.
And that’s where y’all made your fatal mistake.
The smoking embers? That slick kindling? Those violent squalls?
A dormant blaze, morphed into a relentless inferno.
It’s too late to try and stamp me out, now.
The only way out is through me.
Good luck with your little blankets, watering cans, and baking soda.
Let’s knock some sense into you, then knock your senses out one-by-one.
Eyes burning, ears ringing, skin searing, lunges flooding with carbon monoxide, teeth grinding on soot.
A quick death by Sapph-yxation.
It’s well-past time that I scare you lot - straight.
Dinah Loneliness - Wild Card
What’s an album that sums up your competition run?
Freakin’ at the Freaker’s Ball by Shel Silverstein for certain~ unexpectedly crass, violently raucous, and tastefully filthy
If any fictional character could join you in the finale, who and why?
Would loveee to do a duet with Jane Hudson of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? because we’re both vaudeville gals, we have the same makeup routine, and we could even swap recipes in the dressing room!!
Who’s on your creative inspiration family tree?
I’ve always been a fan of the mean old ladies, the tragically glamorous, and the somewhat mentally ill. Norma Desmond, Little Edie, Joan Crawford, Phyllis Diller, Bette Davis, Judy Garland, Tiny Tim and Florence Foster Jenkins come to mind.
Within the drag scene, i’d have to give credit to folks like Divine and John Waters, Holly Woodlawn, Lady Bunny, Tammie Brown, Jinkx Monsoon, and, on a more personal level, my mother Ida Carolina, my Auntie Priscilla Chambers, and all the southern pageant girls who put up with me for years when they really shouldn’t’ve.
If you could have any celebrity as a drag child, who and why?
Ben Franklin. She already has the furs, can read the house AND senate down, and “Silence Dogood” is SUCH a cunty stage name. AND, if she gets exhumed, I wouldn’t be the oldest, grossest, most rotted queen in Philadelphia anymore!
Tell us why you’re going to take the win at Mx. Nobody 8!
CAN YOU SMELL WHAT DINAH IS COOKING?? Some of these other folks only reek a little. But me? I’m a genetic freak. I smell FOUL ALL THE TIME. One whiff, and you’ll need to hide your wives, because DINAHMANIA’S in the house, followed shortly by DINAHDEPRESSION. Thump your bible and say your prayers, because this is my kitchen now, and you can’t see me doing anything but winning!! Now get off the stage and out of the WWMX, i’m the cream of the crop dust and none of you are good enough to lace up my corset!
Who will win in this fierce battle for the cardboard crown? Names will be made, bodily fluids will be shed, lips will be synced as our artists duke it out in the panopticon! See it all this Friday at Red Eye! And until then, we’ll be watching…
Want more Nobodies? Here are some other events featuring our family of misfits:
The Grand Finale at Red Eye NY | Friday, September 5 @ 10pm | tix
Flamboyance with Nancy NoGood and Reina No Buena at Someday Bar | Wednesdays @ 9p | link
Snake Bite hosted by Qualms Galore at Medusa | Wednesday, September 17 @ | link
STR8 TO DVD 2: The Nine Year Anniversary at C’mon Everybody | Saturday, September 20 @ 10:30p | link
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