Charlene Incarnate is a Brooklyn-based female performer and writer.[1] She started out her gender transition as a drag queen as part of her life experience.
Charlene grew up in Alabama and moved to New York to attend New York University.[2]
She began exploring the Brooklyn drag scene in the early 2010s.[3]
Charlene is an ambassador and regular performer at the annual Bushwig festival held in Ridgewood, Queens.[4] The weekend-long festival began in 2012 and has showcased more than 750 drag stars, artists, and performers from across the country and around the world. She was crowned Miss Bushwig 2017.[1]
Charlene and Pixie Aventura, amongst other notable drag queens and performers such as Kevin Aviance, Flotilla Debarge, and Amanda Lepore, were featured in Wig, a 2019 documentary by Chris Moukarbel. The film follows the birth of the Wigstock drag festival from the 1980s and 1990s as well as the re-birth of the festival as Bushwig.[4]
She has written and spoken about drag, gender and sexuality, and queer identity and the media for BuzzFeed News and Out Magazine.[5] [6] The musical artist, Mel 4Ever, is her younger sister.[7] [8]