S1E4: "Say Her Name" | "The Category Is... Mexico City" (2020)

“‘ok, esta es Negraconda y si se la van a comer porque Negraconda se lo está dando de comer en la boca, perras.’”
-Negraconda

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​After watching tidbits of Danny Torres, the phenomenal Negraconda of House of Mamis, throughout the series of The Category Is… Mexico City, Episode 4 “Say Her Name” feeds us a full course of Negraconda. Personally, her testimonial is the most memorable to me; and after making you read her name nine times before arriving to this sentence, and feeling her name bounce off the roof of your mouth, I think you need to know what the hype is all about.

Episode 4 “Say Her Name” is a lesson on community. Negraconda explains past conflicts with her “peers,” which ranged from being bullied and assaulted, to facing backlash for being a trans womxn performing as a drag queen. Negraconda’s testimonial interrogates the definition of community.

Community is not a group of people we frequent. Community is the people we rely on when we need to fall back as well as the people we invite to change with us.
 
Negraconda’s punk alter ego transgresses the parameters set on trans womxn. She challenges the transmisogyny in drag culture by voguing and continuing to perform as a drag queen with House of Mamis. She makes a place for herself among a house that accepts her.

Negraconda reminds viewers, we can’t wait for others to change. We need to change our atmosphere and surround ourselves with people who are going to hold us accountable as well as accept accountability. Episode 4 “Say Her Name” is a lesson on offending those who resist to afford one their humanity. To put it plainly: set forth into this world and find people who say your name with pride.