A still from Local's BFA thesis film, 'Year of Whore.' "In this scene, I dress my mom and I up in purple-haired mother/daughter drag."

Photo by Rio Sofia in Blue Bell, PA 2013 (watch video below)

Inspired by imagery from Carl Theodor Dreyer’s “The Passion of Joan of Arc.”

Photo by Sarrah Danziger for "Oblivia - Martyr Complex" album art December 2016

On the rooftop of North End Studios' gallery building, where Local and friends Xavier Juárez and Kiernan Dunn presented an art show.

Photo by Xavier Juárez in Detroit, MI 2014

$A selfie taken backstage at the former venue, The Spectrum. "I like the depiction of fractured selves in the dirty mirror, the glow of the point-and-shoot flash, and my heavy liner/gradient lip look."$

A selfie taken backstage at the former venue, The Spectrum. "I like the depiction of fractured selves in the dirty mirror, the glow of the point-and-shoot flash, and my heavy liner/gradient lip look."

Photo by Local Honey in New York, NY 2015

"We we wanted to make a weird talk-show set to lip-sync and dance in."

Photo by Ruth Ex & Local Honey for "Rush" music video by Oblivia & Psychic Hotline coming February 2017.

Self-portrait of Local Honey at ACRE Residency. "I documented the project in a zine titled '12 Days: Gender Euphoria,' which includes one self-portrait and one journal entry from each day."

Photo by Local Honey at ACRE Steuben, WI 2014

Local camping in Perdido Key in Florida. "The sunset there is particularly amazing. I wanted Xavier to capture the way the sun makes my neon hair glow."

Photo by Xavier Juárez in Perdido Key, FL 2014

Includes the scene of Local & her mom. (a.k.a. Faraway Honey)

Local Honey is a transfemme performance artist and musician living in New Orleans. Let her modulated voice and soft giggles croon you into her reality, where feminine sound is a weapon, a force, a celebration. Local Honey explores family, performance, noise, trauma and gender.

This is episode 4 of ‘Pansy’: A season where masculinity and femininity meet.

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Writing and music by Local Honey. Production support from Julia Alsop. Editorial Support from Cassie Wagler. Special thanks to Julia Serano.

Image art by Jen Ng