Kitty Obsidian is a performer and activist working across burlesque, sideshow, fetish, and drag, whose practice is grounded as deeply in education as it is in performance. Their work draws on queer, fetish, and drag histories, and the overlapping ground between them, with a focus on decolonising the lens these histories are often taught through.
Kitty is currently producing the Fetish Fantasy Ball (July 2026), a fundraising gala raising money for BlaQ Aboriginal Corporation, a First Nations LGBTQSB+ Peoples and Communities peak organisation, and Vixen, Victoria’s peer sex worker organisation.
A proud Wiradjuri/Kamilaroi person, with Scottish heritage on their father’s side, Kitty’s practice as a non-binary trans, First Nations performer brings together cultural connection, ancestral spirituality, and political clarity.
Host Madison Moffat and Kitty speak about the educator side of performance, the cyclical nature of queer and fetish history, the threats and policing that come with doing public education work, what it means to be rainbow mob and to push back against Christian colonial frameworks that still shape contemporary First Nations communities, Sister Girls and Brother Boys, and the slow work of recovering queer cultural history that colonisation set out to erase. They also talk about queerness as a political ideology, community as the counter to capitalist individualism, and the politics built into simply existing in public as a trans person.