Drag Performers
An art form built on transformation, timing and nerve. The most rigorous brand-building discipline nobody files under brand-building.
Ten episodes — One confirmed — Nine seats open
Conversations that were never going to stay on script. Drag performers, trans allies, queer creatives and technical weirdos — anyone with a story worth telling, told the way they'd actually tell it.
A Partnerships.Community original · Hosted by Simon Williams
Every seat is cast from one of four lanes. The lane sets the lens, never the script. Nobody arrives to promote a launch — they arrive because they'll actually say the thing.
An art form built on transformation, timing and nerve. The most rigorous brand-building discipline nobody files under brand-building.
People who show up before it's convenient. What that costs in the moment, and what it builds when nobody is watching.
Painters, designers, directors and makers building work that never waited for permission to exist.
Engineers, data heads and systems thinkers who see the plumbing nobody looks at — and the stories hiding in it.
Concepts locked, running order set. One guest confirmed and nine chairs waiting on the right names.
A decade of digital marketing attribution, 2015 to 2026, read as an obituary. The paradigm shift from click-based tracking to relationship-driven revenue — and what survives on the dashboard once zero-click AI environments and dark social get to the demand first.
With Kizzy Dunn · GTM Partnerships Director EMEA, Tealium
Transformation as a craft with a P&L attached. On timing, nerve, and what it actually takes to walk out as someone a room decides to believe in.
Independent practice with nobody's sign-off in the loop. Funding it, owning it, and shipping it before the institution catches up.
Allyship measured at the point it costs something. What consistency builds over years, and how fast the performative version comes apart.
Shadowbans, classifier bias and reach that quietly evaporates. Building an audience on top of systems never designed to see you clearly.
Bookings, rates, touring, tax and cancellations. The deeply unglamorous operating model running underneath a glamorous art form.
Where the gallery system and digital-native queer culture genuinely meet, where they only pretend to, and who gets paid at each junction.
Boardrooms, hiring panels and policy drafts. The distance between a statement of support and a structural change somebody can point at.
Door lists, booking systems, float and cash flow. The ops stack holding up a scene, and why the spreadsheet is the real infrastructure of a culture.
Season one closes the loop in a room with an audience: a live-recorded roundtable of the people this series was built around, arguing about what comes next.