Santísimx Muerte (Holiest Death) is a decolonial-death-cult-folk-saint-drag-act.

Invoking my Latinx heritage, coinciding with the upcoming Dia De Los Muertos (Mexican Day of the Dead) celebrations, and inspired by the controversial, marginalised figure of La Santa Muerte - often seen as a patron saint of the illicit underworld of Mexican society, and a protector of queer LGBTQI+ communities in Mexico considered marginalised from predominantly Catholic society, who ask for her for protection from violence, hatred, disease, and to help them in their search for love.

This is a ritual exploring the transformative potentials of how we confront, decolonise and reclaim our queer sick bodies, through the syncretic a/gendered image of death, and how we face up to our own shortening, controlled mortality, among the living, pulsing bodies on this dancefloor: Renunciar sus ofrendas a La Flaquita: Keep your sugar skulls - S/he comes for blood...

Saturday 6th October 2018 ¦
Queer Migrant Takeover: Deeper Routes at RichMix (London)

Sunday 7th October 2018 ¦
DICE Festival at Camden People's Theatre (London)

Wednesday 31st October 2018 ¦
Live Art Bistro presents: HallowQueen at LiveArt Bistro (Leeds)

Tuesday 6th November 2018 ¦
Bar Wotever at The Royal Vauxhall Tavern (London)