Deladis Haywood:
I knew I wanted to make a documentary about drag queens in Appalachia for about a year before it finally came to life. Drag artistry and drag queens have played a huge role in helping me discover who I am and what I want to be. While drag shows are common in bigger cities, they remain rare in Eastern Kentucky and throughout Appalachia. This always confused me because why is drag not more popular here? There is such a large LGBTQ community in Appalachia, yet so few spaces for people to come together. There is also something truly unique about experiencing a drag show in a small rural town compared to a city. The community feels stronger, the love runs deeper, and the sense of connection is undeniable. I wanted to capture that feeling while also highlighting how many drag queens in Appalachia have to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, working with what they have to create art and community. To me, this reflects the very origins of drag before it became much more commercialized and expensive, where today it often feels like you need wealth and access to resources in order to participate fully. Drag has always been important to me and a place where I have continued to find myself again and again. This film serves as both a love letter to drag queens in Appalachia and a thank you for everything they have given me and their rural communities.

Jessica Wright:
I felt compelled to make this film because drag is something that is very personal to me and my life and it also means so much to some of the people closest to me in my life. I feel that drag queens alone don't have many platforms to tell their stories to begin with, but the drag queens closest to us, emotionally and physically, have even less representation due to the fact that they're not only drag queens, they are Appalachian drag queens. Being an Appalachian drag queen is a power in its own, and the drag queens from our area are part of why I am so proud to be from this area. I wanted to make other people proud of them as well, and more importantly, I wanted these tougher than nails but prettier than magnolias drag artists to feel that they have space to share their stories.