Mimi

Growing up as a preacher’s son, Michael faced two choices: embrace the church or break free. He found his true calling while watching his sister’s failed attempts to mirror Jackie Kennedy’s elegance in Alabama’s beloved child beauty pageants. At sixteen, he boarded a one-way bus to New York—and never looked back.

Inspired by the pageants of his youth, Mimi emerged, embracing the mantra that more is always better. By day, Michael tends to the temperamental machines at the renowned King Wash Launderette. By night, Mimi transforms, dazzling the worn stages of New York’s drag clubs with dreams as big as her hair. Reaching for the stars and never settling for less, Paradise has become the true home that Alabama never was.