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Drive Fast Eat Ass, Risograph edition of 50, Protozoa Books, Chicago Art Book Fair, 2019.

To respond to the corporatization of 2019’s World Pride 50, Charlotte Woolf made a fake NASCAR campaign featuring bumper stickers, gifs, and a Risograph edition. By queering the NASCAR mating call, initially coined by the racing fanbase, Woolf claims her southern upbringing and experience of being employed at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2013. The racing sport has prohibitionist roots in North Carolina, where bootleggers would transport moonshine across the state illegally. Woolf utilizes the homosexual tone of the phrasing DRIVE FAST EAT ASS and draws the connection to queer and trans people hiding their identity in the face of social oppression and government control.