Julie J (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based drag performer, community organizer, and multidisciplinary artist. Her creative work has been featured in theaters and nightclubs across NYC and internationally in Germany, The Czech Republic, and Italy. She is the creator of Stand Up NYC, a nightlife initiative bringing together performers, DJs, and nightlife community members to raise funds for organizations protecting and uplifting LGBTQIA+ individuals across the country, particularly in states where trans rights and access to healthcare are being threatened. To date Stand Up NYC has raised over $108,000.

In 2023, she was named MISS BUSHWIG at the nation’s largest drag festival, and in 2024, she was awarded Entertainer of the Year at the 25th Annual Glam Awards, which recognizes the best and brightest in New York City nightlife. In 2025, she was named a resident artist at La Mama Experimental Theater Club, and her solo show THOSE WONDERFUL PEOPLE OUT THERE IN THE DARK will premiere through La Mama in 2026. She is the star of the Webby award-winning web series Alexis Bittar, and is featured in Queens of the Dead, in theaters this fall.

Her writing is published in No Tea, No Shade a new collection of essays distributed through Harper One. She's doing her best.