Nashom Wooden, artist
Nashom Wooden –an American performing artist – died due to Covid-19 on March 23, 2020.
Wooden was a member of the electronic dance music band The Ones and performed as a drag queen under the stage name Mona Foot.
Wooden was raised in Brooklyn, New York, and entered the New York nightlife scene as a Club Kid in the mid-1980s. By 1989, he worked in Manhattan running the men's clothing department at Patricia Field's boutique while developing the drag queen persona Mona Foot with his friend and former roommate Lady Bunny. Wooden credits RuPaul as an early mentor; RuPaul taught Wooden how to apply makeup, and both appeared in an off-Broadway play titled My Pet Homo. As Mona Foot, Wooden hosted the weekly drag competition "Mona Foot's ...