She previously lived and worked in New York City, [5] and has been based in Berlin since Huxtable was born in Bryan-College Station, Texas. Huxtable was born intersex and began her transition after college. She notes that struggles with gender conformity and sex identity started earlier in life. Huxtable moved to New York to attend Bard College and graduated in Huxtable has spoken about her desire to be a painter while growing up and enrolled in several painting classes during college.
She abandoned the medium after professors criticized her for her "obsession with" formal technique and identity. While at the ACLU, Huxtable amassed a significant following on Tumblr, posting long stream-of-consciousness poems and self-portraits that experimented with fashion and Nuwaubian imagery. Huxtable's interest in fashion led her to model for a number of fashion houses and campaigns.
The band's primary member, Andrew Butler, described the song and its video as an examination of his "relationship to taboo words and the use of 'cunt' amongst NYC's gay community to relay flattery, empowerment and strength".
These works, along with a sculpture by fellow Triennial artist Frank Benson that depicted a life-sized Huxtable rendered in iridescent colors, were prominent works in the show. Later that year, Huxtable was selected to showcase a new performance piece in the Performa 15 Biennial.
As described by the festival's organizers, Huxtable's performance considered "cyberspace as a twilight zone of precariousness and preservation, traversing closed servers, bounced URLs, and Google cache as human and digital characters".
