Tried to remember some of the rules but couldn’t recall them off the top of his Although we altered it because it’s pretty gender-specific JS: Does it change each time or is there a specific rulesetĭL: There’s like a pretty specific ruleset that people
(In the following interview the informant is identified asĭL and the interviewer is identified as JS.)ĭL: It’s like…you put a big cup in the middle of the tableĪnd, um, spread a deck of cards around it and you take turns picking a cardįrom the ring of cards around the cup and each number on the card signifiesĭL: Um…most of them involve drinking or something of that context. DL expressed sadness over not being able to play King’s Cup at the Zoom Party. A little while afterwards, he celebrated someone else’s birthday over Zoom due to the COVID-19 stay at home orders. This particular instance of King’s Cup was celebrated on DL’s birthday with about ten schoolmates/friends/roommates of DL, shortly before the COVID-19 Stay-at-Home orders were put in place. He a transgender man in his early twenties and lives in an eight-person household with roommates that all identify as LGBTQ+.Ĭontext: King’s Cup is one of DL’s favorite drinking games. Background: DL is a childhood friend of mine who grew up in Long Beach, California before moving up north to attend college in Washington.
