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“The big misconception within the drag, very obviously, is thinking that drag artists are predators, mainly because of drag storytime with children and our impact with kids, but it's really, it's not any different than anyone else reading a story to children. It's just a storytime. In fact, we mostly perform in places without children because we're not huge fans of children it's a very common misconception that we get placed the word predator on us and it really has nothing to do with the who we are at all.”

“A memorable performance I would probably have to go back to was when I did the 2022 Halloween Fruit Loop gig last year and it was my first huge audience. We had sold out the show and there was more than 500 people and I just looked out and there was just a wall to wall people screaming. I just walked across the stage and they were all screaming and it was so exhilarating. And I just felt like a celebrity, even though I was nobody and they didn't know who I was. They didn't care. They were screaming anyway.”

“I'm also a professional stiltwalker. So I've been professionally trained by national
stilt walkers, Canada, it was 2021. Same year that I kind of discovered drag. I was hired by
National Stiltwalkers Canada through like, the government puts out like Canadian students
summer jobs, and he received eight of them. And we were trained to not only stiltwalk but
dance on stilts, and create this sort of play sort of choreographed dance through the eight of us. It's really incredible. It's actually up on YouTube. And I was there eight hours a day, almost every day of the week for nine or 10 weeks. Just learning how to start walk, gaining all the skills that I need learning to dance on stilts, regain my balance, and at the end of it all, he hired me into his, performer group, so I can pick up still walking gigs. I stilt
walked in festivals and parades. And then eventually, I was like, well, I could do drag on
stilts. Like, why can't I do this? So I did an outdoor gig where I scared everyone around me, but in the end it was really cool.”

“Just do it. There's nothing more to do. But do it. Show up to drag shows, find your inspiration. But don't copy somebody else. And don't get in your head that you're not like them. You will sit at a drag show and you'll see someone do something incredible. And you think to yourself, oh, I never would have thought to do that. Or I never, I don't do anything like that. But that's fine.You don't have to they do that. They hire them to do that. And they're gonna hire you to do what you want to do. So don't get in your head that somebody else is doing something else that you find incredible, because someone is finding what you do incredible as well.”