I saw him as an unpleasant, privileged Chinese boy who had just come home from studying abroad. It took three months of development and intensive workshops under Becca D’Bus and Boston-based burlesque and drag performer Madge of Honour before we performed at the M1 Singapore Fringe Festival 2017, in a burlesque show entitled Foreign Bodies. While I initially didn’t like the idea of looking hyper feminine while taking off my clothes, I had dreamed of doing burlesque for some years and I saw it as a chance to build a drag king character. When I came back to Singapore, I heard of an open call for the formation of a progressive burlesque troupe called Skin in SIN, the brainchild of Becca D’Bus, a Singaporean drag queen who runs drag revue Riot!. It was so much fun, because I was able to inhabit a different personality and poke fun at hipster tropes. I wore a fedora hat, suit, and gave myself a male name. Participants adopted different personas of poets, so I thought I would impersonate a pretentious, hipster male poet. My first drag performance was in the United Kingdom, where I participated in an ‘Anti-Slam’, which is designed to parody poetry slams.
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