Through the platform of drag, I am interested in exploring the rights, experience, and social role of a person who is gender nonconforming. As a gay person, I find the limitations of gender performance and self expression to be wildly troubling. I am devoted to understanding what impacts my relationship to the interplay between masculinity and femininity can have on other people's lives, as well as my own. I am not Transgender, and I am not a woman. I am a biological man who enjoys the power and beauty of using the tools of drag to explore a truer version of myself. I think that accessories of femininity play as vital a role to the exploration toward a more self actualized identity, as masculinity does.
To me, to Jazzmint, drag is about so much more than female impersonation. It is about so much more than spectacle. To understand the beauty of drag as lifestyle, one must explore as many of its crevices as possible. Through the construction and collection of augmenting prosthesis which can be worn on the body, performance can become lifestyle. That is my goal, and in doing so I aim to hone in on the skills and forms of expression which bring me closer to the Jazzmint I feel most confident as.
To me, to Jazzmint, drag is about so much more than female impersonation. It is about so much more than spectacle. To understand the beauty of drag as lifestyle, one must explore as many of its crevices as possible. Through the construction and collection of augmenting prosthesis which can be worn on the body, performance can become lifestyle. That is my goal, and in doing so I aim to hone in on the skills and forms of expression which bring me closer to the Jazzmint I feel most confident as.