🏳️🌈 In honour of pride month, I'm sharing the interview I did with Jacqui Bardelang, the performer behind drag king Sigi Moonlight. Bardelang speaks about the various personas Moonlight encompasses and the way they subvert binary gender norms and racial stereotypes through seduction. Counterintuitively, Bardelang has gotten more in touch with her feminine side through drag kinging. We also discuss pronouns and the ups and downs of female masculinity on stage and off, from being the object of pansexual desire to being misgendered.
This interview was recorded live on Instagram in May 2021 as part of Oriana's digital residency at Mimosa House Gallery. You can watch the original video here.
Oriana Fox is a London-based, New York-born artist with a PhD in self-disclosure. She puts her expertise to work as the host of the talk show performance piece The O Show.
Jacqui Bardelang is an actor who performs regularly as drag king Sigi Moonlight, taking on multiple, eclectic characters parodying masculinity, from British icons such as Captain Birdseye who wants to show you his fish finger to the generic wise old Asian man of Kung Fu fame whose quest, in Moonlight's rendition, is to be sexy. Bardelang is a member of two collectives Pecs Drag Kings and The Bitten Peach. Moonlight was also featured in Them magazine's article "8 Drag Kings you need to know".
FYI: You can watch the related episode of 'The O Show' on Female Masculinity featuring guest artists Del LaGrace Volcano, Lucy Hutson and Temi Wilkey with performances by Pecs Drag Kings on the O Show's new website: www.theoshow.live/female-masculinity or on TheOrianaFox's youtube channel here.
Credits:
Produced, edited and hosted by Oriana Fox
Introductory Voiceover by John Kilduff, aka Mr. Let's Paint
Original theme song written and performed by Paulette Humanbeing
Special Thanks to Tom Estes, Caroline Wong, Sven Van Damme, Katie Beeson, Janak Patel and Mimosa House Gallery, London
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