Being Queen is My Resistance: Lessons in Drag Mythology and Migration

Blending storytelling, drag performance, dance, and multimedia elements, the program traces KaMani Sutra’s journey of discovering femininity while navigating life as an adult immigrant in the United States.

Rooted in the richness of Indian drag aesthetics and cultural influences, this artist’s showcase reflects on identity, migration, and self-expression, contrasting the freedom of living authentically in a foreign land with the complexities of belonging and visibility. Through short performances, video, and consensual audience participation, the lecture-performance-artist showcase challenges ideas around the model minority myth, binary gender, and colonial saviorship.

At once celebratory and reflective, the program honours intergenerational queerness, LGBTQ+ community, saris, mujras, divine femininity, and the transformative power of self-love.

This programme is part of LGBTQIA+ programming and is an attempt to amplify narratives from within the queer community through film, dialogue, and collective reflection.