PACHACUNTI
on drag identity 

(Ruby) So what's your name in and name out of drag?

(Pacha) My name in drag is Pacha. Full name, Pachacunti.
(Ruby) Love.

(Pacha) Out of drag, my name is Corey.
(Ruby) Wonderful. And what pronouns should I refer to you in drag and out of drag?

(Pacha) In drag, I use they, she pronouns, and out of drag, we're figuring it out.
(Ruby) Okay, yeah.

(Pacha) But it's been like hovering on they, he.
(Ruby) Can you describe your gender and sexual identity if it's comfortable?

(Pacha) So I like solidly identify as bisexual or queer. That took a long time to get to, but like that is pretty solid. In terms of my gender, it was so clear.

And then I started drag and now it's all weird. Where like I'm transmasc, but it's like because I do drag, the like connection of my gender expression gets all wonky. And then like my connection to my gender as seen through my sexuality gets all weird when it's like I'm transmasc, but I heavily identify.

I just got my eyebrows done and I keep wanting to touch them.
(Ruby) They look great.

(Pacha) Thank you.

I bleached them and that was a mistake. And then I went and got them tinted and shaped.
(Ruby) Okay. Yeah.

(Pacha) But I have grown to become a lot more connected to like things related to womanhood or femininity than I was for a lot of my life because of drag. And realizing like, oh, my bisexuality feels a lot more connected to like sapphic-ness than I would have otherwise assumed. Which then makes being like transmasc and also like being on T and having gotten top surgery and having a beard way more complicated, I guess.

But it's on my mind all the time.