![]() ![]() “I've just been around kids in different ways throughout my life,” Bandit said. She was an art instructor at a summer camp, taught 5-year-olds how to swim at the YMCA, hosted birthday parties at Main Event, and volunteered in her church leading a youth group. ![]() I really struggled with understanding, like, okay, who's a boy and who's a girl? I remember the very first time I saw a butch lesbian – it blew my mind, it blew my mind! I think I've always understood that gender is something that's taught.”īrigitte Bandit was born and raised in Northwest Austin and began working with kids at the age of 15. “I remember as a kid really struggling to learn the gender binary. She raised her voice to be heard over the screams: “Queer people belong here, bitch! No amount of laws targeting us will ever eradicate our existence, okay? Hopefully, the next time I see you this shit will be fucking ba-locked! See y'all laterrrr …” Big Tits, Bigger Dreams And I don't know if you heard, but just this afternoon the bill to stop trans kids from getting medically necessary health care was blocked: It's SB 14, the trans youth health ban bill? Everybody cheer!” The young people cheered and Bandit led them in a chant: “Fuck Ted Cruz! Fuck Greg Abbott! Trans Texans belong here! Drag queens belong here!” And we are going to get this bill blocked. ![]() “We'll be in court Monday morning to stop SB 12 because drag is expression, y'all, just like any other kind of art. Bandit took the mic to announce that she was suing the state of Texas. “Shake It Out” ended and the applause rose up. It was star power: delicate, brazen, urgent, effortless. Then, in a reconstruction or deconstruction or abnegation of gender, Bandit tore away the artificial breasts and danced topless. She untied the straps of her blouse, moved to the edge of the stage, thrust out her breasts, and shook them as the crowd erupted. As “Shake It Out” entered its final chorus – “ It's hard to dance with the devil on your back” – she pulled off her wig and threw it to DJ Turito. So there was tension in Bandit's performance. It had the potential to destroy the business Bandit has built over the last five years as a full-time drag artist. It was a product of the ongoing anti-LGBTQ hysteria, written to make drag performances in public spaces illegal. A new Texas law, Senate Bill 12, would be taking effect in a week. “I have these big fake titties and I do outrageous stuff – just campy, goofy, big, colorful shit.”īut this wasn't a goofy kind of night. The breasts – actually, the breastplate – are part of Bandit's onstage identity, she told the Chronicle. A cascade of pink and rainbow hair fell to her breasts, which were Dolly Parton big. Her brows were part of the illusion, erased and redrawn. A precise line of eyeliner was drawn beneath the hollows of her eyes, with pools of white painted on the bottom lids, creating an effect that deepened and widened her eyes, making a frame with the black, bristling, crescent flowers of her lashes. The phones went up.īrigitte Bandit came forward in a maroon cocktail dress, her face seemingly larger than physically possible, immaculate, made up in the whites, pinks, reds, and ambers of a Venetian oil painting. Florence and the Machine's “Shake It Out” began to pump. A luminous figure appeared at stage right. ![]()
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