Temi: I sometimes notice I'm doing a manspread on the tube. It also makes you think about physicality and the way you take up space.Ĭeline: Yes, I've definitely found I'm less afraid of physically taking up space. My character's become much more vulnerable in the last few years because of stuff that's been happening in my own personal life. Not in a bad way, but in terms of facing up to parts of yourself. Temi: I find it sexy and, sometimes, exposing. And getting to be that is really liberating – a part of myself I wouldn't want to be in real life.

My character is super privileged, really doesn't question his privilege and is quite a dick. VICE: How would you describe the feeling of doing drag?Ĭeline: Drag gives me access to a power I hadn't felt before. I caught up with Temi and her co-founder Celine Lowenthal – whose sometime character (she usually directs) is Home Counties boy Leo, who went to an all-boys boarding school, works in the City and is a trained sommelier – to talk about drag, gender and telling people how you want to fuck. 'We want people to go away feeling empowered to talk to their sex partners and discover for themselves what they want their gender performance – or lack of – to be during sex,' says Pecs co-founder Temi Wilkey, whose character, Drag King Cole, is a singer, songwriter and producer from Chicago, Illinois.

Articles about drag kings