The Red Bulletin September 2019 (UK)

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“It’s our queer London, one we were born of, met in and celebrate” Victoria Sin
Red Bull Music Festival London CLOTHING: SHY ONE: SHORTS, FLAASH APPAREL “Get started at Wetherspoons, then go to Pxssy Palace. It’s a great night” Shy One Victoria Sin & Shy One The shape changers Performance artist and drag queen Victoria Sin doesn’t need to invent a stage name – the 28-year-old Canadian’s real one works just fine for a multi-disciplinary and genderexploratory artist who offers a unique interpretation of drag. “When I was 17 in Toronto, I used a fake ID to go to drag clubs and saw this empowered embodiment of femininity in a way I never had before,” says Sin. “I was transfixed. I always wanted to be a drag queen, but didn’t know it was something I could do until I moved to London. I’m trying to express that gender and identity are constructed, but it doesn’t mean we can’t take pleasure in those things. Through a process of doing drag and putting on and taking off my gender, I realised I wasn’t a woman and came out as non-binary.” Sin’s Red Bull performance with Shy One is all about queer spaces, but these opportunities alone don’t mean the world is becoming more open-minded. “Trans rights have so far to go in the UK, and this is why spaces like BBZ and Pxssy Palace are so important, because that’s where I can be myself,” says Sin. “I live in a country that doesn’t recognise nonbinary as a legal gender identity, so what does that do for me?” Sin also recognises that the way femininity is treated on stage is totally different to how it’s treated on the street. “Femininity is something you can wield to make space for yourself and other people and be loud and proud. Unfortunately that’s not always possible, because of the social context we exist within. My work is about distancing ideas of femininity from ideas of womanhood. They are not necessarily related.” Given that Shy One’s dad is the DJ Trevor Nelson and her godfather is Soul II Soul’s Jazzie B, people assume they know how the 29-yearold – born Mali Larrington-Nelson – ended up being a DJ. However, her mum was the biggest influence: “She was a raver and big music lover. She introduced me to jungle, garage and broken beat when listening to pirate radio in her car, and also neo-soul like Erykah Badu and Lauryn Hill.” Having said that, it was Jazzie B gifting her decks on her 13th birthday, combined with a mixing workshop at her local youth club in Harrow, that led Shy to become one of London’s most eclectic underground DJs. “Right now, I’m definitely playing more broken beat and jazz,” she says. “Not to look down on other styles as I play them all, but there’s a heavy jazz presence.” Influential on London’s queer party scene, Shy is part of the BBZ collective that centres on women and non-binary people of colour, and chooses queer collective Pxssy Palace as her favourite night to be on the bill. But her eclectic taste extends to socialising. “Wetherspoons is somewhere I feel comfortable going and being able to eat and drink for cheap,” she says. “I used to take my laptop and work there. It’s odd that I, as a queer young black woman of immigrant descent, often feel more at ease in spaces you expect to be most hostile. Line your stomach at ’Spoons and then go to Pxssy Palace – it’s a great night.” September 13: We Know That We Can Shape Ourselves Venue TBA Victoria Sin and Shy One will be collaborating at this bespoke event expressing what it means to be queer in club culture. Here, they explain what we can expect: VS: “This is a meeting of our worlds, and of the collectives and artists we know and love. It’s our queer London, one we were born of, met in and celebrate. Mali does the music that creates the narrative, and I activate the words by performing as this extreme embodiment of identity.” SO: “It’s quite cool that we’re doing the show with BBZ and Pxssy Palace, because we met through their events.” VS: “When we met, I was coming into something that’s unique in London, which is a party scene that centres the experiences of queer people of colour in ways I’d never experienced before. Within queer spaces, places are often cis-male and white, and if you’re queer and not those things, it can be very violent coming into those spaces.” SO: “In London, there are so many of us crammed into a small scene. There are a lot of black people and other people of colour, and we probably have the most populous gay scene in the UK. There are so many opportunities for us to have parties.” VS: “It feels like a moment, like we’re part of something special and unique. Queer people of colour are realising that not only do we need and want our own spaces, but when we get together we start creating our own culture and our own world – and that’s really beautiful.” Styling: Hannah Elwell Hair: Maki Tanaka Make-up: Emma Williams Thanks to Copeland Park, Peckham, for the location Red Bull Music Festival London takes place from August 20 to September 14. For more event details, head to page 93 or redbull.com THE RED BULLETIN 51
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