Drag Race season 16 winner Nymphia Wind talks to Teen Vogue about her approach to drag and what’s next for her career.
RuPaul’s Drag Race season 16 winner Nymphia Wind drops into our Zoom meeting, days after her victory, with a windswept, chaotic energy and a raspy British accent. “I’m always bananas,” the Taiwanese American performer, whose off-stage name is Leo Tsao, proclaims proudly to Teen Vogue. To those who watched the competition, “bananas” is the norm for the queen, who regularly made fart noises with her mouth .
“I feel like drag really taught me to be proud to be Asian. It really taught me to really reconnect with my culture.” The 28-year-old queen incorporated Asian heritage homages into many of her Drag Race performances, doing a traditional Asian sleeve dance during the first episode and highlighting Japanese Butoh in another.
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