ShayShay: Difference between revisions

| pronouns=[[they/them]]<ref name="wear_Life">{{Cite web |title=Life Stories: ShayShay – Co-founder, The Bitten Peach Collective |author= |work=Wearecolourfull |date= |access-date=6 May 2020 |url= https://www.wearecolourfull.com/post/life-stories-shayshay-co-founder-the-bitten-peach-collective}}</ref>

| gender=[[genderfluid]]<ref name="Heathcote">{{Cite web |title=Beyond the Margins {{!}} SHAY {{!}} Gender fluidity |last=Heathcote |first=Craig |work=Vimeo |date=18 November 2018 |access-date=6 May 2020 |url= https://vimeo.com/301486674}}</ref><ref name="funk">{{Cite web |title=Drag Artist "ShayShay" Highlights Four Essentials To Understanding Drag |author= |work=REFORM THE FUNK |date=6 May 2019 |access-date=6 May 2020 |url= https://www.reformthefunk.com/features/drag-artist-shayshay-highlights-four-essentials-to-understanding-drag}}</ref>

'''ShayShay''' is a well-known [[drag]] performer in East London.<ref name="Rasmussen">{{Cite web |title=How to Run a Truly Inclusive Club Night |last=Rasmussen |first=Tom |work=Vice |date=10 October 2018 |access-date=6 May 2020 |url= https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/zm9g3x/inclusive-night-guide-bbz-shayshay-femmetopia-cocoa-butter-club-femmi-erect?utm_source=nt }}</ref><ref name="Jones">{{Cite web |title=ShayShay: The East London drag star talks America, beauty ideals and cultural appropriation. |last=Jones |first=Dylan |work=QX Magazine |date=12 October 2017 |access-date=6 May 2020 |url= https://www.qxmagazine.com/2017/10/shayshay-east-london-drag-star-america-ideals-beauty-cultural-appropriation/}}</ref> They grew up in Silicon Valley with supportive parents: an Irish mother and a Japanese-American father. After moving to London they came across drag and discovered they enjoyed presenting [[androgynous]]ly. This eventually led them to the discovery of nonbinary identities.<ref name="wear_Life" />