I want the face of comedy to change and I want you to pull up Netflix comedy specials and
It's all queer people of color right now and especially in New York
There's a huge huge booming alternative queer comedy scene
I've been doing comedy. Let's say I've been doing comedy coming up on six years right now where I'm adding comedy
There's a split between when I'm performing in rooms full of people who are also queer or are also
Asian-american and kind of understand what I'm saying?
And then for those people it's important because they agree with me and then there's one I'm in rooms where people have never heard
What I'm saying before they've never thought of it
I do go by the gender-neutral pronouns a them. I like when people call me. They it makes me feel less lonely
In my set I say I am a non-binary transgender person which means I am trans
But I don't identify as a punk musician or a spoken word artist
This audiences love my jokes about they pronouns and then they go I wasn't she so funny
Non-binary means that everything you've ever learned is a lie, which I think is very freeing. I never want to alienate people
I'm always trying to
Bring the room together for us to all kind of have a good time. Even as I'm ripping people
How are we feeling about Trump's America? Don't tell me if you feel good. I don't want to hear
Okay, that's that's the only thing I needed to hear that is fine. You're the only person who exists to me
I don't know that it changes anybody's mind all the time or like helps them learn things all the time
I do think I am introducing
New ideas to people who've maybe never heard them before and who probably weren't expecting to hear them at a comedy show
I don't know if you can tell from looking at me, but I am somebody who cares about Asian American representation in the media
Okay
That's about how Hollywood feels right now
Like kind of too long of a silence and then people going. All right clapping. I think it's not that subjects should be off-limits
But that people should think about what they're saying
there's a difference between somebody talking about their own experiences of
sexual violence and
Doing jokes where sexual violence is a punchline in the mainstream comedy landscape
There are a lot of jokes that are specifically degrading to trans women
specifically of where trans women are the punchline in real life
trans women particularly trans women of color black trans women
People murder them at an alarming rate like if that's not a joke anymore
Then maybe this won't happen as much in real life
I
Just want there to be greater possibilities for everything, you know, I want to star in movies
I want to star in movies and a lot of different types of roles. I want to play
Non-binary characters who don't just walk on and go actually my pronouns are they them which is what?
Every non-binary character on a TV show pretty much says it's wild to me
Actually that that I auditioned for TV all the time for roles that I could get casted. What happened yet?
but I could and I am shocked actually that I'm able to do comedy that is truthful and
vulnerable to me to audiences that enjoy it and understand it without me having to
lie or change things about myself
