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YBI3 : Nat King Pole
2020
BUY
$20 CAD

English/French

5” x 7”

44 pages

Paperback 

Staple bound 

HP Indigo digital press

Colour 

Printed in Canada 

ISSN 2562-2056


YOU BETCHA IRIS is a bilingual printed zine that profiles one Tiohtià:ke/Montreal-based drag performer per issue. Leaving the YBI3 interview spot up to the interviewee, editor Clara spoke with Montreal's Panty Whisperer, Nat King Pole, at a café inside a luxury dog hotel. Nathalie Théoret, the woman behind the drag, opened up about starting her vaudevillian performance career at age forty after retiring from hockey, drawing inspiration from her day job as an orderly, and feeling out of place in today's glam-focused drag scene. Photographer Aok Palad captured The Pole Man at home reading Playboy, manspreading, and getting enraged while watching hockey. Standout quotes from the interview have been turned into tactile illustrations that pull influence from the '70s wave patterns, old family photos, and vintage movie posters around Nat's apartment. This issue was produced with generous support from Emploi Quebec's Young Volunteers program. For more information, please visit youbetchairis.com.


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