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And then I started going bigger and making things for my little sister. VERNA: I had to pass a sewing test that took me all day because I had no formal experience at all, and was just blown away that they offered me the position. And I think it's just because I was a perfectionist. And so I wasn't going to leave until I had everything perfect.

But at the time, I think minimum wage was like or And I was just like, what? VERNA: I noticed that the women specifically that would come stand in front of those big mirrors, either in my home or then eventually in the shop, were always just sort of tearing themselves apart, like standing there, and nitpicking everything that they didn't like about their bodies.

And it was heartbreaking. And I found that other people had created signage that you could hang in your business that would say like, this is a body positive space. We don't police gender norms, we don't talk about weight or dieting, just stuff like that. And it was an all drag king showcase. And I was like, what, like, you can perform, like people like me can perform like, you can do drag? I had no idea. I suppose. VERNA: It was so much fun that I like played it over again and did it twice, and realized that that was a huge mistake, because I had never actually like used all of those abdominal muscles before.

So I like could not sleep at night it hurt so bad. I was better at it than I would have expected to be.

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And I'm not really sure why that is. VERNA: I was sort of drawn to continuing because my grandma had mentioned to me that she had assisted a friend of hers in teaching belly dance, I want to say in like the 60s or 70s. And like supposedly, they were even recording like a video of this so that they could then like, send it out or sell it as like a you know, at home learn how to belly dance. So a lot of the time I'm not really on stage as Verna as an entity, I'm onstage as like Sweeney Todd, or Buzz Lightyear or characters that already exist in some form.

But it really just depends. I guess. Like it really came down to that. VERNA: But it sort of became like, look at this thing that I'm allowing you to go do like this crazy hobby that you have, like, isn't it, you know, generous of me as your spouse to, like, allow you to go do that. As long as you're gonna come home and still be a housewife afterward.

And so, you know, the one or two times a year that I could get him to come out, normally, I would have to be like, Okay, in this show, I'm going to be like, feminine, and sexy, you know. And so then he was more likely to come out. I made it my goal to pay for my entire divorce through doing drag because it was the thing that he hated the most.

And so spite really fueled me for a couple of years there, and I did it.