English/French

5” x 7”  44 pages

Paperback, Staple bound, HP Indigo digital press

$20

ISSN 2562-2056

YOU BETCHA IRIS is a bilingual printed zine that profiles one Tiohtià:ke/Montreal-based drag performer per issue. For our second issue, editor Clara met up with Lizzy Strange at a café in Montreal’s Hochelaga neighbourhood to learn about the Hamilton-born performer’s beginnings in drag, their experience as an AFAB artist with a « feminine »-presenting drag persona, the projects they’ve co-produced since arriving in Quebec, and the influences behind their drag. Photographer Aok Palad conducted two incredible shoots with Lizzy—one at the famous Café Cleopatra during House of Laureen’s MX. QUEERDO pageant, and one in and around the artist’s home. Clara and designer Rae Congdon created accompanying tactile illustrations in a variety of media. When you order YOU BETCHA IRIS online, it comes in a custom machine-embroidered unbleached cotton envelope. This issue was produced with generous support from Emploi Quebec’s Young Volunteers program. For more information, please visit ybi.carrd.co.

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. When you order YOU BETCHA IRIS online, it comes in a custom machine-embroidered unbleached cotton envelope. This issue was produced with generous support from Emploi Quebec’s Young Volunteers program. For more information, please visit ybi.carrd.co.