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Drag queen Pattie Gonia wanted a scary Halloween costume. She went as climate change
Drag queen Pattie Gonia’s costume was made by Zero Waste Daniel, a designer in Brooklyn, N.Y., who focuses on sustainable clothes and accessories.
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Drag queen Pattie Gonia’s costume was made by Zero Waste Daniel, a designer in Brooklyn, N.Y., who focuses on sustainable clothes and accessories.
Pattie Gonia
Drag queen Pattie Gonia stated she needed a really scary costume for Halloween this yr.
“And truthfully, what’s scarier than local weather change?” the Nebraska native informed NPR over the cellphone whereas doing their two-hour make-up routine.
Pattie lives in Bend, Ore., and describes themself as a drag queen, intersectional environmentalist and “skilled gay.” They do a lot of neighborhood organizing and co-founded The Oath, a nonprofit that goals to diversify the outside neighborhood.
The costume includes a costume by Zero Waste Daniel that was made completely of material scraps that might have in any other case been wasted. They began on the venture a yr and a half in the past.
Pattie Gonia, who makes use of they/them and he or she/her pronouns in drag and whose non-drag identify is Wyn Wiley, tried to reuse as a lot as she might for the remainder of the look, together with a bejeweled bag formed like a stack of cash, her nails and her signature tall auburn wig.
The costume consists of symbols of local weather devastation. On the backside, a polar bear stands in a melting Arctic; an oil rig and manufacturing unit seem on the costume’s physique; and a choking hen makes up one sleeve. Taylor Swift’s non-public jet, full with a path of carbon, is about in Pattie’s hair.
In a satirical Instagram put up, Pattie Gonia introduced “Local weather change: a brand new perfume by Chevron.”
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In a satirical Instagram put up, Pattie Gonia introduced “Local weather change: a brand new perfume by Chevron.”
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She stated queerness and drag belong in environmentalism. “Drag has all the time been on the forefront of social justice actions,” Pattie stated. She desires to make use of the comedy and leisure that always go hand in hand with drag as instruments to speak summary and deep ideas.
Many within the LGBTQ neighborhood are additionally all too conversant in one method to sparking local weather motion: guilt.
“I believe there’s a lot private guilt that individuals really feel in terms of the local weather motion, as a result of we have been hit with messaging for the previous 50 years that it is our private accountability,” Pattie stated, including that company earnings are at an all-time excessive in 70 years.
Zero Waste Daniel began making the local weather change-themed costume a yr and a half in the past, Pattie Gonia stated.
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Zero Waste Daniel began making the local weather change-themed costume a yr and a half in the past, Pattie Gonia stated.
Pattie Gonia
“Particularly for queer individuals, we all know that disgrace and guilt are actually highly effective motivators, however they burn you out actually quick.”
Some of the vital points of their work to encourage local weather motion, Pattie Gonia defined, helps get individuals into nature.
“We struggle for what we love,” she stated. “And I believe if we are able to encourage individuals to get exterior to connect with this planet, they’re gonna struggle a lot more durable for it, as a result of they adore it.”