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By inhabiting female pronouns whilst preforming while sustaining a nonbinary identity, boychild is "non-conformist to hegemonic ideas of sex and gender, boychild is positioned as subordinated other in more ways than one and the viability of her sex, gender, and humanness is called into question." boychild's performances relay how bodies have been thrown into arbitrary categoricalness that reiforces cisheteronortmative benefit from these classifications.

'''The body is the physical embodiment of "the self", which "can be used as a tool to reveal the ubiquitous wholeness of being—dissolving difference." '''

boychild states that the birth of the Boychild persona occurred during months of research into clowns, healers, and non-western cultures, medicine men, shamans, witches. boychild says "by research into ‘shamans and the role they played as the healer, knower, medicineman, jester. I found in various cultures … a person who used knowledge, cunning, humour, and wisdom to heal; whether through medicine, psychic insight, comedic performances, rituals or a combination of all these things.

'''Some of her performances are one-time-only, providing this intense immersement in the performances while it is occurring. boychild emphasizes that working in nightlife scene is crucial because "nothing contextu­alizes [my] performance the same way as these places do. It’s my world, my existence in the under­ground." Additionally, with their adolescence occurring post internet, they spent time finding things on there, reporting that the "underground exist on the internet." '''

boychild's collaboration with Wu Tsang has led to numerous performances, videos, and other projects, such as Moved by the Motion, which includes cellist Patrick Belaga, dancer Josh Johnson, electronic musician Asma Maroof, and poet Fred Moten. '''boychild and Wu Tsang are longstanding collaborators. Wus Tsang, primarily a filmmaker, and boychild's, primarily a performer, work seem fit within the other's contour which has propagated their sustained work together and provide audience members opportunity to experience queerer worlds. Wu Tsang works to look at "the way fantasy plays in representing social movements. Evoking “the underground” as a site of cultural resistance, he considers how these constructs have been transformed by the internet and social media." The underground and the internet are two spaces where boychild first took on her performative identity. These physical spaces give space for "excitingly queer, non-binary corporeality of the protagonist(s)" '''

'''They "inhabit a kind of queer flesh that vibrates out-with the humanly-accessible spectrum, as if you were suddenly able to see ultra-violet, or heat, in some sort of politicised cyborg becoming that overwhelms your senses." '''

The "body has become a form of political subject and considered a heart of power" 

She lives and works predominately in California and Hong Kong .

Moreover, boychild states that she is not exactly a drag queen, but her persona offers truth to the notion that "trans drag performers expand the possibilities of drag altogether" 

internal link: Boychild

external link: Breaching bodily boundaries: posthuman (dis)embodiment and ecstatic speech in lip-synch performances by boychild