Pattie Gonia

Joy is an inside job and joy is what keeps people showing up time and time again.

Thank you so much for asking.

I am wearing a 100% upcycled skirt and jacket made of upcycled outdoor gear.

So we took four different outdoor coats and turned them into this ensemble and worked with this amazing upcycled designer named Anna Molinari who lives here in New York City.

to make this look.

And it's my take on kind of like Captain Planet, but if she is she, her pronouns, you know, and it's this blue and green earthy ensemble.

And for me, one, it's comfortable as hell.

Like I'm like so much of drag is so uncomfortable.

So you're getting a comfy look today.

But two, I'm like, it's camp on camp, baby.

I'm using camp gear, this gear that's traditionally so masculine and used to conquer peaks and making a drag look out of it, which for those who get it, they get it.

And how could I forget?

I am wearing, I think, 3.5 ounces of carabiners as earrings.

Actual earrings.

So for me, I'm kind of like, this is my home base with my drag is doing camp on camp and

I think for anyone listening,

Living life as unapologetically who you are is such a gift to give yourself and it's such a gift to give this world.

Because I think we're all a little scared walking through this world.

And I think magic in this world are people that make us feel like we have permission to be no matter what that is.

And what a gift.