'Chemo snatched my wig, now its time for me to snatch wigs at Manchester Pride'
A drag queen who credits performing with saving their life is to make their Manchester Pride debut this weekend.
“As I was going through chemotherapy and losing my hair, my friends had rallied together and bought me a drag wig from Luvyababes in the Arndale. I just put it on and saw it as the perfect opportunity to make something fun and camp out of a horrendous experience so Shanika was born.” “You do think at that age that you’re a little bit invincible,” Jay explains. People will say you have your youth on your side. Initially, when I was first diagnosed, I was convinced by everyone around me that things were going to be fine so when I relapsed, I realised we were in unfamiliar territory and we didn’t know what was going to happen.
“I’d gone straight from college to uni, ready to work, but that all goes out the window when you’re diagnosed with cancer. At that point, I was like ‘who cares, let’s do it my way’.” “When I was having my stem cell transplant, I couldn’t even walk and I was telling my nurses that I’d be back at uni in a few months time.”
“If I hadn’t had drag or that outlet, I really don’t think I would have been able to deal with it. Drag literally saved my life.
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