{"id":30121,"date":"2020-12-31T10:23:59","date_gmt":"2020-12-31T15:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=30121"},"modified":"2020-12-31T13:51:19","modified_gmt":"2020-12-31T18:51:19","slug":"vancouver-drag-family-house-of-rice-brings-unabashed-asian-pride-to-citys-drag-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/vancouver-drag-family-house-of-rice-brings-unabashed-asian-pride-to-citys-drag-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver drag family House of Rice brings unabashed Asian pride to city\u2019s drag scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Tan Mei Xi<\/em><br \/>\n---<br \/>\nOnly two and a half years old, Vancouver\u2019s proudly Asian drag family House of Rice has grown from humble beginnings to its current 11 members.<\/p>\n<p>The drag family\u2019s House Mother, or leader of the group, Shay Dior, is delighted to see Asian drag performers feel like they belong in the city\u2019s drag scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy biggest intent with the house is to try and teach what I felt like I had to learn on my own\u2026 to my drag children,\u201d said Dior. \u201cI just want to be able to provide these opportunities for these queer Asian performers to be an inspiration to other queer Asian people in the community because there\u2019s not a lot of us out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe more queer Asian representation there is out there, the more Asian drag artists to showcase that it\u2019s ok to explore and express your gender in different ways, I think that\u2019s the goal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tan Mei Xi &#8212; Only two and a half years old, Vancouver\u2019s proudly Asian drag family House of Rice has grown from humble beginnings to its current 11 members. The drag family\u2019s House Mother, or leader of the group, Shay Dior, is delighted to see Asian drag performers feel like they belong in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":30123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219],"tags":[4614,4612,4613,4618,984],"radio":[237],"origine":[280,262,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30121"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=30121"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=30121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}