Digital Portfolio

"Drag and Dosa" Drag Brunch:

Kamani Sutra launched "Drag and Dosa" drag brunch in Bangalore, India in November 2024. D&D is a spectacular drag brunch experience with performances and game activities. She's successfully produced and directed 9 events thus far, including:

Drag and Dosa: 1.0 - Bangalore, India
Drag and Dosa: Valentine's Edition - Bangalore, India 
Drag and Dosa: MELA - Bangalore, India 
Drag and Dosa: Monsoon Edition - Goa, India
Drag and Dosa: Halloween Edition - Bangalore, India 
Drag and Dosa: New Year New Me - Bangalore, India 
Drag and Dosa: I Hate Luv Stories - Bangalore, India 
Drag and Dosa: Is the Batter Still Fermenting? Bangalore, India 
Drag and Dosa: FOB Edition - Baltimore, MD, USA 

Luru Magazine: Dosas, Samosas, Mimosas

Deccan Herald: Serving drag, Indian style: How local artists are reclaiming a homegrown art form

“Being Queen is My Resistance: Lessons in Drag Mythology and Migration” Workshop:

A cabaret-style, one-person show that blends storytelling, drag performance, dance, and video to weave together milestones in Kamani Sutra’s story of discovering their femininity while being an adult immigrant to the United States. This autobiographical multimedia program contrasts the freedom to express their true self in a foreign land with aesthetics and inspirations rooted in the richness of Indian drag. Interspersed with short performances and (consensual!) audience participation.

Kamani Sutra’s lecture-performance-workshop challenges the myths of the model minority, binary gender, and colonizer saviorship. It is a celebration of intergenerational queerness, LGBTQ+ community, saris, mujras, divine femininity, community & self-love.

She has successfully executed this workshop in the past at Tufts University in Fall 2022, University of Maryland in March 2023, Toronto University in May2023 , QTBIPOC Sauga org, HopeWorks Non- profit and Rangoli Pittsburgh. Museum Of Art and Photography in Bangalore

The workshop may be of particular interest as programming for LGBTQ+, Asian/South Asian, multicultural, diversity/DEI, and international student/community groups, centers, and offices. For workshop bookings, contact mani@kamanisutra.com.

Collaborations/Community Work:

  • Desi Karaoke with Kamani Sutra - Organized this exclusive event in 2019 with DJ Shornobabu

  • Carona Pyaar Hai IG Live - Hosted weekly shows during the COVID-19 pandemic with international collaboration from India, Canada and UK Saath for six weeks and was able to support the artist through online tipping for performances

  • Lead organizer for Queer Campus Hyderabad Flash Mob in November 2015

  • Creating Change Conference - Provided logistical and outreach support for the National LGBT Task Force January 2018

  • Organized three KhushDC (South Asian LGBTQ org in DMV area) fundraising events Dance party and was one of the board members from 2017 - 2020

  • Collaborated with Desi Rainbow and presented a faith and family acceptance workshop at #nqapia2019

  • Facilitated Peer support group at DC center for three years during my time as board on KHUSHDC

  • Panelist at KhushDC25 Panel Discussion event

  • Facilitated a workshop, "Overcoming Homophobia and Transphobia in the Asian Pacific Islander Community", in November 2019 with National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA).

  • Collaborated with Desi Rainbow and presented a faith and family acceptance workshop in November 2019 with National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance (NQAPIA).
  • Started Telugay Queer Project in 2020

  • Photo Exhibit - Found another South Asian Immigrant on Instagram in 2020 and collaborated to tell the story of a transformative drag journey. This exhibit culminates ImpactLensPhotos visual storytelling and KaMani Sutra’s evocative drag evolution and celebration of desi LGBTQ+ community, saris, mujras, feminine energy, and self-love.

  • Collaborated with other drag artists and Photographer on a pride video in 2021 to showcase the richness of South Asian drag “Rani ke Darbar” 

  • Swarnakamalam expressing the gender fluidity through flower by DesiUncleWife

  • Story of Drag queen photoshoot by Saunak Space- which shows my art evolution by 

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