Chiquitita is a younger translatina queen in the Brooklyn drag scene, but at 23, she's already been doing drag for seven years. She still recalls seeing Aja, a queen who went on to compete in "RuPaul's Drag Race" season nine, as well as "RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars" season three, for the very first time. "I remember her getting out of the car in full regalia and [she] just looked like Marilyn Monroe; she was so beautiful . . . so that is kind of what, in real life, struck my curiosity with drag," she says.
Nowadays, Chiquitita finds herself more inspired by the burlesque scene, although she still has a special place in her heart for Brooklyn drag. "I love being able to go back and forth from something really glamorous and show-stopping to something that's a little more along the lines of what people consider Brooklyn drag to be like, which is artsy, messy, spontaneous, non-consistent," she says. This is similar to how she defines her own drag, which she calls "unpredictable, sporadic, and constantly showing different sides of my personality." For her, transformation is about making a complete 180. Finding a way to feel completely opposite to how you felt in the beginning. Is that how she feels in drag? "Sometimes," she says, pausing thoughtfully. "If I've been working a lot, I'm pretty exhausted from it. If I do it once a week or something, it feels more like a treat."
