Grab Your Best Hair and Come to Brooklyn, Because Bushwig Is This Weekend
EntertainmentThis weekend, the 4th annual Bushwig will celebrate the “queer drag and music thriving in Brooklyn” during a 3-day festival in Bushwick – the Brooklyn neighborhood where it gets its name. There will be queens, there will be music, and—most importantly—there will be so much good fucking hair.
Earlier this month, Bushwig co-founder Matthew Mendoza told me the idea came to him while shopping for new wigs in Bushwick, the neighborhood he’s called home since moving to New York from Texas.
“I was actually walking down the street, and it kind of just hit me. Oh my god! I want to throw a party called Bushwig. Then it went from wanting to just be a party to being a festival – and all from shopping for a wig!”
Though Mendoza, who goes by Horrorchata when performing, used to buy all his wigs at a shop on Broadway and Flushing (the heart of the neighborhood), he says he’s recently begun buying them exclusively from a wig maker named Marco.