Menuez india

the day of mending

portrait by JASPER BRIGGS
interview by HAYDEN DUNHAM

HAYDEN DUNHAM — I first met you in…

INDIA MENUEZ — I think I was in 10th grade. I think I was 14.

HAYDEN DUNHAM — That means I have loved you for 10 years, then. It was at P.S. 122 for a Vaginal Davis Show that your dad was in. 

INDIA MENUEZ — Yes! It was a performance Vaginal Davis did. It was structured like a talk show, and through some odd chain of events, my dad and I were “guests” on the show.

HAYDEN DUNHAM — And at one point a naked person covered in whipped cream was brought onto the stage as a kind of offering to the panelists from Vaginal and you proceeded to lick… Do you remember what part of the body?

INDIA MENUEZ — [Laughter] I think I was feeling…