What do I have to do to get some disrespect?

The headline is a quote from late in the second half of Zaiba Baig’s double header Kainchee Lagaa + Jhooti: The Begging Brown Bitch Plays which opened on Thursday night at Buddies in Bad Times in a production directed by Tawiah Ben M’Carthy for House of Beida Inc.  The plays are loosely linked in that both deal one way or another with queerness and Pakistani-Canadian identity and experience.

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