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KOCHI: Born to a Singapore-based Keralite dad and a British mother, Sukki Menon aka Sukki Singapora campaigns for representation and women empowerment through the performative art of Burlesque. She is also a Netflix star.
Nearly all her life, Sukki Menon felt like the oddball. Born to a Singapore-based Keralite dad and a British mother, her ‘identity spanned the triangular geography of India, Singapore and the UK’. If she was too brown’ to be British, she was labelled ‘pale’ by the Indian community, which implied that she wasn’t brown enough to be fully desi.
However, growing up as a third culture kid with a medley of identities also granted her the exposure to distinct customs. From discovering burlesque to express her sensuality to starring on the 2019 Netflix show ‘Singapore Social’, Sukki has embraced activism that fights tooth and nail for representation and women empowerment. Defying odds, the global icon made burlesque, a taboo per