After enduring years of gruelling treatment for cancer as a child, Teifi Rowley was left self-conscious about their appearance and uncomfortable in their own skin. But performing as drag alter ego Anniben has been a way of processing trauma and finding empowerment. “It’s really been a saviour for me,” said Teifi. Teifi was diagnosed with a tumour behind the eye at the age of six and spent a year as an inpatient in hospital, facing numerous rounds of chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Now 21, they were finally discharged from their paediatric oncologist clinic in March.