Katie speaks of Judith Butler, famous philosopher and academic on gender theory to be a shadowed influence in their gender expression. Butler’s theory particularly regards gender as an open-ended question, and the separation of sex and gender. With sex, being a categorization given at birth, concerning legal and medical importance. Whereas gender simply put, is something you have a say in. In Butler's own words, “The sex you are assigned at birth and the gender that you are taught to be should not determine how you live your life”.    

From the point of applying the attitude forward makeup and putting on the self made costumes from materials others would look at with no potential, Azure takes the stage in all their unpredictable glory. Playing with the ideas of gender roles, the mosquito act has intentional costume designs to make it intersex. For instance male mosquitoes have hairy antennas, which Katie has designed to be glittering feathers. Since only female mosquitoes drink blood, they wear a comedic bright red cushion to represent the blood sack. “I feel the freedom of makeup and the freedom of costume”. Explaining it is an extension of themselves and their Queerness, for when “your first instinct of the thing you want to say, you can say it and you can get away with it. There is an element of freedom in that”. 

However, Katie means that there is a difference between a good act and an act that dances with your attention. Referring to a piece of advice their ‘drag mothers’ in Hong Kong gave. “Attention is really precious and when you are on stage, you are asking people for their attention, you better do something with it”. The different acts Azure performs have creative subtle underlying points such as the intersex mosquito, yet they do not consider it to be a form of activism. The goal is to entertain, Katie explains. Nevertheless, reflecting, “being none white and not a cis male in a drag space is in itself a rebellion”.