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" I find inspiration in the movies I've loved, especially all films ever made about Dracula. "
Sasha Velour
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" We still live in a country where there's disproportionate violence faced by our community, especially trans people and trans people of color. I think activism within the queer community continues to need to focus on those issues first. "
Sasha Velour
Think
Community
Focus
" Identity for Jews like us was shaped by cultural practices and family traditions rather than allegiances of place or language or class, because those things continued to be redefined for us. Drag operates along similar lines. "
Sasha Velour
Family
Language
Place
" A superstar doesn't just use the spotlight for themselves. "
Sasha Velour
Just
Themselves
Superstar
" The truth is, a lot of people go to drag shows, really, for very light entertainment, and I think sometimes maybe we don't even give the audiences enough credit as to what they'd be down for. "
Sasha Velour
People
Light
Think
" It's important in drag to challenge things and present your own vision. "
Sasha Velour
Present
Vision
Important
" I hope we see more avenues for representation. More TV shows and films starring queer people, especially QPOC and nonbinary folks, more mainstream press coverage of our artwork and fashion, and more representation of our interests within politics. "
Sasha Velour
Politics
See
People
" Conservatism is all about surfaces and labels and presentation, and drag says no, we refuse to follow any rules about that. "
Sasha Velour
Drag
About
Rules
" I went to Vassar College for undergraduate and studied literature and queer theory, and all of the above. And then I took a Fulbright scholarship in Russia. "
Sasha Velour
College
Russia
Literature
" Purple has always been my favorite color... but purple, when I was a little kid, was a color that boys weren't really allowed to wear. That's what all the kids at school told me. I filled my wardrobe with as much purple as I could possibly find, because who cares? Life's too short to dress by other people's rules. "
Sasha Velour
Short
Dress
Me
" Drag has always inspired people to come together to be joyous and fight for what matters. If we can do it through beauty and positivity and lip-syncing our favorite pop songs, then let's do it. "
Sasha Velour
Beauty
Always
Fight
" Queer art is as much about starting conversations as it is about making dramatic statements. "
Sasha Velour
Dramatic
Art
Starting
" Drag is literally so ancient that it predates modern understanding of gender, of transness, of queerness. Drag predates modern ideas of gender, of theater at all. Drag predates the word 'drag' itself. "
Sasha Velour
Ideas
Drag
Word
" I grew up in this house of intellectuals, and for me, it wasn't, like, a negative thing. And what I've discovered is, for a lot of people, it is. But I think knowing history, liking to talk about ideas - like, I just genuinely like to geek out and go on these intellectual thought journeys. "
Sasha Velour
Think
Thought
History
" Everyone who passes through 'Drag Race,' and especially the people who are able to have really big careers after the show, has a responsibility to the queer community to do a good job of representing queer people across the board to be kind and loving. "
Sasha Velour
Community
People
Job
" I've found that embracing the things that make me a little strange and different from other people, and learning to love that, makes me feel beautiful and fashionable every day. "
Sasha Velour
Day
Love
People
" I'm an only child; I'm a very private person. "
Sasha Velour
Only Child
Only
Person
" There are some amazing people around who can tell stories about drag from the '60s and in New York, like the amazing club kid drag. About drag from around the world. So people should be asking questions and listening to stories. "
Sasha Velour
New York
People
Amazing
" I'd say my fashion or beauty tip is to take the thing about you that makes you most distinctive and then exaggerate it. So if you have a little bushy unibrow, make it a dramatic unibrow. If you're balding, go completely bald. "
Sasha Velour
Bald
You
Say
" I want to show people it's not elitist to be a deep thinker. "
Sasha Velour
Deep
Want
Thinker
" People started bringing their own personal work to 'Nightgowns,' and that's really when it started to become a really distinctive show. "
Sasha Velour
Work
Become
Personal
" I really believe in the power of playing by your own rules. "
Sasha Velour
Believe
Rules
Power
" I love that drag is political. For me, one of the reasons I started doing drag was reading about how in the past, drag performers were able to organize the queer community and move us forward. "
Sasha Velour
Community
Past
Love
" Taking care of your mental health is important, and being able to model that for queer people who are out there every day dealing with their own struggles is very significant. "
Sasha Velour
Health
Mental Health
Day
" When I was in high school, I used to beg my teachers to let me create films and plays instead of writing essays. I think they were at least happy I was excited about school. "
Sasha Velour
Think
Me
School
" My favorite diva is Dame Shirley Bassey from the U.K. I just love that every song she sings becomes crazy and intense with feeling. That's how I feel in my daily life. "
Sasha Velour
Daily
Love
Life
" It is important to me to keep fighting for the rights of those who cannot. "
Sasha Velour
Fighting
Me
Important
" I love being kind of reserved and serious and then having these explosions of passion when it comes time to perform. "
Sasha Velour
Time
Kind
Love
" People are so serious about ourselves, and drag suggests that maybe it's all just a bunch of ideas, and we can be a little bit more flexible with them. "
Sasha Velour
Flexible
People
More
" I hope that people look at Brooklyn as kind of a drag utopia, because that's what it's been in my experience - all genders and bodies and ages doing drag. "
Sasha Velour
Doing
Experience
Hope
" The inspiration of my drag is the history of drag, the long tradition of drag queens being at the forefront of queer activism. That informs my drag style, and in a sense, that is the direction we need to go in the future. "
Sasha Velour
Direction
Future
History