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" I really believe in the power of playing by your own rules. "

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" 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. "

" For me, my greatest weakness is also my greatest strength: I'm a complete overthinker about everything. "

" I'm an only child; I'm a very private person. "

" My own experience of gender has been about a lot of fluidity. In drag, I like to combine aspects of masculinity and femininity and rewrite the rules for those. "

" 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. "

" To costume yourself in the way that you fantasize, to make that a reality, and then to go right into the universe looking like an exceptional being takes a lot of courage. "

" When it comes to drag, my favorite thing we can do is kind of push against the beauty standards of magazines. We don't need to look like supermodels. That what really makes drag special and makes it unique and makes it queer. "

" I've learned that I am a complete workaholic and that no amount of sleeplessness or exhaustion will keep me from taking on new or ambitious projects. That is both a good quality and a terrible one, I think. "

" Everyone is welcome in drag. Everyone is important and valuable. "

" 'Drag Race' has made a lot more people into fans of drag, and that's allowed local communities to grow and flourish, but it's up to individual queens to share the spotlight with their communities. I definitely want to be one of the people who does that. "

" People started bringing their own personal work to 'Nightgowns,' and that's really when it started to become a really distinctive show. "

" 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. "

" I want to see some queer politicians, some drag queens and drag kings running for office and shifting the way that policy is made as well. "

" I've loved the RuPaul model of drag, where you're an amazing drag queen, you're a smart and savvy business person, and you use those together to keep drag at the forefront of what people are talking about. "

" I discovered that my drag really does speak to people on an emotional level. I also discovered that people are sometimes put off by an intellectual approach to drag. "

" 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. "

" My favorite thing about drag is taking one idea and flipping it on its head entirely. "

" I love being kind of reserved and serious and then having these explosions of passion when it comes time to perform. "

" People are really seeing that drag is an art form, that it's so much more than self-expression. "

" I want to follow in RuPaul's footsteps, which is that combination of not just personal stardom but to really transform myself into a producer of drag. That's the way to make a lasting impact on the world of drag and... to make actual differences in the queer community. I think there's no better model for that than RuPaul. "

" A superstar doesn't just use the spotlight for themselves. "

" I love biting off way more than I can chew, and that's a great motivator because it forces me to rise to the occasion. "

" As a drag performer, my identity exists in music, art, and fashion, not in any one 'language' of gender or 'appearance.' "

" I'm a drag queen who is thoughtful and serious about drag in addition to being funny, ambitious, and glamourous. "

" Drag should push the limits of what is considered fashionable or beautiful. "

" Trans women, trans men, AFAB - which is assigned female at birth - and non-binary performers, but especially trans women of color, have been doing drag for literal centuries and deserve to be equally represented and celebrated alongside cis men. "

" I think Bianca Del Rio should be in politics. "

" I want to show people it's not elitist to be a deep thinker. "

" We need to talk about representation for queer people in the media and also in law. And there's a long history of drag queens leading those discussions in marches on the street and even in bars going back to the time of Stonewall and before. "

" 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. "