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" It's important in drag to challenge things and present your own vision. "
Sasha Velour
Present
Vision
Important
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" I've always tried to twist the ideas of beauty that are maybe considered to be ugly by the mainstream. I was already kind of toying with that when it comes to baldness, which came from a discussion with my mother about how to be considered a beautiful woman if you're bald. "
Sasha Velour
Mother
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Life
" There are no limits to what kind of bodies, which types of people, which genders, or what races can do amazing drag, and I think the audience is clamoring fighting with each other more and more to see drag represented as fully as it possibly can be. "
Sasha Velour
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Limits
People
" When I started doing drag, I always put together multimedia elements for live performance. "
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" My favorite thing about drag is taking one idea and flipping it on its head entirely. "
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Drag
Favorite
" The audience of 'Drag Race' and the fans of drag queens are often very surprising. "
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Race
Very
Audience
" 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. "
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New York
People
Amazing
" 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
" 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
" Even if I hadn't won 'Drag Race,' even if I'd never been on, I'd still be working my tail off, creating live shows, magazines, videos, anything I possibly could! "
Sasha Velour
Live
Never
Race
" Just in my experience as a drag queen, I've been able to connect with queer people around the world - and to see them connecting with each other over a shared love of drag! "
Sasha Velour
People
Love
Experience
" For me, my greatest weakness is also my greatest strength: I'm a complete overthinker about everything. "
Sasha Velour
Also
Weakness
Strength
" I've always been committed to tuning out the trends of drag and doing styles and fashions and performances that are really true to what I love, to the movie references I've always loved, fashion that speaks to me for whatever reason - no matter what people say. "
Sasha Velour
Me
Doing
People
" Queer art is as much about starting conversations as it is about making dramatic statements. "
Sasha Velour
Dramatic
Art
Starting
" 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
" 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
" It is important to me to keep fighting for the rights of those who cannot. "
Sasha Velour
Fighting
Me
Important
" 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. "
Sasha Velour
Amazing
Business
You
" I want to show people it's not elitist to be a deep thinker. "
Sasha Velour
Deep
Want
Thinker
" I want to do performance that inspires people to be true to themselves and has tangible impact on the community. Not just because I want to be a role model - I just think it's the best way to honor the tradition of drag. "
Sasha Velour
Think
Community
Best
" Drag resists conservatism in the most basic way possible, and also in the most effective way possible, because it's improper when it comes to looks, which is everything in conservative systems. "
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Conservative
Looks
Drag
" 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. "
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Men
Women
Birth
" Some people play it safe in the world of drag - I'm guilty of it myself, sometimes - but I hope to always be a voice that encourages people to buck trends, follow their instincts, and do good in the world. "
Sasha Velour
Voice
World
Hope
" I really believe in the power of playing by your own rules. "
Sasha Velour
Believe
Rules
Power
" I think Bianca Del Rio should be in politics. "
Sasha Velour
Politics
Think
Should
" It was definitely my grandmother who introduced me to fashion. "
Sasha Velour
Fashion
Who
Me
" I have an art magazine about drag called 'Velour,' named after myself, and I have a monthly show called 'Nightgowns' that curates and presents some of the most creative and high-quality drag in a professional theater setting. "
Sasha Velour
Art
Myself
Creative
" I like a little Barbra Streisand! "
Sasha Velour
Like
Little
Barbra Streisand
" I'm an only child; I'm a very private person. "
Sasha Velour
Only Child
Only
Person