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" 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. "

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" 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

" I've always wanted to play a role as a producer and a curator and to help make drag really have an epic scale and a large audience and a lot of interest. "

" 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. "

" It is important to me to keep fighting for the rights of those who cannot. "

Sasha Velour

Fighting

Important

" Right when I was starting to experiment with drag, my mom was diagnosed with cancer, and during her chemo treatment, she lost all of her hair. And for her, the idea of being a fem with no hair was really difficult. "

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

" Even though I present myself at the height of glamour and beauty, part of my truth is being desperate and emotional and unafraid of being unattractive. "

" Drag is about asserting your power and your brilliance and your importance. "

" 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. "

" 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 try to write an essay every time I speak. "

" 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. "

" I think sometimes you have to imagine a fantasy world in which we are represented and visible the way we should be. "

" 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

Doing

People

" When I started doing drag, I always put together multimedia elements for live performance. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" The audience of 'Drag Race' and the fans of drag queens are often very surprising. "

" No matter what you're doing, whether it's a makeup tutorial or an interview or a lip sync, performance is the essence of drag. It is gender performance. Being able to produce a performance is what a superstar has to do. "

" 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. "

" It's important in drag to challenge things and present your own vision. "

" '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. "

Sasha Velour

Grow

People

" Uniformity is not very interesting or sustainable - it's boring. "

" 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. "

" It was definitely my grandmother who introduced me to fashion. "

Sasha Velour

Fashion

Who

" 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

School

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

Sasha Velour

Seeing

Art

" The truth is I do take drag really seriously, and I think that there's kind of a place for that - to see it as this political and historical art form, and to want to continue pushing it in new directions. And also honor the old directions as well. So I'm sort of like a drag intellectual/drag queen. "

" What I love so much about drag is that it has politics at its very core; drag performers aren't afraid to talk about politics in our community and the changes we need to see systemically in society. "

" I like a little Barbra Streisand! "

Sasha Velour

Little

Barbra Streisand