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" That's what I wanted 'Pirate Jenny' to be: a queer, revolutionary fairy tale for the people that I love. "
Sasha Velour
People
Pirate
Fairy Tale
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" 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. "
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Limits
People
" Queer art is as much about starting conversations as it is about making dramatic statements. "
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Dramatic
Art
Starting
" Conservatism is all about surfaces and labels and presentation, and drag says no, we refuse to follow any rules about that. "
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" I'm a drag queen who is thoughtful and serious about drag in addition to being funny, ambitious, and glamourous. "
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" 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! "
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Never
Race
" The political nature of 'Threepenny Opera' is immediately visible. I just think that that's not always a part of acceptable and fun entertainment that we're exposed to - that political side. "
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Fun
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Always
" I love being kind of reserved and serious and then having these explosions of passion when it comes time to perform. "
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Kind
Love
" I want to show people it's not elitist to be a deep thinker. "
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Want
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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. "
Sasha Velour
Bald
You
Say
" Unfortunately, this world is not an easy place. "
Sasha Velour
Place
Unfortunately
World
" 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
" People are really seeing that drag is an art form, that it's so much more than self-expression. "
Sasha Velour
Seeing
More
Art
" 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
" 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. "
Sasha Velour
Cancer
Mom
She
" 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. "
Sasha Velour
Play
Drag
Audience
" 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 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
" I try to write an essay every time I speak. "
Sasha Velour
Essay
Write
Try
" I'm an only child; I'm a very private person. "
Sasha Velour
Only Child
Only
Person
" Drag, at its core, is about honoring yourself and your own unique way of being a gendered, queer person. Your own unique way of using fashion to express yourself. "
Sasha Velour
Own
Yourself
Fashion
" Everyone is welcome in drag. Everyone is important and valuable. "
Sasha Velour
Welcome
Everyone
Important
" Uniformity is not very interesting or sustainable - it's boring. "
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Boring
Very
Interesting
" As a drag performer, my identity exists in music, art, and fashion, not in any one 'language' of gender or 'appearance.' "
Sasha Velour
Gender
Fashion
Art
" 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
" I want to do something that is not just a pastiche of drag that's come before but is really authentically me. I try to tune out all the drag that's out there and tap into the drag that I was doing when I was a little kid - when I didn't even know the word 'queer' or that gay people were out there. "
Sasha Velour
Try
Gay
Know
" 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. "
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Great
Rise
Way
" 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
" 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
" 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
" I really believe in the power of playing by your own rules. "
Sasha Velour
Believe
Rules
Power