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" 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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Absolutely anyone can and must do drag. "

" 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. "

" It's so beautiful that drag is able to speak to so many different types of people. "

" 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. "

" There's so many more themes of drag than just fierceness. "

" 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'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. "

" 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! "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Pride, to me, is a celebration of the past because we have come such a long way from the very first Pride parade marking the anniversary of the Stonewall riots, so it's a celebration of all that we've accomplished. "

Sasha Velour

Pride

Way

" I want to be an ambassador of Brooklyn. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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'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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Queer art is as much about starting conversations as it is about making dramatic statements. "

" 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. "