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" Unfortunately, this world is not an easy place. "
Sasha Velour
Place
Unfortunately
World
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" 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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" I love 'Threepenny Opera'; I was exposed to it as a little kid because my parents, my mom and my dad, had bonded, when they were dating, over 'Threepenny Opera' and introduced it to me, a child, who could barely understand it. But I immediately gravitated even from that early age. "
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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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Voice
World
Hope
" 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. "
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Special
Unique
Beauty
" I think Bianca Del Rio should be in politics. "
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Politics
Think
Should
" My favorite thing about drag is taking one idea and flipping it on its head entirely. "
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Drag
Favorite
" Drag is about asserting your power and your brilliance and your importance. "
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Your
" 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 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. "
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Know
" I want to be an ambassador of Brooklyn. "
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Brooklyn
Want
" 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. "
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Day
Love
People
" I'd like to see drag really cultivate its political roots. "
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See
Drag
" 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. "
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Think
Community
Focus
" When I started doing drag, I always put together multimedia elements for live performance. "
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Live
Drag
Together
" It was definitely my grandmother who introduced me to fashion. "
Sasha Velour
Fashion
Who
Me
" I grew up in this house of intellectuals, and for me, it wasn't, like, a negative thing. And what I've discovered is, for a lot of people, it is. But I think knowing history, liking to talk about ideas - like, I just genuinely like to geek out and go on these intellectual thought journeys. "
Sasha Velour
Think
Thought
History
" 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. "
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Truth Is
Present
Myself
" 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. "
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Family
Language
Place
" I'm certainly not inventing anything new with drag. "
Sasha Velour
Anything
Drag
New
" People started bringing their own personal work to 'Nightgowns,' and that's really when it started to become a really distinctive show. "
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Work
Become
Personal
" It's important in drag to challenge things and present your own vision. "
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Present
Vision
Important
" 'Drag Race' really offered me a platform to have a lot of people listen to what I have to show them, and I want to showcase the whole community I know. "
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Want
Race
Know
" 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. "
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Amazing
Business
You
" 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
" It's so beautiful that drag is able to speak to so many different types of people. "
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People
Speak
Different
" 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. "
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Politics
Community
Society
" A superstar doesn't just use the spotlight for themselves. "
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Just
Themselves
Superstar
" Drag performance is really emotional. "
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Emotional
Really
Performance
" 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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Think
Limits
People