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

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" 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 find inspiration in the movies I've loved, especially all films ever made about Dracula. "

" 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. "

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

" I went to Vassar College for undergraduate and studied literature and queer theory, and all of the above. And then I took a Fulbright scholarship in Russia. "

" As a drag performer, my identity exists in music, art, and fashion, not in any one 'language' of gender or 'appearance.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" For me, my greatest weakness is also my greatest strength: I'm a complete overthinker about everything. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

" Absolutely anyone can and must do drag. "

" There are so many voices that tell people, especially queer people, that they don't have importance and regality. "

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

" I love hearing the same songs over and over again - as long as queens challenge themselves to come up with new ways of performing them. "

" Conservatism is all about surfaces and labels and presentation, and drag says no, we refuse to follow any rules about that. "

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

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

" Siouxsie Sioux was such an inspiration when I was a teenager because I connected with these goth college students who listened to this genre of music. She showed me that femininity didn't necessarily have to look the way that I was familiar with. It could be more exciting and much more identifiable. "

" 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. "

" The way I've always looked at drag has been a little bit different maybe than other people because the drag community that I started doing drag in is full of trans people and women and people of various educational backgrounds, of different ages. "

" Racism is a problem everywhere, especially in this country, but all over the world, and especially within queer space. "

" I'd like to see drag really cultivate its political roots. "

" People started bringing their own personal work to 'Nightgowns,' and that's really when it started to become a really distinctive show. "

" For a while, my favorite movie was 'Vertigo.' Everything in that movie was captivating to me. "

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

" I like a little Barbra Streisand! "

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