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. Sasha Velour More Quotes by Sasha Velour More Quotes From Sasha Velour People are so serious about ourselves, and drag suggests that maybe it's all just a bunch of ideas, and we can be a little bit more flexible with them. Sasha Velour more serious people ideas I'm an only child; I'm a very private person. Sasha Velour person only child only-child A lot of people still have the idea that drag goes from one end of the gender spectrum to the other end of the gender spectrum, and they expect drag queens to be masculine out of drag and hyper-feminine in drag. I think that portrays a lot of binary thinking and, ultimately, a lot of misogyny. Sasha Velour think gender people thinking 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. Sasha Velour you mother beautiful beauty A superstar doesn't just use the spotlight for themselves. Sasha Velour just spotlight superstar use Absolutely anyone can and must do drag. Sasha Velour anyone absolutely must drag 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. Sasha Velour great me love way When I started doing drag, I always put together multimedia elements for live performance. Sasha Velour live performance doing together Everyone is welcome in drag. Everyone is important and valuable. Sasha Velour everyone welcome drag important To costume yourself in the way that you fantasize, to make that a reality, and then to go right into the universe looking like an exceptional being takes a lot of courage. Sasha Velour looking yourself you courage 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 go you fashion beauty Drag performance is really emotional. Sasha Velour really performance drag emotional Queer art is as much about starting conversations as it is about making dramatic statements. Sasha Velour about dramatic starting art 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 teachers me happy school 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. Sasha Velour look me music way For me, my greatest weakness is also my greatest strength: I'm a complete overthinker about everything. Sasha Velour everything me weakness strength It is important to me to keep fighting for the rights of those who cannot. Sasha Velour me fighting important rights 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. Sasha Velour gender drag understanding ideas From the second there was drag, trans people were doing it. And when cis women started being allowed in theaters, then cis women doing drag was part of theater. Sasha Velour doing being women people Uniformity is not very interesting or sustainable - it's boring. Sasha Velour sustainable very boring interesting
