If you hide, you won’t find the eccentric people who will be your best friends. Jinkx Monsoon Read Quote
First, it was a big deal for girls to dress more like guys. Then it was a big deal for straight men to be metereosexuals and care about their appearance in the way that a gay man would. Now we have to take it a step further – men should be able to not wear men’s clothes if they don’t want to. Jinkx Monsoon Read Quote
When you become your own boss, and your artwork becomes your livelihood, it becomes the only thing you think about. Jinkx Monsoon Read Quote
A lot of people just feel really impacted and inspired by drag in ways that I don’t think we, as self-absorbed drag queens, think about that often. Jinkx Monsoon Read Quote
If you have to mask the things you’re insecure about, go ahead. Wear four pairs of pantyhose, pad your hips, boost your boobs – whatever it takes to walk out of the house feeling like you own the world. Because there’s no reason to waste your life hating something you can change. Jinkx Monsoon Read Quote
I prefer to be gender fluid or non-gendered and I dress in drag almost every day of my life even if I’m not in my full Jinkx Monsoon persona – I’m the kind of person who does not dress like my assigned gender and I wear makeup every day and sometimes wear wigs as a boy. Jinkx Monsoon Read Quote
No matter who you are in your day-to-day life, and no matter what you look like, and whatever insecurities you’re dealing with, you can fully transform yourself. It’s as easy as deciding to transform yourself. Jinkx Monsoon Read Quote
That openness to experimentation in Seattle is how I learned a drag queen doesn’t have to just be in her pageant gear and lip syncing to top 40. Drag can be off-the-wall, ridiculous, profound. Jinkx Monsoon Read Quote