I find inspiration in the movies I’ve loved, especially all films ever made about Dracula. Sasha Velour Read Quote
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. Sasha Velour Read Quote
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. Sasha Velour Read Quote
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. Sasha Velour Read Quote
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. Sasha Velour Read Quote
Right when I was starting to experiment with drag, my mom was diagnosed with cancer, and during her chemo treatment, she lost all of her hair. And for her, the idea of being a fem with no hair was really difficult. Sasha Velour Read Quote
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. Sasha Velour Read Quote
Drag resists conservatism in the most basic way possible, and also in the most effective way possible, because it’s improper when it comes to looks, which is everything in conservative systems. Sasha Velour Read Quote
People are really seeing that drag is an art form, that it’s so much more than self-expression. Sasha Velour Read Quote
When I started doing drag, I always put together multimedia elements for live performance. Sasha Velour Read Quote
