Everyone is welcome in drag. Everyone is important and valuable.
Sasha VelourRead
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.
Interpretation
Drag performance transcends boundaries of identity, encouraging diversity and representation.
This quote by Sasha Velour emphasizes that drag artistry knows no bounds regarding the various identities, genders, and races of performers. It celebrates the growing demand from audiences for authentic and diverse representations in drag, highlighting the art form's inclusivity and the rich tapestry of human experience it can portray.
In practice
In a discussion about the importance of diversity in performance art.
Everyone is welcome in drag. Everyone is important and valuable.
I hope we see more avenues for representation. More TV shows and films starring queer people, especially QPOC and nonbinary folks, more mainstream press coverage of our artwork and fashion, and more representation of our interests within politics.
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.
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.
Drag, at its core, is about honoring yourself and your own unique way of being a gendered, queer person. Your own unique way of using fashion to express yourself.
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.
I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity.
Drawing is rather like playing chess: your mind races ahead of the moves that you eventually make.
I am seeking that dance which might be the divine expression of the human spirit through the medium of the body's movement.
The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
Writing, for me, was a feat of self-preservation. If I did not do it, I would die. So I did it. Obstinacy, not talent, saved my life.
Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk was walking past a men's clothing store on 42nd Street or South Main in L.A. and from a loudspeaker they suddenly heard a wild impossible mistake in jazz that could only have been heard inside their own imaginary head, and that is a new art. Bop.
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