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.
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.
Anyone who regards poetry as an entertainment, as a 'read,' commits an anthropological crime, in the first place against himself.
For what is a poem but a hazardous attempt at self-understanding: it is the deepest part of autobiography.
He has Van Gogh's ear for music.
No translation can possibly be perfect. Every production and every performance is a different path up the mountain, and nobody ever makes it all the way to the summit.
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