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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.

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Sasha Velour

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.

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People are really seeing that drag is an art form, that it’s so much more than self-expression.

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Conservatism is all about surfaces and labels and presentation, and drag says no, we refuse to follow any rules about that.

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Sasha Velour

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.

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I try to write an essay every time I speak.

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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.

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Sasha Velour

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.

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I went to Vassar College for undergraduate and studied literature and queer theory, and all of the above. And then I took a Fulbright scholarship in Russia.

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That’s what I wanted ‘Pirate Jenny’ to be: a queer, revolutionary fairy tale for the people that I love.

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Sasha Velour

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.

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Sasha Velour

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.

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