Sasha Velour: Is drag "dangerous"?

Dua Lipa: At Your Service

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Society & Culture, Personal Journals

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🗓️ 28 July 2023

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Drag Race season 9 winner Sasha Velour joins Dua to discuss her new book, The Big Reveal, which chronicles drag's roots, its champions, and the challenges it's faced. They discuss whether or not she'd ever return to the hit TV series for an all-winners season, the state of drag in America (and more globally) in recent years, and why intersectionality and inclusion is at the heart and soul of her art. It's a powerful conversation you'll find yourself truly enriched by.

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0:10.6	I say more they came on cause apparently rumours it. They love me. You know that they're only talking to you to get to me
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0:39.8	Hey, yeah, and welcome back to do a leaper at your service that moment the rose petals fell from the drag queen Sasha
0:59.4	Velose wig on the RuPaul's Drag Race Grand finale. It gives me chills just thinking about it again
1:07.0	Sasha Velose on Taylor. It was so clear to me that Sasha was special a drag queen who would take the
1:16.0	world by storm. She's quite possibly one of the most serving drag race winners of all time. It's been six
1:22.8	years since her coronation and Sasha has only continued to blossom. She's taken her one of a kind drag
1:29.0	act around the globe and back again all while remaining dedicated to the New York City drag scene she
1:34.7	came up in in April she released her first ever book The Big Reveal which is part memoir part drag
1:41.9	history and all parts brilliant. I had the pleasure of reading The Big Reveal and found myself so
1:47.6	swept up and learning about cultures and histories I'd never seen written about before. I highly highly
1:53.5	recommend checking it out. Sasha is just one of the many incredible drag artists I've watched and
1:58.8	adored from afar in recent years. There's so much drag out in the world that it blows my mind and I
2:04.4	especially love to see drag queens like Laganger, Stranger and Trinity Cabone perform the hell out of my
2:10.9	songs on the show. Right now there's a lot of concern that anti-drag laws are being passed
2:19.6	all around the world but so many of us feel that drag promotes freedom of self and speech and
2:24.5	empowers and creates community. I feel like Sasha is part of our service 95 family. She did a
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