This week’s cover, “The Look of Pride,” by sasha_velour. NewYorkerCovers
from classrooms. In the face of this destructive antipathy, queer artists continue to create, claiming the power of collective and individual expression. The artist behind the cover for the June 12, 2023, issue, Sasha Velour, is a gender-fluid drag queen, author, television and theatre performer, and visual artist. In 2017, she was named the winner of the ninth season of “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” Velour, who has an M.F.A.
So much of your drag involves creations you make yourself. What do you gain from being both designer and performer? I joke that I’m lucky that I am a good designer and director, because I’m such a terrible dancer! But you don’t need to have any one specific skill set. You can turn anything into your signature. When people come to my shows, they know to look at all the details. I have so much fun coming up with the lighting, the video, the colors, the poster—even the overlooked “background” elements can be tools for great storytelling.,” you describe it as a drag manifesto.
I think the biggest misconception is that we are making fun of gender, or somehow romanticizing gendered clichés. In my experience, drag is mostly about emotion, story, and beauty. The gendered aspect is simply a stage, a gesture that helps free the performer and the viewer from the supposedly realistic limitations on the world “as it is,” helping us step into the realm of fantasy.
My advice to young L.G.B.T.Q.+ people is the message that my family instilled in me: “The world may be full of terrible people and you can’t always get what you want . . . but never let that grind you down! Miracles do happen, life is beautiful.” Even if you have to build your own family, as an adult, there are people out there who will love you for who you are, and who want to see you become your fullest, happiest self.
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