A biography for Sasha Velourhasn’t been written yet.
“I love hearing the same songs over and over again - as long as queens challenge themselves to come up with new ways of performing them.”
“Just in my experience as a drag queen, I've been able to connect with queer people around the world - and to see them connecting with each other over a shared love of drag!”
“My own experience of gender has been about a lot of fluidity. In drag, I like to combine aspects of masculinity and femininity and rewrite the rules for those.”
“I want to follow in RuPaul's footsteps, which is that combination of not just personal stardom but to really transform myself into a producer of drag. That's the way to make a lasting impact on the world of drag and... to make actual differences in the queer community. I think there's no better model for that than RuPaul.”
“It was definitely my grandmother who introduced me to fashion.”
“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.”
“There's so many more themes of drag than just fierceness.”
“Drag should push the limits of what is considered fashionable or beautiful.”
“The way I've always looked at drag has been a little bit different maybe than other people because the drag community that I started doing drag in is full of trans people and women and people of various educational backgrounds, of different ages.”
“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.”
“Siouxsie Sioux was such an inspiration when I was a teenager because I connected with these goth college students who listened to this genre of music. She showed me that femininity didn't necessarily have to look the way that I was familiar with. It could be more exciting and much more identifiable.”
“I try to write an essay every time I speak.”
“I'm a drag queen who is thoughtful and serious about drag in addition to being funny, ambitious, and glamourous.”
“Queer art is as much about starting conversations as it is about making dramatic statements.”
“I'm an only child; I'm a very private person.”
“I love biting off way more than I can chew, and that's a great motivator because it forces me to rise to the occasion.”
“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.”
“Uniformity is not very interesting or sustainable - it's boring.”
“I've loved the RuPaul model of drag, where you're an amazing drag queen, you're a smart and savvy business person, and you use those together to keep drag at the forefront of what people are talking about.”
“The truth is I do take drag really seriously, and I think that there's kind of a place for that - to see it as this political and historical art form, and to want to continue pushing it in new directions. And also honor the old directions as well. So I'm sort of like a drag intellectual/drag queen.”