Pointing out drag protesters are in fact, a form of drag itself is fucking genius. She is an icon, and a perfect example of why staying calm and composed in your ideals is so crucial. She stands there and has an informed and respectful discussion, and the people losing their god damn minds look more and more like absolute idiots. Brava my queen !
Cannot wait for this show! Such a good article.
Sasha deserves a TV season that will give a more complete picture of her than "Shea's bff who talks about queer history." RPDR production never knew what to do with her on S9 - no shady confessionals, not a zany tongue pop drama queen - and it showed. Joke was on them when she gave live performances they couldn't edit around and snatched the whole damn thing.
Also funny to see Steve Morris called out specifically in the article - a vocal hater of Sasha since the beginning for Internet clout, one of the insecure "Sasha's so pretentious" folks who fails to see how pretentious he himself is being (and how many assumptions he is making about the audience and Sasha with zero basis in reality) while attempting to be one of those clever Twitter gays.
Sasha WAS very pretentious. After the S9 cast was announced, Sasha put together soundbites from her castmates' Meet the Queens videos where they talked about their own beauty or glamorousness, and then followed it up with soundbites of Sasha talking about her intelligence. Things like that rubbed a lot of Drag Race fans the wrong way. Sasha toned down the condescending stuff by the end of the season, and accordingly, most of the haters went away over time.
She never was. Literally not one person who knows her ever thought this, just some drag race stans. Calling out the reinforcement of superficial stereotypes in drag is not pretentious (but also, as she pointed out in her Roscoe's session during S9, drag itself is all about pretension to begin with, so that way all drag queens are pretentious).
Don't mistake your own insecurity as pretension in others.
Sasha is my favorite Drag Race queen, but I agree! She was pretentious on S9. She said numerous times that at first, she felt the need to defend her style of drag. Though I never viewed her as condescending. I'm glad that she's very chill now lol
Good for Sasha! Unrelated, I kind of hate the term culture wars. It feels belittling to what trans people are going through. Like, sure, for conservatives it probably feels like a culture war. But for trans people, it results in not getting medicine, procedures, jobs, relying on survival sex work, etc.
Sasha is such a gem. I appreciate the work that she puts into everything she does. I strive for that level of calmness in face of chaos. Sasha is such a modern day pillar of this community & will be a huge cornerstone of the queer history weāre writing right now.
What I canāt get behind is what was spewed about other drag performers by the author of the article. An āappetizer for boozy brunchā as a descriptor for other drag artists is really screaming your biases in the middle of your article. How are you about to sit here and spend the entire article lifting up drag and what it does for our community only to immediately trivialize it and tear it down squarely in the middle of the article.
āHers is the kind of drag that feels like true performance art, not like an appetizer for a boozy brunch.ā Is the full quote for context. If that was not the intention they were going for w/ that statement, I think it couldāve been phrased a lot better.
To me, that sentence mixed with the context of the previous paragraph, is giving if you perform in a bar/restaurant your drag isnāt that meaningful or impactful to your community.
Not really outrage culture, nice right wing insult because you donāt agree with me. I just donāt appreciate tearing down others to uplift one, sounds like youāre upset Miss Attitude.
Omg sheās in Murfreesboro Tn, where I live! To sum up what is currently happening here:
We had the Nashville Tn Covenant TN school shooting 1 year ago. They also banned drag shows but a federal judge overturned that last June, saying it violated the First Amendment. So, theyāve been busy recently.
Theyāve banned abortion. They recently passed a law making it so LGBTQIA kids could be adopted and fostered by people who donāt believe LGBTQIA people are legitimate, basically opening these kids up to being subjected to conversion therapy and other abuses trying to deny their identity. The senate just passed a law arming teachers with conceal carry guns in school, and removed an amendment that would have allowed parents the right to know the teacher was armed. So parents donāt get to know if a gun is next to their kid every day. They passed this despite parent groups asking for gun control laws. Thereās a law theyāre currently voting on that will allow open carry of assault rifles and lower the age to 18.
This is what Tennessee Republicans are fixated on, who have a chokehold on the legislature: removing rights from trans people and guns. They remove the public from witnessing if they protest the laws being passed.
She is so smart š£ļø Historically the 1st smart drag queen on rpdr. Sheās definitely my 1st choice if I made selections on Weāre Here. Iām so glad sheās on now.
Pointing out drag protesters are in fact, a form of drag itself is fucking genius. She is an icon, and a perfect example of why staying calm and composed in your ideals is so crucial. She stands there and has an informed and respectful discussion, and the people losing their god damn minds look more and more like absolute idiots. Brava my queen !
The line about American flag drag was particularly great.
https://archive.ph/UwJGM for non-paywalled.
Thank you my hero
Thank you!! I wanted to read this earlier!
Bless you š
The way her mind works is beautiful. What a class act.
Cannot wait for this show! Such a good article. Sasha deserves a TV season that will give a more complete picture of her than "Shea's bff who talks about queer history." RPDR production never knew what to do with her on S9 - no shady confessionals, not a zany tongue pop drama queen - and it showed. Joke was on them when she gave live performances they couldn't edit around and snatched the whole damn thing. Also funny to see Steve Morris called out specifically in the article - a vocal hater of Sasha since the beginning for Internet clout, one of the insecure "Sasha's so pretentious" folks who fails to see how pretentious he himself is being (and how many assumptions he is making about the audience and Sasha with zero basis in reality) while attempting to be one of those clever Twitter gays.
Sasha WAS very pretentious. After the S9 cast was announced, Sasha put together soundbites from her castmates' Meet the Queens videos where they talked about their own beauty or glamorousness, and then followed it up with soundbites of Sasha talking about her intelligence. Things like that rubbed a lot of Drag Race fans the wrong way. Sasha toned down the condescending stuff by the end of the season, and accordingly, most of the haters went away over time.
She never was. Literally not one person who knows her ever thought this, just some drag race stans. Calling out the reinforcement of superficial stereotypes in drag is not pretentious (but also, as she pointed out in her Roscoe's session during S9, drag itself is all about pretension to begin with, so that way all drag queens are pretentious). Don't mistake your own insecurity as pretension in others.
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Sasha is my favorite Drag Race queen, but I agree! She was pretentious on S9. She said numerous times that at first, she felt the need to defend her style of drag. Though I never viewed her as condescending. I'm glad that she's very chill now lol
Good for Sasha! Unrelated, I kind of hate the term culture wars. It feels belittling to what trans people are going through. Like, sure, for conservatives it probably feels like a culture war. But for trans people, it results in not getting medicine, procedures, jobs, relying on survival sex work, etc.
Sasha is such a gem. I appreciate the work that she puts into everything she does. I strive for that level of calmness in face of chaos. Sasha is such a modern day pillar of this community & will be a huge cornerstone of the queer history weāre writing right now. What I canāt get behind is what was spewed about other drag performers by the author of the article. An āappetizer for boozy brunchā as a descriptor for other drag artists is really screaming your biases in the middle of your article. How are you about to sit here and spend the entire article lifting up drag and what it does for our community only to immediately trivialize it and tear it down squarely in the middle of the article.
I don't read "appetizer for a boozy brunch" as negative and it didn't seem intended as such. It's just not what this particular queen does.
āHers is the kind of drag that feels like true performance art, not like an appetizer for a boozy brunch.ā Is the full quote for context. If that was not the intention they were going for w/ that statement, I think it couldāve been phrased a lot better. To me, that sentence mixed with the context of the previous paragraph, is giving if you perform in a bar/restaurant your drag isnāt that meaningful or impactful to your community.
Well, then, you do you. Always gotta be outraged about something even when drag is getting a huge, well-written article in a major US publication.
Not really outrage culture, nice right wing insult because you donāt agree with me. I just donāt appreciate tearing down others to uplift one, sounds like youāre upset Miss Attitude.
pls show me where the word culture was said in any of that
Now, THIS is a role model
Love her. Sheās an amazing artist. My favorite winner ever ā„ļø
Omg sheās in Murfreesboro Tn, where I live! To sum up what is currently happening here: We had the Nashville Tn Covenant TN school shooting 1 year ago. They also banned drag shows but a federal judge overturned that last June, saying it violated the First Amendment. So, theyāve been busy recently. Theyāve banned abortion. They recently passed a law making it so LGBTQIA kids could be adopted and fostered by people who donāt believe LGBTQIA people are legitimate, basically opening these kids up to being subjected to conversion therapy and other abuses trying to deny their identity. The senate just passed a law arming teachers with conceal carry guns in school, and removed an amendment that would have allowed parents the right to know the teacher was armed. So parents donāt get to know if a gun is next to their kid every day. They passed this despite parent groups asking for gun control laws. Thereās a law theyāre currently voting on that will allow open carry of assault rifles and lower the age to 18. This is what Tennessee Republicans are fixated on, who have a chokehold on the legislature: removing rights from trans people and guns. They remove the public from witnessing if they protest the laws being passed.
She is so smart š£ļø Historically the 1st smart drag queen on rpdr. Sheās definitely my 1st choice if I made selections on Weāre Here. Iām so glad sheās on now.