'This is just like, a long, drunken drag bar speech.' Shortly after publishing her new book, 'The Big Reveal,' RPDR winner sasha_velour talks to MikelleStreet about the process of writing queer oral histories.
, her latest literary venture, is a thoroughly researched and at once, heartfelt, earnest and slightly radical book filled with stories that bring into sharper focus the person behind the cerebral drag persona.
STREET: In many parts of the book you credit your mom and your grandmothers for their impact on your drag. But reading it, I wondered if you were also impacted by your dad, and how he writes about history. VELOUR: I think written archives have enormous power. And, obviously, queer stories have been destroyed and erased before, but hopefully the more we can get into print and on the record, that changes what people have access to and how we can see ourselves and how we can give ourselves context. That certainly helps in finding the facts to back up our normalcy or our belonging in the world, and even gives us strategies of resistance and survival.
STREET: You seem quite methodical and extremely intentional. So to me the book ends up being this sort of “vegetables in the mashed potatoes” situation where you provideVELOUR: I’m glad that it’s working! You know, it’s there, but it’s buried enough that they have to stick through the whole context. You don’t just get the rose petals. I feel like when a drag queen is putting on a show she has control of the flow of information so I couldn’t just give it all away.
STREET: It felt very personal and human and, in some moments, like there was a hint of deserved bitterness, not this sort of glossy veneer.
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