Binding: Hardcover
Description: Drag embodies the queer possibility that exists within each of us the infinite ways in which gender good taste and art can be lived. Sasha Velour This book is a quilt piecing together memoir history and theory into a living portrait of an artist and an art. Within these pages illustrated throughout with photos and original artwork Sasha Velour illuminates drag as a unique form of expression with a rich history and a revolutionary spirit. Each chapter strips off a new layer removing one tantalizing glove and then another to reveal all the twists and turns in the life of a queen. As Sasha recalls her own journey from the women who raised her to learning the craft of an artist to success disaster and more she also uncovers the history of queer life around the world that made it all possible. From shamans to fairies balls empresses to Ru Paul's Drag Race (and beyond) The Big Reveal chronicles and celebrates our shared queer pasts. If we want to be seen as legendary writes Sasha we have to weave ourselves into history. From an iconoclastic drag queen comes an equally singular thought - provoking manifesto that brings necessary and sparkling substance to our understanding of drag queerness beauty and liberation!
Title: The Big Reveal An Illustrated Manifesto Of Drag
Author(s): Velour Sasha
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Inc
Barcode: 9780358508083
Pages: 240 Pages
Publication Date: 4/4/2023
Category: Gay & Lesbian Studies