“So we have to make sure to just keep this talk going and just to show them that we’re not just a fluke. We’re not just some random pandemic that’s just happening to sweep the world. This is who we have always been.”
“I think it’s vital that we are shown being successful, being happy, dominating the drag scene, while really trying to protect who’s really at harm, which is the trans kids and trans people of color that don’t have the outlets to perform or do the drag or even walk out of their house,” she says.
But looking back on her years as a child, she recognizes she couldn’t have found success as the drag queen she is today without Hawaii. “I think being from Hawaii has informed me on the power of trans drag, the power of my divine goddess, this hyper-feminine siren, which is this local girl on the beach,” she says.
That divine goddess, girl on the beach energy is something she brings to everything she does in drag, especially her fashion.
She takes most of her inspiration from ’90s fashion and the supermodels of that era, like Linda Evangelista and Naomi Campbell. She says it’s a love she picked up while in the drag pageant world.
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“I’ve always wanted to be in the entertainment business, whether it was dancing or choreographing,” she says. “I knew if I ever had the opportunity to get onDrag Race, I was going to use that in order to pursue the entertainment business. And let’s manifest and get an EGOT. Let’s go.”
source: people.com
