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apdt: the beauty standards that are held in the drag world are an extension of the unrealistic misogynistic beauty standards from heterosexual realm. if you want to express yourself with makeup and perhaps don’t have the education in application or expertise, why does that negate your expression? beauty doesn’t come from makeup or sequined dresses, it comes from the confidence and bravado to...

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I wish the Old Queens would be nicer to me. I wish they’d see that I am on their side. I’m washed-up too, it’s just that I washed up even earlier. See? We’re the same. In fact, I’m more them than they are. Have you ever been an Old Queen in your 20s? It’s really hard. It’s like staying awake through surgery. Who would choose that? If there’s part of you, some part of you out there tonight that...

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“Around this time, the people running the door at Cake Shop wouldn’t allow any...”

– New York Observer, February 2009

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“I shouldn’t have called Madonna a dumb-ass. Her music and she have just...”

– Joanna Newsom

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People get mad because she seems to be full of herself. Appearances might not be deceiving. She might actually be full of herself. One wonders, though: if you’ve got to be full of someone (and God doesn’t exist) then why not be full of yourself? Who else would you be full of? I think maybe it seems easier to resent her because we do not feel full of ourselves; we feel empty inside. She...

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