Renowned crowned queen of RuPaul’s Drag Race and The Center for Cartoon Studies alum, Sasha Velour ‘13 is back making headlines. This time, it’s for her new book, THE BIG REVEAL: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag, now available wherever books are sold.

“This book is a quilt, piecing together memoir, history, and theory into a living portrait of an artist and an art… 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.” – Harper Books, an imprint of HarperCollins 

“If we want to be seen as legendary, we have to weave ourselves into larger narratives,” Sasha writes in the book. “Drag simply dramatizes the ways in which we really can make choices of expression and feeling for ourselves. It shows us who ‘we really are’ and how people ‘see us’ aren’t fixed realities… 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 is a drag queen, visual artist, author, and more. Velour is probably best known for winning Season 9 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, which was nominated for its first Emmys that same year.

Sasha received an MFA from The Center for Cartoon Studies in 2013. Her thesis project was about the Stonewall Riots, which she completed and self-published as Three Dollar Riot upon the 50th anniversary of the uprising.

Velour also illustrated the Google Doodle for LGBTQ+ icon Marlene Dietrich in honor of her 116th birthday.

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