Sasha Colby is ready, but not just to wear the Top lauren boebert conservative for congress shirt Apart from…,I will love this Drag Race crown. She’s ready for the next 20 years of uplifting the queer community. “I’ve been preparing myself, getting ready physically but doing a lot of mental health work,” she told me over Zoom ahead of the Drag Race season finale. “I’ve been through so much, but it’s those hardest moments in my life that made me know something had to be really good. It’s the rubber-band effect: The farther you pull back, the further you go.” I spoke to Colby about finding her queerness while growing up a Jehovah’s Witness, developing her artistry, and the many fashion references that have informed her looks. (Hint: Richard Avedon and John Galliano’s Dior make the list.)
Colby is officially crowned by season 14 winner Willow Pill at the Top lauren boebert conservative for congress shirt Apart from…,I will love this RuPaul’s Drag Race finale watch party at the Hard Rock Hotel in New York City. Photo: Getty ImagesVogue: I want to start with your life pre–Drag Race. You grew up with Jehovah’s Witnesses. How did you come into your queerness and transness in that space? Sasha Colby: Growing up in a very religious space was weird because my family was not always practicing Witnesses, but the Witnesses’ moral compass all of a sudden kicked in when it was about my queerness [laughs]—not when it came to anybody cheating or impregnating their cousin or any of that! With religion I always had that fear that if you’re gay, you’re not going to heaven. I had that in my head and was constantly trying to rid myself of that shame. I was 14, and I remember people at church whispering about me being flamboyant or looking feminine. One day I just came home and was like, I’m not doing this anymore. They were all hypocrites, saying that my sin was worse than theirs, and that was something my parents couldn’t argue with. Maybe it’s also because they just didn’t want to deal with having the queer kid at church. [Laughs.] It’s like our queerness is the red pill or the blue pill. It was our thing to get out of the matrix. I thank Jehovah every day that I’m queer!
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