Wow!! What an EXCITING week this has been!!!
I love drag pageant filled weeks!! One of my favorite things about the drag world is that we are family; we are a community of people who love the same thing: drag and everything that the art form comes with (well, maybe not everything. let's just say
most things). Every time i am at a pageant, or performing, or watching my favorite drag performers i think to myself
"i love my life. i love my drag community and i'm really lucky that i get to experience it this up-close and personal." i get so overwhelmed sometimes that it makes me want to rhinestone "
i love drag" on body and go flashing people on the streets. i'm not of course, but the point is i
could and i
would.
Anyway, because of my love (obsession) with drag i have dedicated a huge chunk of my life to it. And that dedication includes mass amounts of projects centered around my life source. Here are are but a few of my drag projects in the works.
i'm really excited about the
female drag anthology that i'm putting together. i've had some AH MAZE ING responses and i can't wait to share them with you!
i'm also working on a drag magazine called: T|Dragzine which will be both an online and print drag mag catering to all your drag needs! i'm hoping to launch it October 8 (but if you need an immediate drag fix, you can visit my other blog
dragspirations for instant drag-gratification).
Perhaps the most personal (and the one project that scares me the most) is my book on faux queens. i've been working on it for the last year--it's my MA thesis rebooted and redragged. i'm labeling it creative nonfiction because it really
is a hybrid of genres: memoir, theory, biographical, historical, academic, autoethnographic, and--to some--horror. j/k. Maybe not. i'll be posting some snippets, trailers, and previews at my personal website,
www.brandiamaraskyy.com, go check it out for the up-to-date tea on this and other projects.
In addition to all the above fabulousity, i am still performing at Gaybingo Dallas every third Saturday of the month, have a couple of drag pageants to prepare for, and LOTS of dragtastic costumes to whip up!
Can you say tired boots?!?!?
Anyway, i'd love for you to drop me a line and let me know your thoughts!!
Now i'm going to go get my drag on!
xoxo
