Ever want to know more about how i came to be me?!?! Well here's your chance. Check out my fellow blogger and faux queen's interview about your favorite faux queen--ME!
Check it out here!
And while you're, there take a look around her blog. She is one FABULOUS MUSING!!!
Now go get your DRAG ON!!
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Showing posts with label faux queening. Show all posts
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Miss Diva USofA or Why i Have Been Missing From my Blog
i know, i know!! BAD BLOGGER!! IT'S BEEN OVER 10+ DAYS SINCE MY LAST BLOG!!
BUT
i have a really good excuse (i really do!).
THIS is why i have been a little bit absent as of late
Yep, that's right ladies, gentlemen, kats, kittens, and squirrels The Miss Gay USofA system has (finally) added a female female impersonation circuit, i.e. faux queen, i.e. ME!!
Anyone that knows me, knows that i have wanted to be (and win) in a (what i call) a "big girl pageant" (meaning not a charity pageant). i love and have been a part of the drag and pageant circuit for so long and i still can't believe that i'm finally going to get to compete on this kind of MAJOR level.
YEA!!!!!!!!!!!
This is the first year that USofA is doing a Diva division and there really are NO words to describe how uber excited i am. i'm doing Miss Oklahoma because there is not a prelim in Texas (yet :)) and it really kinda is a home away from home. Miss Oklahoma Diva is a prelim to the National Title, Miss Diva USofA. And, of course, i have made it my goal to be crowned the first Miss Diva USofA.
and THAT'S why i've been MIA. i've been slaving away in my drag sweatshop for the past couple of weeks working to make my number #1 dream come true: to be a real drag pageant queen.
It's hard. i have no life right now. i'm getting high of E6000. i have glue stuck to various parts of my body . . .
BUT
it's all worth it and i wouldn't have it any other way.
i am finally getting a chance to fulfill a lifelong drag dream--one that i wasn't sure would EVER happen--of mine and on March 31st i get show the USofA system the fruits of all my hard labor.
But the best part is . . .
i get to do it with other women who love and appreciate the art of drag as much as i do.
This is a first in the drag community and all of the Miss Diva contestants will become a part of drag history and that in and of itself insures that NO ONE will walk out of this pageant a loser.
i'll keep ya posted!!!
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Netchick on Demand Show: Brandi Amara Skyy, 2 Fierce Dallas Faux Queens, and 2 Queens
Last night's Netchick on Demand show kicked off a VERY busy week for me: 2 full production shows, 1 commissioned blog, 1 pageant, 3 rehearsals, and the continuation of Project Nunway.
And if that isn't enough, i am still keeping up with my other blogs, editing the female drag anthology, transcribing my interview with the women of the "Bio Queen Manifesto," and writing my own piece.
*WHEW*
i'm one busy queen!
Check the pics of last night show plus scroll all the way down for a video!!
xoxox
All photos courtesy of LTF Productions (unless otherwise noted).
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And if that isn't enough, i am still keeping up with my other blogs, editing the female drag anthology, transcribing my interview with the women of the "Bio Queen Manifesto," and writing my own piece.
*WHEW*
i'm one busy queen!
Check the pics of last night show plus scroll all the way down for a video!!
xoxox
All photos courtesy of LTF Productions (unless otherwise noted).
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| Photo Courtesy of Vanity Storm |
So now that you've seen the pics are you ready to see the show?!?!? Check it out!!
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Baby Drag Queen Brandi Amara Skyy - Baby Fish
A lot of my drag friends on Facebook are doing Throwback Thursday with pics of themselves in their early drag (performer) years. SOOOOOO
i decided to join in the fun!! And when i say i threwback, i mean i threw waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back!! So here goes nothing!!
Eh hem *clears throat*
Ladies, Gentlemen, Kat, Kittens, and everyone in-between, i present to you Brandi Amara Skyy circa 198something (a real queen NEVER reveals her age!!). Drum roll please...
i decided to join in the fun!! And when i say i threwback, i mean i threw waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back!! So here goes nothing!!
Eh hem *clears throat*
Ladies, Gentlemen, Kat, Kittens, and everyone in-between, i present to you Brandi Amara Skyy circa 198something (a real queen NEVER reveals her age!!). Drum roll please...
(check out my toe point!! I LIVE!!!)
Well, there you have it folks! In all my Baby Fish glory!! And the birth of a future Skyy!!
Make sure you keep checking back every Thursday for new (and more embarrassing) Throwback Thursday pics!
Tuesday, January 22, 2013
Gaybingo Dallas - 50 Shades of Gay
What a fabulous time and a fabulous show at Gaybingo this past Saturday!!
One of the best things about dancing with people for five + years is that you don't require a lot of rehearsal time to pull off a kick ass show!! i received a text from my dancing soul mate, Manny, on Friday about resurrecting our "Single Ladies" production and the next day (with less than an hour rehearsal and NO stage time) we pulled off a SICK O NEEN mini production.
Here are some pics of the first Gaybingo of 2013 with a video coming soon! All photos are courtesy of Cher Musico of Musico Roots Photography.
One of the best things about dancing with people for five + years is that you don't require a lot of rehearsal time to pull off a kick ass show!! i received a text from my dancing soul mate, Manny, on Friday about resurrecting our "Single Ladies" production and the next day (with less than an hour rehearsal and NO stage time) we pulled off a SICK O NEEN mini production.
Here are some pics of the first Gaybingo of 2013 with a video coming soon! All photos are courtesy of Cher Musico of Musico Roots Photography.
To view the entire photo album, click here. Enjoy!!
Monday, October 29, 2012
Dallas Block Party-- A Faux and 3 Drag Queens
What an amazing and unexpected weekend!
Here in Dallas, we have what is known as THE block party the weekend before Halloween; the street closes down, everyone gets dressed up, and they drink, drink, and drink. It's something that everyone needs to experience at least once.
i didn't plan on going this year (i've gone to all but one since i've lived here), but the drag-verse had other plans. At the last minute (literally 20 minutes *gasp*), i was texted by Richard Curtain--GM & show director at S4/The Rose Room not to mention THE Edna Jean Robinson--reminding me of a performance that i had committed to early in the week. i hadn't heard anything about it so i just ASSumed it wasn't happening.
SOOOOO
i painted the quickest drag mug EVER and ran across the street--trying to part the seas of people that were everywhere--and was greeting with the news that i was going to be performing with, not only Edna herself, but two of the baddest drag bitches in Dallas: Jenna Skyy and Krystal Summers.
HELLO!?!?! IT DOESN'T GET MUCH MORE FLAWLESS FOR A FAUX QUEEN!!
And there i was: in front of thousands of cheering Halloweeners as one of the 4 fiercest and best dressed queens on the block.
Wanna see?!?!?
(It's not my favorite pic of myself, but hey--it captured a moment that otherwise would have lived only in my head.)
Great night, great peeps, and the longest catwalk ever!!
Here in Dallas, we have what is known as THE block party the weekend before Halloween; the street closes down, everyone gets dressed up, and they drink, drink, and drink. It's something that everyone needs to experience at least once.
i didn't plan on going this year (i've gone to all but one since i've lived here), but the drag-verse had other plans. At the last minute (literally 20 minutes *gasp*), i was texted by Richard Curtain--GM & show director at S4/The Rose Room not to mention THE Edna Jean Robinson--reminding me of a performance that i had committed to early in the week. i hadn't heard anything about it so i just ASSumed it wasn't happening.
SOOOOO
i painted the quickest drag mug EVER and ran across the street--trying to part the seas of people that were everywhere--and was greeting with the news that i was going to be performing with, not only Edna herself, but two of the baddest drag bitches in Dallas: Jenna Skyy and Krystal Summers.
HELLO!?!?! IT DOESN'T GET MUCH MORE FLAWLESS FOR A FAUX QUEEN!!
And there i was: in front of thousands of cheering Halloweeners as one of the 4 fiercest and best dressed queens on the block.
Wanna see?!?!?
(It's not my favorite pic of myself, but hey--it captured a moment that otherwise would have lived only in my head.)
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Me, Jenna Skyy, and Krystal Summers |
(That's my legs on the left!!) We were number 7 of the 15 Best Costumes at the block party!
WERQ IT GOLDIGGERS!!!
Here are more fun block party pics
To see the rest of the pics, click here.
Ahhh...i love Halloween!
Friday, October 12, 2012
Bio Queen Manifesto Interview
i am VERY excited to announce that i have the honor of interviewing the 4 AMAZING women who co-authored the Bio Queen Manifesto. The interview is being conducted in 2 parts and i finished the first half last night. What a liberating and exhilarating experience!
As a community, we have such a rich history that we do not necessarily know about because it's scattered all over the place. The Bio Queen Manifesto is such an important piece of our drag history and the manifesto itself is nowhere to be found on the Internet. The myspace page where i originally found it has since been taken down. So i have published it in its original form here. Go read it. It's good stuff. It's a piece of our history that i hope to capture panoramicaly in the interview; the final edited interview will be included in the Female Drag Queen Anthology.
I can't wait to share it with you all!!
As a community, we have such a rich history that we do not necessarily know about because it's scattered all over the place. The Bio Queen Manifesto is such an important piece of our drag history and the manifesto itself is nowhere to be found on the Internet. The myspace page where i originally found it has since been taken down. So i have published it in its original form here. Go read it. It's good stuff. It's a piece of our history that i hope to capture panoramicaly in the interview; the final edited interview will be included in the Female Drag Queen Anthology.
I can't wait to share it with you all!!
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Faux Queens - The Book
Here's a sneak peek into my book in-progress about faux queens. This is the as-of-now preface--i am more than sure that it will go through many more edits but i wanted to show you where i'm starting from. Drop me a comment and let me know what you think!!
The construction of a written body of work is really no different than the art of illusion: start with an empty page—a blank face. You begin by playing with the general layout, gathering your ideas, main points, and (perhaps) quotations onto the page–layering foundation on the face, a bit of shimmery highlight, and a gradient of shades for contouring. You write yourself in(to) the work (whatever that means to you); after all, the personal is political—add a burst of color on the eyelid and your signature trademark (mine is a random rhinestone on my face). You then incorporate the scholarship and opinions of others whose works both support and challenge your own—create your body shape by adding foam hips, “tucking,” and a stuffed bra (or prosthetic breast plate—know in the drag world as a “tit bib”). You top it all off with an overarching conclusion or “ending”—throw on your highest pair of heels, wig/hairpiece, and your one-of-a-kind handmade costume and viola! Fiercely flawless, you have just attempted and completed both your first written body of work and your first “drag body” of work. However, we know that neither is as simple as my analogy might suggest. Complications occur: you find that your writing contradicts itself; you try to blend colors on your eyelid that don’t work well together; you can’t put your ideas into words let alone get them on paper; you confuse inspired by with replication, and creative freedom in your makeup for painting hard.[1]
Sometimes colors, materials, and ingredients do not blend well together—oil-based make-up with water-based cream, spray adhesive on bare skin, metal-set rhinestone jewelry with a chiffon gown. Other times you just need the right kind of tool/brush—one specifically made for shading—to help foster the blending process. In this work, I attempt to be both the brush and its strokes as I blend vantage points within subjects of drag, the drag queen, and its newly emerging component: the faux queen. Bridging, blending, finding points of connection within the multifaceted (and heavily opinionated) world of drag is not necessarily easy, nor are drag’s ideas often conducive to one another; however, I feel that finding these moments and places of connection is necessary in order to explain and show this world —a world which is very standoffish to outsiders—in the most panoramic view possible, to the communities that need it the most: queer studies, academia more generally, and the LGBT community. It is from a place of honor and respect for all the drag queens who have opened their art to me that I begin the blending process of the various hues that make up the rainbow of our community/myself: the student trying to (creatively) find academic form and function amidst all this abstract tulle, glam, and AB Swarovski crystal gowns and shoes; the voice and performance of the drag queen trapped in my body who joins the gay male drag community in love and admiration, not competition and/or appropriation; and the bio-female who is so attracted to this world of gay male drag that she has dedicated her life and this entire work trying to find her and other’s home/place within it.
[1] In the drag world, the phrase “painting hard” is used when the make-up is not blended properly, i.e. the make-up wears the queen not the other way around. Color, texture, design . . . anything that the mind can image is game in drag make-up; however, the key to the perfect “mug” is to blend it all together. (“Mug” is drag slang for face.)
The construction of a written body of work is really no different than the art of illusion: start with an empty page—a blank face. You begin by playing with the general layout, gathering your ideas, main points, and (perhaps) quotations onto the page–layering foundation on the face, a bit of shimmery highlight, and a gradient of shades for contouring. You write yourself in(to) the work (whatever that means to you); after all, the personal is political—add a burst of color on the eyelid and your signature trademark (mine is a random rhinestone on my face). You then incorporate the scholarship and opinions of others whose works both support and challenge your own—create your body shape by adding foam hips, “tucking,” and a stuffed bra (or prosthetic breast plate—know in the drag world as a “tit bib”). You top it all off with an overarching conclusion or “ending”—throw on your highest pair of heels, wig/hairpiece, and your one-of-a-kind handmade costume and viola! Fiercely flawless, you have just attempted and completed both your first written body of work and your first “drag body” of work. However, we know that neither is as simple as my analogy might suggest. Complications occur: you find that your writing contradicts itself; you try to blend colors on your eyelid that don’t work well together; you can’t put your ideas into words let alone get them on paper; you confuse inspired by with replication, and creative freedom in your makeup for painting hard.[1]
Sometimes colors, materials, and ingredients do not blend well together—oil-based make-up with water-based cream, spray adhesive on bare skin, metal-set rhinestone jewelry with a chiffon gown. Other times you just need the right kind of tool/brush—one specifically made for shading—to help foster the blending process. In this work, I attempt to be both the brush and its strokes as I blend vantage points within subjects of drag, the drag queen, and its newly emerging component: the faux queen. Bridging, blending, finding points of connection within the multifaceted (and heavily opinionated) world of drag is not necessarily easy, nor are drag’s ideas often conducive to one another; however, I feel that finding these moments and places of connection is necessary in order to explain and show this world —a world which is very standoffish to outsiders—in the most panoramic view possible, to the communities that need it the most: queer studies, academia more generally, and the LGBT community. It is from a place of honor and respect for all the drag queens who have opened their art to me that I begin the blending process of the various hues that make up the rainbow of our community/myself: the student trying to (creatively) find academic form and function amidst all this abstract tulle, glam, and AB Swarovski crystal gowns and shoes; the voice and performance of the drag queen trapped in my body who joins the gay male drag community in love and admiration, not competition and/or appropriation; and the bio-female who is so attracted to this world of gay male drag that she has dedicated her life and this entire work trying to find her and other’s home/place within it.
[1] In the drag world, the phrase “painting hard” is used when the make-up is not blended properly, i.e. the make-up wears the queen not the other way around. Color, texture, design . . . anything that the mind can image is game in drag make-up; however, the key to the perfect “mug” is to blend it all together. (“Mug” is drag slang for face.)
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
fauxqueens.com forum is now open!!
yep! i'm so excited to announce that the forum at fauxqueens.com is now open and ready for business! that means register, create a profile, and then join in the posting fun!!!
it's been a long time coming and everyone who is already registered has been extremely patient! i'm uber excited and i hope that y'all enjoy :)
click here to join the conversation!!
xoxo
b
it's been a long time coming and everyone who is already registered has been extremely patient! i'm uber excited and i hope that y'all enjoy :)
click here to join the conversation!!
xoxo
b
Thursday, August 16, 2012
brandi amara skyy - miss lifewalk 2012 talent
so i know it's been a while BUT...
i'm uber-excited to share with you a fan made video of my cosmic love florence + the machine talent.
let me know what you think!!!!
pics coming soon!!
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
full drag pageant mode
hello kats and kittens! i have been obsessing about my package for this pageant, Miss LifeWalk, for the last couple of months and i'm finally at a place where i feel that it's going to be unbeatable. right now i'm still amidst all the sewing, stoning, and rehearsing for both gown and talent. while i don't want to post too much until after the pageant, i do want to show you what i've been up to. here are a few pieces and parts that make up my drag package. keep in mind the categories: presentation, gown, fundraising, and talent.
i didn't make this but this may (or may not) be a hint to my talent!!! adore!
well, we all know what these are, but what could i possibly be using then for?!?!?
there's a lot more where these came from!
i didn't make this but this may (or may not) be a hint to my talent!!! adore!
and lastly, here is a peek inside my drag factory. this is my sewing area in my drag room:
please forgive my partner's fingers-always the jokester!
i can't wait to post everything in detail!!! i still have a lot of work to do but it's coming along flawlessly!!
Friday, July 6, 2012
faux queen blogging fabulousity
hey kats and kittens! looks like yours truly has another blog entry at THE corset hook-up for RuPaul's Drag U.
Check out Corset Connections' fabulousity and make sure to click on over to my Drag U episode 3 sugarlicious entry Cupcake Confection Couture!!
happy dragging!!
xoxox
b
Check out Corset Connections' fabulousity and make sure to click on over to my Drag U episode 3 sugarlicious entry Cupcake Confection Couture!!
happy dragging!!
xoxox
b
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
fauxqueens.com
just got a face lift!! the website looks amazing and i can't wait till the forum is open and running on Friday!! happy fauxing!!
www.fauxqueens.com
www.fauxqueens.com
Saturday, May 26, 2012
faux queen photo journal
i'm excited to share with you my photo journal from the appendices of my thesis entitled, "Faux Queens--Fauxing the Real: Biological Women, the Art of Drag, and Why the Real IS Drag and/or How I became a Drag Queen and/or How to Paint a Drag Mug." i'd love to hear what y'all think!
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Last Saturday's Drag Performance
yea! someone got a video of our drag show performance last weekend! our regular videographer had to cancel at the last minute, but at least you can see me faux queening in my costume creation.
our group is called SOMETHING FABULOUS!! we are made up of drag queens, faux queens, male drag performers, and other lgbt folks. cast: jenna skyy as Madonna, myself as m.i.a., asia o'hara as nicki minaj, michael hayes as LMFAO with the fro, josue as the other LMFAO, manny castro as my dance partner at the beginning, back-up dancers: jennifer owens, sassy o'hara, amy deaton, mike mogg.
we are an amazingly diverse family. hope you enjoy!!
our group is called SOMETHING FABULOUS!! we are made up of drag queens, faux queens, male drag performers, and other lgbt folks. cast: jenna skyy as Madonna, myself as m.i.a., asia o'hara as nicki minaj, michael hayes as LMFAO with the fro, josue as the other LMFAO, manny castro as my dance partner at the beginning, back-up dancers: jennifer owens, sassy o'hara, amy deaton, mike mogg.
we are an amazingly diverse family. hope you enjoy!!
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