Insight Magazine at UNR interviewed me about an article they were drafting about drag queen culture and life. I think the author, Jessica Voss, did an excellent job with the piece. I think she was able to transform a dynamic and complex topic as drag queenary and allow audiences to relate to it. Also she starts the article with a quote from the one Miss Noxema Jackson from the movie "Too Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar" Here is an excerpt from the article

By the end of the night, Ginger is usually feeling the pain that most women are all too familiar with after a night out. The torturous high heels, the smeared makeup, and the restricting clothing (not to mention the corsets) all make a woman or a drag queen feel like she did her best to end her evening in pain.  All of the work seems to be worth it, though, because drag queens are “very beautiful and extremely well-dressed,” according to Pat Ponder, a sixty-seven-year-old Renoite. Others seem to feel similarly; many people say that they find drag queens to be beautiful and confident. Daniels’s female friends often tell him it’s unfair he makes a prettier woman than they do.

Here is a link to the full article. Thank you Jessica for allowing me to be a part of the article.  

This year has been a year of many firsts. My first Anything But Clothes party, writing my first murder mystery party, and winning first place for best group costume at this year's Erotic Ball. This also happened to be the year that I performed stand up for the very first time. 

I had toyed around with the idea of translating the absolute ridiculous antics of being a drag queen in some stand-up but never found the right opportunity to do it. When the Pioneer Underground approached me about doing some stand-up during their "Ladies Weekend of Comedy", it seemed like an ironically perfect time to debut my set. 

Here is a video of my set from the performance. I touched on the trials and tribulations of being a drag queen, of surviving a post-apocalyptic future and of one day being a parent. I was a little nervous to perform stand-up. I worried I would forget my entire set or stumble through it. I wondered what the audience would think of a drag queen performing stand-up; would they think it weird or not appreciate it?The audience was absolutely awesome! I think it showed that audiences at the end of the day want to be entertained. As long as you can do that, then it shouldn't matter your sexual orientation, race, gender, etc. I was thankful thought that my spanks and corset did not cut off my breathing thus causing me to pass out right there on stage. Enjoy the video!!!

So I have had the idea in my head for a while to start a podcast. The life of a drag queen is often ridiculous and comical in nature and there are many things that are tied to gender & gender expression that we do not discuss. With that in mind, our team came up with Confessions of a Drag Queen. The podcast is going to be different everytime. Sometimes I would like the format to be like that of Chelsea Lately where myself and a panel of commentators sit around and discuss different topics and share our opinions. Some will be one on one interviews with different individuals here in Reno but also in other cities and states as well who have a unique perspective on a particular topic or situation. Others will perhaps will be solo addresses with me talking about a particular topic from my experiences - everything from pop culture classes about Miley Cyrus' multiple identities to a discussion about homophobia and the whole gay marriage batte.

Let me know what you think of the preview episode. We had a lot of fun with this one and decided to just talk about something completely random. After a Utility Players Improv show, where the host Jes talked about the time that her, myself, and two of our friends took a roadtrip to Florida and spent the end of every night in the hot tub, and Jes discovered that the three of us had been occassionally peeing in the hot tub. Thus began a discussion of IF and WHEN it is ok to pee in a hot tub. So for the first podcast I had the idea of talking about different social taboos. We ended discussing peeing in hot tubs, masturbation, and farting in public and blaming it on somebody else. I am so excited to do the next one, I have so many ideas in my head. So let me know what you think and also if there is anything that you would like me to discuss or talk about, comment down below!