“When she sat, she crossed her hands and ankles perfectly. Yes, yes, everything was in the classroom. We chatted, bonded, as Brandy flopped around on the silver concrete floor with the silver hook still in her bloody mouth. Both of us were excited. Celinas tried to climb in her purse, which was filled with dirty broken makeup, the true sign of a queen. I was thrilled she had let me look, even slip my hand into it for a moment. I let her huddle near me, but when she tried to clutch my hand I had to recoil. I hated being touched by anything in the human-skin package.” SkinDrag QueenPurseCelinas Book:Swimming Underground: My Years in the Warhol Factory Source: Swimming Underground: My Years in the Warhol Factory
“That's the thing I loved about drag queens, life was a constant movie; no matter how ridiculously things didn't match they would sacrifice everything for the pose, and I was definitely into the pose.” MatterSacrificeConstantQueensDragDrag Queen Book:Swimming Underground: My Years in the Warhol Factory Source: Swimming Underground: My Years in the Warhol Factory