In an interview on the eve of filming the RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars finale, the inimitable JinkxMonsoon discusses her 'sensitive' approach to drag, and dealing with Instagram trolls
– and worked as a janitor to pay for everything. Around this time, she was also developing homegrown cabaret shows likewhich she wrote and performed in, in drag, alongside her longtime music partner Major Scales. In what is characteristic of both their performance style and sense of humour,centres on two jazz-age performers who froze in ice during a 1920s tour of Antarctica and are now – after having thawed out, due to global warming – trying desperately to resurrect their act.
Some of the shit people say relates to her aesthetic sensibility in drag: one longstanding narrative insists she is not on par with her contemporaries in terms of the looks she produces. It is true she’s not the runway force that, say, castmate Shea Couleé is, nor was she trained by the pageant scene to turn a fully-realised, red-carpet-ready gown around in 24 hours, like we’ve now seen Trinity the Tuck do multiple times in competition.
Contemporary mainstream drag, heralded on to our laptops largely by RuPaul, among others, can be obsessive about branding, makeup, and fashion – those elements of the art form that can be communicated easily over the internet. There’s not always a ton of room for analog performance. “Theatre, live entertainment, character creation, storytelling – that’s what got me passionate about drag and creating art,” Jinkx says.
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