7/14/2023 0 Comments Drag queen makeup essentials“That’s the kind of book I always liked best - a scrapbook that brought many things together in conversation.” “According to Talmudic thought, in order to find the truth, we must be able to hold multiple possible meanings as true at the same time,” she writes in her book. In her book, Velour also credits the Talmud with showing her how to hold multiple ideas - and, by extension, identities - in her mind at the same time. “Later, learning more about drag and understanding the existence of queer and trans people around the world quite literally saved my life.” I didn’t even know it was ‘drag’ but it just made sense to me,” Velour tells The New Yorker in the interview published Monday. “ When I was a kid, I loved dressing up with my grandmothers, putting on makeup, staging shows. “Beating out a drum rhythm on the arm of the couch, she would coach me to walk dramatically into the room, drop my coat, and reveal the look. “ When I visited her house as a little kid, she would always encourage me to channel my inner diva,” Velour writes. Or, as her grandmother Dina would tell her: “Remember Grandma Goldie’s lesson… window-shopping can save your life!”Ī post shared by The New Yorker same Jewish grandmother also first put Velour in drag when she was a child. “This is a story about snacks!’” Velour writes. In “The Big Reveal,” Velour writes that her great-grandmother, Goldie Rabinovitch, was working at the at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in on March 25, 1911, but was spared from the deadly fire that day because she was late to work - window shopping, as the family lore goes, or possibly buying a pickle in Cooper Square. Velour, whose out-of-drag last name is Steinberg, also writes about the influence her Jewish ancestors had on her - even those who she never knew. “I was bar mitzvahed at 13 and even taught Sunday school when I was in high school, reenacting Jewish fables with puppets that I made myself,” writes Velour, who was raised in New Haven, Connecticut, and the Chicago suburbs. “ For years I studied Jewish history and Hebrew language after school and on the weekends,” she writes. Velour’s Judaism and Jewish family upbringing is a recurring theme in her book.
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