Kelsey

“My drag is less about looking like a woman and more about saying F.U. to the cult of systematic masculinity I was bombarded with as a little boy.”
― RuPaul, GuRu

“The sun is still shining,
the wind is still blowing,
and out in the wild
you are growing.
Days may go by
without change
you can feel,
but what's happening here
is most certainly real:
You are becoming
what you were meant
to become
out in the wild
in the arms of the sun.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, Storyteller: 100 Poem Letters

“Drag for me has always been my superhero costume.”
― RuPaul, GuRu

“A few years ago, on a particularly cold autumn day, I found myself in a pit of self-doubt. Yet I was beginning to realize that if I ever wanted to grow, I couldn’t stay there. I realized that I could spend the rest of my life doubting myself, or I could make the brave decision to work through self-doubt and allow myself to be stretched in ways I had not been before.

Excerpt From: Morgan Harper Nichols. “All Along You Were Blooming.” iBooks.”
― Morgan Harper Nichols, All Along You Were Blooming: Thoughts for Boundless Living