Name: 拖曳比以往任何時候都重要 | Harper's BAZAAR (Drag Matters Now More Than Ever | Harper's BAZAAR)
Uploaded: 2025-08-14T18:26:04.000Z
Duration: 3 min 24 s

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For me, drag has always been very personal.

對我來說，變裝一直是非常私人的事情。

It has been my best friend, and my therapist, and my safe space as a kid.

它是我最好的朋友，是我的治療師，也是我小時候的安全空間。

When I first started dressing up, I was dealing with a lot of body image insecurities, and I had a terrible eating disorder, and I didn't feel at home in my own body.

我剛開始打扮自己的時候，身體形象很不自信，飲食失調很嚴重，我對自己的身體沒有歸屬感。

And starting to dress up, and transform, and play through drag taught me to accept my body.

開始打扮、變身、玩變裝遊戲，讓我學會了接受自己的身體。

I remember when I was little, I asked my first queer friend how they just leave the house in heels and feel confident, and they basically told me that, you know, you put on heels, you're gonna feel crazy, but if you don't feel like a fool, then you're doing it wrong.

我記得小時候，我問我的第一個同志朋友，他們是如何穿著高跟鞋出門並感到自信的，他們基本上告訴我，你知道，你穿上高跟鞋，你會覺得很瘋狂，但如果你不覺得自己像個傻瓜，那你就做錯了。

And every day after that, you get more comfortable with yourself, and then you realize that's just who you are, and there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.

之後的每一天，你都會對自己越來越滿意，然後你就會意識到這就是你，這絕對沒有錯。

For me, drag has allowed me to stand with authenticity at a level that I could only have dreamt about until I lived it.

對我來說，"變裝 "讓我能夠站在真實的立場上，而在我親身經歷之前，這是我夢寐以求的。

At my lowest point, I was actually addicted to crystal meth, and at 23, I had pretty much lost my family, my friends, and I was at the end of my rope, and I was going to do the unthinkable, and something told me not to, something told me to check my email, and it was an email from the Baton Show Lounge in Chicago, which is one of the oldest drag bars, and they offered me a job.

在我最低谷的時候，我對安非他命上癮，23 歲那年，我幾乎失去了我的家人和朋友，我走投無路了，我打算做一些不可思議的事情，但有什麼東西告訴我不要這樣做，有什麼東西告訴我查看我的電子郵件，那是一封來自芝加哥 Baton Show Lounge 的電子郵件，那是最古老的變裝酒吧之一，他們給了我一份工作。

It was just a way for me to be creative and to keep performing while finding my queer voice and my transness at the same time.

這只是我發揮創造力和繼續表演的一種方式，同時我也找到了自己的同志聲音和變性身份。

It was because of that that I didn't jump out of the window.

Listen, it gave me a purpose, it gave me a reason that I was not a mistake.

聽著，它給了我一個目標，給了我一個理由，讓我知道我不是一個錯誤。

It allowed me to dress it up and to present it to the world and to perform.

它讓我可以把它打扮得漂漂亮亮，展示給世人並進行表演。

Drag gave me everything that I have today.

Being gay was not very accepted in my family household, so when I found drag, I was around 15, 16 years old, and never in my life had I seen men on television dress up as women and getting praised for it, so when I saw that, I was like, I wanna do that.

在我的家庭中，同志並不被接受，所以當我發現變裝的時候，我大約 15、16 歲，在我的生活中，我從來沒有在電視上看到過男人打扮成女人並是以受到表揚，所以當我看到的時候，我就想，我也要這麼做。

Drag is being weaponized in such a very terrible way.

拖拽被武器化的方式非常可怕。

Right now is the moment where we need to really showcase our art and showcase that we are not bad people.

現在，我們需要真正展示我們的藝術，展示我們不是壞人。

We're literally just expressing ourselves through art, we're expressing ourselves through music.

我們通過藝術來表達自己，通過音樂來表達自己。

I know for a fact God put me in this place, so if God put me here, why would you think it'd be negative?

我很清楚是上帝把我放在這個地方的，所以如果是上帝把我放在這裡，你為什麼會覺得是負面的呢？

It's all positive, it's all, all the ooh-la-la and the fierce and the ferocious and incredible and all that.

這些都是正面的，都是 "哦啦啦"、"猛烈"、"凶猛"、"不可思議 "之類的。

There's been such a history, a long history of drag in the country, even though this rhetoric that's happening right now says different, but we're here, we're always here, we're not going anywhere.

這個國家有著悠久的拖拉歷史，儘管現在的言論與此不同，但我們在這裡，我們一直在這裡，我們哪裡也不會去。

As we know, there's a lot going on in the world and there is a target on the back of my community and all of my sisters, so I would continue to advocate that all of you out there that are seeking refuge and relief to find your community and to allow yourself to be as profoundly impactful through your drag, because we need it more now than ever before.

正如我們所知，世界上發生了很多事情，我的社區和我所有的姐妹們都成為了眾矢之的，所以我將繼續倡導所有在外面尋求庇護和救濟的人們找到自己的社區，讓自己通過自己的拖累產生深遠的影響，因為我們現在比以往任何時候都更需要這種影響。