Kimora: Hi, I'm Kimora Amour, and this is Xtra
Kimora: Magazine's After the Sashay.
Russ: Hey squirrel friends, I'm Xtra contributor Russ Martin, and
Russ: this is Xtra Magazine's After the Sashay, our weekly kiki
Russ: with the most recently eliminated contestant from Canada's
Russ: Drag Race season two.
Russ: Now let's hear what she had to say.
Russ: Let's talk first about that lipstick.
Russ: What exactly was your strategy?
Kimora: There was none.
Kimora: No, I literally, I was not there.
Kimora: Like literally, it was just like, throw it to the wind.
Kimora: Think National Geographic, there's a bird and a lizard on
Kimora: the stage, and the song is about sex.
Kimora: Let's figure it out.
Russ: You are so funny.
Russ: And speaking of funny in the roast this week, I thought you
Russ: really got into some zingers.
Russ: Calling Kendall Drake in drag, that
Russ: was hilarious. Come on.
Russ: Were you surprised to be in the bottom?
Kimora: No, and I was at a point already where
Kimora: I was ready to go.
Kimora: So, yeah, no,
Kimora: I wasn't surprised at all.
Russ: Full like a bottom in a bathhouse cracked me all the way
Russ: up. I thought that was very funny,
Russ: and I thought that would have killed it in a bar.
Russ: Do you think it might have just been a case of the wrong
Russ: context, the wrong audience?
Kimora: Yeah, a little bit, definitely, because I don't
Kimora: tend to roast or even read people too much
Kimora: because I always find that there's a fine
Kimora: line and I tend to only read or roast people, but I don't
Kimora: like them. So it's hard to do something
Kimora: with someone that you admire and that someone that you
Kimora: respect.
Russ: I want to ask you a fun question.
Russ: Who is the most famous person in your DMs and tell me
Russ: a little bit about their interaction with you.
Kimora: Most famous person in my DMs?
Kimora: Leslie Jones did tweet out to me, and I'm very happy
Kimora: about that, she said I was hilarious, so I loved it.
Russ: Leslie Jones. That's wonderful.
Russ: That's so cool. Yeah.
Russ: You're ugly as Sin Runway was one of the most powerful
Russ: presentations that I think that we have seen on any
Russ: franchise of the show, period.
Russ: How did that concept come together?
Kimora: It came together in the wee wee
Kimora: hours of the morning.
Kimora: Me and Anastasia were trying to figure out where to go
Kimora: with that kind of a presentation.
Kimora: And she thought of, You know
Kimora: what? What about having slavery being the theme?
Kimora: And I thought, Yeah, like that sounds perfect.
Kimora: That makes total sense.
Kimora: So, she made the garment, and
Kimora: I kind of came up with the concept of how we were going to
Kimora: do it. And I brought
Kimora: it to the stage. I didn't think it would evoke as
Kimora: much emotion as it did out of me when I actually was
Kimora: portraying it on the runway because I literally was
Kimora: breaking down crying.
Kimora: So it was shocking for me as
Kimora: much as it probably has been for the audience.
Russ: You have said that your goal is to put Black positivity out
Russ: into the world. Do you feel like you've accomplished that
Russ: with your time on the show?
Kimora: I got at least a little bit in.
Kimora: Every challenge they gave me, I tried to answer the
Kimora: question, How do I make it Black?
Kimora: And I did that from the circus
Kimora: runway, which was a reference to the Soul Circus, which is
Kimora: the Black Circus, which has traveled the world.
Kimora: The rock and roll doing Tina Turner,
Kimora: that I tried to have every assignment
Kimora: and tried to find a way to have a Black reference when it
Kimora: came to it, because I wanted to show the world
Kimora: that there's so much that we
Kimora: take for granted and that we don't understand is rooted in
Kimora: Blackness and from drag down.
Kimora: So I wanted to portray that.
Russ: You recently spoke out against a well-known Ottawa
Russ: performer and promoter, Yaya Torres, and
Russ: their racist behavior.
Russ: Can you explain that situation a little bit for viewers who
Russ: may not be familiar?
Kimora: So there was an incident that occurred with
Kimora: her and another drag queen who started
Kimora: to not only make fun of,
Kimora: but kind of call out one
Kimora: of my drag nieces, who happened to be at the
Kimora: event. Not in drag, just there as a patron
Kimora: who they do know as a drag queen was performed at
Kimora: the same club that they have performed at.
Kimora: And there was a lot of racial
Kimora: issues that were brought up, as far as African chanting
Kimora: because she is darker skinned, and it
Kimora: was inappropriate.
Kimora: But that's not the first time that she had been
Kimora: inappropriate. There's multiple hundreds
Kimora: of times that she has been inappropriate to
Kimora: different people. There was a time when the police showed
Kimora: up at the bar and she pointed at he only Black
Kimora: person in the venue and said, There she is.
Kimora: Go get her.
Kimora: And for someone to almost sick the police on someone,
Kimora: even in a joking format in this day and age with
Kimora: what has been happening in the world is a no
Kimora: no, and it had to be called out.
Russ: I want to turn to a very happy topic now.
Russ: You have a son. Has he been watching the show?
Kimora: He watches here and there. His mom watches more than he
Kimora: does, but he's just been enjoying the little
Kimora: bit of fame and seeing the commercials and seeing all the
Kimora: little stuff and the girls kind of think it's cool.
Kimora: So he's happy about that.
Russ: It's amazing.
Russ: You are known as a carnival queen.
Russ: Can you explain what that means for people outside of
Russ: Caribbean culture who might not know how the carnival and
Russ: drag intersect?
Kimora: So carnival and drag intersect in a very weird
Kimora: way, but in a very great way.
Kimora: To me, Carnival is about freedom because
Kimora: Carnival happens once a year, and it actually
Kimora: was the celebration of lent.
Kimora: But the slaves at the time in the Caribbean, South
Kimora: America, Central America had all
Kimora: used Carnival as a way to
Kimora: simply hide their African
Kimora: traditions in costume
Kimora: and kind of show their
Kimora: sense of freedom in the aspects and
Kimora: the hidden back of the Carnival kind of parading.
Kimora: And I feel like in the sense with drag, drag is very
Kimora: similar. We all put on these fabulous
Kimora: costumes to express freedom.
Kimora: So that's why I feel like carnival and drag kind
Kimora: of intersect. And we just love fabulous feathered
Kimora: costumes, like the end of the day, who doesn't love a
Kimora: fabulously feathered costume?
Russ: The last question that I want to ask you about is your
Russ: roots in the Toronto Kiki Ballroom scene.
Russ: I know that you have done the bizarre category
Russ: in particular. How did doing the Kiki Ballroom scene
Russ: prepare you for being on this show?
Kimora: Um, being able to be creative for the Circus Bezerkus,
Kimora: taking something that is unconventional like trash
Kimora: and making it into a garment to kind of
Kimora: express this basically what you see at
Kimora: the end of the circus.
Kimora: It gives you or your mind a way of thinking differently
Kimora: and out of the box, and not just only
Kimora: fashion forward and tiny cinched waist, there's so
Kimora: much more to the the art of
Kimora: drag, and the ballroom scene definitely set
Kimora: me up to be creative in that way.
Russ: Well, we definitely got to see that on the show.
Russ: Congratulations on just a wonderful run in the show and
Russ: a wonderful representation of your culture and
Russ: your city. So thank you so much for joining us today.
Kimora: Thank you so much.
Kimora: Thank you for watching Xtra Magazine's After the Sashay.
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