I'm violet chachki and I'm a drag
superstar so I've always kind of been
playing with androgyny and makeup and
admiring beautiful women's clothing I
went to Catholic school on my whole life
so there were like really strict gender
specific rules that you had to abide by
I would always constantly be getting in
trouble so I think it kind of made me
start to question things like I would be
like well why and I started kind of
doing drag I think as a rebellious thing
and then I turned out to be kind of good
at it it used to be that one way to
become a famous drag queen really was
through the pageant system RuPaul's Drag
Race the show has kind of made it into
this like phenomenon so it's really
important to kind of have your own gig
my knees just like burlesque or even
like circus performance okay well I
guess I'm gonna have to buy it oh my god
people like don't know I eat
I mean I'm known for being really skinny
and for wearing corsets and like people
literally don't think I eat sometimes
you know we don't really look like men
or women we kind of just look like a
genderless superhero especially in like
I'm thinking about what I'm wearing
today and it's like it's got this huge
like tree on it and it's like chiffon
and I'm gonna be like twirling it around
there could Kate probably the whole day
they get in drag it usually takes me
about three hours I like to allow three
hours just kind of as a general rule I
shaved my whole body you shaped my face
do my makeup there's usually like two
different kinds of tape for different
kinds of glue like attaching different
things to move your body I don't really
like a woman they kind of look like a
drawing of a woman I mean that's kind of
like my drag mom kind of instilled that
at me her name is Dax and she was
actually on season 8 and she's like a
big comic book nerd so it's funny that I
keep talking about like superheroes and
we are on the wage drag con - it's the
second one it's like the annual drag
convention and it's tied to the show and
that RuPaul kind of like coordinates
everything around her Empire
she's a very powerful person I mean it's
a really powerful show and a powerful
thing there's like an army of us now
like spreading the message it almost
feels like a church group or some
at his pub hey how are you babe I don't
really think that I had an option to
hide who I was
there's the thing called passing
privilege or masculine privilege and I
never had that so I kind of like came
out when I was born
sometimes I'm feeling more like a woman
and sometimes I'm feeling more like a
guy and I kind of like just flow it in
between from day to day it changes and
that's kind of how I live my fan base is
really really young and it's becoming a
lot more widely accepted so they'll be
like children with their parents coming
to see us which is it's so cool
it's like one of the coolest parts of it
yeah I can't go to the
I'm excited too I was raised to be
racist
I was raised not to like gay people
That's not me
and I did not want that for him I wanted
him to be all-around open to anything
and anybody
I loved violence even seven I think
dating is really hard when you're a drag
queen there's times like that when I'm
like oh god this is so gross there's so
much like misogyny within the gay
community
don't even talk about it the main thing
I think is you have to be smart just
being aware of social constructs and
like how to navigate through them
without offending anybody that's hot I
think my fan base has definitely grown
in the year that I've kind of like
reigned as the Queen I've done other
projects and other things that have
brought in the spectrum when people get
a better understanding of who you are as
performer and who you are as a queen and
who you are as a person and they kind of
get to experience you outside of just
television yummy
growing up in Berlin the people that I
came up with here I built really actual
intimate relationships with