{"id":43853,"date":"2024-03-22T01:39:25","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T08:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/?p=43853"},"modified":"2024-03-20T15:29:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-20T22:29:01","slug":"sasha-velour-speaks-april-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/2024\/03\/22\/sasha-velour-speaks-april-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Sasha Velour speaks April 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Jewish drag queen, visual artist, speaker, illustrator and author Sasha Velour.<\/em> <i>(photo from UBC)<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The 2024 Phil Lind Initiative speaker series concludes on April 18 with Jewish drag queen, visual artist, speaker, illustrator and author Sasha Velour, winner of the ninth season of RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race and a co-host of the current season of HBO\u2019s We\u2019re Here. Velour will give a talk titled The Big Reveal: Why Drag Matters. Exploring the intersections of pop politics and pop culture, she will delve into the roots of drag, its historical significance in queer culture and its evolution into a politically charged art form. \u201cDrag embodies the queer possibility that exists within each of us, the infinite ways in which gender, good taste and art can be lived,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The Phil Lind Initiative is hosted by the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs in the faculty of arts at the University of British Columbia. The initiative\u2019s mandate is to invite prominent US scholars, writers and intellectuals to UBC to share ideas on some of the most urgent issues of our time.<\/p>\n<p>Velour\u2019s talk takes place April 18, 6 p.m., at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts. Tickets are free (maximum two per order), but registration is required. Audience members can attend in person or watch online via livestream. You do not need a ticket but you do need to sign up for the Phil Lind Initiative email list. For full details, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/lindinitiative.ubc.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lindinitiative.ubc.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 Courtesy University of British Columbia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jewish drag queen, visual artist, speaker, illustrator and author Sasha Velour. (photo from UBC) The 2024 Phil Lind Initiative speaker series concludes on April 18 with Jewish drag queen, visual artist, speaker, illustrator and author Sasha Velour, winner of the ninth season of RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race and a co-host of the current season of HBO\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43855,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[785],"tags":[23066,23063,20765,23065],"class_list":["post-43853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-performing-arts","tag-drag","tag-phil-lind-initiative","tag-queer","tag-sasha-velour"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jewishindependent.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}