From the magazine: “Even after the 30-year-old punk-rock brat’s instant rise to fame, she admits that becoming a role model is not on her bucket list. ‘I wanted to be the GG Allin of drag,’ she explains. ‘I never wanted to be a role model, but I do take the responsibility seriously.’ Crown or no crown, she’d prefer to remain ‘cult famous’ and join the ranks of Leigh Bowery and Amanda Lepore, a now-dwindling scene of artists that were self-created and remained in the limelight for a reason. ‘Now that I’m one of the most fucking famous drag queens in the world, I want to take a step back and let my work speak for itself,’ the beginning of a phase that kicked off with her ‘death’ and funeral procession at XL’s crowning ceremony earlier this week. ‘Drag allows you to be anything you want—an exaggeration of American consumerism or an inflatable sense of cartoon—I’m using it to address issues like “how we should feel about ourselves” and ‘[how we should] treat each other.'”