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Brandi Amara Skyy

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Brandi Amara Skyy (she/they/we/us) is an Author, Artivist, and Wild Dream + Writing Coach.

They are the author of 8 books, including The Little Book of Drag (2022) and Be More Drag (2023) both published by Dog n Bone Books, Magick For Transformation (2024) published by Cico Books, and her latest work—a manifesto on using your art as activism called, The Artivist. Their work has been featured in BET, Curve Magazine, Global Grind, and Ofrenda Magazine (her first piece for BET went viral); and as a journalist, op-ed writer, TV anchor, and columnist for The Dallas Voice.

She grew up under the South Texas Sun, rhinestone beaches, and full familia tamale-making kitchen table wisdom. As a double Leo, they have been everything performative under the Brandi Amara Skyy (she/they/we/us) is an Author, Artivist, and Wild Dream + Writing Coach.

They are the author of 8 books, including The Little Book of Drag (2022) and Be More Drag (2023) both published by Dog n Bone Books, Magick For Transformation (2024) published by Cico Books, and her latest work—a manifesto on using your art as activism called, The Artivist. Their work has been featured in BET, Curve Magazine, Global Grind, and Ofrenda Magazine (her first piece for BET went viral); and as a journalist, op-ed writer, TV anchor, and columnist for The Dallas Voice.

She grew up under the South Texas Sun, rhinestone beaches, and full familia tamale-making kitchen table wisdom. As a double Leo, they have been everything performative under the Sun: Junior Olympic artistic roller-skating champion, cross-country touring belly dancer, and award-winning drag queen.

Known as the “Queen of Firsts,” they were the first to publish books on female drag queens and spearhead the first haute drag magazine, GAG Magazine; have their neo-drag performance group open up for Lady Gaga; and win the first National Drag Pageant, Miss Diva USofA in 2014.

As an Artivist, Brandi has been using her art as activism since 2005; has spoken on diversity inclusion to international companies like Southwest Airlines; lobbied Congress on behalf of the Human Rights Campaign while interning at the Women’s Institute of Public Policy and Research in Washington DC; and has marched, led, and helped organize many street marches. They hold a BA in Dance and an MA in Multicultural Women’s & Gender Studies from Texas Woman’s University.

When they’re not busy being the change they wish to see, Brandi can be found with a pen in her hair, deepening her creative and writing craft, on a cruise ship in the middle of the ocean, and/or obsessing over all things Lisa Frank and Dallas Cowboys football.

Brandi resides on her native lands, known as Wimberley, Tejas, with her wife Candace, and their spoiled, papaleta Maltese/Shih-Tzu rescue, June and is currently working on her first memoir about her lifelong desire for fame, what she did to get it, what happened when they didn’t, and what the pursuit of it taught—and brought—her.

Read more from her on her Substacks: Famestack and Wild Dream Wonderland. Or at brandiamaraskyy.com.

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	The Little Book of Drag: Divas, drag family, drama, and deliciousness 3.96 avg rating — 26 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How To Be A Drag Queen: A guidebook for female drag queens and emerging drag artists 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Be More Drag: Life hacks and tips from the queens and kings of the catwalk 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Craft of Drag: A werkbook for female drag queens, kings & queens, and anyone looking to get started in the art of drag it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Faux Queens - Fauxing the Real: Biological Women, The Art of Drag, and Why the Real is Drag 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	WOKE MAGIC Grimoire: Vol. 2 Summer 2022 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Magick for Transformation: Rituals and alchemy for manifesting your wildest dreams 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Artivist: A Manifesto & Reinforcement of Surviving, Thriving, & Revolutionizing Through The Nexus Of The Humxn Experience & Intentional Art Making 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Words were cannibals eating up their own past.”
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“Her smile was a supernova: blazing, beautiful, short-lived.”
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“Sometimes I became so permeable, so porous, that I would absorb too much, until a valve yielded, and everything rushed out in a quick drain.”
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“Gone is what happens when people stop asking, when all research has ceased, when no one contributes to the archives of a life or its extinction.”
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