{"id":51357,"date":"2022-05-03T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=51357"},"modified":"2022-05-02T23:17:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T03:17:50","slug":"qwerrrkout-tuesday-growing-up-in-a-very-religious-black-household-the-idea-of-being-queer-chasing-your-dreams-seemed-very-outlandish-to-me-lana-jarae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zeitgeistworld.com\/?p=51357","title":{"rendered":"#QWERRRKOUT Tuesday: \u201cGrowing Up in a Very Religious & Black household, the Idea of Being Queer & Chasing Your Dreams Seemed Very Outlandish to Me\u201d- Lana Ja\u2019Rae"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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QWERRRKOUT TUESDAY just got a whole lot QTer\u2026 New queers featured every week!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tag us, take a pic of us and follow us on Instagram at QWERRRKOUT<\/a>, and you too could be the next, featured QT! YOU BETTA QWERRRK! Oh\u2026and don\u2019t forget to check out Mx Qwerrrk\u2019s super snout chasin\u2019, Spotify Playlist \u201cVOGUING MAX\u201d<\/a><\/strong> below, and get the BRAND SPANKIN\u2019 NEW \u201cNotorious P.I.G.\u201d<\/strong> merch HERE<\/a><\/strong>!!! (Lana\u2019s pics via Instagram<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lana Ja\u2019Rae<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Age:<\/strong> 19<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Location<\/strong>: New York, New York<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

About:<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCrafted with dreams, love, and a whole lot of trauma, Lana Ja\u2019Rae ( lingerie if ya nasty ) is my f**ck you to masculinity.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Growing up in a very religious and black household, the idea of being queer and chasing your dreams seemed very outlandish to me. So why not do the unthinkable? I stuck my middle finger up to toxic masculinity and went full throttle baby!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From a very young age, I had always felt \u2018different\u2019 but I couldn\u2019t quite understand this feeling. I spent most of my younger years praying to be normal or for this feeling I felt on the inside to go away. I later came to identify this feeling I was feeling as my queerness, which I would soon come to embrace. When I was introduced to the art form of drag, I was immediately intrigued! It wasn\u2019t until I moved out of my parents\u2019 house at the age of 18, that Lana Del Rey\u2019s<\/em> black, cross-dressing cousin, twice removed on their father\u2019s stepmother\u2019s side was born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s Lana\u2019s World and we are all truly just living in it! What started as an idea, has turned into something I can\u2019t even begin to express my gratitude for. Lana Ja\u2019Rae is a combination of everything I love\u2026fashion, make-up, design, performing, and modeling. My drag is a love letter to my younger self. If I were to describe my drag, I would say it\u2019s definitely giving Rupaul\u2019s<\/strong> Cattitude <\/a>verse mixed with NYFW on a budget, mixed with slay pills<\/em> yassified, but in the best way possible??<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s next for Lana you may ask? Well, I plan on taking over the world, truly on my Doctor Heinz Doofenshmirtz<\/a> behavior.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

In all honesty, the future is bright! I pray that over the next couple of months I\u2019m able to reach new heights in my drag that I never thought were possible. I hope to smile, laugh, evolve, elevate, cry ( tears of joy of course ) and most importantly I hope to remain perfectly imperfect. Cannot wait to keep violently smashing and pounding my genderfluid booty into the #slay<\/em> button and making content everyone ( hopefully ) enjoys! The amount of love I\u2019ve gotten over the last eleven months of doing drag has been something I could only Ja\u2019ream<\/em> about. I can\u2019t wait to keep shaping myself into that black, openly queer, young, genderfluid role model for kids out there who need one\u2026because I know I would\u2019ve loved to have one growing up. Thank you all for your love and support\u2026it truly means the most to this black queer they ❤️. Here\u2019s to the future!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instagram: <\/strong>lanajarae<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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