With a unique style, Daniel María transports us to a world full of wigs, lipstick, spotlights, and survival. A unique and essential gem.
Authentic Costume Jewelry is a love chronicle to dissident and camp identities, embodied in these eight stories by drag queens, impersonators, and trans women.
A jewelry box with which the author pays tribute to those who have helped build his culture, imagination, and personality.
“That older drag queen looked at me and smiled. She winked. Her eyelid held the universe. It’s the closest thing to a blessing I have ever felt. A goddess. Yes. A revelation. The anointing of the sacred. The blessed oil of drag queens is eyeshadow. I knew that older drag queen was a mother, a sister, an inspiration. That my queer childhood had its origins in her footsteps. Without knowing it, I made her a promise. Someday I would imagine her life and write it. I have called her Gladis, la Rubia, Lola Jurado, Sarasa, Nancy, Cherilyn… I have dreamed her life in a thousand ways, at different stages, in different places.”
