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My Name's Yours, What's Alaska?: A Memoir by Alaska Thunderfuck 5000

8 reviews

kataleen1989's review against another edition

dark funny reflective fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol and Drug use

emjayknocks's review

emotional funny inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.0

Alaska’s memoir is heartfelt, reflective, and full of tea about her and Sharon Needles’s relationship. It reads like a series of short anecdotes a friend might share on a night out… “one time I blagged free VIP tickets to a Lady Gaga show” etc. but with the added bonus of TONS of pictures - some blurry photos from club night performances and some high quality staged photos where you get to really appreciate the art of drag. A great read for fans of RuPaul’s Drag Race! 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism and Toxic relationship

Minor: Drug use and Homophobia

hippiequeen's review

emotional informative fast-paced

4.75

I love Alaska; learning more about her life and background was interesting to me and overall a good read. ✨

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship

Moderate: Alcohol and Drug use

kt2e56's review against another edition

funny inspiring reflective fast-paced

3.75

First of all…definitely make sure you do the audiobook. Alaska’s impressions and asides are all genius. I want her to read classic literature to me now. There are parts of these I loved (Alaska’s honesty about her substance abuse and toxic relationship and her own insecurities about herself and her relationship to fame) but it does sort of lose steam towards the end. I feel like big chunks of her story are missing and I would love to learn more. I also don’t need a Drag Race tell-all or anything and wouldn’t want her to be shady or gossipy but would have LOVED to hear more *fun* backstage stories and about the sisterhood that she found amongst the Drag Race girls. This was definitely delightful though and I’d happily read (or listen to) more stories if she wants to publish them.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Hate crime, and Transphobia

Minor: Vomit

kaiouelios's review

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective fast-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Addiction, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, Gaslighting, and Drug use

Moderate: Hate crime, Antisemitism, Cultural appropriation, Eating disorder, and Infidelity

tksignups's review

dark funny inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Drug use, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Racial slurs, and Racism

aus10england's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful fast-paced

4.5

I really enjoyed this! Nice and quick memoir by an iconic drag superstar. Learned lots. 

I do wish that the pictures more closely matched the time period that were being referenced in the book at that time. 

Overall, would recommend to anyone who is a fun of drag!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Homophobia, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Transphobia

rebeccamm's review

dark funny inspiring fast-paced

4.25

An excellent, quick celebrity memoir, full of fantastic photos and raw, honest truth about fame, addiction and loving yourself. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Drug use, and Emotional abuse