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My Name's Yours, What's Alaska?: A Memoir by Alaska Thunderfuck 5000
3 reviews
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.
Graphic: Alcoholism, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Emotional abuse, and Gaslighting
Moderate: Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Hate crime, and Transphobia
Minor: Vomit
tksignups's review against another edition
dark
funny
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
Moderate: Drug use, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Bullying, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Gaslighting, Homophobia, Racial slurs, and Racism
queerreadss's review against another edition
dark
emotional
funny
reflective
fast-paced
4.0
This book was a new, more human side to the larger than life drag queen we met on Drag Race and All Stars. Alaska gets very personal in this debut, with tales from her failures, abusing drugs and alcohol, her toxic relationship with Sharon Needles and her complicity in her and Sharon's racist past actions.
"My Name's Yours, What's Alaska?" reads like a diary with its vulnerability shining in every page. I love that Alaska chose to use this platform to bring up a few controversial things others may have avoided. She validated trans drag queens, expressed opinions on RuPaul's and other drag competitions transphobic rules and mindsets, and the discomfort of former partner Sharon's racism. She also highlighted how toxic drug and alcohol use became for her and how that tarnished relationships with her lifelong friend, coworkers and Sharon. Alaska didn't shy away from the uncomfortable truths of her doing bad things throughout her stories.
Pictures included were really great as well, they were a great selection to accompany Alaska's writing.
I do think there could have been a bit more accountability for racist acts that Alaska herself admits to having done and maybe use her platform to speak more on her being complicit in it.
"My Name's Yours, What's Alaska?" reads like a diary with its vulnerability shining in every page. I love that Alaska chose to use this platform to bring up a few controversial things others may have avoided. She validated trans drag queens, expressed opinions on RuPaul's and other drag competitions transphobic rules and mindsets, and the discomfort of former partner Sharon's racism. She also highlighted how toxic drug and alcohol use became for her and how that tarnished relationships with her lifelong friend, coworkers and Sharon. Alaska didn't shy away from the uncomfortable truths of her doing bad things throughout her stories.
Pictures included were really great as well, they were a great selection to accompany Alaska's writing.
I do think there could have been a bit more accountability for racist acts that Alaska herself admits to having done and maybe use her platform to speak more on her being complicit in it.
Moderate: Racism, Racial slurs, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, and Domestic abuse
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