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Akashia is an American drag performer and was a contestant on the first season of RuPaul's Drag Race.

Drag Name Origin[]

Akashia's drag name comes from the vampire "Akasha" from the movie "Queen of the Damned", based on the novel by Anne Rice and played by Aaliyah in the movie. She has previously dressed up as Akasha for Halloween.[3]

Track Record(s)[]

Akashia
Statistics USA Season 1
Ranking: 7th Place
Maxi Challenges Won: 0
Mini Challenges Won: 1 (Ep. 2)
Times as Team Captain: 1 (Ep. 2)
Times in Bottom: 3 (Eps. 1, 2, 3)
Episode Eliminated: Episode 3

Memorable Quotes[]

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 1[]

  • "I love the attention, I do. I love it, crave it..."
  • "Jade is very cute, um I might be a lesbian with him."
  • "Maybe the makeup is just afraid to stay on your face!" (to Victoria Parker as her makeup was running off)
  • "Porkchop looked like a football field." (referring to Victoria Parker's runway look on Episode 1)
  • "Sewing is not my strong point, clearly from the challenge. (laughter) Clearly."
  • "Every competition needs a bitch, and that bitch is ME and I'm happy with that. I tell it how it is and I'm fierce!"
  • "I can't believe I'm crying! I haven't cried in like, 4 years!"

Trivia[]

  • Akashia was kicked out of her house at the age of 17 for being gay, which she discussed during her time on Season 1.
  • Akashia is the first queen...
    • ...from Ohio.
    • ...to survive a lip-sync, as well as the first queen to lip-sync twice and thrice, thus making her the first "lip-sync assassin".
    • ...to lip-sync in every episode she competed in.
      • She is also the only contestant to accomplish this that survived at least 2 lip-syncs.
      • Similarly, she is the first queen to lipsync in the first 3 competitive episodes of the season. She has since been followed by BenDeLaCreme, Denali and Samantha Ballentines.
    • ...to fall on stage.[4]
  • When Season 1 aired as "The Lost Season" in 2013, they mistakenly showed a fan twitter account (@DragAkashia) as if it were hers. She does not have an active Twitter.
  • Akashia stopped doing drag in 2017 when her hometown bar closed, but returned for the Season 10 finale.[4]
  • She lip-synced alongside The Vixen during the Season 10 finale.[5]
  • She has said she would for sure return for an All Stars season if asked.[4]
  • At 24 when Season 1 was filmed, she is the oldest queen to have been the youngest of her season during a regular season of the show.
    • She would later be followed by Plasma who at 24 was also the youngest contestant of Season 16.
    • If All Stars is taken into account, then Yara Sofia and Jujubee, who were both 28 when All Stars 1 was filmed, would hold the title overall.

Gallery[]

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 1[]

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 1 Looks[]

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 10[]

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 10 Looks[]

Videos[]

Filmography[]

TV[]

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2009 RuPaul's Drag Race: Season 1 Themself Contestant (7th place) [3]
2014 RuPaul's Drag Race: Season 4 Zombie Episode: "RuPocalypse Now!" [3]
2018 RuPaul's Drag Race: Season 10 Themself Episode: "Grand Finale" [5]

Web Series[]

Year Title Role Notes Ref.
2009 Under The Hood Themself [6]

External Links[]

Navigation[]

  1. RuPaul's Drag Race Moments of Black Excellence | VH1 | YouTube — February 19, 2021
  2. Akashia - RuPaul's Drag Race Casting Audition Tape | YouTube, WOWPresents — October 15, 2013
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Meet The Queens: Akashia | YouTube, RuPaul's Drag Race — September 27, 2013 Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "meet" defined multiple times with different content
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 RuPaul's Drag Race season 1 cast: Where are they now? | Entertainment Weekly — March 3, 2023
  5. 5.0 5.1 Lip Sync Eleganza Extravaganza Performance w/ S1 & S10 Queens 💃 | YouTube, RuPaul's Drag Race — June 28, 2018
  6. Under The Hood of RuPaul’s Drag Race 2 | World of Wonder — February 11, 2009
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