If You're a Drag Queen and You Know It

Strike a pose. Blow a kiss. Mouth the words. A sing-along picture book inviting for audience participating and encouraging kids to embrace the playfulness of drag and dressing up, written by a founding member of Drag Story Hour.

If you’re a drag queen and you know it, let it show by winking, shaking your bum, laughing real big, twirling around, and more! Join a cast of fabulous drag queens as you sing along to the tune of “If You’re Happy and You Know It” in this playful celebration of expressing your brightest and boldest self. A perfect companion to The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish written by Lil Miss Hot Mess, a Drag Story Hour member and outspoken drag activist.

Lil Miss Hot Mess is a leader of Drag Queen Story Hour, an innovative program that encourages kids to boldly color outside the lines. Her first children's book The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish was released in May 2020, illustrated by Olga de Dios and published by Running Press Kids. For over a decade, Lil Miss Hot Mess has performed on stages from Stanford University to SFMOMA and Saturday Night Live. As one of the queens behind DQSH, she has hosted story hours at venues like HBO's Human By Orientation, VICE Media, the Institute of Contemporary Art LA, and RuPaul's Drag Con; and she has also lectured on drag at Stanford University, University of San Francisco, Loyola Marymount University, UC Santa Cruz, Sonoma State University, and several conferences. She was also an organizer of the #MyNameIs Campaign that challenged Facebook's so-called "real names" policy. Her writing has been published in The Guardian, Wired, Salon, them., and Huffington Post, and her work has been covered around the world by the New York Times, Channel 4, Al Jazeera, and many more. When not twirling, she is completing a PhD in Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU.