Your favourite drag queen’s favourite drag queen, the beautiful Sasha Colby, is as soon as once more hitting the street – and this time, she’s doubling down. The Stripped II Tour, kicking off September 16, 2025, is a 30-date North American journey that builds on the sold-out success of her first headlining run in 2024.

As a proud trans-Hawaiian icon, Miss Continental 2012, and beloved drag powerhouse, Sasha brings extra than simply efficiency to the stage. She brings empowerment, authenticity, and cultural reverence. Along with her Sasha Colby Hair line thriving and her voice rising each actually (see: “Really feel The Energy”) and figuratively, this tour isn’t only a present. It’s an announcement.

We caught up with the enduring winner of season 15 of RuPaul’s Drag Race forward of Stripped II to speak touring, legacy, and what it means to come back house stronger, louder, and stripped all the way down to her fact.

Congratulations on Stripped II. How does this new tour construct on the power and message of the final tour?

For the final Stripped tour, my intention was to carry out the power in others by my vulnerability on stage and empower folks after they go away. This time it’s a very totally different present. It’s totally different tales and totally different costumes and numbers and as an alternative of simply being like the primary present was, it was sort of identical to my life from a child to Drag Race. So now we’re taking you to a fantastical different world as a result of this world is loopy proper now and I really feel like after we are all protesting and preventing for our rights proper now, we want a bit of celebration and a breather. So, that’s what we’re hoping to carry and we’re taking you off to those actually totally different dimensions, actually totally different worlds and totally different numbers to hopefully encourage everybody to really feel artistic this time round.

You’re identified in your beautiful visuals and your highly effective storytelling. What can followers count on from this stage expertise?

Nicely, I imply, visuals and nice storytelling for certain. That’s actually the idea of my exhibits and what I like to carry out. There’s quite a lot of totally different costumes and quite a lot of extra visible issues happening. I’m nonetheless holding it on this Stripped world the place you possibly can nonetheless use your creativeness however we’ve added some new parts and I’m excited to inhabit these totally different archetypes of girls, actually excessive female archetypes just like the vamp and the siren, the goddess the showgirl – all of those locations the place we will escape to and discover similarities.

Is there a metropolis that from the primary tour that you just’re excited to come back again to? You may say Atlanta if you wish to!

I imply, Atlanta was quite a lot of enjoyable and the ATL all the time takes care of me. Atlanta for certain. New York is nice. Chicago, I used to stay there. Seattle’s sort of a second house as nicely, and LA is nice and I get to go to Hawaii once more. All of these cities are actually particular, however I’m excited to see some totally different ones like going to Vegas and hitting Florida. This time I get to go to Orlando the place I used to stay and quite a lot of extra Midwest cities. I’m excited to unfold the Stripped phrase.

On the primary tour you had integrated native artists along with your present and also you’re doing the identical for Stripped II. How essential is it so that you can promote native artists in your exhibits?

I imply, it’s sort of simply not simply giving again to offer again, but it surely simply appears pure as a result of I used to be given alternatives from drag artists and trans showgirls that I appeared as much as they usually noticed one thing particular in me and would give me a reserving or take me on the street with them or simply sort of take me beneath their wings.

So, I really feel that the one correct factor is to offer what I used to be given – and since it wasn’t actually mine, you realize, it was one other reward from one other gifted performer. I get to cross that alongside and I’m actually huge on passing down historical past and cultivating the folks after me and making them know like, why we do all of this – and it’s not simply to be on a tv present, you realize?

As the primary Hawaiian and trans queen to win Drag Race, how have you ever seen your platform shift since your win?

There’s much more eyes now and much more followers. I really like my fan base. I actually do. There’s quite a lot of like folks from Continental and other people from my pageant years which have simply been followers and have simply all the time been help methods. After which there are actually the Gen Zs, that are wild, you realize, the Twitch and Twitters and all of the Gen Zs. As a millennial myself, it’s sort of wild and uncommon to be thought of cool to the Gen Z crowd.

How do you stability leisure with advocacy, particularly once you’re touring?

, after we have been working by this present and making an attempt to determine what tales I wished to inform, I used to be not remiss to know what we’re coping with on the earth proper now and I couldn’t assist however at the least not level extra in the direction of the negativity and discuss extra into that. We will see that on-line and we will see that on the information and all the things however simply attempt to faucet again into humanity. And I believe that’s the one factor that I believe we will do proper now.

I really feel prefer it’s all the time the queer folks and artists which have all the time been those wo did that – like throughout Vietnam and the hippie motion and the beatniks. I imply, there’s all the time been this counterculture that’s occurred and we’re within the midst of one other one. And I believe that what all the time is a connecting factor is creativity and neighborhood. Everybody creates a protected house. They create artwork, they create music. They create protests and their voices are heard and, with that, it makes this house for neighborhood. And that’s what we have to do is keep in mind that it’s at a area people stage the place we actually have probably the most energy.

What recommendation would you may have for younger up and coming drag artists?

, simply keep in mind why you need to do drag. For those who’re asking for time within the highlight, be sure you have one thing to say and ensure it’s value listening to. Actually give it some thought as a result of it’s an artwork and the great factor is that you just don’t take your self too severely, however you are taking the artwork severely and actually know that it’s not only a floor factor. It’s one thing that may actually join you along with your creativity, along with your queerness, with no matter intersectionality you occur to own.

You talked about you’re going again to Hawaii and Honolulu closed out the primary Stripped tour and it was featured within the Dwelling Stretch documentary. What was it wish to carry that second full circle?

It was actually cool to really carry out there and in addition to have the ability to have footage of it. With the documentary, you’re in tour mode and you’ve got a tough time sort of staying current, so it’s good that I get to look again at this. It’s one thing that was such a rush. As soon as the tour is completed and also you don’t actually keep in mind quite a lot of the issues, it was good to look again on the documentary and actually see how essential it was to come back again to Hawaii and the way I wanted a homecoming and, particularly with the primary journey, to share the story with the those that lived it with me – all the great and dangerous. These have been my mates in Hawaii, so it was actually particular.

What does house imply to you now and the way has that modified because you began your profession?

, I’ve all the time considered myself as a citizen of the world. I’ve all the time wished to journey. That was all the time one thing that I wanted to do and I didn’t know the way I used to be going to do it and simply so occurs that drag is permitting me to try this. I’m an actual historical past nerd and I’m a journey nerd and I really like studying about totally different civilizations, so to have the ability to go to all these wonderful locations and see what I’ve examine or studied or appeared on-line at actually opens my world up.

And to see all of the totally different those that love drag and all these totally different nations the place I might by no means have imagined folks would know my title or know what drag is…and to suppose one thing that was simply meant for me as like this queer fringe artwork that you just needed to sneak into an 18 and over membership to go watch this factor referred to as drag that you just needed to watch for on a Friday night time to look at and to have it so accessible now. It’s actually wild as a result of it’s virtually like my little child. It’s like my little factor that I believed I discovered and now the world will get to expertise it. It’s positively like an enormous machine now.

Aspect word, because you talked about it, the place has been your favourite place that you just’ve traveled to?

I need to say Madrid. I simply did Madrid. I really like Berlin. These two actually stick out. Everybody’s so completely satisfied in Madrid. Their high quality of dwelling and the siestas and the tapas. I simply liked it. Everybody was so candy.

You’ve gotten expanded your empire with Sasha Colby Hair. How do you see your magnificence model rising within the magnificence market?

So, we began out with ponytails. We began out with a 28-inch, and we’ve got it in quite a lot of 10 colours which are a large spectrum of various colours. We then expanded to a 36-inch and 40-inch ponytail. Now we’ve got expanded to extension clippings they usually are available in a set of seven and you’ll fill your entire hair up with this goddess hair. It’s not only a ponytail. Now you possibly can have lengthy, luxurious hair. We’re truly going to be doing quite a lot of extra totally different hair issues. Look out for some wigs and a few lace fronts. We’re simply sort of making a pleasant one-stop-shop in your hair wants.

When followers consider Sasha Colby years from now, what would you like them to recollect most?

, going by all my accomplishments and eager to, you realize, actually have quite a lot of issues that I want to accomplish in my life…however on the finish of the day, I simply actually need folks to recollect me as being variety and being a very good good friend and a very good individual locally.

Tickets for Sasha Colby’s Stripped II tour are accessible now. Comply with Sasha on Instagram and TikTok.