Brandi Amara Skyy

Brandi Amara Skyy (she/they/we/us) is an author; writing, magick, & Sacred Leadership mentor; and Indigenous Witch who believes we all have a Universe inside waiting to Big Bang its way out of us.

She grew up under the South Texas Sun, rhinestone beaches, and full familia tamale-making kitchen table wisdom. As a double Leo, they have been everything performative under the Sun: Junior Olympic artistic roller-skating champion, cross-country touring belly dancer, and award-winning drag queen.

Known as the “Queen of Firsts,” they were the first to publish books on female drag queens and spearhead the first haute drag magazine, GAG Magazine; have their neo-drag performance group open up for Lady Gaga; and win the first National Drag Pageant, Miss Diva USofA in 2014.

As a Queer, Indigenous, Mexica teacher and mentor, she teaches art, love, and (woke) magic as a pathway to liberating the sacred sovereign leader within. Through her lifestyle bodega and brand WOKE MAGIC, 1:1 and group mentorship programs, and online magical Sacred Creatrix Coven and Witchflix learning hub, they help folxs reclaim their magic, conjure their creatrix, and learn how to lead from their creativity, heart, and medicine so they can bring their mission and vision to life.

As an Artivist, Brandi has been using her art as activism since 2005; has spoken on diversity inclusion to international companies like Southwest Airlines; lobbied Congress on behalf of the Human Rights Campaign while interning at the Women’s Institute of Public Policy and Research in DC; and has marched, led, and help organzine many street marches. They hold a BA in Dance and MA in Multicultural Women’s & Gender Studies from Texas Woman’s University.

They are the author of 7 books, including The Little Book of Drag (2022) and Be More Drag (forthcoming 2023) both published by Ryland Peters & Small, The WOKE MAGIC Grimoire (2020 to present), How To Be a Drag Queen (2017), and The Artivist (forthcoming 2023) all published by WOKE MAGIC Press. Their work has been featured in BET, Curve Magazine, Global Grind, and Ofrenda Magazine; and as a journalist, op-ed writer, TV anchor, and columnist for The Dallas Voice. In 2014 she was named one of the Latino Leaders to watch by Latino Leaders Magazine and in 2017, their essay, On Gay Marriage, won Dallas’ Writers #ownvoice essay contest.

When they’re not busy being the change they wish to see, Brandi can be found deepening her craft, on a cruise ship, and/or obsessing over all things Lisa Frank and Dallas Cowboys football.

Brandi resides on her native lands, known as Wimberley, Tejas, with her wife Candace, and their spoiled, papaleta Maltese/Shih-Tzu rescue, June.