Hello everyone. I'm Tynomi Banks from
Canada's Drag Race, and you are watching
Xtra Magazine, After the Sashay.
What did you learn
from your time on Canada's Drag Race?
I learned to cry all the time.
Walking away from everything, I'm just -- I
want to do it again,
and do it better and come at a
different angle. I think I just went in
more serious and had the weight of
wanting to impress everyone, and then
when it wasn't working,
it got really hard, and I got harder on
myself.
Do you think your advanced reputation
hurt your chances to win the competition?
There was no way I could have
thought
in that way. I just was like -- I was just
grateful
and proud that I made it on the
show and
that's the only thing that was in my in
my mind at the time.
Did I feel that
pressure of that? Yeah, I definitely did.
How did it feel when the judges didn't
seem to acknowledge your growth?
It was frustrating, and it's either -- 
I kind of wanted to go outside and beat
them up, but I can't do that. And
a lot of it -- you could see me physically
eating my feelings and just 
swallowing it back. I'm like, okay, I'll
try again. Out of frustration, I cried, because especially the last
challenge, I definitely
think our group deserved better and not --
we didn't deserve the bottom for sure.
How do you feel about being the first
lip-sync assassin on Canada's Drag Race?
At least I walked away with something.
I love performing and I love being on
stage and it showed
in these battles. These girls -- they're
very good, but
there's just something -- the fight in me,
every time
I looked defeated until I got my music and
start playing, and then I'd tear up the
other girl. Who vogues to Avril Lavigne?
I just found the beat, as I did.
Jeffrey was just
screaming. That's literally never been
done.
What was going through your mind when
you were encouraging Ilona to perform?
After you have a good cry, you're just like --
it's like you're getting re-centered and
you find a balance again.
When I looked at her, she was 
literally losing it,
and I was like, oh no no no. I just --
I think just my motherly instincts
just came in. She was more worried about
our friendship and everything, and I was
like, honestly, we're friends. You have to show,
and I have to show, why we want it so bad.
Why is representation important?
Because I don't think there's enough
people of colour
in the light, in the spotlight.
Before this, I always just -- I treated myself
as the same as everyone,
and as the social climate changed, you
start to realize -- you're like, oh,
maybe it's not. And then I saw this as an
opportunity -- and not just for myself
personally --
an opportunity to show people and
especially people of colour,
we are here. We can do this. Priyanka's
on the show,
Anastarzia, showed that it was
the most diverse cast
on the show. Yeah, it's just important
because
there's someone younger than me, that new queen or a young boy who
probably has self-doubt and can't come
out to their parents
and can't -- I just want them to know that
you have family.
Looking back at your Drag Race journey,
would you do anything differently?
I want to go at it again and be like,
alright, I'm going to kill this
challenge. I'm going to do this and I'm
going to take chances and just be
all crazy. A little bit more crazy.
If it can't be you, which queen would you like to see win it all?
I'm gonna be professional here
and say it should have been me. There's twists!
I didn't think I was gonna be coming off 
the show, so I'm gonna sit back and be a
fan. It could be anyone's. You --
literally it's -- the show has me on on edge and now I'm
gonna be on edge at my TV, like, oh my God, my
God, girls.
What's next for Tynomi Banks?
Well, you saw the music episode, so I
think I'm gonna
try that out a little bit more. I thought
it would be
overwhelming and scary but literally to
make those lines
and make it mean something to me and
then get to perform it -- it was just an
experience of a lifetime.
One word to describe your time on
Canada's Drag Race.
One word? I'll just say gorgeous.
