4.6 • 15.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 October 2021
⏱️ 57 minutes
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A person’s identity is not up for debate; drag queen Bimini Bon Boulash is on a mission to ensure everyone feels safe to express who they are without fear. In this chat, Fearne and Bimini explore how everyone can question and choose to reject societal rules that they don’t personally resonate with, as well as how to better understand and support others as they do the same.
A sense of belonging can directly impact mental health, so they also discuss the benefits of social media in finding a community of likeminded people, and what we can learn about unleashing our inner confidence from drag queens.
Bimini’s book is called Release the Beast: A Drag Queen’s Guide to Life, and it’s out now.
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0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Happy Place, the show that helps you rip up society's rule books |
0:06.4 | so you can find your own brand of happiness. |
0:11.0 | I'm Fernkotton and today I'm chatting to drag queen Bimini Bon Boulache. |
0:16.1 | I tried my hardest to do the things that were kind of societal expectations of me and |
0:22.0 | it just made me feel so unhappy and when I started living for myself and kind of rejecting |
0:27.1 | those ideas that's when I found happiness within myself and that's what ultimately we want |
0:32.1 | to strive for we want to be happy within because then that radiates to other people and you |
0:36.5 | can then be open and loving and accepting of everyone. |
0:40.0 | Bimini was catapulted into the public conscience as a contestant on series two of RuPaul's Drag Race |
0:46.9 | UK. |
0:47.9 | They're with the iconic fashion moments, the self deprecating vegan gags and some incredible |
0:54.9 | death drops of course but it was their warm and humble conversation about being non-binary |
1:00.7 | with fellow queen Ginny Lemmon that cemented their position in the nation's hearts. |
1:05.6 | Bimini was living their best book tour life in a Liverpool hotel room when we connected up last week. |
1:11.4 | They've been travelling the country with their new book Release the Beast which they wrote in the |
1:16.8 | hope that others will come to find the confidence to shake off restrictive societal norms too. |
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