Bob The Drag Queen: RuPaul's Drag Race Winner On 'Non-Conformity' in the Black Community
The Tight Rope
SpkerBox Media
5 • 605 Ratings
🗓️ 9 April 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
This week, Bob the Drag Queen joins the professors for a conversation about love-- love of self, love of community, and love of one’s fellow humans-- and all of the obstacles that arise in the process of giving or receiving this love when a person doesn’t fit within certain “norms.” Together, they explore the power of being celebrated for who you are, the reluctance to acknowledge homosexuality and gender non-conformity in the Black community, and why systemic racism is like a pair of ill-fitting pants.
“Bob The Drag Queen” describes herself as “hilarious, beautiful, talented and...humble.” Bob’s unabashed confidence won her the title of “America’s Next Drag Superstar” on season 8 of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” multiple acting roles for HBO, Netflix, Sony Tristar, MTV, and VH1. Bob has recently released her second comedy special, “Bob The Drag Queen: Live at Caroline’s” available on iTunes, as well as season 3 of “ Sibling Rivalry," the podcast she co-hosts with her drag sister Monét X Change.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, my name is Bob the Drag Queen, and I am on the tightrope. |
| 0:04.3 | We are witnessing America as a failed social experiment. |
| 0:11.8 | How do we tell this story in a way that builds the kind of emotional momentum, |
| 0:16.3 | the colorblind ideology built? |
| 0:18.9 | So many young brothers and sisters of the younger generation find themselves so far removed |
| 0:24.6 | the best of their past. |
| 0:26.5 | What are we going to make out of the nothing we've been given? |
| 0:30.7 | How do you envision possibilities? |
| 0:35.6 | Hey everyone. |
| 0:37.1 | Thanks for joining us on the tightrope where we have a love and justice-infused dialogue on incredibly tough issues. Sometimes we also have a really fun time. Actually, we always have a fun time, even when the issues are ridiculous. And so I'm here, Tricia Rose, with my dear co-host and friend, Dr. Cornel West. |
| 0:54.8 | Cornell, how are you doing? |
| 0:56.5 | Always a blessing to be in dialogue with you. |
| 0:59.5 | Yes, it is. |
| 1:00.3 | It's a total blessing. |
| 1:01.9 | I'm wanting to remind our fans and friends and family who listen to us that we have a new |
| 1:07.5 | account with Patreon. |
| 1:09.5 | It's patreon.com backslash the tightrope pod where we have |
| 1:13.7 | all kinds of what I guess technically would have been called in the business outtakes, |
| 1:17.8 | extended conversations, things that we were saying when we were in between shows and we're |
| 1:22.6 | too tired. Probably I should have not been saying anything at all. But nonetheless, it's been |
| 1:26.5 | recorded. |
| 1:34.2 | Great pearls of wisdom from Dr. West and occasional comments from me worth noting. And so we want you to join our Patreon community. So that's just a little heads up for that. So Cornell, here we are |
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