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Alright Mary: All Things RuPaul's Drag Race

Episode 47: Drag Race Season 9 – Category Is… Recap & Review

Alright Mary: All Things RuPaul's Drag Race

Colin Drucker & Johnny Also

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2017

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

We’re down to the Final 4, Mary’s! This week, Sasha, Shea, Trinity and Peppermint are rapping, dancing and podcasting their way to the crown. And let’s be real. all four of them killed it. We talk about what each queen brings to drag as the Final 4 (spoiler alert!), our thoughts and questions on trans and bio queens and the reason this season was all about internal conflicts, before wrapping things up with Last Chance Lipsync you won’t want to lose.

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0:00.0

All right, Mary.

0:16.7

You said something that really touched me, which was that you thanked. You thanked a little Shay.

0:22.6

Yeah.

0:24.6

Because now I'm a modified version of that really authentic three-year-old that existed.

0:32.6

You know, before school and kids and being bullied and all of that, that three-year-old was fierce and fearless

0:42.7

and just so dynamic. And I lost a lot of that light going through a lot of experiences and life.

0:53.5

And I've had to hold tight on to that. going through a lot of experiences and life.

1:00.3

And I've had to hold tight on to that true blue individual that would go in and put on Mama's bathing suit.

1:02.5

Right.

1:02.6

And be like, hey, hey.

1:06.0

All right.

1:06.8

So I picked that as this week's clip of the week

1:09.2

because I felt like, I mean, I've heard, I've heard, I've felt that sentiment before, that idea that there is this authentic self as a child that we have.

1:18.4

And then over the years, it kind of gets worn down by school and things we learn from our families and things we just pick up from being in society.

1:26.8

And so it's like a, it's a, it's a sentiment I've heard before.

1:29.7

But what stood out to me is I feel like drag is this opportunity, drag is this really

1:37.9

visceral opportunity to rediscover that self, to rediscover that sense of play and creation and even like fierceness, so to speak,

1:47.3

that a like completely, I don't want to say, unaware, but unaffected child would have.

1:53.7

You know what I mean?

1:54.5

Oh, absolutely.

1:55.8

You know, one of the sentences I wrote down while watching this episode and kind of realizing not just the

2:02.9

theme of the episode, but almost like the thesis of the season was when you don't know who you are

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