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Alright Mary: All Things RuPaul's Drag Race

Episode 49: Drag Race Season 9 GRAND FINALE! Recap & Review

Alright Mary: All Things RuPaul's Drag Race

Colin Drucker & Johnny Also

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4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2017

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Our Season 9 queen has officially been crowned, in one of the most entertaining finales of the series. The decision to switch things up with a Lip Sync for the Crown gave us show-stopping reveals from Peppermint and Sasha that sent season frontrunners Trinity and Shea home and set things up for an epic final battle between a classic superstar and the self-proclaimed ‘future of drag.” Sasha Velour absolutely earned the crown, and we’re so proud to see it!

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0:00.0

All right, Mary.

0:17.0

What drag does is it takes normative narratives, the songs that we hear around us every day,

0:24.2

the imagery, the characters that we surround ourselves with, and it squeezes our fabulous little

0:29.8

queer bodies into it, and that shifts the meaning of that culture, of those normative stories,

0:35.9

of stories of love, of beauty beauty and we put our bodies in it

0:40.3

and changes it and makes it weird and makes it fabulous right now we need that more than ever as you know we are in a time of violence

0:51.3

because even next Friday we are going to welcome a cabinet of white

0:57.0

supremacist to control this country taking what many queer and brown people have known

1:04.5

for a long time that this country that progress in this country has not been linear

1:10.2

and that we're not done with the fight yet for it.

1:13.6

And drag is a place where we can transform that fight into something beautiful and present.

1:20.6

And the fight for beautiful and awakened.

1:24.6

The future of drag that we talk about all the time and think It needs to be more than just a wink and a nudge that culture here is wrong. It needs to be actually radically imagining new types of beauty, radically re-evaluating the world around us and writing new stories fresh stories that put queer people right at the forefront and put our values of beauty and safety and home and love right up there at the top

1:57.7

and we get to do that all through entertainment.

2:03.5

Well, she got it.

2:07.8

I mean, you know, it is... And did she ever get it come back?

2:10.4

You know, I'm gonna tell you,

2:12.3

the Lip Sync Ninja of season nine,

2:15.2

because no one saw that coming.

2:16.9

Unless, of course, i saw her clips on youtube

2:18.7

you know right unless you were listening to our podcast and you like saw the things that we posted

2:24.0

like she is she slayed this finale and you know what she didn't just slay the finale like she

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