Pride Week: TikTok Queen Brings Math To The Masses

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🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Kyne is the stage name of Kyne Santos, a math communicator and a drag queen. The former Canada's Drag Race contestant posted her first video explaining a math riddle in full drag on TikTok during the pandemic. Since then, Kyne's videos, under the username @onlinekyne, have have attracted 1.3 million followers and generated 40.7 million likes. Kyne talks to host Emily Kwong about bringing STEM to the drag scene. (Encore)

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0:00.0	Hey, short waivers, Emily Quang here.
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0:22.9	So it is Pride Month.
0:24.2	And we're in today, too, of revisiting some of our favorite stories
0:28.2	bringing together science and queerness.
0:31.5	Math class is in session.
0:33.4	And today, your teacher is a drag queen on TikTok.
0:36.7	Kind was a contestant on the first season of Canada's drag race.
0:40.4	And she's here to talk creativity in both drag and math.
0:44.1	Enjoy the show.
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0:50.5	RuPaul's drag race is back.
0:52.8	Season 14 just premiered on VH1.
0:55.7	And the thing I always think about when watching this show
0:58.6	is just how talented you have to be as a drag queen.
1:02.9	You have to do it all.
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