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Into It: A Vulture Podcast with Sam Sanders

Sasha Velour’s Drag Manifesto

Into It: A Vulture Podcast with Sam Sanders

Vulture & New York Magazine

Entertainment News, Tv & Film, News, Society & Culture

4.72.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Just in time for the finale of ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race,’ season 9 winner Sasha Velour joins Sam to talk about the political push to criminalize drag, the long history of the art form, and her drag transformation from Wicked Witch of the West to Gollum. Her new book is called ‘The Big Reveal: An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag.’ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for the show comes from Into the Mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and

0:06.0

justice produced with Vox Creative.

0:09.7

Thousands of Afghans were forced to flee their homes and fear for their lives when the Taliban

0:14.4

took control of Afghanistan in 2021.

0:17.9

The UK government pled to take in 20,000 of them as refugees, but in the first year, only

0:24.0

22 Afghans have been approved for asylum in the UK.

0:28.5

So what happened?

0:29.5

And what does this mean for the tens of thousands of people left behind?

0:33.5

Hear that story on the latest episode of Into the Mix.

0:38.5

Where would you like me to start?

0:44.5

What if we started at the music began when he used in so emotional?

0:50.8

Okay.

0:51.8

Perfect.

0:53.8

The award-winning drag queen, Sasha Valour, is out with a new book.

0:58.8

And one of the most amazing scenes from this book is when she writes about performing an

1:03.3

iconic lip sync on RuPaul's Drag Race.

1:06.6

Now, welcome back to the stage, Sasha Valour and Shay Kuley, bring back my girl.

1:14.7

It's the finale of season 9 of Drag Race, and Sasha has to kill this lip sync to remain

1:20.2

in the competition and get one step closer to the crowd.

1:24.0

But this performance, it was unlike any other drag performance you've ever seen, because

1:29.4

of the roses.

1:30.4

Good luck, and don't, f*** it up.

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