The (Drag) Queen Of Mathematics
Short Wave
NPR
4.7 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 10 February 2022
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Since then Kyne's math videos, under the username @onlinekyne, have have attracted 1.2 million followers and generated 33.2 million likes. Kyne talks to host Emily Kwong on how to present math to the masses – and about bringing STEM to the drag scene.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Shortwave from NPR. |
| 0:05.0 | RuPaul's Drag Race is back. |
| 0:07.5 | Season 14 just premiered on VH1. |
| 0:10.4 | And the thing I always think about when watching this show is just how talented you have |
| 0:15.5 | to be as a drag queen. |
| 0:17.5 | You have to do it all. |
| 0:18.7 | Sewing, makeup, wig application, dancing, acting, lip syncing. |
| 0:24.7 | And when producer Eva Tess Fie discovered the drag queen, Kine, we were super excited |
| 0:30.2 | to have her on our show. |
| 0:32.8 | Kine competed on the first season of Canada's Drag Race. |
| 0:36.3 | Attention fives, attend has just arrived. |
| 0:41.9 | My name's Kine, I'm 20-minute-years-olds from Kitchener, Ontario. |
| 0:45.8 | When you come to a Kine show, you are going to get goddess. |
| 0:48.4 | I've taught a hundred thousand people how to do drag in my videos, and I'm here to teach |
| 0:52.1 | 11 more. |
| 0:53.1 | Kine, by the way, uses she-her pronouns when in drag. |
| 0:57.5 | The first moment we see her, episode 1, she sashes through a glittering red door shaped |
| 1:03.8 | like a maple leaf, because Canada wearing a zebra striped cat suit, a la Bob Mackie, that |
| 1:09.8 | she sewed herself. |
| 1:11.9 | And after this moment, Kine uploaded a video of how to sew this exact suit on her YouTube |
| 1:18.7 | channel. |
| 1:19.7 | She shares the knowledge. |
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