The Waves: How a Drag Queen Recreated the American Dream
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🗓️ 27 July 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
On this week’s episode of The Waves, drag queens are under attack and being labeled bad for families and kids. But RuPaul’s Drag Race and Drag Race All Stars contestant Mrs. Kasha Davis is making people rethink the American Dream. She sits down with Slate senior supervising producer, Daisy Rosario to talk about the real life inspiration for the character of Mrs. Kasha Davis, her new music video showcasing the importance of Drag Story Hour, and why more people need to see happy queer families like hers.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Waves Slates podcast about gender, feminism, and drag and family. |
| 0:12.7 | Every episode you get a new pair of feminists to talk about the thing that we cannot get off |
| 0:16.2 | of our minds, and today you've got me, Daisy Rosario, senior supervising producer of |
| 0:20.5 | audio here at Slate. |
| 0:22.7 | And today I'll be talking to Mrs. Kasha Davis, a drag queen who just appeared on RuPaul's |
| 0:27.8 | Drag Race All-Stars Season 8, and who has been a big part of popularising drag queen story |
| 0:33.5 | hour. |
| 0:38.1 | My name is Mrs. Kasha Davis, and I'm an alcoholic. |
| 0:42.2 | Oh, wrong meeting. |
| 0:45.0 | Oh, bitch. |
| 0:46.6 | She looks good. |
| 0:47.6 | Darling, I love you, but give me Park Avenue. |
| 0:50.8 | What are you wearing? |
| 0:52.6 | My name is Mrs. Kasha Davis, international celebrity housewife. |
| 0:56.6 | I'm best known for being the workhorse, being the sweet one, yay! |
| 1:02.5 | And the famous catchphrase, there's always time for a cocktail, but these days I'm having |
| 1:08.2 | a mocktail as it were because I'm coming up on seven years sober. |
| 1:14.9 | I actually know where I am right now. |
| 1:19.6 | Now you probably know that drag is under attack. |
| 1:22.5 | What started with the far right has made its way to the mainstream as states like Florida |
| 1:26.5 | and Tennessee enact bans on drag shows in general. |
| 1:31.1 | But it is drag queens reading to children, often at libraries, that draws the most |
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