Working: Drag Queens Are Under Attack and Fighting Back
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🗓️ 16 April 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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| 1:10.2 | I don't want kids to just think that drag is dress up and that it's pretty and that it's |
| 1:14.4 | entertaining I want them to know that it is destructive and that it is about asking questions |
| 1:20.6 | and imagining a more just and fabulous world and that it it does have teeth behind it as well. |
| 1:30.2 | Welcome back to working I'm your host Isaac Butler and I'm your other host |
| 1:34.4 | june tomis june it is always a delight who did you speak to for this week's working well |
| 1:40.4 | first of all say my six same the voice we heard at the beginning of the show belongs to drag performer |
| 1:46.2 | lil miss hot mess amazing and what led you to want to talk to lil miss hot mess so there have been |
| 1:52.6 | so many attacks on drags and attempts to ban it of late and I was reminded that not only is drag |
| 1:58.8 | an art form it's also a way that a lot of people make their living so it felt like a good time |
| 2:05.5 | to talk to a drag artist about their creative process and lil miss hot mess is a storied queen |
| 2:12.0 | she has performed on saturday night live among other places but she's also an academic and author |
| 2:18.0 | of children's books about drag and an activist who's on the board of drag story hours so she |
| 2:23.9 | seemed like a great source on this topic we should also probably mention that you know both in the |
| 2:29.3 | above and throughout this interview you'll be referring to little miss hot mess by her stage name |
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