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Vigilant Citizen – May 28, 2021

Let’s Learn is a PBS show for children aged three to eight. Created to help children with remote learning, the show is produced in partnership with the public media company The WNET Group and the New York City Department of Education.

On March 31st, the show featured a 12-minutes segment with drag queen and author Lil Miss Hot Mess who read from his book The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish, while also singing and dancing for the young audience. The segment ended with Hot Mess saying “I think we might have some drag queens in training on our hands”.

Here’s a part of the segment.

 

During the episode, Hot Mess told her audience: “Being a drag queen is about being bold, shining bright, and showing a little bit of bravery, being willing to step outside the box and to dance to our own beat sometimes.”

About the book, Hot Mess said:  “I wrote this book because I wanted everyone to get to experience the magic of drag and to get a little practice shaking their hips or shimmying their shoulders to know how we can feel fabulous inside of our own bodies.”

The book’s cover features various drag queens, including one named Cinderfella, who donned a blue mustache and long blue hair. Other characters included are Frida Bea Mee, Jaclyn Jill, Stinkerbelle, Rita Booke, Mother Lucy Goosey, Pina Buttah-Gelee, and Rosie Ringarounda, and Ella Menopipi. Do you like the suggestive inuendoes in some of these names?

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