{"id":235046,"date":"2021-05-28T08:24:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T08:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=235046"},"modified":"2021-05-29T05:24:15","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T05:24:15","slug":"we-might-have-some-drag-queens-in-training-pbs-childrens-show-features-dancing-drag-queen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=235046","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWe Might Have Some Drag Queens in Training\u201d: PBS Children\u2019s Show Features Dancing Drag Queen"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Vigilant Citizen \u2013 May 28, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><em>Let\u2019s Learn<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n<p>On March 31st, the show featured a 12-minutes segment with drag queen and author Lil Miss Hot Mess who read from his book <em>The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish, <\/em>while also singing and dancing for the young audience. The segment ended with Hot Mess saying \u201cI think we might have some drag queens in training on our hands\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a part of the segment.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Drag queen Little Miss Hot Mess sings &quot;The Hips On the Drag Queen Go Swish Swish Swish&quot; to a virtual child audience on an episode of \u201cLet\u2019s Learn,\u201d produced in partnership by WNET and the New York City Department of Education and aired on PBS. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pK9fjoOPMe\">pic.twitter.com\/pK9fjoOPMe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaryMargOlohan\/status\/1395179623584051201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 20, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>During the episode, Hot Mess told her audience: \u201cBeing 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>About the book, Hot Mess said: \u00a0\u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The book\u2019s 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?<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Backlash<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vigilantcitizen.com\/latestnews\/pbs-airs-drag-queen-reading-to-children\/\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PBS Show \u201cLet\u2019s Learn\u201d featured a 12-minutes segment of drag queen Lil Hot Mess who sang about \u201cswishing hips\u201d and talked about \u201cwe might have some drag queens in training on our hands\u201d. Why do they keep targetting children?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":235048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-historic-sexual-abuse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=235046"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":235051,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235046\/revisions\/235051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/235048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=235046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=235046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=235046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}