RuPaul’s Drag Race has change into a worldwide phenomenon in just some quick years. The fact competitors present has spawned a number of spinoff sequence across the globe in locations similar to Thailand, the UK, and Latin America. RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Underneath is the latest international version of the Emmy-winning unique, and brings collectively queens from Australia and New Zealand searching for their subsequent drag celebrity.
‘RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Underneath’ is a seek for Australia and New Zealand’s subsequent drag celebrity
It was solely a matter of time earlier than RuPaul’s Drag Race went Down Underneath, and the lineup of queens runs the gambit from comedy queens to vogue queens and every thing in between.
The present isn’t hosted by previous Aussie Drag Race contestant Courtney Act, much like how Canadian RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant was tapped to host Canada’s Drag Race. As a substitute, RuPaul and Michelle Visage went Down Underneath themselves, and, with the assistance of Australian comic Rhys Nicholson, are on the seek for Down Underneath’s subsequent drag celebrity.
Nonetheless, after the forged was introduced, two queens particularly got here beneath fireplace for offensive performances they’ve given prior to now and different issues they’ve been concerned in.
Scarlet Adams has carried out in blackface
Felicia Foxx, a Perth-based Aboriginal drag queen, shared a number of photographs of Drag Race Down Underneath contestant Scarlet Adams on social media after she was introduced as a forged member on the present. Adams is seen sporting many offensive appears, together with a Native American headdress, a burqa, and a number of other photographs in blackface.
Adams responded along with her personal social media posts proudly owning as much as what she did and apologizing for her actions. She additionally disclosed that she was working arduous to grasp be a greater ally to folks of shade.
“That occurred and I received’t attempt to deny it,” she stated truthfully. “I used to be ignorant, I used to be younger and so f*cking silly.”
Karen From Finance had a racist tattoo and doll assortment
Karen From Finance, one other frontrunner queen on the season, got here beneath fireplace for having a set of golliwog dolls — and having a kind of racist dolls tattooed on her physique. Her tattoo and doll assortment have been profiled in a 2015 article for Things & Ink.
Karen apologized on Instagram in February 2021 and defined that her assortment began when she was 2 years previous, which finally led to the tattoo. “I spotted how irresponsible and silly I had been and so I disposed of the dolls to landfill and had my tattoo coated,” she admitted.
“Since then, I’ve dedicated to an ongoing journey of accountability, activism and schooling, and to uncover and unlearn any and all racial bias — acutely aware or unconscious — that will or is probably not embedded inside me,” she continued.
She ended her publish: “I can’t change the previous, however I can and can work on the current and do higher sooner or later, and with that you simply ceaselessly have my phrase.”
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