8/11/2023 0 Comments Symone drag queen crown![]() ![]() Ultimately, honing that self-love (and the confidence that comes with it) is what helped her score the Drag Race golden ticket it's the reason she comes across as really rich, bitch, despite just recently getting her financial bearings in order. Going on the show, for me, was a way of showing love to myself." "I was a very shy, very quiet, very self-loathing kid. "My path on the show was very much a kind of love letter to my Blackness, and to the kid that I was," she tells me on the phone, reflecting on her childhood in Arkansas, where, as Reggie Gavin, she often struggled to accept the complexities of her Black and LGBTQ+ identity. Symone's ridiculously silly skits garnered praise and her glamorous runway looks left fans tweeting things like, "It's the du-rag for me." At one point in the competition, the judges were rendered speechless after she honored Black Lives Matter and the victims of police killings such as George Floyd and Breonna Taylor with a white blood-stained look that read, "Say Their Names." Symone, who undeniably earned the title of America's Next Drag Superstar, became immediately relatable not by trying to adopt some froufrou persona, but instead by looking within and drawing inspiration from all that gives her life: the beauty of being unapologetically Black and queer bombastic divas in music her House of Avalon chosen family high fashion foxes. Things have changed.įrom day one in the Season 13 werkroom of RuPaul's Drag Race, she distinctively possessed the one quality so many contestants fail to hold onto throughout the competition: a point of view. Yes, Symone already introduced us to Sweet Toof. In other words, she's e-x-p-e-n-s-i-v-e and in demand - every single person, regardless of their creed or income or honest thoughts about Santino Rice, wants a piece of the Symone experience. If it were possible to bottle the essence of her delectable personality into a product - a mystical formula named something like, say, Ebony Enchantress - it'd likely retail for $190 yet somehow retain a perpetually long waiting list. “I don’t want to ever lose that in my drag.Symone is that girl. “I think now with the platform I have and where we are, I think it’s important to… better the world,” she explained. ![]() Symone said she sees activism and Black Lives matter as an intrinsic part of her drag. Symone added that she hoped being crowned Drag Race winner showed people “it doesn’t matter where you come from… you can survive and do whatever you want in this life if you want it and you work hard for it.” ![]() So don’t feel alone and don’t feel like it’s over just because this happened.” She also had a heart-warming message for trans people in Arkansas and other states legislating against trans rights: “There is still hope, there’s still light, there’s people around the world and the country who are behind you. You don’t have the right to do that to people.” Symone responded to the bills: “How dare you try to legislate someone’s existence on this earth? It’s disgusting. Other states now have bills pending which would follow suit. The state also became the first in the US to ban gender-affirming healthcare for trans minors. In recent weeks, a bill has passed Arkansas’ House of Representatives banning public schools, state colleges and universities from requiring staff use students’ correct names and pronouns if they differ from their “biological sex”. “Specifically when there’s so much poverty, and so many people who go without education.” “I don’t think that trans people wanting to be themselves and wanting to have medical attention and all of these things is really the concern you need to be having in our state,” Symone told Advocate. ![]() Symone said that while “it’s a beautiful honour” to be Drag Race’s first contestant – and winner – from Arkansas, the state’s treatment of trans rights is “disgusting”. Symone is the toast of Arkansas after her RuPaul’s Drag Race win, but she is far from impressed by her home state’s politics. ![]()
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