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Ladies, My Inner Wannabe Drag Queen Wants to Have a Word

Why I think women need to watch RuPaul’s Drag Race.

Taru Anniina Liikanen
5 min readDec 14, 2021
Photo by Charisse Kenion on Unsplash

I started watching Drag Race in 2019, when my sister came for a visit to Argentina.

She turned on Netflix one day when we were having dinner, smartly choosing the amazing Season 11 to showcase how interesting the show is instead of beginning with the heavily filtered season 1 and going in order.

Perhaps I wasn’t really hooked after the first episode, but I slowly began getting invested and understanding how amazingly talented the performers are. After the Brooke Lynn Hytes-Yvie Oddly lip sync, I was sold.

I mean.

I’ve since watched every episode twice, as well as the All Stars and Untucked seasons available in my country. I’ve become a fan, and I’ve managed to get my best friend addicted to the show as well.

And I would say, as a cis bisexual woman who has never done drag, that I recommend it to everyone, whether they’re gay or straight. Especially women who have grown up

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Taru Anniina Liikanen
Taru Anniina Liikanen

Written by Taru Anniina Liikanen

Stand-up comedian and recovering political ghostwriter. Finnish by birth, porteña at heart. Bad jokes frequent.

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