Jinkx Monsoon Kills Detox on “Drag Race” Lip Sync

I would have posted about this earlier, but I only just found the perfect clip of it on Youtube. If you’ve been following the latest season of RuPaul’s Drag Race, you’ll have noticed it was the first time kooky underdog-turned-fierce-multi-talented-competitor Jinkx Monsoon had to lip sync for her life. And boy did she put Detox Icunt in her place–albeit in her sweetly flamboyant, non-aggressive manner, which I must say is perhaps her most refreshing and endearing trait.

In Episode 11 of the show, the queens had to perform a ‘sugar ball’ as well as create a candy-inspired look in three categories: ‘super-duper sweet sixteen teenage party girl’, ‘sugar mama executive realness’, and ‘candy couture: edible eleganza’. Alaska killed the cougar construction supervisor look. Amen! For the last category, Detox donned this odd black-and-green toxic licorice contraption, Roxxxy Andrews created this very precisely made long stringy licorice look, Jinkx wore this weird candy-cane-deer-on-crack look, and Alaska Thunderfuck cobbled together a gorgeous bodice-corset thing with thick, gorgeous plumes of cotton candy bursting out of the top and bottom of the piece, and lollipops stuck to the bodice and cotton candy plumes. It was the best-conceived outfit, and Alaska deserved to win that week’s challenge for it.

The look is one thing–the full repertoire of talents is another. RuPaul had Jinkx and Detox lip sync to a tune unfamiliar to most of us–Malambo No. 1—an operatic mambo piece performed by Peruvian chanteuse Yma Sumac and composed by Moisés Vivanco. From the start Jinkx nailed the rhythm with her thump-a-thump hip thrusts and bomp-a-bomp fist twists. By the end of this most unusual of lip sync challenges,  RuPaul had proclaimed Jinkx the winner and sent Detox packing. Jinkx was able to prove her talent as a lip sync artist, singer, dancer, and actor, and she was able to meld all of these things into one stellar performance. But perhaps most important, she was able to express her appreciation of vintage drag and burlesque culture.

I didn’t want Detox to go. I thought she deserved to be in the top three along with Jinkx and Alaska, but Detox and Roxxxy were really busy being jealous of Jinkx, while Alaska seemed really kind towards Jinkx and circumspect about her former RoLaskaTox teammates’ jealousy. She even began to identify with Jinkx as a common comedy queen. How often does that occur? Well, I thought Roxxxy should go because she seemed professional yet uncreative. But Ru decides. If you really want my opinion, the triumvirate of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 5, in order of the contestants who deserve to win, are Jinkx Monsoon, Alaska Thunderfuck, and Detox. We will see shortly who takes the crown.

Transgender, Prison and the Patriarchy

What irks me most is that the chief deputy insists with certainty that Ashley is ‘still a man’. Who is he to tell her what her identity is?

Being Feminist

This article was written by Jessica Fisher

The headline read rather plainly, “Transgender Woman Arrested for Exposing Breasts, Jailed With Men”

The chief deputy tells the local new station, “First off, Ashley is still a man.”

The chief deputy says, don’t worry, “We do have a policy in place. Typically we put them in isolation.”

“Them” who, deputy? The freaks? The faggots? The queers? “Them” who, deputy?

The real fun part is realizing this woman was arrested for indecent exposure of her breasts and yet they still forced her into a male cell.

This isn’t simply your run of the mill bigotry. This is hypocrisy. Maybe we ignore that it’s okay for a man to show his nipples in public while breasts remain illegal, maybe we accept that she was breaking the law, and maybe we buy into the idea that ignorance of the law is no excuse, but even coming

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Seattle Is Nastier than Connie Smith Ever Imagined

Oh, if only dear old Connie Smith had known exactly what kind of city she was singing about.