Popular Culture and Philosophy 129 - RuPaul's Drag Race and Philosophy

Season 11 started in February 2019, with Britney Spears as a guest judge (overlapping with Season Four of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars, which premiered in December 2018). The latest RuPaul’s Drag Race World Tour “Werq the World” in 2019 (not in US, but in many other countries, and will be reported in the US) Franchised national versions of RuPaul’s Drag Race to begin in other countries including Britain and Australia (will be reported in the US as part of the newsworthy phenomenon of the “mainstreaming” of RuPaul’s Drag Race). RuPaul has won two Emmys for Best Moderation. RuPaul’s Drag Race has won numerous Emmys, including for Best Reality-Competition Program in 2018 and more than once for Best Host of a Reality or Reality-Competition Program. The “comedy disaster” movie Drag Queens on a Plane, starring RuPaul is in production, but no word yet of a release date. The third RuPaul’s DragCon will be held in May 2019 in Los Angeles. The previous two DragCons were big successes.