The celebrated film critic Pauline Kael once wrote that movies function as escape pods, portals to parallel universes that can be radically different from emotional norms and societal conditioning of our own. What she meant was they parceled out freedom, allowing viewers to lose their selves in an effort to find greater connection to the self.

In person, RuPaul is warm, funny, personable - someone who thoroughly enjoys life.

'Drag Race' has taught me a lot about how to form community, to take myself less seriously and lose some ego.

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