RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Bob The Drag Queen has issued a statement after facing backlash over a joke made about ‘race play’.
Seven years ago, on an episode of Bob The Drag Queen’s podcast Sibling Rivalry , which they host with fellow Drag Race winner Monet X Change , the drag champ responded to a joke about race play by saying they found it “hot”.
Race play involves the consensual, sexual role-playing of racially-charged scenarios which lean into historical and harmful racial stereotypes. The practice involves playing into historical power dynamics between people of colour and white people, and often involves derogatory, racist language.
Despite urging at the time that they not partake in race play themselves, the audio clip of Bob joking about the concept resurfaced on social media re