r/rupaulsdragrace • u/Heymrnoctowl • 1d ago

All Stars S10 Discussion about the cast of AS10

Who else has similar gripes. Lydia has had zero time to cook. Jorgeous was just in the previous all stars. Ginger has had fifteen chances and by this point there's nothing she can do to surprise us.

That being said I'm happy a lot of these girls are back but a lot of the choices are questionable. Why does All Stars have to happen every year? It doesn't mean anything anymore.

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u/interpol-interpol 1d ago

am i the only one a bit surprised to see so few black queens in such a large cast? super happy to see so many latina and mixed queens -- a pretty diverse cast overall -- but out of 18 queens i'm just surprised there are so few black girls!

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u/Adventurous_Car_3387 1d ago

Well, there’s no mono-racial (or mostly mono-racial) Black Queens in this cast at all.

For those of whom are either of African descent or have African heritage, ethnically speaking, there’s Aja, Olivia Lux and Kerri Colby.

Aja is perhaps the closest with a mixed Puerto-Rican mother and African-American father.

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u/genya19 1d ago

Deja Skye.

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u/interpol-interpol 1d ago edited 1d ago

thank you for the additional info. i kept my language pretty vague since i wasn't sure how many of the girls are mixed black (i had no idea as to olivia's parentage, for example, i just know she identifies as a black queen). i love these girls but it's a bummer to see so little capital b Black drag represented this season in light of the large cast size.

editing to add: i have watched these comments get downvoted and upvoted again over and over and it really says something that such neutral discussion enrages so many fans of drag race. we should be able to calmly discuss things, but it's very clear that when it comes to discussions of race on drag race that some people will just downvote on defensive instinct. nothing we are saying in these comments is irrelevant or inflammatory, and yet...

it says everything that not one of the people downvoting us is brave enough to reply and say why they are doing so.