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Miss California is the Celebuspawn of a ’90s One-Hit Wonder. Can You Guess Who Her Daddy Is?

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Did you catch Miss California on last night’s Miss USA pageant? Poor dear. Nadia Mejia – that’s her name – caught some flak for flubbing the answer to her question about economic inequality

After stumbling, closing her eyes, and pausing for what seemed like an eternity, she said:

“I think that the rich need to be able to be giving and I think the poor need to work hard and I think the middle class need to come together and find an in-between,” she eventually said.

Awwww. She tried.

Social media went into a feeding frenzy, of course, and mocked her rather relentlessly.

Mejia answered her critics on Instagram, writing that she was praying to God for the right words and He answered, “It’ll take longer than 30 seconds to answer that, babe.” She also posted a video of her singing “I don’t know about the economy” to the tune of the Backstreet Boys’ “I Want It That Way.

But here’s what you DIDN’T know. Twenty-year-old model Nadia is ALSO the daughter of 1990s one-hit-wonder singer Gerardo, of  “Rico Suave” fame. YES, THE SHIRTLESS ECUADORIAN SEX GOD WITH THE WEIRDLY ALTERNATING HAIR LENGTHS, WHO SET OUR HEARTS AND LOINS AFLAME AND CHANGED THE DIRECTION OF POP MUSIC FOREVER. My GOD I loved him. Not a day has gone by since 1990 that I have not wondered what life would be like as Mrs Gerardo. Now I know my answer. We’d have a wonderful life with our lovely daughter Nadia.

(via New York Post)

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7 Quickie Questions with Transcendent Star Nya

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I don’t know if you’re aware, but TRANSCENDENT SEASON TWO IS FAST APPROACHING! YES! Wednesday on FUSE! 11:30! To get you in the mood, we asked one of the breakout stars Nya a series of seven VERY IMPORTANT questions.

Q: If you could bring one thing to a deserted island, what would it be and why?
Nya: My cellphone so I can call for help [laughs]

Q: Describe your ideal date.
Nya: A nice dinner with good food and conversation and if it goes well then a movie. Preferably something comic book related or sci-fi.

Q: What do you like on your pizza?
Nya: Best pizza I ever had was a chicken, artichoke with white sauce, but the ingredient that made it outstanding was roasted garlic cloves all over it! The roasted garlic made it so decadent. Now I’m hungry [laughs]

Q: Describe yourself in one word
Nya: Control-freak.

Q: What is your favorite song to perform to?
Nya: I Kissed a Girl by Katy Perry

Q: Who is the best dancer in the group?
Nya: The diplomatic thing to say is no comment [laughs]

Q: If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be?
Nya: I would love to go to Japan someday. The culture and the food!

BONUS QUESTION:

Q: Whats your most embarrassing moment?
Nya: Before I had my beast augmentation I used to wear chicken cutlets in my bra. I was performing at AsiaSF and I was performing in the middle of the stage and I looked down and my boob plopped on the floor! I did a spin to my knees picked it up and threw it off stage at a coworker. I’d like to think I was pretty smooth about it but it was horrifying at the moment. Now I look back and laugh about it! [laughs]

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Game of Thrones Spoiler Alert: The Internet Reacts to Lyanna Mormont, the Most Badass Westerosian YET

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Spoiler Alert! Spolier Alert! This post contains conversations about last night’s episode! And WHAT an episode it was. Somethingsomethingsomething happened to Arya… Maergery did somethingsomethingsomething… a long-supposed dead character was revealed to be alive…. AND we met the 10-year-old leader of House Mormont, Lady Lyanna,who is the most kick-ass character we’ve seen in a loooooong time. If Cersei and Lady Olena had a love child, it couldn’t be half as cunning, half as cut-throat, half as bitchin’ as this little powerhouse. She was an INSTANT sensation, trending on Twitter mere seconds after her introduction.  Check out some of the reactions below. (via Uproxx)

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Watch #EndHIV’s Hostage: A Beautiful Poetry Collaboration with Julianne Moore, Lucian Piane, and Ryan Heffington

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Just when you thought Monday was a drag…it just got a whole lot better with #EndHIV’s beautiful poetry video written by RDR’s Lucian Piane, choreographed by Ryan Heffington, and narrated by the incomparable Julianne Moore.

CHECK IT OUT:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lllYjHoO1I0

HOSTAGE takes the viewer inside the fight between HIV and the immune system, and offers a potential solution, a new E-vaccine to #endHIV. More information at www.endhiv.com.

This post is approved by hunky Piane himself:

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TONIGHT: Nora Burns at the Stonewall Inn Performing Her One-Woman Show “David’s Friend”

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Self-described “writer, performer, fag hag, mother, friend, and New Yorker” Nora Burns – formerly of the comedy troupes The Nellie Olsens and Unitard – is performing her one-woman show David’s Friend one more time at the iconic Stonewall Inn in New York TONIGHT!

“A comic odyssey about crazy love… loss.. cruising… disco… drag queens… strippers… sex… the ’70s… AIDs… and New York City… from tall tales to torrid truths. A fast-paced multi-media celebration of passion, pleasures, and the power of great dance songs…”

All of which sounds amazing, but I asked Nora to elaborate. She writes:

“It’s weirdly hard to describe, because it’s not a tribute or a memorial service, but about a year ago I started desperately missing my best friend who’d died 22 years ago and I just had to do something, so I made a show and it’s about him and our crazy friendship, and crazy NYC and what it was like to live in an amazing time, but when so many of our friends were dying and how we’re just coming out of our stupor now, but it’s also funny and silly and about an amazing person who never got to grow up and we never got to grow old together – so blahblahblah, but people seemed to like it, from old queens who knew from whence it came, to a bunch of 22-year-old kids who somehow related, so doing it again and seeing how it goes!”

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Time Magazine Profiles Out of Iraq Documentary With Exclusive Nayyef and Btoo Q & A

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Fresh on the heels of the hugely successful Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures, World of Wonder Producers Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey’s Out of Iraq documentary is getting the just buzz it deserves. A war-torn love story directed by Chris McKim and Eva Orner, it’s been making the festival circuit this past week at the LA Film Festival and the Annerberg Space over last weekend and crowds are falling in love with Nayyef and Btoo.

Time Magazine did an exclusive Q & A with the two love soldiers. Check out an excerpt below:

What was it like growing up in Iraq and realizing that you were gay?

Hrebid: It’s very difficult because we cannot be who we are, because of what our family teaches us, what the literature and the community is saying. We have to act, we have to just lie. We’re not living as ourselves. We’re living how they want us to live. And if they find about [us being gay], of course we will get killed or be tortured to be examples for others … It made me feel like they’re tying my hands and my legs and I cannot move. I cannot breathe.

How did you two get to know each other?

Hrebid: I was working as a translator with a group of the Marines, who were training the new Iraqi soldiers. And that’s how we met. We would go on missions together, but we could not be together all the time. An American captain helped us to get together by bringing Btoo inside the American camp so I could see him, or I’d ask to go on a specific mission with Btoo so I could see him there.

How did you work up the courage to be honest with each other about your feelings, given that things could have gone so badly? 

Hrebid: We were on a mission and I’m still not completely sure if he’s gay or not, and same thing for him. But I feel he is, just the way I look into his eyes. And that night we sat together and he just told me he loved me and we just started kissing each other. I knew he liked me the way I liked him. In that time everything changed.

Read the rest of the interview here.

And check out the trailer below before it’s premiere on LOGO, June 13th:

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Design Duo Create Wildly Unwearable Clothes That I Totally Need

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Mathery Studio, a product design team hailing from Milan, has designed their very first collection, and it’s completely unwearable. On purpose. Connected pant legs, shoes you could NEVER walk in, a hat with a 360 degree brim… Erika Zorzi and Matteo Sangalli say they “set out to challenge and recast everything you know about the structure of apparel and turn it on its sartorial head – sometimes literally.”

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Read the i-D interview below.

I guess the most obvious question is, how do you come to design an unwearable collection?
Erika: The idea came out quite a long time ago, like last August. It first started with the shoe and we said, “Why don’t we put the two points together?” It was so spontaneous and so silly. It sounds strange to say, but it was more about researching the shape and the design, rather than designing a useful object. It’s also about making people laugh or surprising them. We have completely turned each object upside down.
Matteo: We really like telling stories about projects and projects that really say something about themselves.

It’s interesting to consider clothes after you totally throwaway the idea of functionality, especially because as a design studio that’s usually core to all your creative reasoning.
Matteo: Every year we try to take some time to work on a project like this, that gives us the chance to be totally free on every level because there is no actual client. It’s like a dream!

How did you choose the brands you wanted to collaborate with?
Matteo: A lot of the brands were already ones that we liked from the shops. So we didn’t need to conduct a huge amount of research because they were already in front of our eyes.

I’m interested to hear their responses, I’m sure this was the first time they had ever designed apparel and accessories with no functional utility.
Erika: It was actually really surprising that straight away we found people were really interested in it. The funny thing is that I would never be able to afford a pair of pants by 69, and now I have a pair of pants designed by them that I cannot wear.

We keep talking about how impossible the clothes are, but it occurs to me that accessories like the 360 Degrees Cap and Continuous Bag by FFIXXED Studios are the only pieces that can be used.
Matteo: The only rule that we decided to follow on this project was the union. So we were looking at making a useless collection or something that was completely wrong, but we tried to follow the rule that everything we designed had a union. So we connected parts and this was the focus of this project.

Do you have plans to exhibit the collection? It must be an odd thing to just have in your wardrobe.
Erika: We are moving to New York in two weeks, so we hope that maybe we can exhibit something there. For now we don’t have anything in the program but we would love, love, love to because they are beautifully made objects; nothing is photo-shopped and they are very real.
Matteo: From our experience, exhibiting can be very, very, random, so you’re better off to just keep doing what you want to do and see what happens. This is also because it was created as a kind of artwork, there was no money involved and no advertising. All of the brands did it for free and nobody got paid so it’s pretty pure.

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Frankly, I don’t know how you’d wear ANY of this, but I’d like to give it a try. Maybe hire muscle-bound Hodor-type to carry me around…

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Beyoncé Dresses Like Beetlejuice While Accepting the CFDA Fashion Icon Award

Parody OTD: Republican Wives Fantasize About Bernie in “Dangerous Women”

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Melania Trump, Heidi Cruz, Karen Kasich, Jeanette Rubio and Candy Carson are thoroughly embarrassed by their Republican hubbies (and who wouldn’t be?). They find themselves dreaming of uber-charismatic septuagenerian hunk Bernie Sanders and singing along to Ariana Grande’s “Dangerous Women“. It’s the perfect election day video, whether you support Bernie, Hillary, or even (gulp) Trump. Featuring WOWPresents MCN content creator Nicole Gemma from LovesItOrHatesIt.

Watch it below.

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FINALLY! Transformations Is Back… And with the Absolutely Hysterical Cheddar Gorgeous!

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It’s been months of… nothing… absolutely nothing…. on the Transformations front, but we fiiiiinally have a new episode. Nutty Manchester queen Cheddar Gorgeous stopped by to give me a Candy Ho makeover and well, my dears, we had a ball. And the look is pretty spectacular, too! You’re just going to want to EAT ME ALIVE! Watch the episode below.

And be on the lookout for the upcoming companion piece, where we go out on Hollywood Blvd asking people to lick the sprinkles off my face for a dollar. No, really. You won’t believe it.

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Transcendent Stars Bionka and Nya Talk the Truth With People Magazine

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Fuse’s hit docu-series Transcendent – produced by World of Wonder’s Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey – is about to tell the truth a SECOND time with their new season premiering TOMORROW night at 11:30P/10:30C following a brand new season of Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce.

Lucky for us, People Magazine sat down with co-stars Bionka and Nya for a fun Q & A.

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They have known they were trans almost since they could say the word “trans.”

“I knew I was trans at 6, but when I started transitioning it wasn’t until 16 or 17 when I started dibbling and dabbling in dressing up,” Bionka tells PEOPLE, adding she went into being trans wearing baggy clothes because she was “depressed” and “that was all my father would give to me because he had really good relationships with the people from Cross Colours.”

Nya, on the other hand, transitioned with pop culture: “I was wearing girls clothing in kindergarten and then I kind of went back and forth,” she says. “I went back to boys clothes because all the girls were wearing boys clothes – like TLC, MC Lyte, Aaliyah – so I was like, Well, I guess I’ll wear boy clothes.”

They thank Caitlyn Jenner, but still hope for “full acceptance.”

“Caitlyn definitely has opened the door to show what happens when someone from upper class America decides to transition, but I’ve seen a change happening in general,” says Bionka of the progress in the trans world since Jenner revealed her journey. “Just from being on Facebook and what not, the type of guys that hit me up now are these 18-, 19-, 21-year-old guys who know I’m trans and don’t care, and then you’re battling these 30-, 40-, 50-year-old guys that ask if I’ve had bottom surgery yet and don’t know if they could go there.”

Check out the rest of the interview here.

It all goes down tomorrow so tune in!

This post is approved by LA Ornate and what we will all be saying to our TV’s tomorrow night:

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6 Quickie Questions with Transcendent Star Xristina

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Tomorrow! Tomorrow! Transcendent returns TOMORROW NIGHT! 11:30 on FUSE! In anticipation of the big event, we asked star diva Xristina six of the most IMPORTANT QUESTIONS we could think of! Check out her answers below!

Q: If you could bring one thing to a deserted island, what would it be and why?
Xristina: “Seriously, you’re asking me this? I would say nothing, but then in reality, something. So if I need something, that means I need everything. And because I need everything, I don’t see anything wrong with that. So how are you gonna make a girl pick just one thing, thats ridiculous. Who thought of these questions? God…already…”

Q: What do you like on your pizza?
Xristina: “Ok, seriously? Are you asking me all these 101 questions? I just came out of a phone interview and you want me to answer all these questions right now? What do I like on my pizza…hmm…sausage [laughs]. No I’m just kidding. Um…kidding, not kidding. No, I don’t know how to answer that, I don’t think I have a favorite pizza, I think I’ll eat it all [bites lip].

Q: Describe yourself in one word
Xristina: “I am Transcendent. Wait, is that three words? Oh well.”

Q: What is your favorite song to perform to?
Xristina: “Demi Lovato’s “Confident”. But I also like Beyonce. I really am all about the ABCD’s; Alicia Keys, Beyonce, Christina Aguilera and Demi Lovato.

Q: Who is the best dancer in the group?
Xristina: “Well all the girls will probably say I am the worst one but in actuality Nya is the jerkiest mover, Bambiana is scatter brains, and Bionka, she just walks now. She doesn’t even dance or perform. So hands down, it obviously is me. I gotta be delusional not to pick me.”

Q: Whats your most embarrassing moment?
Xristina: “Omg I have so many. I have hit walls and doors because I was looking too hard. What else… Oh! There was another time where I was on the treadmill at the gym and there was a mirror on my left and I was looking at my… behind… because I wanted to know what all the commotion was about with my behind, and I was mesmerized by it. So I stopped my movement, you know, I was like fast walking, and once I stopped I flew and hit the wall!”

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“Goddamn Dizzy Kids” a Scathing Takedown of Disney Stars by Former Disney Ghostwriter GAREK

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#TuneForToday. There’s a familiar rodent in the video for GAREK‘s new (and slightly disturbing) song “Goddamn Dizzy Kids.” The singer, who once worked at a music production house writing and singing demos for the likes of Disney and Nickelodeon, says he quickly became disenchanted with the assembly-line mentality of today’s hit makers and songwriters.

From his press release:

As a ghostwriter gone rogue, GAREK steps out from behind the money-making machine and gives the middle finger to commercialized music and the corporations behind it.

GAREK positions himself as the new Anti-Pop Star, fighting to break the mold of cookie-cutter predictability in today’s music industry. He takes the formula so often used in today’s pop music: a bright, bouncy chorus with a catchy hook and spins it into something so quintessentially GAREK- sinister, sarcastic, but still highly listenable.

“I was tired of making music for the machine. So, instead of feeding the machine, I set out to starve it. For “Goddamn Dizzy Kids”, I used the formulas I was privy to as a ghostwriter (big, bouncy choruses, bright, catchy hooks and contemptible, chantey nonsense), but used it in a way that allowed me to spread my message. I refuse to settle for the sea of mediocrity that has become the standard for this generation’s music.”

I like it. The lyrics are, indeed, reeeeeeeeeally dark. Working for the Mouse must have really done some psychological damage to poor GAREK. But give “Goddamn Dizzy Kids” a listen and tell me what you think in the Facebook comment section… (I think he’s really cute, omg)

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Transcendent Star Bionka Simone Talks Bathrooms With The Advocate

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Bionka Simone – one of the five gorgeous cast members of the upcoming Season 2 of Transcendent on Fuse TV – produced by World of Wonder’s Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey, sat down with the Advocate and penned a powerful piece on bathrooms.

Check out this excerpt below:

While I’m happy to exist in a very diverse San Francisco, many seem to have the idea there’s not much discrimination here and that transgender life is much easier than say, life in middle America. Would it surprise you if I told you that’s not always the case? Transgender youths and adults alike are trying to find work, and without it can’t find the financial means to transition. Most of us have to jump through many unnecessary hoops and mounds of paperwork before we can simply be who we are, but we’ve made commendable strides — let’s not go backwards. Let me walk all of America’s streets with confidence, not as someone who has to survive yet another day under the hot and immoral magnifying glass of discrimination.

I can understand my life experience may be different from those who are so concerned about which bathroom I can — or can’t — use.  Like I said before, I must be really important for them to care.  Thanks for the help, folks, but I’m perfectly capable of making that decision on my own.

Check out the full article here.

Transcendent premieres TONIGHT at 11:30P/10:30C on FUSE TV, right after the season 5 premiere of Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce.

 

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Here’s a Sneak Peek of Two Deleted Scenes from TONIGHT’S BIG PREMERE of Transcendent (Season Two)!

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The girls of AsiaSF – Bionka, Nya, L.A., Xristina and Bambiana – visit a haunted B&B, where Xristina hopes to have sex with a ghost in these deleted scenes from tonight’s big premiere. Watch below.

From HuffPo Queer Voices:

The show, which is now in its second season, focuses on the personal and professional relationships of Bionka, Nya, L.A., Xristina and Bambiana, five transgender women who perform at AsiaSF, a cabaret-style restaurant in San Francisco.

Given the national conversation around transgender issues, the show couldn’t feel any more topical. More significantly, the series casts a much-needed spotlight on trans women of color, one of the most disenfranchised communities in the country today.

“We are all flawed but few are as open as the ladies of ‘Transcendent.’ They wear their hearts — and their flaws — on their sleeves in a way that only those who are truly courageous do,” Fenton Bailey, who executive produced the show with Randy Barbato, told The Huffington Post.

Barbato echoed those sentiments, adding, “It has taken a long time to bring this series to the screen. And until Fuse enthusiastically came on board we never doubted that audiences would warm to and be inspired by a cast of characters who live their lives authentically and without apology.”

He went on to note, “Their struggle, their humor and bravery are relatable because all our lives are a kind of transition from the moment we are born until we die.”

Check out exclusive scenes from the show at top and below, and don’t miss the second season of “Transcendent,” which airs TONIGHT on Fuse.

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#HereWeGoAgain: New Biopic of Sufi Poet Rumi Plans to Cast… Leonardo DiCaprio?

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Hot on the heels of, oh, about a dozen culturally insensitive casting choices over the past couple of years – including Tilda Swinton as the Tibetan-born Ancient One in the upcoming Dr Strange, the Korean-American character of Ganke Lee from Ultimate Spider-Man being played by some white kid, Rooney Mara as Tiger Lilly in Pan, Emma Stone as an Asian character in Aloha, the entire cast of God’s of Egypt cast being played by pretty Caucasian actors like Gerard Butler and Brenton Thwaits… etc etc etc  – comes news that a new biopic about the poet Rumi is being made… and if Oscar-winning screenwriter David Franzoni (who created Gladiator) has his way, it will star none other than Leonardo DiCaprio.

He discussed his new project with The Guardian, saying:

“He’s like a Shakespeare,” Franzoni said. “He’s a character who has enormous talent and worth to his society and his people, and obviously resonates today. Those people are always worth exploring.

“It’s a very exciting project – and obviously challenging. There are a lot of reasons we’re making a product like this right now. I think it’s a world that needs to be spoken to; Rumi is hugely popular in the United States. I think it gives him a face and a story.”

Franzoni then went on to say he would like Leonardo DiCaprio to play Rumi, and Robert Downey Jr to star as Shams of Tabriz, “though they said it was too early to begin casting.”

“This is the level of casting that we’re talking about,” said Stephen Joel Brown, the chief executive of Y Productions, who was also a producer on other hit films such as Se7en, The Fugitive and the Devil’s Advocate.

Yes, the Muslim poet and scholar Rumi who lived in 13th-century Afghanistan, and later the outskirts of the Persian Empire, would be played by our perennially gold-haired go-to, Leonardo.

“We’re trying to invent and resurrect a character at the same time because there is so much missing in the shadow of history, and some of it is idealised so you have to go back and find the human being who became a saint, because we can’t write about a saint,” said Franzoni.

Hmmm. Good luck with that “reinventing” Rumi. (via Jezebel; Photo: Pacific Coast News)

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Don’t Miss the BRAND-NEW Season of ‘Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce’ TONIGHT at 11PM on Fuse!

5 Things We Love About Big Freedia

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A brand new season of Big Freedia: Queen of Bounce kicks off tonight at 11:30P/10:30C, followed by ANOTHER World of Wonder produced show and new season of Transcendent, both premiering on FUSE TV.

We’re ECSTATIC here at the World of Wonder offices and wanted to countdown our top five favorite things about our favorite Queen, Big Freedia!

5) HER MUSIC AND FRIENDSHIP/COLLAB WITH THE QUEEN BEE

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If you were wondering who says “I like cornbreads and collard greens” or “I came to slay, bitch,” in Bey’s now iconic “Formation” and guessed it was Big Freedia, than you’re correct!

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Can we be their best friends too, pretty please?

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4) HER WORDS OF WISDOM/HEART

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Can we get an amen?

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Empowering work room entrances forever, tbh.

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What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.

3) HER FASHION/HAIR GAME IS ON POINT.

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Big Freedia - World of Wonder
2) HER FRIENDSHIP WITH MAMA RUPAUL

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Can there be a cuter pairing? We don’t think so!

1) HER SMILE

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Lastly, she has the kind of pearly whites that stretch an infectious grin across your face too. How can you not smile back at her gorgeousness?!

Get ready for an amazing new season, hunties!

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