Masha
Manila Luzon has been slaying this entire season of RuPaul’s Drag Race: All Stars, and Friday night’s challenge was no exception.
#CategoryIs Curves and Swerves: Padded for the Gawds! 🍑✨ Who had your fav lewk?! #AllStars4 pic.twitter.com/NZBt3UiCmn
— RuPaul's Drag Race (@RuPaulsDragRace) January 5, 2019
Titled “curves & swerves,” the week’s runway theme required the queens to manipulate and exaggerate proportions using padding. Manila Luzon strutted out in a pink and black quilted Chanel-inspired ~look~ which, coupled with her performance in the “Jersey Justice” improve challenged garnered her a top spot in the competition.
It’s nice that she did well and all, but the original look she had prepared was waaaay more interesting. Manila revealed on Instagram that the production team had her wear her backup look because her Period Gown—which features a giant period pad adorned with faux period blood—was in “bad taste.”
Her explanation for the look makes perfect sense, in that she wanted to “normalize menstruation” for young women—many of which are her fans—who are “pressured by society to be embarrassed by periods.”
RuPaul’s producers needn’t have gone to the effort of banning the gown. The reactions to Manila’s bloody look were overwhelmingly supportive and positive.
It’s 2019, after all. The sky is blue, birds sing, women bleed. Get over it.
