She is the first winner from the Logo era of the show since Trixie Mattel won in 2017, the first trans woman to win RuPaul’s Drag Race and the second trans woman to win the greater Drag Race franchise after Angele Anang, the winner of Drag Race Thailand Season 2. Yes, long after Season 2, Kylie has won RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 6. Barring the both of them flopping at this final hurdle, it feels only right that one of our former ninth-placers be the one to take home the title.Īnd one does: “I’ve been waiting for this moment for 11 motherfucking years,” our new winner says in one of her first confessionals post-crowning. And open up she has, excelling in challenges like the acting task, Snatch Game and a monologue performance. She’s similarly emerged with a new lease on this competition after being charged by Michelle Visage way back in Episode 3 to open up as a performer. Kylie returned after over a decade to compete once again-this time as an openly transgender woman. But what she has accomplished on All Stars 6, with an optimistic attitude in confessionals and fire in the competition, has been stellar. True, the editors work with what they’re given, and Ra’Jah herself has admitted she was not in the best headspace in her original season. Ra’Jah came out of Season 11 with little fan support after an edit that routinely emphasized her negative point of view. And while I respect the hell out of Eureka! and Ginger as competitors and queens, I can’t help but be drawn to Kylie’s and Ra’Jah’s longer climb to the top. They are the lowest-placing queens to make the finale in All Stars, beating out Monique Heart (who got eighth in Season 10 and returned for All Stars 4) for that distinction. Heading into the finale, we have two very different kinds of redemptions on the table: Eureka! and Ginger Minj, both of whom made the finale in their seasons, have the chance to secure the crown that only just eluded them Kylie Sonique Love and Ra’Jah O’Hara, on the other hand, get their first shot at the win after both placing ninth in their original seasons. Be it Jan finally winning the Rusical, Laganja Estranja returning to absolutely slay as a Lip Sync Assassin or Silky Nutmeg Ganache coming back from an early departure to win six lip syncs in a row in the game-within-a-game, queens changing their narratives and coming out on top has been the focus every week this season. More than anything else, RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 6 has been the season of redemption (or Rudemption).
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