RuPaul’s Drag Race has become a global phenomenon with over a dozen international spin-offs searching for drag superstars all around the globe. Drag Race Sverige, which premiered in March 2023, is Scandinavia’s first Drag Race, and it comes with an accompanying Untucked after-show similar to its American and Filipino cousins.
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Artist and performer Robert Fux hosts Drag Race Sverige as he and judges Kayo and Farao Groth search for Sweden’s Next Drag Superstar. In addition to featuring competitors from the country, queens with connections to Sweden are also a part of the show.
Fontana, for example, is from Brazil but lives in Sweden and is fluent in Swedish. Endigo, meanwhile, is from Sweden but lives in Tokyo. Santana Sexmachine lives in Berlin and performs in nightclubs in the city.
Jesse Grant/Getty Images for “RuPaul’s Drag Race” 200th Episode Celebration ‘Drag Race Sverige’ is the search for Sweden’s Next Drag Superstar
Artist and performer Robert Fux hosts Drag Race Sverige as he and judges Kayo and Farao Groth search for Sweden’s Next Drag Superstar. In addition to featuring competitors from the country, queens with connections to Sweden are also a part of the show.
Fontana, for example, is from Brazil but lives in Sweden and is fluent in Swedish. Endigo, meanwhile, is from Sweden but lives in Tokyo. Santana Sexmachine lives in Berlin and performs in nightclubs in the city.
- 3/12/2023
- by Chris Malone
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Sick of being paid tiny wages to make crafts, Reese Fernandez-Ruiz started an organization to get famous designers to give her work cachet, and started helping get local craftswomen out of poverty.
Reese Fernandez-Ruiz was teaching children math, science, and reading skills in Payatas--one of the Philippines' biggest dump sites--when she noticed something: local mothers were making foot rugs out of scrap cloth that was furnished to them by a group of middlemen, who got the cloth directly from a factory and retrieved the finished products to sell. The mothers made a total of 20 cents per day. Before the middlemen came along, the mothers took the scrap cloth directly from the local dump site. And so, Fernandez-Ruiz (and her Rags2Riches partners) thought: Why not cut out the middleman and give the mothers the pay they deserve?
The Philippines native decided to cold-call Rajo Laurel--a high-end Filipino designer that...
Reese Fernandez-Ruiz was teaching children math, science, and reading skills in Payatas--one of the Philippines' biggest dump sites--when she noticed something: local mothers were making foot rugs out of scrap cloth that was furnished to them by a group of middlemen, who got the cloth directly from a factory and retrieved the finished products to sell. The mothers made a total of 20 cents per day. Before the middlemen came along, the mothers took the scrap cloth directly from the local dump site. And so, Fernandez-Ruiz (and her Rags2Riches partners) thought: Why not cut out the middleman and give the mothers the pay they deserve?
The Philippines native decided to cold-call Rajo Laurel--a high-end Filipino designer that...
- 8/10/2011
- by Ariel Schwartz
- Fast Company
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