Truth and Consequences: Drag Queen Story Hour and Harvard's Recision Decision

Glitter & Doom

Since the days of the Brothers Grimm, princesses and queens have featured prominently in children's stories. Just look at Disney, which has built an entire empire on the back of (often problematic, traditionally gendered) femininity. Yet, some folks in Gerritsen Beach Brooklyn were protesting a children's story hour at the local branch of the Brooklyn Public Library where volunteers in costume as queens read books to young children. Their problem, the volunteers were drag queens. Co-founder of the Drag Queen Story Hour, Jonathan Hamilt, joins MacKenzie, and he'd rather not dwell on the negativity. And then The Crew discusses unfortunate things people do as 16-year-olds and Harvard's decision to rescind the admission of Parkland High School grad Kyle Kashuv for racist comments he made online.