If You're a Drag Queen and You Know It by Lil Miss Hot Mess

“Through lessons taped by educators, the program offers age-appropriate content that is aligned to education standards and lessons for early childhood education, focusing on foundational reading and writing skills, literacy, math, science, social studies and the arts,” the NYC Education Department website said. The New York City Education Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment. “One-hour programs feature instruction by educators and virtual field trips.”Īccording to the New York City Department of Education, “Let’s Learn” episodes offer “age appropriate content” intended to “serve as a supplemental resource for remote and blended learning.” “Let’s Learn helps children ages 3-8 with at-home learning,” a tag on the PBS website said. The Lil Miss Hot Mess episode first aired March 31, she said, and WNET has received “only a small handful of messages” complaining about the show. The spokeswoman emphasized repeatedly that “Let’s Learn” is not a PBS series but was made available to PBS stations. The episode is part of the series “Let’s Learn,” a public television series produced in partnership by PBS member station WNET and the New York City Department of Education, WNET spokeswoman Lindsey Horvitz told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “Being a drag queen is about being bold, shining bright, and showing a little bit of bravery, being willing to step outside the box and to dance to our own beat sometimes,” the drag queen explained. “I think we might have some drag queens in training on our hands,” Lil Miss Hot Mess said after dancing and singing for the virtual audience. Lil Miss Hot Mess read the book to the virtual audience, encouraging viewers to snap their hands, shimmy, twirl, dance, shake their hips, and put on makeup, video showed. It features the drag characters “Frida Bea Me,” “Jaclyn Jill,” “Stinkerbelle,” “Rita Booke,” “Mother Lucy Goosey,” “Cinderfella,” “Pina-Buttah-Gelee,” “Rosie Ringarounda,” and “Ella Menopipi,” and “follows a drag queen who performs her routine in front of an awestruck audience.” The book is intended to be sung along to the tune of the song “The Wheels on the Bus,” Lil Miss Hot Mess said.

“I wrote this book because I wanted everyone to get to experience the magic of drag and to get a little practice shaking their hips or shimmying their shoulders to know how we can feel fabulous inside of our own bodies,” Lil Miss Hot Mess said. “Today I’m going to read from my own book, which is ‘The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish,’” explained Lil Miss Hot Mess, who is reportedly one of the founding members of Drag Queen Story Hour. A children’s show on PBS featured drag queen and author “Lil Miss Hot Mess” singing, dancing, and reading a book about drag queens to an intended audience of 3 to 8 year olds.

If You're a Drag Queen and You Know It by Lil Miss Hot Mess