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In this video, Bob the Drag Queen reflects on the groundbreaking visibility of Isis King on America’s Next Top Model. Bob breaks down the transphobia and bullying Isis faced from other contestants and explains why her strength was so impactful for queer representation.

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00:00Isis handled this, first of all, way better than I could have on my best day.
00:04I could have never, ever handled this as well as Isis did.
00:09These girls, making fun of her body hair, her sweating, her breast, she says, I was
00:18not born female, and then they take it back and go, she said she used to be a man.
00:24Now we rewriting history.
00:26It seems like the epitome of what you think when you think about mean girls teasing someone.
00:29And when America's Next Top Model presented this, I don't know what the angle was.
00:35Was it like people will agree with Isis or people will agree with the other models?
00:38I know that watching it from the outside, I was like, my God, this is horrible.
00:42You walk around like that in a small town, you get shot.
00:45It's not so much a closed-minded view, it's just more traditional.
00:48Saying stuff like, if you walk around like that, what do you mean like that?
00:51In my name, you get shot.
00:53She is justifying the harm, if not the murder, of someone for walking around.
01:01She didn't say for talking crazy, she said walking around.
01:07You walk around and therefore she gets to justify your harm, if not your murder.
01:14That's crazy.
01:15That's crazy.
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