Knowledge is power

“Knowledge is power, and understanding where you stand compared to your peers can be enlightening,” said Stanberry, who now runs The Purse, a newsletter that includes contributor confessionals about finances and household labor.

Instead, activists who hope to battle the NAR’s political influence “need to know more than we do now about who they are and what they are about. If knowledge is power, we need more knowledge — and we need to spread it more widely.”

It’s a big ocean, and with the diminished blue whale numbers, he said, knowledge is power.

RuPaul exhorted viewers to listen to drag queens who want to read you a story “because knowledge is power, and if someone tries to restrict your access to power, they are trying to scare you.”

“Because knowledge is power. And if someone is trying to restrict your access to power, they are trying to scare you. So listen to a drag queen!”