_TheRealness_ (2017) uses visuals of RuPaul’s Drag Race contestants and RuPaul herself, to reflect on the feelings of impending doom and radical uncertainty that are prevalent in our generation. The beloved television queens RuPaul, Alaska Thunderfuck, Jinkx Monsoon, Latrice Royale and Laganja Stranga recite –with the help of overlaid synthetic voices– quotes from science fiction and futurist literature like Jeff Vandermeer’s Annihilation, Liu Cixin’s The Dark Forest, Nick Bostrom’s Superintelligence and Ted Chiang’s The Lifecycle of Software Objects. The video is an attempt to bring femenness into these male-dominated fields of thought, and also to visually intensify the very-now combo of deep anxiety and the mandate to be entertained at all times, a cycle of affects (anxiety, outrage,entertainment) that can only lead to emotional exhaustion.