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A New Kind of Typed Out

September 17, 2019

It's been one whole month since I uprooted myself from New York and moved to Japan. This may come as a spoiler to some of you as my intent was to announce this on the final episode for season one of the podcast, but here's another spoiler for you—I have yet to finish editing that episode. (But I promise it will be released, and that more episodes are being planned!) As it turns out, moving to another country requires a lot of energetic output, which also happens to be the case with this platform.

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LGBTQ Theater

More With Love

February 16, 2019

How an all-female cast leaps the orchard walls to bring new life to Shakespeare’s ill-fated tale St. John’s Lutheran Church rests on the corner of 7th Avenue South and Christopher Street in New York City’s Greenwich Village, roughly four hundred feet from the historic Stonewall Inn where, 50 years prior, a series of riots set […]

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Don’t Take It To Hart

January 24, 2019

Does the LGBTQ+ community owe Kevin Hart an apology? The news regarding Kevin Hart and his lost opportunity to host this year’s Oscars had escaped me until yesterday when a friend brought it my attention. We had been talking about how the 2019 ceremony is being lauded as the “Queerest” in the history of the […]

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These Colors Only

January 21, 2019

Taking a hard, honest look at why some are resisting the new, expanded Pride flag—and it ain’t cute It’s Martin Luther King Day here in the United States, and on this day we are encouraged to remember Dr. King and his message of racial inclusion. But more than remember, let us reflect on the Civil […]

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A Gray in a Gold World

October 15, 2018

A conversation with Red Rising author, Pierce Brown It’s not every day that you get to sit down and interview someone whose work you admire. I first heard about Pierce Brown’s debut novel Red Rising while listening to the radio. I had tuned into the Elvis Duran morning show on Z100, and one of the […]

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