Queer Chicana Costume Designer Jazmin Aurora Medina (she/her) joins Kyle to talk about the importance of a name. In this conversation between friends, Jazmin (haz-meen) discusses the battles of claiming one’s own identity and refines one of the shows two key prompts, which are heard at the top of the show. Jazmín’s work can be found on her website jazminaurora.com and posts about her current projects are on her Instagram @jazminnauroraa. The content warning for this episode (which is also spoken in the introduction) is death of a loved one and a mention of verbal abuse. Some brief profanity.

In the inaugural episode of After the Revolution, host Kyle David Perry speaks with writer and professional theatre artist Adam Qutaishat (Koo-duh-shot) about the importance of intersectionality and a variety of conversations that stem from that as Adam tackles the two prompts given at the beginning of the episode head on. “Micro”, written by Adam Qutaishat and Heidi Joosten will have a workshop performance on 6/18/22 at the Madison Opera Center. A podcast version is slated for release the summer of 2022 with fully staged production scheduled for fall of 2023. The content warning, which is also listed audibly before the episode, is as as follows: mentions of racism, transphobia, sexism, antisemitism, homophobia, police brutality, and one brief reference to sexual abuse.