This was a great Zoom conversation with Lynsi Stevens, Head Witch behind Crystal Case Apothecary. Obsessed with magical devices and transformational items from her favorite childhood cartoons and anime, she distills the spirit of fantasy, mysticism, DnD, and creates medication cases for magical beings on their grand life's journey.

Her love of anime propelled her into a career in entertainment & talent management, where she was able to create anime and comic con expo marketing, programming, and events internationally. She is a queer alt model, and enjoys indie games, comics, and immersive experiences.

Inspired by her own chronic healing journey, through C.C.A she assists BIPOC creatives and allies in shining their light, and co-creating a new paradigm of holistic Celestial Body Wellness with The Universe. Lynsi is currently working her magic at C.C.A, and training with the National Patient Advocacy Foundation, insuring The Global Majority receives better care from their healthcare providers.

Frankly, you're in for a treat! Lynsi will be joining us at Decolonize and Discover this year!

Our guest, Lauren Elizabeth is an amazing actor, circus performer and former wrestler(?!). She also will pump you up with wisdom, her perspective as a queer Asian-American actor, and how to know not only the battles you're willing to fight, but the ones you're willing to lose. Lauren's a laugh-riot, and we can't for you to see her perform at Decolonize and Discover. Have you gotten your tickets yet? Go to DecolonizeandDiscover.com today.

Journee has a kiki with burlesque performer La La Luscious who will be performing at this year's festival. Learn about their performance-style, their approach to art and dance, and even more lore about one the newest and raddest performers in the Boston burlesque scene! Don't forget, DND Fest is June 7-9! Get your tickets today at DecolonizeandDiscover.com

We're back y'all. It's thirty days from the festival, and Journee sat down with Kenny Frasch aka the MARVELous GLAMME CH0WDAH! The two drag besties talk about Kenny's intersectional existence, running the multiple-award-winning bar, The Hop Knot, and killing with kindness. It's a romp! Listen now! 

Monique Dupree does more than we do! An American actor who's been in horror, high drama, and comedy, she has severe chops. Speaking of chops, she's also a force in the world of independent wrestling both in the ring and behind the curtain. When not doing that, she's an entrepeneur, cosplayer, burlesque performer, and maybe an omega level mutant?

 We talk about her early career, her amazing work behind the scenes and in the ring, raising ten (!) children with her talented husband, burlesque and not knowing "how to fail." Monique is a fierce dynamo, and the type of polymath you need to witness in action. 

Our theme music is Pimp My Pride by Aesyme, rights purchased through epidemicsound.com

Don't forget to get your tickets at DecolonizeandDiscover.com. The festival is June 16-18. Come party with us! 

Galactic Bar Fight rules. But this little cult hit of an indie game has an amazing creator, with a great origin. Jonathan Jennings loved video games his whole life, and now he makes them. How'd he get here? What does he think about his role in the cultural shift in gaming, and what advice does he have for other BIPOC and historically marginalized folk who want to get in the industry? Jes and Journee find out on this week's episode. 

Our theme music is Pimp My Pride by Aesyme, rights purchased through epidemicsound.com

Don't forget to get your tickets at DecolonizeandDiscover.com

COP/OUT's gone through many twists and turns with a focus on activism and building community. Journee and Steven got to sit down with Joey Steel and Al Rosenberg and talk about how the two of them met, the songwriting process, community building through expression and nearly come to blows over the rutabaga's place in the revolution. COP/OUT will be joining us at the festival this year, so get your dang tickets. 

Our theme music is Pimp My Pride by Aesyme, rights purchased through epidemicsound.com

Don't forget to get your tickets at DecolonizeandDiscover.com

Jes met Robert and Diandra at Riot Games back in the day, and the three of them have been creating the stories behind some of the coolest video games. Hear about that exciting origin, the importance of creating diverse characters correctly, and take a peek under the hood of the video game industry. 

Hear all this and more on today's episode.

Our theme music is Pimp My Pride by Aesyme, rights purchased through epidemicsound.com

Don't forget to get your tickets at DecolonizeandDiscover.com

Y'all ain't ready. We talk to Sam Cha in this one.

Sam Cha is a poet, teacher, editor, and translator. His work has appeared in, or is forthcoming from, several places, including apt, Anderbo, Better, Best New Poets 2016, decomP, DIAGRAM, Memorious, Missouri Review, Rattle, and RHINO. He's a poetry editor at Radius. He lives and writes in Cambridge.

We talk about his life, how his personal experience of moving back and forth from Korea as a chikd helped shape his relationship to words, and his evolution into the rad poet we love. He also gives us the best advice about what to say when the enemy of progress and humanity reveals itself. 

Our theme music is Pimp My Pride by Aesyme, rights purchased through epidemicsound.com

Don't forget to get your tickets at DecolonizeandDiscover.com

Usually, the team behind Decolonize and Discover are talking to each other weekly about our strategic and tactical aspects of running this festival. This week, though, Journee and Jes brought Zac and Steven into the Zoom to talk about the origins of this festival, how all of them met at the same LARP, and geek out about the projects each of them do outside of the festival. 

It's a friendship episode. 

Our theme music is Pimp My Pride by Aesyme, rights purchased through epidemicsound.com

Don't forget to get your tickets at DecolonizeandDiscover.com