And the category is...Pose, Season 1! Come listen to us discuss this hit drama about the queer community and drag balls during the late 1980s, centering on the lives of 5 trans women, played by actual trans actresses of color. Starring MJ Rodriguez, Indya Moore, Dominique Jackson, Hailie Sahar, Angelica Ross and Billy Porter, the show looks at the fantasies, dreams and lives of trans women and people of color as they navigate the difficult paths of performativity, sex work, love and found family. We discuss the characters, plot, themes, filming and representation in Ryan Murphy’s last show for FX and how the show uplifts and gives back to the queer community. We are both huge fans of this show and can’t wait for you to become huge fans, too.

You can watch Pose, Season 1 on Netflix if you haven’t already. For the latest updates, information and looks behind the scenes from Pose, check out their website, Twitter and Instagram. 

Other sources we mentioned and/or consulted for this episode include: 

• Check out the terrible episode recaps from Vulture
• The great interview with Billy Porter that Tay cites often
• The quotes Olivia read came fromthe Entertainment Weekly Pride Issue 2018 (June 15, 2018, #1518)
• Information on where Pose was filmed in NYC
• Steven Canals on filming Angel's sex scene
• Watch Paris is Burning on Netflix
• Read How to Survive a Plague
• Watch How to Survive a Plague

 Read up on the sources in Tay’s Academic BS:

• José Munoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity
• Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner, “Sex in Public” (which you can read for free from JSTOR)
• Michel Foucault, History of Sexuality, Volume 1
• Judith Butler, Gender Trouble
• Judith Butler, Bodies That Matter

Be sure to check out our Patreon, which will be updated soon with new content, to support the show. Follow our podcast on Twitter (where we livetweeted some of Season 2!) and Instagram. Follow Tay on Twitter and Instagram. Follow Olivia on Twitter and Instagram. 

Credit for our bop-tastic interlude music:

Disco Metropolis by Vyra | https://soundcloud.com/vyramusic

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