Gabrielle and Luna have been friends for seven years, and their friendship has been getting deeper. Recently the line between platonic and romantic is getting hard to find. How hard is it to express your love for someone? How do you navigate your feelings for someone else when you're having a hard enough time navigating it for yourself? Is it the fear of losing what you had before? Is it the fear of being rejected? It isn't just you, it's the relationships with your previous partners, the relationship you have with yourself and your own sexual expression. We carry everything that has happened before.

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Thank you to Gabrielle and Luna for participating openly and vulnerably in our project. Their conversation was recorded in New York City in May of 2019. We’d also like to thank YOU, our community, without whom this podcast would not be possible. Us Illuminated is an extension of THE AND documentary project and is produced by the Emmy Award-winning creative studio, THE SKIN DEEP.

Us Illuminated is hosted by Topaz Adizes. Directed, edited, and produced by Nicholas D'Agostino and mixed and mastered by Luz Fleming. Gabrielle and Luna’s {THE AND} conversation was directed and produced by Mériem Dehbi-Talbot with technical assistance from Nicholas D’Agostino, Dane Benko, and Ashika Kuruvilla. Our music is by Adam D'Agostino. Jacob Bronstein is our Executive Producer and Topaz Adizes is our Executive Director.

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