What is friendship and its necessary components? What do you think of when you hear the word intimacy? Have you ever considered intimacy to be a necessary aspect of your friendships? In this episode we brought on two guests to help us explore the perceived boundaries and social norms when it comes to intimacy in our non-romantic relationships!

First, we have Sommer a black woman born and raised in Houston Texas, uses she, her prounouns, and is current graduate student at the Dallas Theological Seminary School!

Next, we have Mariamawit who goes by Mawit an Ethiopian woman tuning in from Boston, Massachussets, also uses she, her prounouns and currently interning at Apple in Enginnering project Management!

For this episode we reference two articles one pertaining to friendship and the other platonic intimacy that you can find below!

David Whyte's article on Friendship

https://nicholehastings.com/2015/05/05/david-whyte-on-friendship/?fbclid=IwAR3U5q6DwnGeI7ZQ_D4BMpTZ3lWPQD74gdISQyC3cz4sh0oyo6pEHR3p494

An article on Platonic intimacy from regain.us

https://www.regain.us/advice/intimacy/all-about-emotional-sexual-physical-and-platonic-intimacy/

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