Queer Everything

Join me for a conversation with Bushra Rehman, author of Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion, out recently from Flatiron Books and already up for a number of literary awards and accolades! I greatly appreciated Bushra's warmth, expansive way of thinking and being, and generosity of spirit, and found so many resonances with the book and in this conversation.

Roses, in the Mouth of a Lion: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250834782/rosesinthemouthofalion Bushra's article on writing autobiographical fiction:  https://www.pw.org/content/bushra_rehmans_two_truths_and_a_lie_writing_autobiographical_fiction_part_iiInstagram: @writerbushra

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Sarah Cypher is the author of The Skin and its Girl, out now from Ballantine Books! The novel follows  the blue-skinned, queer second-generation Palestinian-American protagonist Betty Rummani, as she navigates difficult questions in her own life by turning to her memories of her great-aunt Nuha for guidance.  The fictional Rummani family are in exile from Palestine, where they had owned a soap factory for hundreds of years, over many generations– a soap factory that was destroyed on the day that Betty was born with blue skin, where the story begins.

With this book, I re-learned how to slow down and actually enjoy reading– reading for the pleasure of it, for beautiful prose, and to immerse myself in a world and a story and an experience. In this conversation we talk about Sarah’s journey with the novel, its relationship with her identity as a second-generation Arab-American, and about navigating being a queer writer.

www.sarahcypher.com

Instagram: @sarahcypher

Twitter: @threepenny

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In this episode I welcome the brilliant Dr. Kareem Khubchandani, Professor of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at Tufts University also known as their drag persona, LaWhore Vagistan! 

You can find them on Twitter at:  @lawhorevagistan  and  @kareempuffand on Instagram at: @lawhorevagistan @kareempuff  @auntologiesWatch their TED Talk, "How to be an Auntie" 

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We're out with new episodes on April 17th! The (loose) theme this season is family-- queering family, queer family, and of course, queer found family. Join me for exciting conversations with a range of amazing people.

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Thank you to everyone who made Season 1 such a success! We're on a brief hiatus while we develop Season 2.The theme for Season 2 is FAMILY-- queer family, queering the notion of family, and being queer family to others. Do you have ideas about what you'd like to hear or whom we could talk to? Drop us a note and let us know!

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Join me for the second part of my conversation with Ali and Mohammed, where we talk about telling close family and others and engage in a dialogue about reconciling faith and spirituality. In the introduction I mention Imara Jones' enlightening (and frankly scary) podcast series The Anti-Trans Hate Machine. Please listen to it. It's here: https://translash.org/antitranshatemachine/

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In this episode I speak with two friends whom I know from an affinity group that I'm a part of: Ali who is Palestinian, and Mohammed who is from Ethiopia. We talk about their journeys around realizing they were queer as young people,  coming to terms with their identities in contexts with few positive messages about LGBTQ people, and navigating telling people who were close to them.

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In this episode I'm excited to speak with Elika Dadsetan-Foley (she/they), director of VISIONS, Inc. VISIONS is a non-profit diversity, equity, inclusion and organizational cultural change non-profit that I do work with in addition to having my own consulting practice.The theme of this conversation is not queer identity as much as it is the queerness of identity. Elika and I navigate similar tensions: fitting in everywhere and nowhere, being part of a large diaspora from the Muslim world, and the both/neither experience of being first generation immigrants in the US.  We reflect in this conversation about the meaning we've made out of our experiences, including how it's led us to the work that we both do.

Drop us a line and leave us a comment, or let us know what you'd like to hear about in a future episode! [email protected]

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Today I speak to the formidable Nicole Joy Alexander, director of the Al-Fitrah Foundation and  Pride Shelter Trust (a project of Al-Fitrah). Pride Shelter is one of the few LGBTQ homeless shelters operating in South Africa, and does incredible work supporting both LGBTQ people who stay there and the broader queer community. Nicole talks about taking over the reins of both organizations as a non-Muslim person, about expanding the community that it serves, and about the incredibly effective programs that the organization has instituted to help people break the cycle of homelessness.

They currently have a fundraising initiative underway to help them get the space ready for winter. You can watch Nicole talk about the repair project here:https://youtu.be/doLKEV2Paj0You can support Pride Shelter Trust's repair initiative here:  https://www.backabuddy.co.za/champion/project/colormyworld-lgbtqi-sa-shelter

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Join me for the second part of my conversation with Joe Steele, where he talks about connecting with his birth mother, learning the story of his parents' relationship, and how it impacted his view of self.  You can find Joe's book, Forbidden Love: The True Love Story of a Black Priest and  White Nun who Defied the Church and Society at forbiddenlovememoir.com. 

Queer Everything is going on a brief hiatus in April while we record new episodes. Follow us for updates!

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