Linda Villarosa is an award-winning author, journalist, educator and activist, she is a contributing writer and editor for the New York Times Magazine, the NYT at large and its Science Times, where she covers race, inequality and health. She authored 3 books, was the former executive editor of Essence Magazine, and is the current director of the journalism program at the City College of New York where she teaches reporting, writing and Black Studies

In this episode, Linda shares with us here, her truly inspiring and uniquely public coming out story. 

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KAREN SONG is the director and producer of the Sundays at Café Tabac documentary, where she is able to pay homage to a space and community central to her coming of age. She is a queer-identified, Korean-American woman, born and raised in New York City. She is a film director working across various dramatic, documentary, and commercial platforms, with narrative feature film projects currently in development.

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JACQUELINE WOODSON, is a writer of books for children and young adults, and the recipient of the National Book Award for her 2014 book, Brown Girl Dreaming. She was awarded National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature for 2018-2019 by the Library of Congress, and the Hans Christian Andersen Medal this year. Her latest book Red at the Bone was released last year and was an instant New York Times best seller and New York Time Notable book of the year, as well as Oprah’s Best Books of 2019. In this episode, she talks about coming out to her super religious family in the 1980’s. For more info on Jacqueline, visit: www.jacquelinewoodson.com

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WANDA ACOSTA, producer & co-creator of the documentary film, Sundays at Café Tabac, and a stalwart icon in lesbian nightlife in downtown New York, recounts her coming out story as a young woman in the early 1990's at the height of lesbian visibility in the media and a turning point for queer culture and lesbian empowerment. 

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Recorded at The Newsstand Studio at 1 Rockefeller Plaza in NYC. Special thanks to Joseph Hazan & Karen Song. Produced by Wanda Acosta

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