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This week, we talk about something that ruins everything in the history of ever except like not... fanfiction. And we then discuss a book that featured that topic prominently and then became its own novel series.

Edited by Marissa Alexa McCool

Music by The Midnight

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This week, Ari discusses their namesake with the story of unicorns and dashing capitalism. Also, as usual, we have plenty of hecks to dole out, and I guess a few of y'all did okay.

Music by the Midnight

Edited by Marissa Alexa McCool

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This week, we review some queerifying of fairy tales the way YA likes to press the boundaries and reframe things so they're accessible to others. We also throw some major shade to recent current event reactions, and a special shoutout to MN Shift.

Edited by Marissa Alexa McCool

Music by The Midnight.

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This month, we're reading things that impacted us at some point. Marissa starts it off with the YA novel from 1995, "Looking for Jamie Bridger" which was the first representation she can remember from the middle school library.

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This week, we wrap up the First Years series with talking about the first year we were a podcast, complete with con stories and road trips. Then, because we record on a Sunday, we air our annual reading of the TDOR list of names after the formal episode.

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After several audibles, Marissa takes us back to the first year where she notably began expressing her true self.

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In the second of our "first year out" series, Ari talks about their first year of being open, as we head to 2015, Arkansas, and a year that seems both five minutes ago and fifty years ago in 2020.

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This week, we go back to 2008 and Eli talks about their first year of being out as bi, what 2008 was like, and what has changed since then... or not.

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To close off Queer TV Month, we look at the critically-acclaimed series "Pose." Stay tuned til the end to find out next month's theme!