I Wanted To Be A 'Good Girl'
*This episode originally ran in 2019. Andrea grew up attending an evangelical church in Texas, where she was taught to abstain from sex until marriage and keep herself sexually "pure." That early sex...
5 Okt 202223min
India Walton: I Knew It Was Gonna Be Tough, But I Didn't Expect it to Get Nasty
India Walton grew up in Buffalo, New York, a starkly segregated city, where 85 percent of the city's Black residents live on the East Side. She started a family there at 14 and then a career as a nurs...
28 Sep 202245min
Inside John Waters' Home (But Not Inside His Colon)
John Waters is the writer and director of such cult classics like Pink Flamingos, Serial Mom, and his biggest mainstream success, Hairspray. He’s been making movies since the 1960s and this year he re...
21 Sep 202232min
How Clothes Help Us Find Our People and Ourselves
For many of us, the last few years of the pandemic has given us time to reflect on different aspects of our identities and how we show up in the world. That's meant more room to explore what silhouett...
14 Sep 202231min
Lucinda Williams Says Whatever the Hell She Wants
*This episode originally ran in 2016. When Lucinda Williams was in elementary school, all the other kids brought rock collections and other standard fare to show-and-tell. But she brought a folder. "...
7 Sep 202230min
Big Freedia Bounces Back
Even before becoming Big Freedia, Freddie Ross was known around New Orleans. Her "signature call"—an operatic bellow that she lets out when I ask to hear it—was legendary in the city. "They'd be like,...
31 Aug 202226min
Finding Meaning After My Husband's Public Death
When talking about the death of his husband, Terry Kaelber doesn't use the word suicide, "I tend to say he took his own life out of deep distress about the environment through self-immolation." Terry ...
24 Aug 202235min
Knock Knock, Who's There? Bob the Drag Queen
If you lived in Columbus, Georgia in the 90s, you might have spent time in a queer club called Sensations. But Bob the Drag Queen knew Sensations by day, not night – she was in elementary school when ...
17 Aug 202230min
