Episode 47: A Story in Drag (w/ Martyr)
Happy birthday to our favorite Queen, Brooklyn's own Martyr (spelled like Martyr, pronounced like you're stupid), the fabulous co-host of Wigging Out podcast. Art and performance has suffered through the literal worst year in recent history. But in a historic new year, and with one of Steph's best friends from Undergrad, we look at queer spaces. Through decades underneath the banner and terror of HIV/AIDs, queer artists in New York have been fighting for representation and a voice. This is Queer Chaotic Activism at it's finest: you're welcome.
Join us as we talk about the use of Christian iconography, setting the tone of Catholic Guilt, the archival process of remembering Queer History, the personal development of finding your own way in creative scenes, write the exhibition that remembers the Pandemic, and listening to Steph ask seven hundred questions. It's Fine:tm:.
Find Martyr everywhere! @dragthemaryr on Twitter and Instagram, and read the incredible SIDEWALKKILLA editorial, Martyr: Where Was God When I Was Raped?
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Our music was written and recorded by Elene Kadagidze.
Our cover art was designed by Lindsey Anton-Wood.
