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Welcome back Katrina Kemp! Katrina is an actor, producer, activist, DJ, and intuitive from LA. 

Katrina not only shares her own coming-of-age story as a person with pseudoachondroplasia but also speaks to the relatively new project of people with Dwarfism collecting their own history, free from the gaze of average-height people. 

She explains how people with dwarfism were enslaved for centuries and how being forced to labor as circus performers still inform how they’re treated in the modern movie industry (and the world at large) today. Katrina traces the relationship between erasure and exploitation in media and reflects on how vital it was for her to find representation and community online growing up. 

“We find each other deep, deep in the internet. But other people are finding us too,” Katrina says. 

This sets the stage for our discussion of “Dear Average Height People,” a film Katrina is producing by director Aubrey Smalls. As far as Aubrey and Katrina know, this is the very first documentary comedy special to be directed and produced by people with Dwarfism. In fact, they haven’t been able to find ANY films, shows, or specials created by people with Dwarfism and urgently want that to change. 

The film is about dwarfism, disability hate groups, agency, and freedom. It portrays a global network of people with dwarfism who may live far away from each other, but who live in deep solidarity. It illustrates the way obsessive hate groups target and harass people with Dwarfism online, as well as how platforms like Youtube encourage violence and monetize torment.  It also depicts how talented, beautiful, funny, and diverse the Dwarfism community is around the world. 

Listen to hear Katrina’s many insights about beauty, bodies, surveillance, her bone to pick with Stephen Spielberg, Britney Spears, L’Express, Diane Arbus, inhalants, and more… 

“People experience epiphanies with me every day… every hour if I allowed it,” Katrina says. 

Follow Katrina on IG, Twitter, Twitch, and Youtube. Please consider contributing what you can to “Dear Average Height People.” Pledge your support on Indiegogo here.  Production crew volunteers, exhibition and performance spaces, and community partners are also welcome to donate resources. 

+ For more Katrina on the pod, listen to our Britney Spears episode from 2021. 

Thanks to Margot Padilla for engineering and editing this episode. Our show music is “Let Me Love You” by Dis Fantasy. Follow me on IG: @TSTAR7. 

Recorded 10/3 at Pirate Studios Silverlake. Pirate is open 24/7 in Silverlake and West Adams, as well as all over the US, UK, Germany, and Ireland. They have DJ, rehearsal, and podcast studios for everyone to use. Book online and let yourself inside. Click here and use the code TIERNEY for $10 off your first booking. Write me: tierneytierneytierneytalks@gmail.com

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The San Fernando Valley section of LA possesses a rich musical history. From recording studios to record shops, audio equipment manufacturers to music clubs, it’s all happened in the land of the 818 area code. Most importantly, the Valley is where many rock artists hail from, currently live, or once called home, including musicians Tom Petty and Jenny Lewis, and the bands Bad Religion, System of a Down and Haim. Hear the music of the Valley on this week’s Keith’s Music Box. We'll also talk to Tommy Gelinas, founder of the pop culture palace, Valley Relics Museum, in Van Nuys.

What's cracking y'all? My name is Bryan and today I'll be talking about director & writer, Paul Thomas Anderson. To me he is the best in the film industry and everything he has created is gold, from Hard Eight to Magnolia to There Will Be Blood to Phantom Thread, there is no miss. Follow my podcast from where ever you listen and follow my Twitter @HoursofMovies!

Host Becky Hennesy has a heartwarming chat with her good friend Dehavilland Ford. She is a rising new voice in the realms of the prophetic and racial reconciliation. The insights Dehavilland shares with Becky are critical for the Body of Christ to hear in this hour.

In the current struggle for the American church to experience racial reconciliation, Dehavilland explains the Biblical balance between righteousness and justice, the importance of reasoning together with others in the Body of Christ, embracing the concept of deep listening, and why it's a mistake to leave a long-standing relationship over a misunderstanding of each other's cultural background.

Dehavilland also shares with Becky her remarkable journey to faith in Jesus. It's a wild ride worth a listen. Born to parents addicted to crack cocaine and other drugs, she was taken from her home and thrust into the foster care system. For four years, she lived with Chris Rock's family (yes that Chris Rock). Her story also includes undergoing a forced name change, searching for personal identity, living in shelters and eventually homeless on a park bench in New York City, experiencing the Toronto Blessing, and much more.

Another highlight of their conversation is how Dehavilland discusses the delicate transition from being single in her 30s to instant motherhood after marrying Will Ford who had previous children from a prior marriage.

Today Dehavilland and her husband Will operation a ministry called 818 The Sign. It's a global effort with a goal "to raise up a new generation of prophetic leaders by training them not only in the gifts of the spirit, but also in biblical righteousness and justice to tackle the issues facing the hour in which we live."

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Groove Productions Presents is a recording from 1999. It features 4 mixes that we collaborated on for friends.

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Mix 1 Dj Rick (Rock) @ :35 seconds

Mix 2 Dj Orbs @ 16:25 minutes

Mix 3 Dj Daz @ 26:47 minutes

Mix 4 Dj Billy C @ 39:57 minutes

Hope you enjoy a blast from the past.

New episode of Tierney Talks with @paulakahn2020. Paula Graciela Kahn is a congressional candidate currently running to represent California’s 30th District – the San Fernando Valley. Celebrate this “holiday” by listening to a femme against fascism. We talk about the just transition - as in a shift “from an exploitative, extractive, global war economy to a cooperative, regenerative network for local peace economies.”

Paula tells me about how volunteering in Tijuana & observing atrocities at the border & in detention centers inspired her to run for office. She calls to shut down the Adelanto Detention Center in San Bernardino & describes her experiences advocating for detained friends in ICE centers. Paula wonders why ICE budgets are increasing when people are dying in ICE facilities, explains the immigration detention & deportation industry & shares how 9/11 & the Iraq War activated ICE.

We explore her non-profit Cosmovisiones Ancestrales & the notion of using drugs to support people who are victims of state violence through demobilization, disarmament & reintegration. We discuss the first scholarly article about “cult mushroom” ceremonies, how it fueled psychedelic tourism & the present need to create ecological preserves to protect plant medicine. Paula also imagines the recodification of psychedelics & other indigenous plant medicine by white venture capitalists & Western companies patenting indigenous medicine (a la the legal marijuana industry).

We also discuss the deficit of Latinx femmes in Congress & healing as nonlinear. We talk about the housing crisis in the San Fernando Valley & inclusionary zoning. The incumbent candidate, Congressman Brad Sherman, hasn’t done enough in regards to these issues. He’s been in office since 2013 :( She’s sick of trusting strangers to protect her community – please support Paula at the ballot in March! Raise your expectations for who your local rep could be! Send this to someone who votes in the Valley & donate to her campaign via the link in the bio. $5 helps!! More if you’re rich!!! Paula is the most PLUR congressional candidate of all time, promise. Follow her too <3

This episode contains original music by our sound engineer and audio producer Margot Padilla.

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