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On this week’s episode, Hosts jarrett hill and Tre’vell Anderson welcome writer Mikelle Street for a conversation about The Swirl, or interracial dating. They dig into what’s behind the “trend” of highly-visible Black queer celebrities who seemingly only go out with white partners, as well as how our upbringing influences our attitudes around interracial dating. They also get into some of the misconceptions of interracial dating that are projected onto queer interracial couples.  But first, Tre’vell and jarrett respond to Abbott Elementary’s Tyler James Williams’ instagram post, in which the actor details why he thinks it’s dangerous when people try and guess whether someone is gay or not. 

Mentioned In The Episode

Jessie Maple

Tyler James Williams

Durand Bernarr

DIS/Honorable Mentions 

jh:

HM: Boys Come First by Aaron Foley

HM: Terrell Grice’s Keke Palmer interview on The Terrell Show and Keke’s new album, Big Boss

HM: Seeking Brother Husband on MAX

TA

HM: Bel-Air on Peacock

HM: NABJ campaign

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Mikelle Street’s latest, Yasmin Finney Is Everything She Imagined and Why I started a digital shrine to Justice Smith and Nic Ashe’s relationship

Our Pride Perspectives curated playlist on Apple Podcasts 

We See Each Other: The Podcast - Episode 6, Let’s Hear It For The Boys ft. Brian Michael Smith

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This episode we are joined by actor Paul Alexander Nolan!  Paul is currently starring in the Broadway revival of Parade and talks about his work on Broadway, auditions, wanting to be a fire fighter and much more! 

To mark the return of theatre to New York City, Michael revisits his private tour of Broadway with Audra McDonald, then delivering her Tony Award-winning performance in Porgy and Bess, and Tony Sheldon, who was starring in Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

Also, we check in with the New York Times' chief theatre critic Jesse Green and preview next week's long-delayed Tony Awards, and we meet the man whose experiences informed Windmill Theatre Co's Amphibian, a play about a young Afghan's journey to Adelaide.

How do I get distribution for my film? How do I get funding for my feature film? Do I need a name actor in my film? How do I make my film's money back? Demystified is a series aimed at finding answers to questions like these, the aspects of indie filmmaking that are rarely seen and seldom talked about, through the lens of StudioFest.

In Episode 15, we talk to Zola writer Jeremy O. Harris, and learn what it's like navigating the industry while maintaining your authenticity as an artist.

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Music Credits:

"Dynamite" theme music composed by Patrick Patrikios

Joaquina joins me on Zoom to chat about who she was growing up in Atlanta, the high school production of SARAFINA! that propelled her towards a career in the theater, “The Dark Year” at The Juilliard School, being cut at an open call for the musical RENT, and what drew her to audition for, and ultimately star as, Kaneisha in Jeremy O. Harris’ SLAVE PLAY.

In the final stop of our Fall tour, we invited playwrights Tony Kushner and Jeremy O. Harris to talk about all things spectacle, storytelling, and how they relate to this political moment. They are both artists who use their firm grounding in our own reality to give life to alternate worlds, ones full of drama and conflict and pathos. In this hour, they discuss the ways they hope their art echoes through time, what it means to make art in this moment, why Jeremy O. Harris thinks Donald Trump is actually a pretty uninteresting character, and so much more.

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"Meet Jeremy O. Harris: The Queer Black Savior the Theater World Needs." So read a recent headline in Out magazine; Vogue anointed him “one of the most promising playwrights of his generation." The hype is understandable. Though still in his final semester at Yale Drama School while this conversation was filmed, Harris has had two plays in production Off Broadway before runaway Broadway success with SlavePlay. Daddy, the second, stars Alan Cumming and Ronald Peet. Joining him on our very own stage to discuss his work and career was cultural critic Emily Bobrow, who observed in the Economist that Harris writes about race and sexuality "with humour, intellectual rigour, nods to pop culture and an engaging sense of spectacle," asking audiences to confront their own complicity in prejudice.

Recorded at the Hawthorne barn on June 8, 2019 by Twenty Summers. All Rights Reserved.

It's our inaugural episode! In our first episode we set our format sharing stories from events in our lives from the week and touching on some of the LGBTQIA news from the week as well.  This week Casey shares about some remarkable encounters with a couple of Chicagoans who left him feeling warm and fuzzy about the state of humanity in our fantastic city. Mark tells about his quick trip to NYC for 3 shows in 24 hours. And Popeye's Chicken Sandwich is back! We have a live taste test while we paint the trash that is a certain well-known national chicken sandwich chain. We finish up discussing the unknown event that was Straight Pride Dallas. 

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