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Karen interviews Emily Saliers of the Indigo Girls Jul 17, 2020

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In this summer bonus episode, Karen shares her spring interview with Emily Saliers of the Indigo Girls in preparation for her NPR article on the duo. Special thanks to NPR Music (especially Ann Powers and Marissa Lorusso), as well as the Indigo Girls and their team (especially Carla Parisi and Russell Carter) for making this all happen!

Karen interviews Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls Jul 10, 2020

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In this summer bonus episode, Karen shares her spring interview with Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls in preparation for her NPR article on the duo. Special thanks to NPR Music (especially Ann Powers and Marissa Loruss

o), as well as the Indigo Girls and their team (especially Carla Parisi and Russell Carter) for making this all happen! Stay tuned for KT's interview with Emily, coming up next.

Ep. 40: You Must Remember Polly Platt with Karina Longworth Jun 26, 2020

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Wynter and Karen welcome guest Karina Longworth of You Must Remember This for their season 2 finale! Karina tells us all about Polly Platt, the subject of this season's YMRT. Polly was an Oscar-nominated production designer, screenwriter, producer, and executive who put her stamp on some of the greatest and most loved films of the 1970s and 80s – including Paper Moon, Bad News Bears, Terms of Endearment, Broadcast News, The Witches of Eastwick and more. We get into how sexism, and the auteurist focus on her ex, Peter Bogdanovich, rendered Polly "invisible" in various ways. Wynter also brings us "The Pudding," and Karen tells us about Disclosure, a new Netflix doc on transgender representation. Plus, Nuo-Lingo ups your generational IQ and you get three amazing songs of the week for the price of one.

Instead of another plea to contribute to us this week, we ask that you contribute to the social justice organizations of your choice, especially those promoting peace, and racial, gender, and sexual equality. We and our guests this week recommend the following

Project Q (https://www.projectq.me/)

ProjectQ Community Center is an L.A.-based non-profit organization that provides safe space for LGBTQIA+ unhoused youth. At their Community Center, LGBTQIA+ homeless youth can receive free mentorship classes and workshops, along with free gender-affirming haircuts. We had Project Q's founder, Madin Lopez as a guest in Season 1!

Ep. 39: Together Again to Talk Gen Z with Guy Branum & Margaret Wappler Jun 19, 2020

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Wynter and Karen reunite with their former podmates Guy Branum and Margaret Wappler in this supersized episode fundraising for G.L.I.T.S and SummaEverything! The fierce foursome indulge in a deep catch-up about everything from the demise of the "girl boss," to 90 Day Fiance and Top Chef All Stars (Margaret even cameos at a boozy brunch in one of the episodes), all while processing the pop culture in the last year that they've missed talking to each other about since they wrapped Pop Rocket in May 2019. The gang puts their Gen X heads together for an analysis of Generation Z, who are revved and ready to lead the revolution. Plus, Nuo Lingo tips us off to what's become of the influencer class, and our beloved guests bring us home with two radiant songs of the week. Instead of another plea to contribute to us this week, we ask that you contribute to the social justice organizations of your choice, especially those promoting peace, and racial, gender and sexual equality. We, and our guests this week recommend the following:

G.L.I.T.S. - https://www.glitsinc.org/donations

SummaEverythang - https://summaeverythang.org/

Ep. 38: Just Can't [The] Help It Jun 12, 2020

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Wynter returns this week, as we welcome special guests Renee Bever (artist, co-host of Attack of the Queerwolf), and Tavia Nyong'o (author, Professor of American Studies at Yale). The panel catches up about how they've been participating in the national uprisings, while reflecting on some of the media moments, both head-scratching, and inspiring over the last week, from the Dems draped in kente cloth, to "You About to Lose This Job," the unofficial anthem of the movement. Wynter also digs deep into the "Bon Appetit Revolt," a developing story at the time we recorded. The panel devotes some deep conversation to "good civil rights movies" vs. really shitty ones, as well as films about race relations that are frozen in their historical moment. Nuo-lingo goes meta to explore when certain slang terms are appropriate or appropriation, and there are several songs of the week to get you to the next protest.

Instead of another plea to contribute to us this week, we ask that you contribute to the social justice organizations of your choice, especially those promoting peace, and racial, gender and sexual equality. We, and our guests this week recommend the following:

Ep. 37: American Uprising Jun 08, 2020

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We stand with the Black Lives Matter movement in advocating for racial justice, and against police violence. Wynter and her family have also suffered a personal tragedy, so this episode is in somber observance of this, as well as our current national events. Queer scholars & activists, Homay King and Jeanne Vaccaro join Karen to offer reports and resources for social justice actions, including ways of contributing for those who cannot participate in street actions. They discuss the media coverage of protests, race, and the pandemic, while reflecting on how race, feminism and LGBTQ politics intersect, or fail to, in "pride month" media and entertainment, including the recent Hulu original series Mrs. America. Nuo-lingo focuses on the concept of "mutual aid" and what it truly means, while the panelists offer resources for what to read, what to watch, and how to educate yourselves & others about race, justice, and sexuality in America.

Instead of another plea to contribute to us this week, we ask that you contribute to the social justice organizations of your choice, especially those promoting peace, and racial, gender and sexual equality. We, and our guests this week (Homay King and Jeanne Vaccaro) recommend the following:

Black Visions Collective (BLVC) "believes in a future where all Black people have autonomy, safety is community-led, and we are in right-relationship within our ecosystems. (https://www.blackvisionsmn.org/)

ABC (Act Blue Community Bail Funds) where you can split a donation between up to 40 community bail funds all over the country, from Louisville to Hawaii, Baltimore, NOLA, CA, Memphis, Chicago, as well as bail funds established by organizations like the LGBTQ freedom fund. (it's a long URL, so look on our Patreon Page) https://secure.actblue.com/donate/bail_funds_george_floyd?fbclid=IwAR2x8YYMubmjvUldt3XWQ2h9AJKkV5oEhjPqE4Zkdxpmv-szyPCa1lYcs8Y

BLM Global Network: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/ms_blm_homepage_2019

Philadelphia Community Bail Fund: https://www.phillybailout.com/

Reclaim Philadelphia: https://www.reclaimphiladelphia.org/

The Philadelphia Cultural Fund: https://www.philaculturalfund.org/

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Ep. 36: Butches for Billions with Raquel Gutierrez May 29, 2020

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Wynter is off for the week, so one of Karen's oldest BFF's, the poet, writer and performer Raquel Gutierrez joins her from Tucson, AZ to talk about everything from making pizzas with coral mushrooms to Netflix's Lovebirds. Raquel, aka "Raquefella" also reveals Karen's AIM name from back in the day, while bringing us her thoughts on why we are so obsessed with pop culture about billionaires, a la Succession, Wolf of Wall Street, and of course Billions. Nuo-Lingo gives us a word befitting the age of Zoom, plus a slinky SOTW from the 80s.

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Talking Hollywood with Guy Branum May 22, 2020

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Guy Branum joins us for an impromptu reunion to talk more about Ryan Murphy's Hollywood on Netflix. Last week, guy texted Karen about the show, which we covered in our supersized Ep. 35. 6 hours later, we got together with Guy to dish even more on all the golden age of cinema hawniness!

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Ep. 35: Hollywood, Babylon May 15, 2020

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Wynter and Karen are not alone! Special sexxy guests, Guinevere Turner and Alonso Duralde join them in the W2X Zoom Room for a deep hang, and some scandalous conversation about Ryan Murphy's Hollywood, a new limited series rife with queer pool parties and other gratuitous forms of wish-fulfillment. Find out how Alonso and Guinevere are both being annoyingly productive during their quar, while you get not one, but two SOTWs. The full kiki was captured on video for our Patreon subscribers, plus we have another surprise special guest coming through for some beaucoup BoCo on Hollywood, so pop on over to https://www.patreon.com/waitingtoxhale to join us in Dreamland.

Ep. 34: Never Have I Ever…avoided a controversial teen sitcom May 08, 2020

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Karen & Wynter dive into the fray to discuss Mindy Kaling's latest sitcom, Never Have I Ever on Netflix. They engage multiple perspectives on the show, from controversies around its caste bias, to its role in diversifying contemporary teen representation. This has also been a busy week for our two hosts. Which one is going in for a free drive-thru Covid-19 test? And who survived a harrowing trip to Tarzhay? Who got sucked into Netflix's Hollywood? And who fell in love with Alice Wu's The Half of It? All this, plus, nuo-lingo and a boppin' SOTW.

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