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personal essays in text and audio from the land of queer embodiment
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Episode 30: Things We Didn't Learn in Catholic School (Queer Pessimism Edition) (opens the original)
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When I’m producing a documentary, one of my favorite parts of the process is the moment when a bit of our footage sticks to me. Permanently. I never know when it will happen, but it always does. The sticky bit could be a snippet of dialogue, a quote from an interview, or an image. After watching the footage over and over again, the bit becomes part of me.Often it’s a funny line—a perfect, punchy distillation of the truth that gets adopted as an inside joke among the team of producers and editors
Episode 29: Finding the Funny in Hard Times (opens the original)
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I lost my sense of humor.My identity crisis arrived right on schedule. I was 28 years old and had just achieved two big goals. I got a Ph.D. and a tenure track job at a research university. I expected to feel a deep sense of competency and satisfaction. I just knew I’d arrive at a stable sense of self–smart, accomplished, creative professor-lady! That’s not what happened. I was Kelly Rafferty, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Performance Studies at Arizona State University, and I still felt scared
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