Beauty and the Guest Chad the Diamond

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This episode I talk to my friend Miss Iliah, and girllll, was it a good ole' time! Join Miss Iliah and I as we cackle telling each other stories from heterosexual dating woes, infatuations with unavailable coworkers, mixed sexual signals that confuse the hell out of us (ugh), to exploring gender identity and a whole many more topics our short-attention-prone minds discuss! 

(Originally recorded June 2021)


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Gabriela AKA Lady Paraiso is a drag queen, performance artist, and activist using her voice to speak about trans and disability causes. She lives with Ectrodactyly which is a congenital disorder that affects the formation of her hands, feet, and skin among other things. In this episode, Gabriela shares her experience growing up with not only Ectrodactyly, but questioning her gender identity along side it. Gabriela opens up about the passing of her mother, how her Nicaraguan roots has shaped her and her family and what it has meant for her transition and disability; and she touches on her experience of being put in jail for her activism.




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Today I am speaking with an inspiring and compelling person living a fascinating life with which my guest talks about in a powerful and authoritative way (that’s the most accurate way I can describe it.) I am speaking with Jay Guercio.

I am honest when I say that after I'd finished interviewing Jay, I turned my computer off and started to cry because I was that moved to live more of my own truth in regards to many things in my life, and because I was exceedingly appreciative of her mind and the love she has in her life and heart that she freely shares with others.

I found Jay on Tik Tok while scrolling though my For You feed stumbling on her viral video where she explains how she is in a platonic marriage with her female best friend raising their foster son together.

What? Yup, I had a lot of questions as you can imagine. And she answered all of them - everything from where Jay and her wife met, their 15 year old foster son, Eddie - his background, how and why Jay became his foster mom with the added dynamic of being a transracial family, to the platonic marriage itself - where Jay and Krystle even got the idea that this kind relationship could work, what roles they play as wife and wife. They are also in an open marriage and are free to date outside of the marriage so we talk about that.. and many more topics.

For me the most compelling and exciting thing about their story is not even the platonic marriage and how that all works for them, but it is this: that love is not-can not, be defined or confined to where we previously think it has to be. Love can show up in unique and new ways in our lives. And further more, the kind of love that maybe a lot of us imagine saving or curing our lives can from places we don't even know exist.

I am so proud of this interview and I hope you are moved the way I was.

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In this episode I am interviewing the beautiful and talented, Clawdeena. 

I wanted to interview Clawdeena for a number of different reasons; the first reason is because I am a fan; I live for her fashion, her makeup, her aesthetic, her bad-bitch-essence. The second reason is I’ve always admired her point of view, the way she thinks, and I am attracted to the kind of communicator she is. He thoughts are nuanced; they are of substance, and I repeatedly learn something new and valuable when I listen to her speak. The third reason is I think she lives an interesting life and has a very interesting story that I was curious to know more about.

From starting her YouTube channel at 10 years old, being bullied in school, her introduction to drag, to becoming a rising star in the beauty industry, Clawdeena is unreserved in sharing her story with me, particularly, her story of why at the height of her career as a beauty influencer, did she suddenly delete her Instagram, seemingly leaving it all behind.

Clawdeena did eventually come back to social media, but as a new kind of content creator, as someone who, in her own words, is the, “more authentic and mindful” version of herself.

This episode is about what it really looks like to choose authenticity above all else, even when it feels like you’re losing it all to choose it.

As a word of caution, the topics of self harm, sexual abuse, and suicide are talked about in this episode, so just keep that in mind if those things might pose as a trigger for you.

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In this episode I talk to my good friend Stephanie Fowler.

Stephanie is a resilient person who has so much love inside of her! She exudes warmth, and I always feel included whenever I’m with her; she’s one of those people that feel so safe to be around. I want to say thank you to her for sharing what she does in this episode, as she does open up to me about the sexual abuse that happened to her starting when she was 5 years old. If this topic is something that might trigger you, we just wanted you to be aware that we talk about it.

If you have faced sexual assault and are in need of help, you can contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline by calling 1-800-656-4673.

They’re available 24/7.

We hope you’re elevated by this episode.

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