Embracing Elephants

Emme Kay
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Let's hug all those elephants in the room, and actually talk about change, challenges, and all the absurd in between.

  1. If Gaining Myself Means Losing Everything Else I Think That's A Good Trade

    09/18/2025

    If Gaining Myself Means Losing Everything Else I Think That's A Good Trade

    Fig Willow (they/them) of @moonthymearts sits down with Emme as her first transmasc non-binary guest with the experience of being on testosterone and having had top surgery! They talk all about neurodivergence, crip time, transness, the gender void, non-binary-ness, learning how to be okay with you and your body doing and needing the time it needs instead of what others ask of it. It's a sweet sensitive convo between two sweeties.  Want to support Emme individually for her transition costs? Head to bit.ly/emmekay Support the FULL PODCAST at https://www.patreon.com/c/EmmeKay Special thanks to Timothy Bretschneider for composing and performing the music at the end of the show! check out shabby wings for more :-)

    1h 18m
  2. Holding Masculinity Accountable Means Holding Them

    07/09/2025

    Holding Masculinity Accountable Means Holding Them

    Emme sits down by a wood stove (installed manly-ily by her guest) with Toby Fraser of the Masculinity Action Project. This anarcho-punk and your hostess with the mostess talk all about FEELINGS, testosterone & estrogen, how transfeminity and masculinity run parallel and then diverge, body dysmorphia vs gender dysphoria, and many other topics. Check out @map_philly to learn about more of the organizing work they do in gender justice, and grab some exclusive bonus comedy content referenced in MAP soon at patreon.com/emmekay! Want to support Emme individually for her transition costs? Head to bit.ly/emmekay Support the FULL PODCAST at https://www.patreon.com/c/EmmeKay Special thanks to Timothy Bretschneider for composing and performing the music at the end of the show! check out shabby wings for more :-)

    1h 19m
  3. Why I Left the United States

    06/30/2025

    Why I Left the United States

    An Ask Me Anything for Emme after her move to Canada from the United States. She's a citizen of both, and sourced questions from her past guests (thanks Kate, Jes, and others!) and does her best to answer them! Questions like: What was your biggest fear about staying in the US, and what is your biggest hope about moving to Canada? Is there anything that might have made you want to stay in the US? Now that you’ve gone and you are “looking in” at the US’s actions (specifically Iran) - are you relieved that you left? MORE questions & answers are available on the Patreon as our first exclusive pod -- check that out at Patreon.com/EmmeKay. She also posts written content, which ranges from poetry to essays about transness and paperwork. Still growing and changing, but new exclusive pod eps featuring groups of guests are in the works! Want to support Emme individually for her transition costs? Head to bit.ly/emmekay Support the FULL PODCAST at https://www.patreon.com/c/EmmeKay Special thanks to Timothy Bretschneider for composing and performing the music at the end of the show! check out shabby wings for more :-)

    57 min
  4. Swimming in Dick Pics And Then Everyone's Out of the Pool

    03/17/2025

    Swimming in Dick Pics And Then Everyone's Out of the Pool

    Emme sits down with Adrienne Gomez, 4th generation Latina and bisexual comedian who runs Sizzling Singles, a queer dating show running monthly right now at the famous Stonewall Inn! She chats with Emme about swimming in dick pics when she didn't love herself, but now that she does, it's like "everyone -- out of the pool!!" (her joke, fantastic). We talk all about being single, being unemployed/looking for work, and being queer -- and of course Emme goes on a few trans-related rants too. Come for the jokes to entertain you, stay for the jokes we use to cope! For tickets to Sizzling Singles, head here: https://partiful.com/e/ZapxANIIQdORD6zSraYJ You can see Emme's stand-up on: -- Monday, March 17th at Alix's partner's co-produced event Going Acoustic at Quig's, the bar above Plays & Players at 17th & Delancey in Philadelphia. -- Wednesday, March 19th for Sizzling Singles at Stonewall Inn (yes, that Stonewall) on Christopher St in NYC -- Saturday, March 22nd for Night of the Living DEI at Studio 34 in West Philly, benefitting the Masculinity Action Project and finally back at Quig's on Sunday, March 23rd for Your Sunday's Best Times are all roughly 7pm, but look it up to be sure! Want to support Emme individually for her transition costs? Head to bit.ly/emmekay Support the FULL PODCAST at https://www.patreon.com/c/EmmeKay Special thanks to Timothy Bretschneider for composing and performing the music at the end of the show! check out shabby wings for more :-)

    1h 27m
  5. Manic Pixie Fat Jew

    03/14/2025

    Manic Pixie Fat Jew

    Emme welcomes her artistic inspiration to start doing stand-up: the amazing dramaturgical, writerly, and loud annoying Jew Alix Rosenfeld (written incredibly tongue in cheek). She talks with Emme all about medical challenges, fat (GASP) and weight gain and food and culture, and losing friends over this moment in world history. Check out the Third Narrative podcast she mentions in the conversation at https://thirdnarrative.org/. You can see Emme's stand-up on: -- Monday, March 17th at Alix's partner's co-produced event Going Acoustic at Quig's, the bar above Plays & Players at 17th & Delancey in Philadelphia. -- Wednesday, March 19th for Sizzling Singles at Stonewall Inn (yes, that Stonewall) on Christopher St in NYC -- Saturday, March 22nd for Night of the Living DEI at Studio 34 in West Philly, benefitting the Masculinity Action Project and finally back at Quig's on Sunday, March 23rd for Your Sunday's Best Times are all roughly 7pm, but look it up to be sure! Want to support Emme individually for her transition costs? Head to bit.ly/emmekay Support the FULL PODCAST at https://www.patreon.com/c/EmmeKay Special thanks to Timothy Bretschneider for composing and performing the music at the end of the show! check out shabby wings for more :-)

    1h 28m
  6. What Even Is Masculinity?

    02/24/2025

    What Even Is Masculinity?

    Emme sits down with her first CISGENDERED MALE guest, Eric Wunsch, a stand-up guy who's dabbled in stand-up, had a career in theatre he left it for the physical world of farming -- which we get into the muddy transitional feelings of it all. Eric brings sensitivity, depth, curiosity, and enthusiasm to the question of "what even is masculinity?" and we sort of solve it. You know, by accepting it's the endlessly complex and uncertain thing all of this gender stuff is. Listen in. Want to support Emme individually for her transition costs? Head to bit.ly/emmekay Support the FULL PODCAST at https://www.patreon.com/c/EmmeKay Special thanks to Timothy Bretschneider for composing and performing the music at the end of the show! check out shabby wings for more :-)

    1h 44m
  7. Death Cramps: Cuz We've Never Really Studied the Female Body

    02/14/2025

    Death Cramps: Cuz We've Never Really Studied the Female Body

    On Inauguration Day 2025, Emme sits down with old Museum Hack/Caveat/NYC theare compatriot, magnificent podcast producer, and dear friend Kate Helen Downey as Los Angeles continued to be on fire to talk about a DIFFERENT kind of pain and confusion, that of DEATH CRAMPS. Yes, an elephant in the room for MOST people with uteruses (and even some without) -- not only menstruation, but especially dysmenorrhea,  excruciating period cramps, and what causes it and where it comes from. Kate's new podcast CRAMPED is a limited series deep dive into researching and communicating about not only her mystery condition, but women's health and the medical system and why we can't figure out what's going on with SO MANY PEOPLE's experiences of intense pain. Find CRAMPED wherever you get your podcasts, it is well worth the listen and quite an inspiration for me too. CRAMPED Spotify Link:  https://open.spotify.com/show/7qJQfpGTdzc25jiV4pi7ed?si=6de90c9139ba4d2f Kate's website & link to Substack: https://www.katehelendowney.com/   Want to support Emme individually for her transition costs? Head to bit.ly/emmekay Support the FULL PODCAST at https://www.patreon.com/c/EmmeKay Special thanks to Timothy Bretschneider for composing and performing the music at the end of the show! check out shabby wings for more :-)

    1h 18m
  8. A Romanian and Canadian Walk Into an American Clown School

    02/07/2025

    A Romanian and Canadian Walk Into an American Clown School

    Right after the 2024 US Presidential Election, Emme chats with Raluca Urea, a dear clowning, acting, and directing friend of hers from their grad school days at the University of the Arts with Pig Iron School's MFA in Devised Performance. Emme and Raluca were perfect misfits and worked together a bunch, and felt isolated in various ways by their differences -- so they talk about working in the US under unique circumstances, the challenge of managing your emotions without grace or understanding, various comparisons between the US in 2002 and 2017 and Germany and Romania, what it's like to be an immigrant. We also discuss black forest cake which we really should've touched on more, tbh. Head to Stuttgart to see theatre and look Raluca up -- ralucaurea.com. Want to support Emme individually for her transition costs? Head to bit.ly/emmekay Support the FULL PODCAST at https://www.patreon.com/c/EmmeKay Special thanks to Timothy Bretschneider for composing and performing the music at the end of the show! check out shabby wings for more :-)

    1h 44m
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Let's hug all those elephants in the room, and actually talk about change, challenges, and all the absurd in between.

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  • Creator
    Emme Kay
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2025
  • Episodes
    14
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2024
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    Embracing Elephants