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is a podcast by ARC – A Rainbow Collective, where artists, dreamers, misfits, and makers share what it means to live and create from the inside out. These are quiet, honest conversations about queerness, creativity, community, grief, joy, and the courage to be seen — just as we are. Come as you are. Stay for the story. New episodes every week, from studios, living rooms, forest clearings and lakes, rivers.

  1. Archita: Drawing herself into Being

    10/06/2025

    Archita: Drawing herself into Being

    In this episode, we sit with Archita-illustrator, educator, and playful explorer to talk about how art can become a language for the body, a mirror for desire, and a map for self-discovery. We explore what it means to teach art as an act of liberation, to express beyond words, and to hold both curiosity and courage while exploring one’s body and sexuality. Through every line and color, Archita reminds us that creativity isn’t about perfection, it’s about permission.

    21 min
  2. Hafsa: Teaching the Heart to speak

    10/06/2025

    Hafsa: Teaching the Heart to speak

    In this episode, we sit with Hafsa-poet, educator, and quiet dreamer to talk about the ache and art of expression. We explore how words can become both wound and balm, how teaching is also a form of listening, and how poetry can hold melancholy without letting it drown the light. Between silence and syllable, Hafsa reminds us that language isn’t just how we communicate it’s how we come home to ourselves.

    15 min
  3. Asher: Notes of Freedom

    10/04/2025

    Asher: Notes of Freedom

    In this episode, we sit with Asher — singer, musician, and quiet rebel — to talk about what it means to break free from systems that once defined you, and still choose love, compassion, and music as your language of change. We explore his journey from choir boy to band frontman, how faith and freedom can coexist, and how every song he sings is a small act of healing — for himself, and for the world around him.

    18 min
  4. Sarabhi: Finding Light, Frame by Frame

    10/04/2025

    Sarabhi: Finding Light, Frame by Frame

    In this episode, we sit with Sarabhi — filmmaker, storyteller, and seeker — to talk about the slow, beautiful process of creating change one frame at a time. We explore what it means to look for your place in a world that often forgets softness, how queerness became her home, and how the act of filming can also become a way of healing — of finally seeing and celebrating yourself.

    20 min
  5. Svabhu: Systems, Stories and the Heart of change

    10/04/2025

    Svabhu: Systems, Stories and the Heart of change

    In this episode, we sit with Svabhu — artist, changemaker, and gentle disruptor — to talk about what it means to create from the heart while working within (and against) systems. We explore how breaking things down can be an act of care, how creativity becomes a tool for change, and how true transformation begins when we lead with empathy instead of ego.

    39 min
  6. Rhea: Mapping what we listen to

    10/04/2025

    Rhea: Mapping what we listen to

    In this episode, we sit with Rhea — map maker, listener, and wanderer — to talk about the cartographies we carry inside and outside. We explore how listening to the environment can guide us home, how mapping is less about directions and more about attention, and how tuning into ourselves can be the truest compass of all.

    32 min
  7. Sreepoorna: Singing the Self Alive

    10/01/2025

    Sreepoorna: Singing the Self Alive

    In this episode, we sit with Sreepoorna — singer, storyteller, and seeker — to talk about the voice as both instrument and mirror. We explore how music becomes a way of returning to oneself, how singing carries the power to hold grief and joy together, and how creating space for our own sound can be an act of courage.

    24 min
  8. Alexis: Dancing Between Worlds

    10/01/2025

    Alexis: Dancing Between Worlds

    In this episode, we sit with Alexis — drag artist, creator, and dreamer — to talk about what it means to live in motion: between cultures, between expectations, between the inner and outer worlds. We explore how movement can become memory, how the body carries stories beyond words, and how art opens spaces for freedom, connection, and becoming.

    22 min
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is a podcast by ARC – A Rainbow Collective, where artists, dreamers, misfits, and makers share what it means to live and create from the inside out. These are quiet, honest conversations about queerness, creativity, community, grief, joy, and the courage to be seen — just as we are. Come as you are. Stay for the story. New episodes every week, from studios, living rooms, forest clearings and lakes, rivers.

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