Carmen Maria Machado's Queer Horror Stories

Nancy

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Gay, Documentary, Society & Culture, Sexuality, Lgtbq, Lesbian, Relationships, Asian, Politics, Conversations, Storytelling, Health & Fitness, Homosexuality

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Carmen Maria Machado joins us to talk queer horror stories, writing about pandemics, and the conversation we as queer people should be having more often.

If you or someone you know is experiencing intimate partner violence, contact The National Domestic Violence Hotline. The National Coalition Against Domestic Violence has more info on LGBTQ intimate partner violence statistics here.

Music in this episode by Jeremy S. Bloom. Theme by Alexander Overington.

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0:00.0	Hey, Nancy listeners. We want to give you all a heads up that intimate partner violence is discussed in the second half of this episode.
0:10.4	From WNYC Studios, you're listening to Nancy.
0:14.3	With your hosts, Tobin Lo and Kathy too.
0:17.4	Hello, hello Kathy.
0:28.0	Tobin.
0:29.0	Hey.
0:30.0	Hi.
0:31.0	How are you doing? Are you recording?
0:32.0	I am recording, yes.
0:34.0	Is your dog out of the room?
0:35.7	My dog is out of the room.
0:37.0	She is not at the mic right now.
0:39.2	Yes, she's out of the room.
0:40.5	Okay, okay, great. We can start.
0:42.4	Why don't we talk about our amazing guest?
0:45.6	Okay, let's.
0:49.9	So we are super excited to talk to author Carmen Maria Machado.
0:54.2	When we first invited Carmen on the show, we wanted to talk about her memoir that came out a couple months ago in the dream house.
1:00.8	The book is about her experience in an abusive lesbian relationship and plays with genres like fantasy and horror.
1:06.8	It is such an amazing book and we're still going to chat with her about it.
1:10.4	But right before we were scheduled to interview her, the pandemic took hold and we were all told to social distance.
1:17.1	And this whole experience with the coronavirus pandemic really reminded us of two stories and Carmen's first book.
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