Darqness
The Heart
Kaitlin Prest
4.5 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2017
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Being a queer or trans person of color is hard anywhere, but can feel especially isolating if you’re living in Seattle, WA. A heavily fractured city that is undergoing massive gentrification. Darqness, an electronic music collective, is working to dismantle that and bring QTPOC together. Producer Ellie Lightfoot, a Seattle native, spent the last year with this seven person crew to find out why these parties are so necessary.
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| 0:00.0 | My name is Maddie Kelly. I'm a writer and comedian and along with my co-host, Mark |
| 0:04.6 | Chavez, and Ryan Biel. We are setting out to write a romantic comedy movie script that |
| 0:09.5 | is genuinely romantic and actually funny. |
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| 0:18.2 | And when we run into trouble, we'll get help from some serious rom-com experts. People |
| 0:22.3 | who have worked on everything from 10 things I hate about you to Mamma Mia. |
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| 0:27.7 | It's Let's Bake a Rom-com. |
| 0:29.7 | Available now on CBC Listen and everywhere you get your podcasts. |
| 0:33.8 | From radio toopia, welcome to the heart. I'm Caitlin Prest, your host. |
| 0:45.4 | This story is about community. It's about finding music that knows your insides, that |
| 0:52.8 | feels like it came from there. It's about suddenly being in a room full of your people |
| 1:00.3 | and in that moment realizing how long you've been holding yourself in. It's about finding |
| 1:05.1 | a place where you finally understand what freedom feels like. Where you can dance so hard |
| 1:11.0 | that your soul breaks through your skin and vibrates in the pulsing of the air. |
| 1:19.2 | Ellie Lightfoot is a producer who we met recently. She's from Seattle. And for the past |
| 1:23.6 | year, she's been going back and forth between Seattle, which is her hometown, and here, |
| 1:28.3 | New York, working on this piece with Mitra. It's her very first one. |
| 1:36.0 | It's one thing to know about dance music. To read about its history, to know the names |
| 1:40.9 | of the queer, brown, and black artists who invented this music back in the 80s and 90s, |
| 1:45.7 | maybe even slap the label of a safe space on your party, but it's a whole other thing |
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