Episode 161: Kelli Dunham

Coming Out Pod

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Comedy, Mental Health

4.9 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

The podcast hits an important milestone when we talk to our first EX-NUN! Kelli Dunham dropped out of Bible college in the late '80s and went to Haiti to volunteer at a school. However, she ended up volunteering at a Haitian missionary instead, which ultimately led her to join the Missionaries of Charity, an especially strict order (even by Catholic standards!). Now a comedian, Kelli regales us with stories of her former life, including the steps that convents take to discourage "nun-on-nun action."

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0:00.0	Hi everybody.
0:07.8	Hey y'all.
0:08.8	Welcome.
0:09.7	This is Coming Out with Lauren and Nicole.
0:11.9	We are a weekly podcast where we have on queer folks from all walks of life.
0:15.9	They tell us the tales of how they came out to friends, family, and the world at large.
0:20.7	Because who doesn't love a coming out story?
0:23.2	We are here today with Kelly Dunham.
0:26.9	Kelly is a comedian, an author of seven books, which is so much...
0:33.1	I'm not sure I've read seven books in the past a couple of years.
0:37.6	Yeah, seriously.
0:38.1	So, severely impressive.
0:40.6	Also, Kelly is a former Missionaries of Charity Sister who is featured in the new podcast, The Turning, The Sisters Who Left.
0:50.2	That is a very fancy way of saying that Kelly is a former nun.
0:55.2	Our very first ex-none.
0:59.6	Needless to say, Nicole and I are very excited about this.
1:02.4	Hi, Kelly.
1:03.5	Hi, I can't believe I'm your first nun.
1:05.6	How long have you been doing this podcast and I'm your first ex-none?
1:08.7	Listen, we've been reaching out to a lot of nuns,
1:12.7	but they've been ghosting.
1:13.9	We've been ghosted by nuns.
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