Episode 180: Nikki Garza

Coming Out Pod

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Comedy, Mental Health

4.9 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

We're starting the year off right with actor/content creator/all-around-joyful-and-hilarious-human-being, Nikki Garza! Nikki explains how she's distanced herself from the term "body positivity" as she's watched it come to mean insecurity in general, as opposed to the actual marginalization of othered bodies. Nikki prefers the term "body confidence," and discusses how so many people are attracted to fat folks...but want to "love you in private" (yes; even ultra-accepting queer people). We also dissect the concept of "sexy ugly," and Nikki beautifully illustrates the difference between straight men and queer women by reading us DMs from her thirst traps!

Follow Nikki on TikTok and Instagram at @itsnikki.g, and on Twitter at @itsnikkigarza

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0:00.0	Hello.
0:07.0	Hello.
0:08.0	Welcome to Coming Out with Lauren and Nicole in the new year.
0:13.0	Folks, we are a weekly podcast where we have on queer folks from all walks of life.
0:19.0	They tell us the tales of how they came out to friends, family, and the world at large.
0:23.4	Because who doesn't love a coming out story?
0:26.7	It's 2022.
0:29.2	The sky is blue, the air is fresh, the birds are singing.
0:33.6	We're excited to be back after our brief hiatus.
0:37.8	And we are kicking things off with Nikki Garza.
0:41.7	Hi, Nikki.
0:43.5	Hi, everyone.
0:45.2	I'm like, ooh, the new year.
0:48.5	New year, same mental illnesses.
0:51.8	Yay.
0:52.9	Like, give a name from, don't fix it. Our current mental illnesses have served us well throughout the years. There is no need to adjust them. So, okay, so Nikki comes to me, or comes to us, rather, via my BFF, who I will, her name is Tara. I was about to be like who I will call T-Bos.
1:13.0	T-Baz is her nickname. It's not T-Baz from TLC. But you have heard, maybe you haven't heard me
1:18.7	mentioned Tara by name, but you, if you are a regular listener, know Tara as my BFF, who I did
1:25.0	a cruise ship with. We worked on a second city cruise ship together.
1:29.5	Tara lives in Atlanta, and throughout the pandemic, she and I Zoom every single weekend
1:34.9	and watch some form of reality show, whether it's Great British Bake Off or something
1:42.0	with dogs.
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