Hello, lovely listeners, tis I, Nicole. Before our episode starts today, I just wanted to let you know a little bit of what I am working on, what I have been working on for the past three and a half years outside of the pod and see if perhaps you might want to get on board to help, be that monetarily or just via other outlets

of giving them your time or energy. So I co-wrote a queer series, oh my goodness, with

writer Germana Bello of Red from Brazil. And this series draws on so many things that come up

on the pod.

It is multigenerational.

It is multicultural.

It is bilingual.

It deals with issues of going through a second adolescence, which we talk about a lot on the pod.

When you really come into your own, when you come out, or you start experiencing your own queerness for the first time in middle age.

It deals with friction between Gen X and Gen Z queer people and ways in which we can learn from each other.

It deals with what happens 10 years down the road after the happily ever after of queer marriage. And of course, it has some very, very, very, very, very, very

spicy sex scenes. And yes, I say that trying to obviously pique your interest, but I also say it because

they were written really, really carefully for the, through the queer lens, like really, really

specifically.

So I'm actually quite proud of the way that we are presenting queer sex in this.

Yay.

So in order to bring this vision to life, 10 episodes of this digital series, we are crowdfunding

currently. And that's a very vulnerable

and intense experience. And so if you feel inclined to give, this week in particular, we have

a matching challenge. So we're able to unlock a $3,000 donation if we get a hundred smaller donations, or really not smaller donations,

literally just 100 donations of any size.

So even if you can only give a dollar or $5 or whatever, that helps us towards this

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