Episode 232: Avi Roque

Coming Out Pod

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Comedy, Mental Health

4.9 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2023

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

We cover some entirely new territory in a candid and vitally important conversation with Avi Roque, who voices Raine Whispers on The Owl House. Like many of us, Avi (they/them) had the ubiquitous "tomboy" label imposed upon them in childhood, and suffice to say it was a long and arduous road from there to their current trans/transmasculine identity. A consummate storyteller, Avi walks us through their entire journey, which includes leaning all the way into ultra-feminine stereotypes during high school, and hitting a scary rock bottom in adulthood that finally prompted them to begin the process of medically transitioning. Avi's story involves reckoning with their demons in a difficult, vulnerable, and honest way, and we hope this episode encourages nuanced dialogue about the human capacity for growth, change, and healing.

(TW: mentions of assault and suicidal ideation, but nothing descriptive)

Follow Avi on Instagram and TikTok at @avi_roque, and on Twitter at @ok_roque.

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone.
0:07.5	Hi there.
0:09.0	Welcome to coming out with Lord and Nicole.
0:12.4	We are a weekly podcast where we have queer folks on from all walks of life.
0:16.9	They tell us the tales of how they came out to friends, family, and the world at large.
0:21.4	Because who doesn't love a coming out story?
0:24.4	We are so excited today to have Avi Roque on, oh, that just feels so good coming off the time.
0:31.7	On the podcast, Avi and I met in December doing a just like transcendent musical reading of a new queer musical called Beneath the Bowtie.
0:46.5	There were a bazillion incredible queer actors and artists and stuff in it at the Geffen Playhouse in L.A.
0:56.3	And it was just a really lovely, like, you know, fast and dirty one week experience,
1:02.1	but everybody, you know, bonded over it. And it was wonderful. And Avi, like, the first
1:07.3	few days that we were there, I was like, I know Avi, where have I seen Avi perform?
1:13.4	Like it was like killing me.
1:15.0	And then all of a sudden I was like, wait a second.
1:17.8	Because you and I were talking.
1:19.6	And I was like making you recite your resume so they can figure it out.
1:25.5	And then you said Tales of the Transcesters, which was directed by former
1:32.7	podcast, Sean Dessani, who we had on a few years ago, who is absolutely lovely, directed
1:40.3	this play, and I wanted to go support Sean.
1:48.8	And it was, I mean, Avi, first of all, please introduce yourself.
1:53.9	Avi is a, do you say, do you say Latinx or Latine?
1:55.3	Sure.
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