Episode 235: Amir Levi

Coming Out Pod

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Comedy, Mental Health

4.9 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

We have a fashion-forward conversation with the OUTRAGEOUSLY stylish Amir Levi! Amir is a non-binary performer who uses the pronouns he, she, and they ("I like it when they get turns, so that none of them feel left out"), and their story has alllll the hallmarks of the late '90s: Coming out to your friend after seeing Scream 2! Guys from chat rooms calling your family's fax machine! Problematic senior yearbook quotes! Your dad offering to buy you porn! Amir explains how two acting roles they were playing simultaneously finally unlocked their understanding of their own gender, and the brilliant plan they concocted to explore their feminine side! Plus, Nicole shares a fascinating story about Leif that proves just how deeply heteronormativity runs in our culture...

Follow Amir on Instagram at @theamirlevi, and check out theamirlevi.com!

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0:00.0	Oh, hey y'all.
0:07.0	Welcome.
0:09.0	I know. I said welcome.
0:10.5	Really chipper.
0:11.6	God, I just can't pull it together in these inches.
0:14.3	I'm really, I'm loving it.
0:15.8	You know, I never know what to expect.
0:17.3	It's a new journey every time.
0:18.4	Neither do I. It's terrifying.
0:22.0	Welcome to coming out with Lauren and Nicole. We are a weekly podcast where we have
0:27.5	queer folks on from all walks of life. They tell us the tales of how they came out to friends,
0:31.8	family, and the world at large. Because who doesn't love a coming out story?
0:44.5	Today, we have Amir Levy on the podcast, for this.
0:48.1	Amir, who is also wearing a fabulous headband.
0:51.4	These are the moments where I wish it was a visual medium.
0:57.0	So Amir and I know each other from Beneath the Bowtie,
1:03.9	which was the staged reading of the musical that I did in December. We have had one person on the pod from that since, Avi. I thought you had Rivka on also. Well, that's what I was going to say. We did. But you were on pregnancy leave. Yeah. So that was one that I did. I think did that with Sarah York. I can't remember. But I did with a co-host. I was really just thinking since the re-day. Four jerseys. But yes, but yes.
1:28.1	So we've had, you are the third.
1:30.3	Yes, we're collecting cast members from beneath the bowtie.
1:33.1	And it's so funny.
1:33.8	Like I am such, I'm constantly have the pod.
1:37.5	I know Lauren does too.
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