Episode 282: Julie Delporte

Coming Out Pod

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Comedy, Mental Health

4.9 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Multidisciplinary author and artist Julie Delporte (they/she) was born in a village in the French countryside, and describes herself as "someone who is late in life." One of the ways in which this manifested was that Julie did not realize she was a lesbian until the age of thirty-five, which, as she says, "is not so old, but it felt so old." In her newly released graphic novel, "Portrait of a Body," Julie traces the arc of her coming out story through both text and illustrations, and the result is beautiful and moving. Julie speaks candidly about the conflict she felt between her need to explore her sexuality and her fear of potentially hurting someone in the process, and we have a vulnerable conversation about why we sometimes feel like we're "not sexual enough" as lesbians. Also, Julie tells an incredibly relatable story about how sometimes the slightest glimpse of a friend's shoulder can clarify everything...

Follow Julie on Instagram at @juliedelporte_, and buy her GORGEOUS book "Portrait of a Body" at https://drawnandquarterly.com/books/portrait-of-a-body/, or wherever gorgeous books are sold!

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0:00.0	Hi y'all, welcome to Coming Out Pod.
0:10.0	Okay, I'm almost surprised that I have not yet gotten to this particular queer root shoutout.
0:17.0	It is, you'll be shocked to find out one that is close to my heart. Shout out to you
0:22.8	if your queer root is Piper Parabo, an actress who, unfortunately, is a straight lady, as far as I know,
0:34.6	but Piper Parabo has been in three movies that are extremely important to the
0:39.9	queer community. They are, of course, Coyote Ugly, Lost and Delirious, and Imagine Me and You.
0:46.9	Three very different films, but all just, I don't know, really, really pivotal works.
0:55.2	So, yeah, shout out to you if Piper Parabo and her canon of cinema played any part in your
1:04.5	Queer Awakening.
1:06.4	Folks, my guest today has an absolutely gorgeous French name that I fear I am about to butcher.
1:16.1	Spoiler alert, she is, she is in fact French.
1:18.7	She is coming to us from Montreal.
1:21.3	I am here today with author Julie Del Porte.
1:32.2	How did I do on that? Julie, would you like to say your beautiful French name for us? Julie Belport. Wow, I was truly so close. Yes, so if you are listening
1:40.1	to this episode on the day that it has come out, Wednesday the 17th, that means that just
1:46.9	yesterday, Tuesday the 16th, Julie's latest book is out, and it is available for sale. It is called
1:55.5	Portrait of a Body. And it is, it's truly gorgeous. We were talking off mic and uh uh julie thinks that the best
2:04.7	you know way to describe the book in english is a graphic novel but i honestly don't even think
2:10.4	that does it justice it's uh julie has done all of the illustrations in the book herself as well
2:17.4	uh as the as the writing.
2:20.5	And it's truly, it's just really beautiful. I loved reading it. I was, I was very moved by it.
2:31.6	And yeah, as someone who doesn't have a ton of experience reading graphic novels
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