Episode 284: Tania De Rozario

Coming Out Pod

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Comedy, Mental Health

4.9 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2024

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

The pod welcomes its first ever Singaporean guest, Tania De Rozario, whose memoir "Dinner on Monster Island" comes out next week! At the time that Tania was growing up in Singapore, positive representations of queer people were literally illegal on public television. Since this was long before streaming platforms and the prevalence of the internet, this meant that all of Tania's childhood teachings about "homosexuality" came from her Evangelical-convert mother. Things culminated in Tania being subjected to a gay exorcism (or as it was called at the time, a "casting out") when she was just twelve years old. Tania, who now lives in Vancouver, shares this and other stories from her past with a good deal of perspective, and an admirable amount of levity. Plus, we discuss how the horror genre is intrinsically linked with queerness, which is a real bummer if you hypothetically can't watch scary movies because they give you nightmares HYPOTHETICALLY.

Follow Tania on Instagram at @_tania.de.rozario_ (make note of all the underscores and periods!) and at @TaniaDeRozario on Twitter. "Dinner on Monster Island" comes out February 6th; find out where to pre-order/purchase it at linktr.ee/TaniaDeRozario, but also check your local bookstores!

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, welcome to Coming Out Pod.
0:09.0	Y'all, I have my first Queer Root shoutout that was submitted by a listener.
0:16.0	Every week, I'm like, hey, hit me up with your personal queer roots.
0:19.0	So I really do read it.
0:20.0	You could message me on Twitter or Instagram or email, Coming Out Pod with your personal queer roots. So I really do read it. You could message me on
0:21.9	Twitter or Instagram or email coming out pod at gmail.com. But so this week, from a listener,
0:27.8	shout out to you, if your queer root, is Kate Jackson. If that name sounds like vaguely familiar,
0:35.3	but you can't really place it. Kate Jackson is probably the
0:38.5	least famous of the three Charlie's Angels. But I have on good authority that she was the
0:45.6	quote, lesbian magnet of the Charlie's Angels. This listener has also informed me that she was in a
0:51.6	1970s show called The Rookies, which I don't know of it, but it sounds
0:56.7	very gay. And here's a fun fact. The girl, an upperclassman who I had a huge crush on in
1:04.7	college, went on to play Kay Jackson in the made-for-TV Charlie's Angel movie. So it all comes
1:10.5	full circle. We're all connected
1:12.7	in one big queer root shuffle. Thank you to the listener who submitted Kay Jackson as their
1:20.3	queer root. Yo, I am here today with writer Tanya de Rosario. So Tanya's memoir, which is really, it's a collection of
1:33.3	essays. It's called Dinner on Monster Island, and it's going to be coming out on February
1:37.6	6th very shortly. We are going to talk about that it's really, it's a beautiful, uh well we'll talk about it we'll get to it
1:46.5	but there are horror elements that that are spoken about in the book and a lot a lot of
1:52.7	personal storytelling it is essentially i mean you get you really get tanya's coming out story
2:00.4	over the course of the essays.
2:03.5	But we're going to talk about that.
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