Episode 287: Maddy Kling

Coming Out Pod

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Comedy, Mental Health

4.9 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

When 23-year-old grad student Maddy Kling asked if she could interview Lauren for her project on coming out stories, Lauren jumped at the chance to sit on the other side of the mic! But not only that; the work Maddy was doing sounded so fascinating that Lauren asked if she would come on the podcast to discuss it! Maddy is getting her master's in Dance/Movement Therapy, and her project explores how DMT can help the queer community "by allowing them to tell their coming out stories through dance and movement." Maddy identifies as both bisexual and demisexual, and regarding her own journey, she says that "the most comfortable space I felt being out was dance." Maddy describes the relief she experienced when she finally discovered the demisexual label, and also shares how she lived the bi dream of coming out in a Vans store! Now THAT'S how you embrace a stereotype!

Learn more about Dance/Movement Therapy at adta.memberclicks.net/what-is-dancemovement-therapy.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody. Welcome to Coming Out Pod.
0:10.0	Y'all, today we are going to be talking about dance and movement.
0:13.3	And so, for the Queer Root shout out, shout out to you, if your queer root root is Zoe Saldana.
0:22.3	Zoe Saldana, now you could have, she could be your queer root in many things,
0:27.3	depending on your age and what you saw her in.
0:30.6	I am thinking specifically because it's thematic.
0:33.8	I'm thinking of her in the movie Center Stage, which is a 2000 dance film that, oh my God,
0:41.8	it is, it's a cult classic. It's not, it's not like a queer movie, but like, it's kind of
0:49.0	queer. I mean, all dances, all dance is kind of queer, right's girls dancing together come on it's an amazing
0:56.9	movie zoie saldana is like the cool sort of like rebellious dancer girl in it um you got to see
1:04.9	center stage if you haven't seen it uh so yeah just wanted to honor Zoe seldana's work in center
1:10.6	stage and all the other amazing things that she has been beautiful and talented in.
1:16.8	Okay, so let's jump right in.
1:20.7	I have with me today, my guest is Maddie Kling.
1:25.3	Hi, Maddie.
1:26.3	Thank you for being here. Hi. I'm so excited to be here. And thank you for having me. I am so thrilled. So basically, so Maddie is a grad student studying dance movement therapy, which is something we will talk about in depth. But Maddie emailed the pod and was like, hey, I'm doing this project.
1:48.9	I was wondering if I could like interview you for it.
1:52.8	And I almost never get to be on the other side of an interview.
1:57.1	So I was very excited and immediately was like, yes, please interview me.
2:00.8	And then I was like, also, please interview me. And then I was
2:01.8	like, also, if you want to be a guest, I always like, anytime someone reaches out, I'm always
2:07.6	like, do you also want to be a guest? But I'm, we had never on the pod, we've never really
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