Episode 292: Jenn Lee (Smith), REDUX!

Coming Out Pod

Health & Fitness, Sexuality, Comedy, Mental Health

4.9 • 584 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2024

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Lauren couldn't put the podcast on hiatus without doing one of her favorite kinds of episodes: namely, a REDUX! When producer and writer Jenn Lee (formerly Jenn Lee Smith) was first on the pod in July of 2022, she was celebrating the publication of a book she had co-edited called "I Spoke to You with Silence: Essays from Queer Mormons of Marginalized Genders." Jenn herself was raised in the Mormon religion, and despite having come out in 2008, she had chosen to remain in a monogamous marriage with her husband of twenty-one years, with whom she shares three children. Suffice to say that a lot has changed for Jenn since the summer of 2022. She explains how the book tour for "I Spoke to You with Silence" kicked off a chain of events, and shares how her love for her children has only deepened now that she is finally living as her whole self ("I have been able to love them so much more since feeling right in my own body and skin"). Plus, Jenn describes her experiences on the dating apps as a "little post-Mormon gayby," and Lauren asks Jenn a question that she's been mulling over ever since the day they first met...

Connect with Jenn on Facebook at facebook.com/jennlee.smith2, and follow her on Instagram at @bewilderfilm. Also, check out her upcoming documentary at homecourtfilm.com and on Insta at @homecourtfilm!

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to coming out pod.
0:10.4	This is Lauren.
0:12.0	So if you did not see the little mini bonus episode a couple weeks ago, this is going to be the last episode of the podcast, not forever,
0:22.9	not doing a big final episode, but the pod is going to be taking a hiatus. I will almost
0:29.4	certainly be back to do at least a couple episodes during Pride Month, but this will be the last
0:35.0	episode for a while. So to that end, a queer root shoutout that I have been saving.
0:42.1	Queer root shout out this week to you, if your queer root, is Tatiana Maslani from Orphan Black.
0:51.4	Orphan Black is my favorite TV show of all time. It is very, very queer. And without
0:57.0	giving too much away, the actress Tatiana Maslani, was a gorgeous, sexy name. The show, the top, the topic, the show is about clones.
1:08.0	So she plays a whole bunch of clones.
1:11.3	She plays like eight or ten different characters.
1:14.1	And they all look very different.
1:16.5	They have different accents, different.
1:19.2	A lot of them are queer.
1:20.4	One is lesbian.
1:21.3	One's bisexual.
1:22.3	She plays a trans man clone.
1:25.1	And I love this as a queer root shout out because a lot of folks on this
1:30.6	podcast have talked about when they finally come out as queer and then they'll like date their
1:36.6	first person of the gender they've secretly always wanted to date. And if there's no spark,
1:41.4	they're like, oh my God, what if I'm wrong? What if I wasn't queer? And it's like, no, no, no, you're not going to be attracted to every single person of that gender. You have to still find the right person. But see, Orphan Black is a great litmus test because you can be like, which of these many Tatiana Maslani's am I attracted to? And if you're attracted to any of them, you are in fact gay.
2:03.4	I'm sorry, that's the rule.
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