Finding Your Voice

Call Your Girlfriend

Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow

Society & Culture

4.7 • 4.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

Comedy and art criticism don't exactly sound like parallel career paths. But after bouncing from a freelance hustle to a fancy art world job to improv classes, Christina Catherine Martinez realized she wanted to do both. We talk about how she navigates making a life and a career as an intellectual and a comedian, how alike those performances are on social media, and how power and money infect everything. One place she is sharing her voice is in her book, Aesthetical Relations.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Call Your Girlfriend, a podcast for long-distance besties everywhere.
0:06.0	I'm Amina Chusau and I'm Anne Friedman.
0:09.0	Hey Anne Friedman, what's up this week?
0:12.0	Oh my god, this week I am barely making it across the finish line of this week is how I feel.
0:19.0	I, you know, my body is broken, my body is weary.
0:24.0	I like...
0:26.0	This week was a rough week, it's a rough week.
0:29.0	Okay, well I have something that will be a balm to you.
0:33.0	Our guest on today's episode is Christina Catherine Martinez, who is a writer, an art critic,
0:40.0	a stand-up comedian, a source of endless delight on social media.
0:45.0	And, you know, someone who I have been aware of for a while, but really decided we needed to talk to her on this podcast when I read her book,
0:55.0	Aesthetical Relations, which came out in late 2019, but I only got my hands on it this year,
1:03.0	because it was out of print for a little while due to pandemic, supply chain shenanigans.
1:09.0	She really has this super unique perspective where she writes about art and its impact,
1:16.0	but also from a really personal lens about her experiences as a Mexican-American girl growing up in Los Angeles,
1:24.0	her experiences with being treated for cancer, her experiences with working retail and, like,
1:31.0	loving to collect clothes.
1:33.0	It really hits on so many different levels, and she is a true delight and joy.
1:39.0	This makes me really happy as the resident CYG community,
1:54.0	thank you.
2:12.0	There's room for both of you.
2:15.0	I'm just kidding.
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