Hello and welcome to Queer's Fact. My name is Eli. I'm Alice. I'm Irene. And today we're talking about the Mexican artist Frida Carlo.

First of all, we have several content warnings for this episode. We're going to be talking about the bus accident

that Frida famously experienced and the severe and lasting physical injuries and trauma that

resulted from that. We'll also be discussing miscarriage and abortion in some depth. There will

also be discussion of sexual encounters between adults and a minor, as well as non-explicit mentions of sex

and discussions of political unrest, periodical misogyny, and misogyny and homophobia

in the modern sources. So if any of that sounds like something that you don't want to listen

to, feel free to skip this episode and give one of our other episodes a try. Also a couple of other things. As you will have

noticed, this is part one of two. Oops. It's the regular story, Frida just did too much with

her life. So we're going to talk about her twice. So the first episode is out now and the second episode so as not to disrupt

our normal schedule too much we're going to bring out as a kind of bonus episode a week

from now on the 22nd. This episode will cover Frida's life from her birth until her return

to Mexico from the United States in 1933 and then the next episode we'll talk about the rest of Frieda's life.

Also, because of difficulties with talking about Frida's sexuality, particularly her

attraction to women, which is why you're all here, we're not going to sort of interspers

that discussion, like chronologically through her life, we generally do we're going to discuss

basically all the miscellaneous bits of information we have about that at the end and do kind of

like an analysis of how her sexuality gets talked about so in short there isn't a lot of queer

content in this episode but you know hopefully this will still be a bit interesting anyway

I also wanted to mention the fact that this episode has been severely, incredibly delayed so much.

It was the chosen topic by our patrons who voted on it in a poll so long ago.

And then various things happened.

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