GETTING CURIOUS | What Does Pride Mean To You? with Ashlee Marie Preston

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

4.9 • 21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Last June, LGBTQIA+ activist, journalist, and media personality Ashlee Marie Preston joined Jonathan on Instagram Live for a conversation about Pride, racial justice, and everyday acts of resistance. To round out Pride this year, we’re releasing that conversation as a podcast episode. Follow Ashlee Marie Preston on Instagram @ashleemariepreston and Twitter @AshleeMPreston, and learn more about her work at YouAreEssential.org. Make sure to revisit her first appearance on Getting Curious, recently released from our archives: “Am I A Self-Karen?” Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. While you're on Instagram, check out some of our other Instagram Live conversations with activists, politicians, scientists, and more friends of the show. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Van Ness, and every week I sit down for a gorgeous conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.
0:10.0	This week, we're re-releasing an Instagram live conversation recorded in June 2020.
0:15.0	It's one of my very favorite conversations of all time with Ashley Marie Preston,
0:19.2	who has since become a very, very, very close, close, close, close, right of mine who I love so much where I could ask her.
0:26.4	What does Pride mean to you?
0:30.8	Hi everyone, we are going to have a gorgeous pride conversation with Ashley
0:36.3	Marie Preston so Ashley Marie Preston if you've been not had the pleasure to
0:41.4	know who she is she is an award-winning
0:43.6	media personality commentator, award-winning a journalist. She also was the first
0:48.1	open-out trans woman to run for state office and also there's like one other gorgeous thing that you are besides
0:56.2	my friend and person who I just looked up to so much that I'm so excited to see on this gorgeous
1:00.2	morning.
1:01.2	But also you started, you are essential,
1:05.0	which is your new organization, which is so important,
1:08.0	and we're going to talk about all of it.
1:10.2	But first of all, coming from the west coast at night in the morning giving me all this glamor.
1:17.0	Oh, what glamor?
1:20.0	Listen, I spend most of my day in a scarf and I take that scarf off and I fluke her up and I go and these
1:28.6	earrings are carrying all the weight. Trust me.
1:31.2	They're doing that part too, honey.
1:33.4	Those are so pretty.
1:34.4	I'm living for this a dormant of Shell.
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