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Hello and welcome to Food for Thought, a podcast gavvist in which a multi-racial mix of

queer writers gather around the table to talk about sex, identity, culture, what we like

to read and who we like to read. This is Joe O. The Science Ho and once again we're

doing something a little different. This week we are bringing you another live show from

the Joe O. The Science Ho book tour, but this time we have new readings, new guests, incredible

guests. We have Kristen Arnet and Kayla Kumaru Paja and they both read their fucking lesbian

ass shit and it's awesome. And then we just talk about being queer ass writers. So I hope

you stick around and enjoy the episode and I will let the live show take it from here.

I am going to do a short reading of a story called Italian dressing. I know we have some

Italian exes in the room. If I'm being honest, Layla said, I think the whole lesbian staying

friends with exes is bullshit. Bad for the community who even wants that. She was not

being honest. She and her date, a tall, long haired butch wearing confusing board shorts

even though it was merely October and the beach was a train, a ferry and a bus away sat

on sweaty stools at the gay bar where Layla brought all of her first dates. Well, I think

it's kind of like heteronormative to think exes can never be friends, board short said.

When Layla resisted the urge to roll her eyes, she also reminded herself that board shorts

had a name. Jess, but she claimed her friends called her J-Team. Layla found white people

to be overwhelmingly bad at nicknames. Jess had set a new dyke record for how early she

brought up exes and Layla was briefly torn between changing the subject and leaning

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