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Queery with Cameron Esposito

Junauda Petrus-Nasah

Queery with Cameron Esposito

Cameron Esposito

Society & Culture

4.83.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Author Junauda Petrus-Nasah sits down with Cameron to discuss her book THE STARS AND THE BLACKNESS BETWEEN THEM (the August pick for Cammy's Book Club!), writing a queer Black YA love story, and fighting shame surrounding sexuality.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is a show about individual experience and personal identity.

0:04.0

There may be times when folks use identifying words or phrases that don't feel right to you.

0:08.2

That's part of what we're exploring here.

0:10.1

Please listen with an open heart, and as always, I welcome your polite, engaged feedback,

0:14.2

and I encourage you to continue the conversation in your own life and with your own community.

0:19.4

Welcome to Query.

0:20.4

Hey Query Rose, Cammy here.

0:30.6

First of all, today, a chat with Janetta Petrus Nasa.

0:35.8

An amazing book, Janetta wrote, called Stars in the Blackness Between Them, that I loved,

0:43.6

and that is the August Cammy's Book Club pick.

0:47.0

You can go to bookshop.org slash shop slash Cammy's Book Club and book and not book.

0:53.3

That's not what it is.

0:54.3

Buy any of the books from my book club so far were three months in.

0:58.7

Why do this?

0:59.7

Well, it supports queer artists.

1:02.1

It also is fun.

1:03.6

I have chats with these folks on my Instagram live.

1:06.0

You can watch back to my chats with Casey McQuiston who wrote one last stop or John Paul

1:11.1

Brammer who wrote Ola Pappi.

1:13.3

Also, the books are queer.

1:15.6

I love reading queer books.

1:17.1

That's the best.

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