Paris is Burning / Ballroom Culture

Black People Love Paramore

Sequoia Holmes

Society & Culture, Comedy, Arts

5 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode, co-hosts Sequoia Holmes, Jewel Wicker, and Ryan Gilyard discuss the ground breaking documentary, Paris is Burning in its 35th anniversary, and the one of the most influential subcultures in the world: Ballroom Culture.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Black People Love Paramore, a podcast not about the band Paramour, but about the common and uncommon interests of black people in order to help us feel a little bit more seen.
0:27.6	I am your host, Sequoia.
0:29.6	And for usual, we have our lovely co-hosts.
0:33.0	In a physical space.
0:35.1	In a physical space.
0:36.2	We're actually in a stew.
0:38.2	I can't believe that.
0:38.9	I'm so excited.
0:39.7	Mm-hmm.
0:40.3	We have, y'all going to say y'all's names.
0:42.1	My name is Joel.
0:42.7	Okay.
0:43.0	And I'm Ryan.
0:43.8	Okay.
0:44.2	It's going to be fun.
0:44.6	Yay.
0:45.0	Damn.
0:45.4	Palmyra.
0:46.1	Our producer got Ryan's government name here.
0:48.2	Oh, my God. Hey, just in case I need to hide. It's kind of crazy, right. I was like, I don't know if I'll need to say it out loud.
0:55.4	I don't say that out loud.
0:56.0	We got the special, we got the correct spelling.
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