PRIDE: Black, Queer, and Free

The Stoop

Hana Baba and Leila Day

Identity, International, Thestoop, Blackness, Storytelling, African, Personal Journals, Africanamerican, Blackidentity, Blackart, Journalism, Society & Culture, Black, Diaspora, Blackculture

4.4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

We should all be free to be, free to love, and be celebrated in that process - if not by others, then definitely by ourselves. In this episode, Hana and Leila explore three stories that center queerness and spirituality, Black drag culture, and shifting relationship structures through polyamory. Through it all, the episode guests had to wrestle with disapproval from their communities - and sift through feelings of being outcasts - to eventually accept themselves. Bob the Drag Queen, Darnell Moore, Bishop Yvette Flunder, and The Verts make an appearance.

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0:00.0	What kind of things did you write growing up?
0:06.1	Diaries, love letters, melodramatic poetry about the fate of mankind?
0:11.5	Could you ever imagine yourself getting on stage and reading them out loud?
0:16.4	Well that's exactly what happens to hilarious effect on our fellow radiotopias show, The Mortified
0:22.3	Podcast. It's back with new episodes
0:24.8	celebrating the 20th anniversary of the stage show that inspired the podcast, more
0:30.2	laughs, more teenage writings, more awkwardness, to celebrate mortified more This person compete for the title of Most Mortified.
0:45.0	January 12th.
0:47.0	I keep looking at Matt and he then stares at me.
0:50.0	I wish he stared at me because he likes me not because he knows I stare at him. Here the podcast that Salon named one of the decades best.
1:06.0	Subscribe to mortified today on your podcast player. Sometimes it's hard to be yourself.
1:27.5	Like so many black boys who would grow up to love and lust after other boys I would have died had I not found safety in my imagination. But only if we let people's expectations and projections hold us back. But all I'm saying is you wearing cornrows does not make my corn rows less valid Mary.
1:37.0	Mine are still fierce, they're still popping.
1:39.0	I'm Hanat Baba.
1:40.0	And I'm Lila Day.
1:42.0	From Radiotopia and PRX, this Baba. And I'm Lila Day.
1:42.5	From Radiotopia and PRX, this is the stoop.
1:46.7	Today we're celebrating pride. The stoop.
1:56.0	Stoop.
1:58.0	Stoop.
1:59.0	Stories from across the black diaspora.
2:01.5	That we need to talk about.
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