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Stuff Mom Never Told You

Queer Fashion as Activism

Stuff Mom Never Told You

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.24.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2016

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

For many LGBTQ folks, the personal takes on an element of the political when it's time to get dressed. Caroline chats with designer Leon Wu, style expert Sonny Oram and beauty editor Aja Aguirre about the growing queer-fashion landscape and the importance

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1:51.5

Welcome to Stuff Mom Never Told You from HouseOfWorks.com.

2:05.5

Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Caroline and I'm Kristen.

2:08.5

And today we're continuing our deep dive this week into discussing queer fashion.

2:14.5

But this time we're doing it with a couple of special guests who we first started speaking with via email.

2:23.5

During South by Southwest, we tried to get in touch with some awesome folks in the queer fashion community.

2:32.5

But you know, South by Southwest, it's so busy and we missed them. We missed their panel. And so we were really lucky and managed to nab them for a fantastic interview that we hope you guys will enjoy.

2:44.5

And so today you will be hearing from Leon Wu, the founder and CEO of Sharp Souding, Sonny Orham, the founding editor of Style Website Quarer, and Asia Aguire, the beauty editor of Auto Strattle.

2:59.5

And you mentioned South by Southwest Carolina and that we unfortunately were not able to go to their panel, which we did want to attend because it was about queer style, visual activism and fashion's frontier.

3:12.5

So this group and also the designer who started Dapper Q, which is the leading style website for masculine presenting women and trans identified people were talking all about this concept of queer style as an art form and also the new fashion frontier.

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