Queers In Red States with Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya

A Thousand Natural Shocks With Gabe S. Dunn

Gabe Dunn | Diamond MPrint Productions

News, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Education, History, Personal Journals, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 24 March 2026

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Writer Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya joins the show to talk about finding queer community and chosen family in a red state like Florida. Gabe shares his stories of growing up there and learns about the type of solidarity that can beautifully develop in adversity --- both with the weather and, you know, otherwise.

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0:00.0	You got told a lot of lies about a cheated man.
0:03.3	They called you when they got you to believe it.
0:06.0	Thumb and finger held to their foreheads in an L ship trapped in a capital of salescape.
0:10.7	Let's fight back in half.
0:12.3	And talks about class in the massive costs of the disasters brought to fascists and nuts.
0:17.7	Fat cats and Fox.
0:19.0	It's a thousand natural shocks. A bad with money podcast.
0:22.7	Hello and welcome to a thousand natural shocks, a bad with money podcast. I'm your host, Gabe Dunn.
0:29.3	And with me today, if you know me or you follow me in any way, you know that I have written for
0:34.7	Autostraddle for a long time. I don't think we've had someone on from Autostradle in a hot minute.
0:40.4	So can you tell my audience who you are and what you do?
0:43.2	Yeah.
0:43.6	So I'm Kayla Kumari Uphaja.
0:45.6	I am the managing editor of Autostradle.
0:49.7	I've been in that role for I think around five years,
0:52.7	but I've written for auto shuttle for 10.
0:56.6	I just hit 10 years as well.
0:58.2	Wow.
0:59.2	Yeah.
0:59.9	A long time.
1:01.3	So more than that, I find you and your wife fascinating.
1:05.8	I'm sure for people do for a lot of reasons because is love real?
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