Replay: Janelle Monáe
TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones
TransLash Media
4.3 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 26 December 2024
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
As the TransLash Podcast takes a break for the holidays, we’re sharing some of our favorite episodes from the archive. In this replay from 2022, Imara has an eye opening conversation with the one and only Janelle Monaé, an 8-time Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, producer, actor, and one of the most celebrated voices of our time. In the interview, Janelle opens up about the challenges of exploring her queerness in the public eye, how she learned she didn’t need to prove herself to anyone, and her brand new book, The Memory Librarian. Imara and Janelle also talk about the necessity to break free from our past in order to create the future we all want; moving beyond conventional ideas of sexual orientation and gender identity.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey fam, it's Mia Mara. Welcome to the Translash podcast, a show where we tell trans |
| 0:15.2 | trans stories to save trans lives. Well, the Translash team is taking some needed time off this holiday season, so we've |
| 0:22.8 | gone back into our bag, into the archive, and picked out some of our absolute favorite episodes |
| 0:28.5 | that you might have missed and which are really relevant to the moment that we're in. |
| 0:34.3 | That's why we're thrilled to share this episode with you that's going to emphasize creativity. And no one embodies creativity in our community like Janelle Monet, |
| 0:44.3 | who I interviewed in 2022. Now, one of the things that people can't take away from us is our |
| 0:50.7 | ability to be able to shine our light in the world and to display our humanity through |
| 0:56.5 | what we create. And that's why, going into this really wild year of 2025, we thought that it |
| 1:03.4 | was great to share this interview from several years ago with someone who tells us about their |
| 1:08.6 | ability to be able to be themselves and to use that to inspire and to give us new visions about what we might be. |
| 1:16.1 | So kick back and listen to this amazing conversation with Janelle Monet. |
| 1:26.5 | With so much difficult news in the world, we are incredibly excited to present this conversation |
| 1:31.5 | with the visionary and groundbreaking queer artist Janelle Monet. |
| 1:35.7 | Janelle Monet needs no introduction, but we're going to do one anyway. |
| 1:40.4 | She is an eight-time Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, producer, and actor with one of the most celebrated voices of our time. |
| 1:48.2 | Having been in movies like Hidden Figures, Moonlight, and The Glorias, Janelle recently wrapped production for Netflix's Nives Out 2 alongside Daniel Craig and Kate Hudson. |
| 2:00.0 | And next month, Janelle will publish her first book |
| 2:02.6 | with Harper Voyager entitled The Memory Librarian and other stories from Dirty Computer. |
| 2:08.8 | Since her 2007 album Metropolis and have found their artistic vision both inspiring and |
| 2:14.4 | relevant to our time, one where we are grappling with how to maintain our |
| 2:18.4 | humanity in an era dominated by technology. |
| 2:21.9 | Janelle, thank you so much for joining us. |
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