The 2022 Talk Easy Holiday Special

Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

Lemonada Media

Society & Culture, Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 December 2022

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

Happy holidays! For our sixth annual Talk Easy holiday special, we've partnered with the Audre Lorde Project to celebrate.

Named after the titular feminist, poet, and activist, the Audre Lorde Project is an NYC-based community organizing center for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two-Spirit, Trans and Gender Non Conforming (LGBTSTGNC) people of color.

Through the end of December, we're donating 100% of the proceeds from our shop to their services. These programs include educational events, social justice activism, and wellness and healing workshops. To learn more about their invaluable work, visit alp.org.

After an introduction from Sam (0:44), writer and director Lena Dunham describes an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum (3:41) and poet Rupi Kaur shares a tribute to the women of Iran (5:46). Then, a wide-ranging phone call with culture critic Margo Jefferson (7:30), Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan on Matisse (33:28), and director Hiro Murai on Writing Los Angeles and George Saunders (35:50).

On the back-half, a state of the union with NYT political reporter Astead Herndon (37:40), a heartfelt voicemail from Dr. James Whitfield (56:20), and special guest to close 2022 (1:00:26).

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0:00.0	Pushkin. I'm Sam Fregoso. Welcome to the show. Hey everyone.
0:33.0	Hey everyone. I hope you and yours have made it safely to your
0:47.2	destination. If you're not traveling, I hope you're enjoying the couch as much as
0:51.9	I am. Today on the show we've put together our annual
0:56.0	holiday special. We've been doing this since the podcast began back in 2016 and it's really just an excuse to talk to some people who came on the show in
1:06.5	2022 but this year we're also raising money for the good people at the Audrey Lord Project.
1:13.7	Named after the titular feminist, poet, and activist, the ALP is a Brooklyn-based community
1:20.2	organizing center for LGBTQ 2S Plus People of Color.
1:26.2	Their programs include educational events, social justice activism, and wellness and healing
1:32.2	workshops.
1:33.4	And so to support the work they do,
1:35.7	we'll be donating 100% of the proceeds from our store through December.
1:40.5	If you'd like to purchase one of our mugs, they come in cream and navy, or our vinyl record with Fran Leibowitz,
1:47.0	you can do so at talk-Ease pod.com.
1:51.0	Shop.
1:52.0	We've also included a link to the store in the description of this episode.
1:56.0	If you'd like to learn more about the Audrey Lord project, be sure to visit their website at
2:01.0	alp.org. That's ALP.org. In the aftermath of the horrific shooting at
2:09.0	Club Q in Colorado Springs, we wanted to support programs like the ALP that protect and
2:16.0	advocate for these often targeted communities. Every donation that you make no matter
2:21.9	how small really does ensure that this
2:24.6	invaluable organization continues doing the work they've been doing since the
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