The Castle: Part 4
Imperfect Paradise
LAist Studios
4.5 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 20 December 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Part 4: What’s the history behind the on and off-stage gender dynamics in Western magic? And what impact did the summer of 2020 have on the field of DEI? Imperfect Paradise host Antonia Cereijido explores these questions with magic historian Margaret Steele and Amber Johnson, Assistant Vice Chancellor and Chief of Staff of the Division for Equity and Inclusion at UC Berkeley.
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| 0:33.7 | You're listening to Imperfect Paradise. I'm your host, Antonia Serejido. |
| 0:38.2 | On the last three episodes of Imperfect Paradise, the Castle, |
| 0:41.8 | we took you inside the story of a magic lover, |
| 0:44.6 | who struggled to make a place for themselves, |
| 0:47.1 | inside one of the most exclusive members-only clubs in Hollywood, |
| 0:51.5 | the Magic Castle. |
| 0:53.8 | Carly UdN. studied magic for over a year in order to pass their audition to become a |
| 0:58.6 | member at the castle. |
| 1:00.8 | But once inside, they were confronted with the realities of existing in that space as someone |
| 1:06.8 | who was trans and non-binary. |
| 1:10.7 | It felt like you were back in time in a place where like almost everyone there's an old someone who was trans and non-binary. |
| 1:11.1 | It felt like you were back in time in a place where like almost everyone there's an older, |
| 1:15.3 | white, cis heterosexual man. |
| 1:17.6 | It's their world that you're stepping into. |
| 1:20.3 | Carly's disappointment with the castle came to a head in the summer of 2020 following |
| 1:25.0 | the murder of George Floyd when the castle struggled with how to address |
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