Hey everyone, I'm Amadale Yuckber, and this is See Something Say Something.

We're a bit overdue for a pop culture check-in, and there's been a lot of really interesting

Muslim characters popular about TV recently, so we're going to talk about that.

Why are labels a bad thing?

My bio literally reads Proud Muslim lesbian.

It's a part of who I am.

Why wouldn't I want everyone to know?

The original show was fighting for tolerance.

Our fight is for acceptance.

If you see something, you better, you better say something.

Nothing at all, nothing at all.

So we're in an interesting moment where there are actually two really prominent Muslim characters on TV and both of them are queer.

One of them is not a character, but a real person, Tan France, from Queer Eye.

There's also this queer Muslim relationship happening on Free Forms, the Bold Type.

It's been really interesting seeing how they navigate the story of being queer and Muslim in America. So I wanted to invite some friends on who can help me make sense with that. So joining me today is Critica Malcarjana. She's features editor at TV guide. Hi, Krita. Hi, Krita. Hi, thanks for having me. Thanks for being here again. We're also joined by Munamir. She is producer and research at Condonest.

Hi, Munah. Hi. How are you? Good. So I started watching Bold Type because all of my friends in media were tweeting about it. They were like, this is the greatest show ever. This is like sort of uncomfortably my life. Critica, you're one of those people. Yeah. And I can't really tell if people outside the media world watch it.

Like if it's just like in our bubble.

What is it about the bold type as a show that pulls you in?

Well, for me, I mean, it's definitely because I'm a journalist.

I'm like, oh, the very shiny cotton candy version of my life where everything's nice and there's mentorship from, you know, your editors.

There's good friendships and no political rivalries. Like, oh, man, what a vision board for what my job could actually be.

Right.

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