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Like a lot of stories, Sorry Baby is a movie where a bad thing happens and the protagonist must deal with the fallout.

But Ava Victor's debut is refreshingly disarming and takes on a traumatic

experience with wry humor and vulnerability. And it announces Victor as a filmmaker and performer

to watch. I'm Aisha Harris and today we're talking about Sorry Baby on Pop Culture Happy Hour from

NPR.

Joining me today is journalist and host of the new podcast Black Queer Canon, Trevelle Anderson.

Hey, Trevelle.

Hello, hello. Thanks for having me back.

Always happy to have you back here.

Also with us is Monica Castillo.

She's a film critic and senior film programmer at the Jacob Burns Film Center. Welcome back to you too, Monica. Thrilled to be back. Thank you. Yeah,

it's great to have you. So Sorry Baby was written, directed by Anne Starr's, Ava Victor. Victor plays

Agnes, a newly minted professor at the liberal arts college where she received her graduate degree.

The school is also where she was once sexually assaulted, so as a heads-up, this topic will come

up during our conversation. But there's a lot more going on here besides what happened to Agnes,

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