We Choose Our Own Families

Still Processing

The New York Times

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News, Arts

4.8 • 9.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 July 2018

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This week, we take a deep dive into "Pose," Ryan Murphy's new show on FX, and unpack the role of queer chosen families in pop culture. We dissect some of our favorite scenes — featuring Blanca Abundance Evangelista (Mj Rodriguez), Elektra Abundance (Dominique Jackson), and Angel (Indya Moore) — and celebrate the nuanced stories told of queer and trans characters of color by queer and trans people of color. Are we free to create chosen families that support who we are and who we're trying to be, or are we destined to replicate the burdens and blessings of our biological families? Discussed this week: "Far From the Tree" (dir: Rachel Dretzin, 2018)"Won't You Be My Neighbor?" (dir: Morgan Neville, 2018)"Whitney" (dir: Kevin MacDonald, 2018)"Review: ‘Whitney,’ a Pop Music Tragedy, Is Sad, Strange and Dismaying" (Wesley Morris, The New York Times, July 5, 2018)"Three Identical Strangers" (dir: Tim Wardel, 2018)"Whack World" (Tierra Whack, 2018) "Pose" (FX, 2018)"Queer Eye" (Netflix, 2018)"My House" (Viceland, 2018)

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0:00.0	I'm Jenna Wortham.
0:01.3	I'm Wesley Morris.
0:02.8	We're two culture writers at the New York Times.
0:05.3	["The New York Times"]
0:06.8	This is still processing.
0:10.1	["The New York Times"]
0:11.5	["The New York Times"]
0:14.7	Good day, sir.
0:15.8	Good day, Mato.
0:17.0	This week, we're going to spend our whole episode
0:22.7	talking about pose.
0:24.1	Pose.
0:25.4	It's about the drag ball scene of the late 1980s
0:30.0	and the people in that scene and the families
0:35.3	that they create.
0:36.7	And we're going to think a little bit
0:38.1	about what it means to create a family,
0:40.7	as opposed to being born into one.
0:42.8	But before we do that, yes.
0:44.4	So we want to thank everyone for listening
0:46.7	and all the feedback and all the input that we've gotten
0:48.9	from our last two episodes that we dedicated to unpacking.
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