What if queerness wasn’t a contradiction, but a compass? In this episode of The Queerest Podcast, host Andraé BVR speaks with author, artist, and equity strategist Dr. Raja Gopal Bhattar about their visually rich and deeply personal new book, Queering Constellations: Mapping This Journey Called Life. Blending memoir, community wisdom, beautiful illustrations, and interactive reader prompts, the book invites us to navigate identity as a constellation—where every point of culture, queerness, ancestry, and experience is connected. Drawing from their lived experience as a queer, gender non-conforming, 1.5 generation immigrant, Raja shares stories of coming out, negotiating family and tradition, and building spaces for collective care. Together, they explore how queerness can be a practice of expansion—whether through personal reflection, intersectional community, or creative self-expression. This conversation offers an invitation: to question, to reimagine, and to find belonging in the constellations of your own life.
The Queerest Podcast is your cosmic guide to the Queer Universe. Hosted by Andraé BVR, each episode takes you on an interstellar journey through queer culture, identity, and influence. From dismantling media tropes to exploring queer representation, we invite you to challenge norms and expand your horizons. So, buckle up, set your phasers to fabulous—close encounters of the queerest kind await!
