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2025-10-121h 102025-02-0254 min2024-10-2048 min
Chicago: Queer & NowCherry chapstick and queer representation (w/ Sonal Soni)This week Taryn and Adam discuss their holiday plans and touch on the challenges queer people may face during this season. Our hosts are then joined by journalist Sonal Soni (they/them) to discuss their sprawling career aspirations (marine biology, anyone?), queer representation in media, and finding their place in the world of journalism.Have a question for Adam and Taryn? Want to share your queer pick of the week? E-mail cqn@chicagoreader.com or tweet @chicagoqueernow to hear your question answered on the pod!Stay queer, Chicago!Related Reader...
2021-11-0932 min
Not Your African ClichéNYAC S3 E6: Losing Your Identity at the Cost of Fitting In and Finding It Again (w/ Salem Soni)On this episode our guest, Congolese American Salem Soni, recounts his experience fleeing The Congo with his family as political refugees and settling in America. He gives us some cliff notes on Congolese history and politics, tells us about his struggles fitting into his new home, talks about how erasing one’s identity is often a form of survival, and describes how being in community with other Africans helped revive that identity and pride.
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Reading:
- Donna Tartt’s Secret History
- Roxan Gay’s Bad Feminist, especially the essay “When We All Lose”
- Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist
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2017-10-3100 min