This week's guest is one of my all-time favorite girlies, the walking ray of sunshine that is Aarthy Lakshmanan (she/her)!
Skip ahead to 10:27 if you want to dive right into our conversation!
In today's intro I give you a quick little update on what I've been up to during our season break, including a very recent lesson learned about building queer community! I'm back in Mexico City and on a mission to build a queer community for myself, something I've lacked here despite all of the time I've spent here recently. I share a very recent story about how I started to do that recently, hoping it might help any listeners who also find making community in a new place difficult.
Aarthy and I then dive into so many great topics!
- Finding and building queer community (a lovely coincidence given the intro)
- Pressures of being a queer woman growing up in an Indian family
- Difficulties of coming out to immigrant parents and managing expectations of their reactions
- The absolute power of finally being able to speak with another queer person about your experiences and them just getting it
...and much more!
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