Whidbey is not precisely concerned with the why of what happened, although it is concerned with what comes next. The abuser, as a voice, is almost completely absent.
The musician opens up about coming out as non-binary, getting dropped by their record label, the life-changing DM they received from Brandi Carlile, and the complex lives of trans Texans.
Topics include the middle being gone from everything, Heated Rivalry / Fujoshi Studies, kinda dating Matthew Perry, nestalgia, iPods, reading about mothering, Gisèle Pelicot, the war in Iran and more.
It’s a beautiful thing, being queer. I didn’t always feel like that, but now I do. Not in a particularly soft way, either. It feels more like a knife sharp…
New seasons of Deadloch, Heartbreak High and Ted; Ariana DeBose playing Nicole Kidman’s gay niece in a Patricia Cornwall mystery and more queer tv for you.
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