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We Want the Airwaves: QPOC Artists on the Rise

Nia King
Hijab Butch Blues
Immigration
Queer Muslim Community
Racism
AIDS Epidemic
Queer Literature
Adiba Jaigirdar
Hollywood
Intergenerational Conversations
Iranian Culture
Sports
New York City
Brooklyn Public Library Nonfiction Prize
Teen Identity
Publishing Industry
Cultural Appropriation
Representation Of South Asians In Literature
Fatphobia
Religion In Relationships
Allyship

Is it possible to make art and make rent without compromising your values? Since 2013, Nia King has been interviewing queer and trans artists of color to find out. Here's what she learned.

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Latest Episodes

Queer Colombian Salvadoran Alejandro Varela is one of my favorite living writers. His work weaves together comedy and tragedy as if it was the easiest thing in the world. His first novel, The Town of Babylon, is about growing up queer and brown in a ... more

Charles A. Bush is a Black queer writer from West Philadelphia. In this interview, we dive deep into their first book, Every Variable of Us, a love story between two high school girls, one Black and one Indian American. Listen in to find out how much... more

Bangladeshi Irish novelist Adiba Jaigirdar writes love stories with queer brown girls as protagonists. In this interview, we discuss risk-taking in the publishing industry, racism in Ireland, and do deep dives into three of her novels. We discuss the... more

Gay Iranian author Abdi Nazemian joins Nia to drop some intergenerational wisdom. We dive deep into his queer young adult novels: Desert Echoes, about addiction and grief; Only This Beautiful Moment, about three generations (two queer) of an Iranian ... more

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Recent Guests

Alejandro Varela
Author known for works like "The Town of Babylon" and "The Middle Spoon"
Episode: 126: Alejandro Varela
Abdi Nazemian
Author of celebrated queer young adult novels
Episode: 123: Abdi Nazemian
Lamya H.
Author of Hijab Butch Blues, which won Brooklyn Public Library's Nonfiction Prize for 2023.
Episode: 122: Lamya H.

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4.8 out of 5 stars from 53 ratings
  • Fire!

    In the midst of a super discouraging week, in the midst of a traumatic year, this podcast lifted my spirits way up. I found it because I was looking for interviews with Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasimha and am so sad I didn’t know about it before. It’s an amazing archive of brilliant voices. I wish I was still teaching so that I could use it in the classroom. Thank you so much for your work, Nia!

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    5
    DessertPizza1
    United States5 years ago
  • y’all interviewed my vogue teacher

    this is such an important archive of our stories . thank you for doing this work it is not only relevant to modern culture but also historical and timeless.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    415perra
    United States6 years ago
  • Awesome

    Love this.

    Apple Podcasts
    5
    Brqmq990
    Australia8 years ago
  • Great show, needs better sound engineering

    I love this show, but the levels are set so low I can barely hear it, so it's not practical to listen to if I'm not somewhere absolutely silent, with my ipad pressed to my ear. So frustrating, because it features really interesting people.

    Apple Podcasts
    4
    Gishmilish
    United States8 years ago
  • Wonderful!

    We Want the Airwaves is such a great podcast, full of thoughtful conversations (about art, gender, sexuality, race, about how people exist and how they express themselves) conducted with humor. A gem.

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    lmr1977
    United States10 years ago

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126: Alejandro Varela
Q: How did you get to be such a good writer?
He attributes his growth to early struggles with communication due to being a child of immigrants and his experiences in college where he sought help to improve his writing.
126: Alejandro Varela
Q: What made you want to write a story about a grown man who's never had his heart broken?
Alejandro explains that he wanted to explore the unique nature of heartbreak and the emotional intensity that comes with it, drawing from interviews with people who had experienced it.
126: Alejandro Varela
Q: Did you ever study creative writing at all?
Alejandro mentions that he took two writing classes as an undergraduate, but has mostly honed his skills through experience and reading other people's work.
124: Adiba Jaigirdar
Q: What do you think staved off all the big-name publishers for your books?
I heard a lot of like terrible things when I was out on Submission.
124: Adiba Jaigirdar
Q: What do you mean by that? Were they dying for queer South Asian love stories, sapphic love stories specifically?
I wish I could say that they were looking for queer South Asian love stories specifically. I think they were looking for romances.

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