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Joining me today on ITBR is Jonathan Parks-Ramage, a critically acclaimed gay author based in LA. As a playwright, screenwriter, journalist and novelist, Jonathan is at the forefront of portraying queer stories and platforming an exciting array of creative voices. His most recent novel, It’s Not The End of The World is a thrilling take on a haunting climate-crisis narrative surrounding a gay couple and their baby shower. There’s so much to dig into, and on today’s episode we discuss even the most intricate details such as heteronormativity in queer spaces and how the irony of writing about an apocalyptic climate crisis inadvertently helped Jonathan cope with the current state of the planet. Jonathan discusses how important and hopeful it is to research historical resistance movements that have succeeded and how we can have hope as a collapsing society and planet.
You can find It’s Not The End of The World and all other things Jonathan Parks-Ramage over at https://www.jonathan-p-r.com/books
And you can follow him on Instagram @jprampage
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