In the first Little Death interview, my dear friend, Emily Goldsmith, takes over as host. Em is a queer artist, actor, educator, fellow witch, yogi, writer, and comedian. Em asks me the same questions that I will ask others throughout this season: Who are your people? What role does grief and loss play in your life, work, activism and artistic endeavours? And how does this inform the ways you dream up liberatory worlds?

Em and I reminisce on how we first met and why we resonate with the term, “queer platonic partner,” in the radical ways we show up for each other that go beyond conventional friendship. We touch on queer occult practices and I share about my ancestors, transestors, chosen family, and queer community that ground me in an otherwise shaky world.

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