Cocoon After Dark

About Cocoon After Dark

There’s a certain kind of story we only tell in the dark. The kind that lingers. The kind we’ve carried in silence. The kind that needs soft lighting, no interruptions, and someone who won’t flinch. Welcome to Cocoon After Dark—I’mQuincy Tessaverne, and this is a space for truth-telling that’s tender, textured, and unapologetically queer. Each week, we sit with voices—mostly Black, brown, LGBTQ+—who’ve lived through things that don’t always fit into polite conversation. We talk identity, pleasure, boundaries, grief, reinvention, and the moments that changed everything. This isn’t small talk. It’s soul talk. So take what you need. Leave what you don’t. And listen with your whole body.

Publisher

Quincy Tessaverne

Category

health & fitness · society & culture · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

25 Aug 2025

Latest episode

25 Mar 2026

Latest episodes

40 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   25 Mar 2026

   Lights, Courage, Action: Lee Rose's Directorial Odyssey

   Send us Fan Mail Lights, Courage, Action: Lee Rose's Directorial Odyssey Lee Rose: In-the-Face Storytelling, The Truth About Jane, and Refusing to Disappear Host Quincy interviews writer-director-producer Lee Rose about her career and approach to storytelling, highlighting The Truth About Jane as a project that enabled parent-child conversations and drew intense reactions, including death threats, a White House screening, and a fight to dedicate the film to Matthew Shepard. Rose traces her ...

2. 

   19 Mar 2026

   Intersections of Voice and Identity: Discovering Jen Cheng

   Send us Fan Mail Intersections of Voice and Identity: Discovering Jen Cheng Host Quincy interviews Jen Cheng, poet laureate of West Hollywood, about voice, identity, community, and showing up authentically. After rapid-fire questions, Jen reads her poem “10,000 Butterflies,” written in 2023 for a Grand Performances opportunity, tracing family survival, war, displacement, and queer safety across Hong Kong, China, and Buenos Aires. Jen discusses her pronouns (“she/ke”) and how Cantonese lacks b...

3. 

   11 Mar 2026

   Olivia and Kelly-and their age gap relationship

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