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- First episode
About Decolonize and Discover
The Decolonize and Discover podcast, an offshoot of the Massachusetts-based Decolonize and Discover festival features the BIPOC, Queer, Disabled creators in podcasting, SCIFI, burlesque, music and other arts. Your hosts are Journee LaFond and Jes Negron. Learn more about the Decolonize and Discover event and mission at DecolonizeandDiscover.com decolonize.substack.com (https://decolonize.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)
- Publisher
- Decolonize and Discover
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- fiction · society & culture
- Language
- en
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- First episode
- 4 Mar 2023
- Latest episode
- 17 Jun 2024
Latest episodes
19 episodes in the feed.
17 Jun 2024
DND 2024 - Sister Ima Miracle's Keynote
We were blessed to kick off the festivities on Saturday with a Keynote address from Sister Ima Miracle of the Boston Chapter of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence. Here is their unedited address to the 100s in attendance at this past year’s festival. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit decolonize.substack.com (https://decolonize.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
6 May 2024
It's what you think, but not what you fear
This was a great Zoom conversation with Lynsi Stevens, Head Witch behind Crystal Case Apothecary. Obsessed with magical devices and transformational items from her favorite childhood cartoons and anime, she distills the spirit of fantasy, mysticism, DnD, and creates medication cases for magical beings on their grand life’s journey. Her love of anime propelled her into a career in entertainment & talent management, where she was able to create anime and comic con expo marketing, programming, and events internationally. She is a queer alt model, and enjoys indie games, comics, and immersive experiences. Inspired by her own chronic healing journey, through C.C.A she assists BIPOC creatives and allies in shining their light, and co-creating a new paradigm of holistic Celestial Body Wellness with The Universe. Lynsi is currently working her magic at C.C.A, and training with the National Patient Advocacy Foundation, insuring The Global Majority receives better care from their healthcare providers. Frankly, you’re in for a treat! Lynsi will be joining us at Decolonize and Discover this year! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit decolonize.substack.com (https://decolonize.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
22 Apr 2024
"Disclaimer: I am not in the mafia"
Our guest, Lauren Elizabeth is an amazing actor, circus performer, and former wrestler(?!). She also will pump you up with wisdom, her perspective as a queer Asian-American actor, and how to know not only the battles you're willing to fight but the ones you're willing to lose. Lauren's a laugh-riot, and we can't for you to see her perform at the Decolonize and Discover Festival (June 7-9, 2024). Have you gotten your tickets yet? Go to DecolonizeandDiscover.com (https://decolonizeanddiscover.com/) today. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit decolonize.substack.com (https://decolonize.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
21 Apr 2024
Journee LaFond receives the BLM Community Impact Award
Last night, we took a break from our event production schedule to head to the Currier Gallery of Art in Manchester, NH, to attend the Black Lives Matter NH Awards. The annual event celebrates the amazing voices in the Granite State working to uplift BIPOC, Disabled, and LGBTQIA+ voices and representation. One of whom you may recognize… our founder, Journee LaFond. They’d probably be a little embarrassed we’re sharing the video here, but their speech brings into sharp focus what we’re trying to do with this festival. To uplift voices, share community, and come together to make great things. We hope you’ll join us June 7-9 (https://decolonizeanddiscover.com), where we’ll be able to take what’s outlined in this speech and put it into practice. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit decolonize.substack.com (https://decolonize.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
16 Apr 2024
LaLa Luscious is here!
Journee has a kiki with burlesque performer La La Luscious who will be performing at this year's festival. Learn about their performance style, their approach to art and dance, and even more lore about one the newest and raddest performers in the Boston burlesque scene! Don't forget, DND Fest is June 7-9! Get your tickets today at DecolonizeandDiscover.com (https://decolonizeanddiscover.com/). This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit decolonize.substack.com (https://decolonize.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
8 Apr 2024
Season Two of the DND Podcast - Kenny Frasch AKA GLAMME CH0WDAH
We're back y'all. It's thirty days from the festival, and Journee sat down with Kenny Frasch aka the MARVELous GLAMME CH0WDAH! The two drag besties talk about Kenny's intersectional existence, running the multiple-award-winning bar, The Hop Knot, and killing with kindness. Follow Glamme on Instagram at glammech0wdah. Follow the Hop Knot at on the Instagram at hopknot_manchester. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit decolonize.substack.com (https://decolonize.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
31 May 2023
It's a great time to be a nerd - Tha True Original GATA, Monique Dupree
Monique Dupree does more than we do! An American actor who's been in horror, high drama, and comedy, she has severe chops. Speaking of chops, she's also a force in the world of independent wrestling both in the ring and behind the curtain. When not doing that, she's an entrepeneur, cosplayer, burlesque performer, and maybe an omega level mutant? We talk about her early career, her amazing work behind the scenes and in the ring, raising ten (!) children with her talented husband, burlesque and not knowing "how to fail." Monique is a fierce dynamo, and the type of polymath you need to witness in action. Our theme music is Pimp My Pride by Aesyme, rights purchased through epidemicsound.com (http://epidemicsound.com) Don't forget to get your tickets at DecolonizeandDiscover.com (http://decolonizeanddiscover.com). The festival is June 16-18. Come party with us! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit decolonize.substack.com (https://decolonize.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
24 May 2023
You gotta keep shooting from your cube - Jonathan Jennings
Galactic Bar Fight rules. But this little cult hit of an indie game has an amazing creator, with a great origin. Jonathan Jennings loved video games his whole life, and now he makes them. How'd he get here? What does he think about his role in the cultural shift in gaming, and what advice does he have for other BIPOC and historically marginalized folk who want to get in the industry? Jes and Journee find out on this week's episode. Our theme music is Pimp My Pride by Aesyme, rights purchased through epidemicsound.com (http://epidemicsound.com) Don't forget to get your tickets at DecolonizeandDiscover.com (http://decolonizeanddiscover.com) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit decolonize.substack.com (https://decolonize.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
17 May 2023
"Al said Joey was a jerk" - An interview with Joey and Al from COP/OUT
COP/OUT's gone through many twists and turns with a focus on activism and building community. Journee and Steven got to sit down with Joey Steel and Al Rosenberg and talk about how the two of them met, the songwriting process, community building through expression and nearly come to blows over the rutabaga's place in the revolution. COP/OUT will be joining us at the festival this year, so get your dang tickets. Our theme music is Pimp My Pride by Aesyme, rights purchased through epidemicsound.com (http://epidemicsound.com) Don't forget to get your tickets at DecolonizeandDiscover.com (http://decolonizeanddiscover.com) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit decolonize.substack.com (https://decolonize.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
10 May 2023
Eating a bit of dirt - Diandra Lasrado and Robert Lo are on the pod!
Jes met Robert and Diandra at Riot Games back in the day, and the three of them have been creating the stories behind some of the coolest video games. Hear about that exciting origin, the importance of creating diverse characters correctly, and take a peek under the hood of the video game industry. Hear all this and more on today's episode. Our theme music is Pimp My Pride by Aesyme, rights purchased through epidemicsound.com (http://epidemicsound.com) Don't forget to get your tickets at DecolonizeandDiscover.com (http://decolonizeanddiscover.com) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit decolonize.substack.com (https://decolonize.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
3 May 2023
F#$% the Enemy - Sam Cha talks with us!
Y'all ain't ready. We talk to Sam Cha in this one. Sam Cha is a poet, teacher, editor, and translator. His work has appeared in, or is forthcoming from, several places, including apt, Anderbo, Better, Best New Poets 2016, decomP, DIAGRAM, Memorious, Missouri Review, Rattle, and RHINO. He’s a poetry editor at Radius. He lives and writes in Cambridge. We talk about his life, how his personal experience of moving back and forth from Korea as a chikd helped shape his relationship to words, and his evolution into the rad poet we love. He also gives us the best advice about what to say when the enemy of progress and humanity reveals itself. Our theme music is Pimp My Pride by Aesyme, rights purchased through epidemicsound.com (http://epidemicsound.com) Don't forget to get your tickets at DecolonizeandDiscover.com (http://decolonizeanddiscover.com) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit decolonize.substack.com (https://decolonize.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
26 Apr 2023
The Orcs Were Always Gay
Usually, the team behind Decolonize and Discover are talking to each other weekly about our strategic and tactical aspects of running this festival. This week, though, Journee and Jes brought Zac and Steven into the Zoom to talk about the origins of this festival, how all of them met at the same LARP, and geek out about the projects each of them do outside of the festival. It's a friendship episode. Our theme music is Pimp My Pride by Aesyme, rights purchased through epidemicsound.com (http://epidemicsound.com) Don't forget to get your tickets at DecolonizeandDiscover.com (http://decolonizeanddiscover.com) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit decolonize.substack.com (https://decolonize.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
19 Apr 2023
Founder of #BlackFaeDay Jasmine La Fleur
Black Fae Day began in 2021 to bring visibility to Black Joy and visibility during a tumultuous time. Jes and Journee speak with its founder, Jasmine La Fleur about their mutual love of fantasy, folklore, and finding oneself in play and imagination. It's a lively conversation. Don't forget to get ready for Black Fae Day 2023 on May 13! Our theme music is Pimp My Pride by Aesyme, rights purchased through epidemicsound.com (http://epidemicsound.com) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit decolonize.substack.com (https://decolonize.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
12 Apr 2023
Honeychild Coleman
Honeychild Coleman (Bachslider, the 1865) connected with us on Zoom and we remain electrified by her wonder. Journee and Steven talk Honeychild about her art, music and writing. She discusses what it was like growing up in small town, and how her unique perspective benefitted from being introduced to queer culture in adolescence, before she moved to Brooklyn and took the world of punk rock by storm. Honeychild will be joining us at Decolonize and Discover (https://deco), June 16-18 in Charlton, MA! Our theme music is Pimp My Pride by Aesyme, rights purchased through epidemicsound.com (http://epidemicsound.com) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit decolonize.substack.com (https://decolonize.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
5 Apr 2023
Raquel Skellington, Nerd, Pro LARPer, POC
Raquel Skellington LARPs full time. Seriously. She's taken the love of live action roleplaying and made it a career! She talks with Jes and Journee about learning to embrace and love herself as a woman of color, bringing her authentic self and cultural perspectives to games, and how the LARP world has seen some progress forward for BIPOC and queer participation, and what we can all do to make it better. Listen and join Raquel, Jes, Journee and the Decolonize and Discover crew at the festival on June 16-18! Our theme music is Pimp My Pride by Aesyme, rights purchased through epidemicsound.com (http://epidemicsound.com) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit decolonize.substack.com (https://decolonize.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
29 Mar 2023
Cat Brooks, Armored Knight, LARPER, Rad Person
Your hosts talk with Cat Brooks, of the NH Executioners, based out of the Knight's Hall in Nashua, New Hampshire. Did you know there is real life knight fighting? Did you know the team that represented the USA is not only local but unapologetically Queer? Learn about how Cat got into the sport, how he and his family compete, and the LARP they just started, too. It's an exciting time for everyone. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit decolonize.substack.com (https://decolonize.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
15 Mar 2023
Curly Bright comes by to talk the festival, and her Burlesque journey
Jes and Journee reconnect with Curly Bright, Nerdlesque artist, cosplayer, pinup model, and makeup lover. They all chat about Curly's Filipino background, the journey from cosplay to nerdlesque, identity, and her experience at the inaugural Declonize and Discover festival. We also plan a few more events for June's upcoming festival. Listen now. Learn more about our festival and get tickets at DecolonizeandDiscover.com (http://decolonizeanddiscover.com) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit decolonize.substack.com (https://decolonize.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
8 Mar 2023
King J'vonte
In our first episode, Jes and Journee set the stage to focus on Fairie royalty, King J'Vonte (they/them), the ruler of the Baltimore Fae Court and the founder of our beautiful sibling event, Realmscape's Festival (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/realmscapes-festival-celebrating-mythical-cultures-of-colors-tickets-453908371157) on April 28-29 at the Cahill Recreation Center in Baltimore, MD. Journee and the King discuss J'vonte's journey as Black lover of fantasy and sci-fi into the world of the Fae, and how their mission is to create a space celebrating the imagination, creativity, and otherworldy art of BIPOC and queer folx alike. 5Music courtesy of EpidemicSound.com (http://epidemicsound.com) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit decolonize.substack.com (https://decolonize.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
4 Mar 2023
Introducing the Decolonize and Discover Podcast
Jes Negrón and Journee LaFond host the new podcast that features BIPOC, Queer, and disabled musicians, game designers, sci-fi and horror writers, burlesque/drag performers and other artists who are bringing their cultural experience to their creative spaces. An offshoot of the Declonize and Discover (https://decolonizeanddiscover.com) festival (June 16-18, 2023), this show is hear to open your mind and discover new voices. The first episode drops on March 8, 2023. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit decolonize.substack.com (https://decolonize.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
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