Referential is hosted by Dr. Khaliden Nas to have serious conversations about frivolous topics!
Each episode takes you on an academically informed deep dive into pop culture and media that never skips out on a stupid joke.
Subscribe & join Dr. Khaliden Nas (and the occasional guest!) as we dive into conversations about identity, representation, Blackness, queerness (and so much more) across the cultures that we make; and the cultures that make us.
Artwork by Valentine M. Smith. (http://www.valentinemsmith.com)
Music by Pampered Fists & Anzahlung.
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'Unfriendly Queer Muslim Hotties' (with Noor from The Reality Is Podcast!)
Drop Call #14
New drop call episode! I'm joined by new guest and friend of the pod Noor from The Reality Is podcast! We talk about what it's like existing as an opinionated muslim queer on the internet
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Orientalism: reimagined.
Muslim cool
Ed Sheeran would hate this episode
Diaspora link up
Whatsapp Aunties
Raising Muslim kids
Reality and reality tv
Hypocrisy empaths
Islam, queerness and homophobia
Guilt and getting over it
Intersectional Hell
Global warming!
Passing, hiding and existing
Unpacking the valley!
Is Kristen Doute ok?
Turns out the patriarchy is bad everywhere
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Additional video Production by Victor Alexander (@Ugly_knees on insta and @clevvergirl on Tiktok)
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Original podcast Artwork by Valentine M. Smith.
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NEXT UP: MIX #2: Joni Mitchell's 'Blue' with Karen Charm + The Girlsisode with Victor Alexander!
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9 Sept 2026
Xena (& Gabrielle) The Warrior Princess (with Sara Century)
Video Episode 5
A Queer Retrospective of Xena The Warrior Princess (& Gabrielle)
Ringing in September with the long awaited Xenasode! I'm joined by returning guest Best Issue Ever's Sara Century!
This SUPERSIZED episode features discussion of:
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+ Check out the official unofficial part 1of this crossover on Best Issue Ever where I talk to Sara about my favourite lesbian couple in comics
Find Sara at www.saracentury.com and support Sara Century and Alex Segura's comic The Forgotten Five!
Original podcast Artwork by Valentine M. Smith.
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Video Production by Victor Alexander (@Ugly_knees on insta and @clevvergirl on Tiktok)
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Thank you Layla for the help with this edit!
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1 Sept 2026
Xena (& Gabrielle) The Warrior Princess (with Sara Century) [Preview]
30 min Preview! Tune in for the full Part 1 of our Xena (& Gabrielle) The Warrior Princess deep dive later this week!
A Queer Retrospective of Xena The Warrior Princess (& Gabrielle)
Ringing in September with the long awaited Xenasode! I'm joined by returning guest Best Issue Ever's Sara Century!
This 30(ish) min preview includes discussion of:
A brief history of television lesbians
Rural Queers and television
A queer history of 90s television
Syndication, serialisation, long form storytelling, spin offs.
Kevin Sorbo keeps flopping
Hagspolitation -evil nanny
Elizabeth Taylor
Lord of the Rings
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Xena comparison
Context v subtext or Subtext in context
The glee effect
FRIENDS
the 'problematic'
+ Check out the official unofficial part 1of this crossover on Best Issue Ever where I talk to Sara about my favourite lesbian couple in comics
Check out Sara Century and Alex Segura's The Forgotten Five!
Original podcast Artwork by Valentine M. Smith.
Follow Khaliden @alsopurp everywhere
Subscribe to Best Issue Ever everywhere you get your pods!
Follow@saracentury on instagram!
Video Production by Victor Alexander (@Ugly_knees on insta and @clevvergirl on Tiktok)
Subscribe to our Youtube Page!
https://youtube.com/@referentialpod
More at www.alsopurple.com
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Reach and audience
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YouTube views
7,538
Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
Apple Podcasts (US)
5.0 / 5
13 ratings
Spotify
5.0 / 5
49 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 41 / 100
A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.
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Social presence
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YouTube
68
Engagement
77
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