Neda (@hijabilusciousis on IG) is a Persian-American nurse practitioner, pole dancer, and generally cool person. She discusses her recent work performing COVID tests, getting COVID herself, and which precautions she wishes more people were taking. She also describes both the hate and support she has encountered on her journey into pole as a Muslim woman in hijab. She highlights the importance of respecting how sex workers have shaped the discipline of pole dance without homogenizing the genre as necessarily sexual. Tune in and stay sanitary bitches!
The Queer Arabs Posts
This week we have a personal catch-up episode with Ellie, Alia and Nadia. We discuss Ellie’s one-year-anniversary since surgery, Nadia’s gender feelings surfacing in quarantine, bizarre barriers to entry in every job market, and where we want to take this podcast next (hit us up if you’re a SWANA person in Latin America, a QPOC gamer, or anyone else who wants to chat).
We also talked about how we maintained our mental health during election night (it involved reenacting the Mean Girls script and playing Marry/Fuck/Kill instead of checking stats). If you want to join in on our questionable entertainment, comment with your M/F/K picks for Edward Said, Judith Butler, and Michel Foucault.
(No theorists were harmed in the making of this episode.)
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