The Aesthetic Room: Recent Episodes
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A ki with your girls about topics that actually pertain to OUR communities. Feel free to join in via pateon if you want to ever join the dialogue.
A lengthy multi-panel discussion over the vacuum of intimacy that many people are feeling in todays day and age. From simple touch starvation, romantic fatigue, and or just isolation.
A lengthy dialogue over opening your monogamous relationship and or getting involved with those who are already in an open one and what would be your comfort zone/imposed rules.
A lengthy dialogue over relationships that are formed solely for superficial digital purposes.
A lengthy conversation over queer media centering heterosexual men and why the industry purposely excludes queer actors.
A lengthy discussion with various perspectives on the process of growing up queer in black and brown spaces. Whether you were feminine, masculine, could go under the radar, or were open.
A lengthy discussion with a multifaceted panel over the complexities, trials, and errors of dating in hook up culture.
A lengthy discussion over the communities odd fascination with DL & straight presenting men rather than masculine gay men.
A lengthy conversation over the femphobia that runs rampant in the community that only seems to get overlooked when wrapped in a layer of masculinity.
A multifaceted panel discussing the stigma surrounding both HIV, Testing, & even Prevention Methods.
A broader discussion over the darker side of the industry & all it entails with a well versed panel.
A lengthy discussion over the common act of changing one's audience later in your career to keep relevance.
A brief conversation over being introduced to your partner's friends whom they've had super happy adult fun time with, be it recently or in the distant past & whether you'd be okay with it or if you'd rather not know at all.
A paneled discussion over the recent exposing on the TL of people who've made colorist comments whether they be old or new, what's expected of them going forward; & what we should do with this new information!
A brief conversation addressing the bias towards the bisexual members of the community, but the exalting of gay4pay performers who are essentially giving bisexual lite content along with the complexities and fears some queer people have dating bisexual partners.
A panel discussion on how prioritizing sex and physical appearances tends to complicate queer friendships and dating dynamics!
Going into the details and complexities of losing your virginity as a queer black and brown person along with the hesitation to do so.
A broader conversation about the actual overabundance of masculine gay representation & the dialogue that P-Valley truly unearthed about DL culture.
A brief dialogue over the age old question of "Are You Hood Enough?" and how this question not only condenses all black people into a monolith, but also normally steeped in media based stereotypes.