BY JOANNA C. VALENTE
You’re about to have a new favorite podcast and it’s called The Nonbinary Carrie Bradshaw, a new limited series fiction podcast from the team behind the video webseries Trans Monogamist. The first two episodes premiere April 14, 2020, and it sounds exactly like what it is: it focuses on queer dating in New York City.
The series was created by and features Joshua Byron, Anna Feldmann, Myrrh Crow, and Alana Ruiz - and shows them deal with dating, being artists, and surviving in a strange landscape that is constantly changing. Byron is like Carrie, Mars is struggling with work and nonmonogamy, ALF is figuring out their identity, and Alana is tired of meeting shitty people on dates. You know, all the usual problems.
Co-creator, Joshua Byron, has stated that the cast “wanted to create something based loosely on our lives as queer people dating in New York City, including the weird, the wild, and the incredibly depressing parts. Working in audio fiction allowed for us to create something intimate and diary-like while still telling an expansive story that can reach from clubs in Miami to Brooklyn bedrooms. Audio allows queer and trans people to tell their stories without having to worry about huge budgets or gatekeepers; I’m so thrilled to be joining this community.”
In a time that is especially challenging right now, having access to art that brings to life what queer folx are dealing with and how they survive in an unforgiving time and city is especially important, but also heartening to see as we continually traverse new waters.
You can listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and YouTube. Check out the website here for more information.
Joanna C. Valente is a human who lives in Brooklyn, New York. They are the author of Sirs & Madams, The Gods Are Dead, Marys of the Sea, Sexting Ghosts, Xenos, No(body), #Survivor: A Photo Series (forthcoming), and A Love Story (Vegetarian Alcoholic Press, 2021). They are the editor of A Shadow Map: Writing by Survivors of Sexual Assault and the illustrator of Dead Tongue (Yes Poetry, 2020). They received their MFA in writing at Sarah Lawrence College, and Joanna is the founder of Yes Poetry and the senior managing editor for Luna Luna Magazine.