Season Two opens with the episode we've been wanting to make since day one. Queerness has been a thread running under every conversation on this show, and this time Michelle and Danyelle pull it into the center.

Danyelle grew up with two moms who fought on the front lines for marriage equality, and never had a coming out story of her own, queerness was just always an option. Michelle didn't have a close queer relationship until she met Danyelle, and spent longer finding her way there. Together they trace how queerness shaped their friendship, what it means to build a chosen family, and why queerness might be less about who you're attracted to and more about how you move through the world, your relationships, your rules, your sense of what's possible.

In this episode:

• Danyelle's origin story: two moms, a politically active household, and growing up around the fight for marriage equality
• The Kinsey scale and what a peer sex-ed program taught them about the spectrum of sexuality
• Michelle's slower, more shame-shrouded relationship to her own sexuality growing up
• Queerness as culture, not just who you sleep with
• What it looked like to build a blended, chosen family across two moms and a dad living next door
• The 40% statistic: LGBTQ+ homeless youth, and why representation and chosen family matter so much
• A Knight of Cups tarot pull to open the season, using The Crow Tarot deck

Reflection questions:

• Who is in your chosen family, and how did that family get built?
• Where in your life have you felt like you had to create your own roadmap instead of following one that was already laid out for you?

Resources mentioned:
Families We Choose by Kath Weston
It Gets Better Project: itgetsbetter.org

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