...And we're back! Join Allison for this very special very long episode of Bon Ami, all about queer friendships, queering friendships, and more. 

Why such a long break? Because life happens.

Why such a long episode? Because you deserve it. #sorrynotsorry

Allison talks to friend and filmmaker/artist/educator Amanda Madden, a group of powerhouse friends who are the epitome of friendship goals, and two awesome creators, Danny Haloossim, a licensed marriage and family therapist and certified psychotherapist and co-host of Therapists Talk TV, and his friend Jarred, co-founder of Grimy Ghost and video editor at Racer Trash radical video editing collective. 

Resources:

If you're experiencing loneliness, a loss of emotional support network or general feelings of depression or anxiety, please reach out. Pleaselive.org and 4help.org are resource libraries with tons of national and local hotlines you can call, and crisistextline.org provides 24/7 support via text message. Many thanks to the thousands of volunteers across the country that care enough to do this work.

Quoted in the pod:

Mia Birdsong, "The queering of friendship: Rethinking platonic relationships, guided by LGBTQ models," June 2020

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