Giant Dwarf
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Amy Salloway is an actor, writer, teaching artist, story teller, producer, podcaster, and host of Story Club Podcast. | Host | |
Kirsten Drysdale is a television presenter and journalist. | Guest | |
Nikki Britton is an actress and writer known for How to Stay Married (2018), At Home Alone Together (2020), and The Other Guy (2017). | Guest | |
Masha Gessen is a journalist, author, translator, and activist. She is known for her criticism of Russia and of Presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.Gessen has written extensively on LGBT rights. She has written several non-fiction books, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, New Statesman, Granta, Slate, Vanity Fair, Harper's Magazine, The New Yorker, and U.S. News & World Report. Since 2017, she has been a staff writer for The New Yorker.In 1981, Gessen and her family moved to the United States. As an adult in 1991, she moved to Moscow, where she worked as a journalist. She has been described as "Russia's leading LGBT rights activist," and she quips that she was probably the only publicly out gay person in the whole country for many years. She was on the board of directors of the Moscow LGBT rights organization Triangle. She was openly critical of Russia's ban on "homosexual propaganda" and other anti-LGBT laws, as well as the harassment and beating of journalists. In 2013, a few months after being physically assaulted in the street and worried about reports that the Russian government might take away one of her children because of her sexual orientation, she and her wife and family fled to New York City. | Guest | |
Freelancer. Deputy Arts & Culture Editor of The Conversation. Former editor of Junkee.Author, including the new book "Sexy Tales of Paleontology." | Guest | |
Jordan Nicola Bridget Raskopoulos is an Australian comedian, actor and singer best known for her role as a writer and performer on the Network Ten sketch comedy show The Ronnie Johns Half Hour, and as lead singer for comedy rock group The Axis of Awesome. | Guest |
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