Is Pride for Not-Queer People?

<p>On this week’s episode, hosts Tre’vell Anderson and jarrett hill make a call back to Tre’vell’s Dis/Honrable Mention of Ncuti Gatwa’s <a href="https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/ncuti-gatwa-british-vogue-cover-interview">British Vogue’s Pride Issue feature</a><i> </i>in Ep #174. In the issue, Gatwa claims he chooses not to label himself as queer, which poses the question: has Pride rebranded (again) to fit those who <i>do not </i>identify as queer?</p><p>But first, jarrett and Tre’vell discuss the state of employment, or rather unemployment, in media considering the rise of publication layoffs, like <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/20/buzzfeed-will-lay-off-15percent-of-staff-shutter-its-news-unit.html"><i>Buzzfeed News</i> with 15% staff layoffs</a> and <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/insider-to-lay-off-10-percent-of-staffers-company-says"><i>Insider</i> with 10%</a>, just this past April. With many more platforms following the same trend, the future of journalism looks uncertain. And later, we get a history lesson on the very first Queen of Drag.</p><p><strong>Mentioned In The Episode</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/ncuti-gatwa-british-vogue-cover-interview">Ncuti Gatwa</a> in the Pride Issue of British<i> Vogue</i></p><p>Smithsonian Magazine, <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-first-self-proclaimed-drag-queen-was-a-formerly-enslaved-man-180982311/?utm_source=pocket-newtab"><i>William Dorsey Swann, the First Self - Proclaimed “Queen of Drag”</i></a></p><p><a href="https://maximumfun.org/episodes/we-see-each-other-the-podcast/indicting-yourself-ft-angelica-ross-and-imara-jones/">We See Each Other: The Podcast</a></p><p><strong>DIS/Honorable Mentions </strong></p><p>jh:</p><p>DM: Amy Schumer’s new Netflix special <a href="https://www.netflix.com/title/81625051">“Emergency Contact”</a></p><p>HM: Aisha Harris’s new book <a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/products/wannabe-aisha-harris?variant=40679574437922">“Wannabe: Reckonings With The Pop Culture That Shapes