We Want the Airwaves: QPOC Artists on the Rise

Nia King

Is it possible to make art and make rent without compromising your values? Since 2013, Nia King has been interviewing queer and trans artists of color to find out. Here's what she learned.

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We Want the Airwaves: QPOC Artists on the Rise

Episodes (101)

Nov 2, 2025 126: Alejandro Varela
Oct 5, 2025 125: Charles A. Bush
Jun 27, 2025 124: Adiba Jaigirdar

We Want the Airwaves: QPOC Artists on the Rise

Nov 2, 2025
1½ hours
89 MB

Queer Colombian Salvadoran Alejandro Varela is one of my favorite living writers. His work weaves together comedy and tragedy as if it was the easiest thing in the world. His first novel, The Town of Babylon, is about growing up queer and brown in a place where neither is possible. His second book, The People Who Report More Stress, begins with a short story about gay hookups at the U.N. I had the honor of interviewing him in mid-October when he was in Philly to promote his new book, Middle Spoon. We nerd out about the craft of...

We Want the Airwaves: QPOC Artists on the Rise

126: Alejandro Varela

Nia King

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