A space for slow listening, MELLOW DRAMA is an ever-unfolding radio conversation between writers across time and place. Like eating a pithy orange with a lover friend, we come together to pull language apart, get juice on our fingers, and feed each other. Hosted by shania-mark twain and DJ Oh Boy–just a couple of slow-mo homos who want to arrive with you.

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This episode is honoring Marsha P. Johnson, who was a part of the uprising at Stonewall, co-founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), “an organization dedicated to sheltering young transgender individuals who were shunned by their families,” and began STAR House, a place where transgender youth could stay and feel safe. The first STAR House was in the back of an abandoned truck in Greenwich Village and they later moved to a dilapidated building. Marsha was a Virgo, a performer in a drag group called Hot Peaches, and

DJ demifromtheblock was raised in Riverside, California in a working class Mexican immigrant family as the youngest of ten siblings. Demi’s love of nature and desire to restore our relationship to land have led to work that centers public lands conservation, land stewardship and improved access to the outdoors for environmental justice communities. She draws inspiration from Queer, Indigenous authors and advocates that center social change within ecological justice movements, like Aurora Levins Morales, Berta Caceres and Winona LaDuke. In her spare time, Demi enjoys hiking with her dog Dolly Parton.