Season 4 Premier! Rafael Albarrán & Kerry Michelle O'Brien: Lupe

05/05/21 • 62 min

We're baaaaaaaack for a fourth season! Jonah and Renessa catch up after a hiatus from the pod and discuss getting hairier as we age, becoming plant parents and home owners, and continued momentum in the Black Lives Matter movement.

Our guests this week are Rafael Albarrán and Kerry Michelle O’Brien, both from the new film Lupe (HBO Max), which is about a Cuban immigrant who struggles with their transgender identity while searching for their missing sister in New York City’s underground sex industry. Rafael is a Puerto Rican actor and writer trained at The New School for Drama MFA Acting program, who plays the lead in the film, and Kerry Michelle was the Executive Producer, who has been an active member of the film industry for over 30 years across Europe and North America.

We hear all about the process and experience of being involved in this film and how it impacted each of them personally in their own journeys, Rafael's acting career and poetry, the topic of cis actors playing trans roles, and Kerry Michelle's history from film school in the 80s to editing music videos and being a producer and activist.
Show links:

Boston-based Boston Black Lives Matter and anti-police violence or abolitionist groups on Instagram:
@ffcof2020
@ftpboston
@bostonpsl
@maapb617
@surjboston
@blmboston
@blackatbps
Watch Lupe: https://www.hbomax.com/feature/urn:hbo:feature:GX_TRaARFgsM6gQEAAABc
Follow Lupe on Instagram: @lupe.film

Follow Kerry Michelle:
Instagram: @kerry.michelle.o
Linkedin: KM O’Brien
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11101939/

Follow Rafael:
Instagram:
@Rafael.albarran_
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3555611/

Music by Jason Rivera and vocals by Renessa Ciampa
Follow us on Instagram @thequeercreativepodcast and on Twitter @creativequeer

Follow Kerry Michelle:
Instagram: @kerry.michelle.o
Linkedin: KM O’Brien
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11101939/

Follow Rafael:
Instagram:
@Rafael.albarran_
IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3555611/

Music by Jason Rivera and vocals by Renessa Ciampa
Follow us on Instagram @thequeercreativepodcast and on Twitter @creativequeer

Previous Episode

Season 3 Finale: Goodbye 2020! with SHIKEITH

We're excited to say good riddance to 2020, and even more excited for our Season 3 finale guest, Shikeith!!! Shikeith is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work investigates the experiences of black men within and around concepts of psychic space. His work has recently been featured in solo exhibitions including the Alexander Brest Museum & Gallery, Jacksonville University, Locust Projects in Miami, FL, Atlanta Contemporary, and The Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art in Pittsburgh, and his films have been shown at Moma in NYC. He received a 2019 Painters & Sculptors Grant from The Joan Mitchell Foundation, the 2020 Art Matters Foundation Grant, is a recipient of the 2020 – 2021 Leslie Lohman Museum Artist Fellowship. A Philly native, Shikeith currently lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA, and joins us today from his artist residency at Fountainhead in Miami, FL. We learn more about the deep and intentional symbolism and meaning behind his work and the materials that go into his work, the themes and intersections of blackness, masculinity, and queerness, we discuss specific installations, photographs, and films, and hear about his upcoming exhibitions! (see show links below)
Thank you for listening to The Queer Creative in 2020. We hope you've enjoyed listening, and hope you will leave us a rating and review! We thank you for your support! Check us out on Instagram @TheQueerCreativePodcast, on Twitter @CreativeQueer, and on YouTube by searching The Queer Creative.
SHOW LINKS:

Shikeith's website: https://shikeith.com
Twitter: @shikeithism / https://twitter.com/shikeithism
"Feeling the Spirit in the Dark" exhibition at The Mattress Factory: https://mattress.org/works/feeling-the-spirit-in-the-dark/
Stream Shikeith's latest film, "A Drop of Sun Under the Earth," on the Criterion Collection: https://www.criterionchannel.com/a-drop-of-sun-under-the-earth

Next Episode

TONY TALKS: I Am Tony Talks!

Quite possibly our most ADORABLE guest to date, we talk with Tony Talks (Antonio Baldwin) about becoming a full-time comedy content creator/actor and YouTuber, being yourself and making content for people not numbers, knowing when to say no, his creative and production process, building a team, inspirations, and wig shopping!

FREE PALESTINE.

Show Links:

Safe/Haven: Gay Life in 1950s Cherry Grove: https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/safehaven-gay-life-1950s-cherry-grove
Tony’s Website: https://www.iamtonytalks.com
Follow Tony on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamtonytalks/
Subscribe to Tony Talks on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp1QzoSnbWF7itzFZeeX-oQ
Tony on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@officiallytonytoks?

Music by Jason Rivera and vocals by Renessa Ciampa
Follow us on Instagram @thequeercreativepodcast and on Twitter @creativequeer
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