Ep. 2: "Desire"

Welcome back to this episode of Prismatic. This week Josh, Tsige and Will can’t help but discuss Beyoncé’s Lemonade and their visceral reactions. The Prismatic Team have a roundtable about the politics of desire and the line between prejudice and preference. Who’s voices and bodies are being excluded and why? How does our social location effect our decisions regarding love? Josh chats with Shannon Shird and Alexis Mena, artists and community organizers, who discuss their experience as a black, queer polyamorous couple. They speak about polyamory as a form of resistance from patriarchy and capitalism. Tsige sits down with documentarian Jamal Lewis who gives their oral history involving stories from their childhood and their upcoming documentary “No Fats, No Femmes.” They give their ideas on desire, preferences, sex, and gender. Then its y’alls turn! We turn to listen to some people within the community we are building answer the following prompt: Survival tips: How do you navigate the world of online dating? What's some advice you'd give your younger self?