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Cyrus Yoshi Tabar! on Please Hang Out With Me, Episode 5

Bay Area filmmaker, musician, and all-around art dad Cyrus Yoshi Tabar stops by the glamorous and palatial PHOWM studios! Topics of discussion include: making a documentary about your family secrets, and making the decision to stop making a documentary about your family secrets; finding the tools in your art practice to find yourself; saving your kids from racist predators by teaching them about their own families, connecting to your Japanese and Iranian identities through food when connecting through family isn’t an option. What a treat! Thanks Cyrus!

Tessa Brunton! on Please Hang Out With Me, Episode 4

Cartoonist, memoirist, and incorrigible schemer Tessa Brunton stops by the show, hooray! She discusses being an artist whose practice requires solitude while living with a chronic illness that forces her into solitude against her will, and the full-time job of having to become your own doctor when the medical-industrial complex can’t be trusted (and neither can the people on the alternative medicine messageboards).

Jamica El! on Please Hang Out With Me, Episode 3

“For me, for a long time, I didn’t see myself as a parent. Then, when I became pregnant with my son, I was like, ‘I don’t feel like I’m ready, but I do know that I really love my partner and that we’ve nurtured our relationship for a long time.’ That became, for me, the bottom line: I don’t know if it’s the right time or anything else, but I do know that my son is a product of love, and that’s something that I’ll always want him to know.”

Anand Vedawala! on Please Hang Out With Me, Episode 2

“I went into engineering because there was that expectation of becoming a doctor or an engineer, and I thought, ‘I can’t be a doctor! I would feel horrible if I killed someone — directly!’ Engineering, bad design, indirectly killing someone? I didn’t feel so bad about that. I didn’t! I didn’t. But.”

Joey Alison Sayers! on Please Hang Out With Me, Episode 1

“I think it goes for a lot of things, not just being trans. But really, just finding your authentic self, and letting you live an authentic life, allows you to make better and more authentic decisions in other areas of your life.“