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Welcome to The Cutting Up: A Kiki with Connie and Lina, a new weekly podcast hosted by DJ/activist Lina Bradford and fashion legend Connie Fleming, the show offers unprecedented access to the icons, secrets, and untold stories that shaped queer culture. Lina and Connie are both trailblazing women of transgender experience, with deep backgrounds hosting and performing in NYC’s most storied clubs—and pioneering on fashion runways. They bring their knowledge, stories, and relationships to “The Cutting Up,” offering audiences a backstage pass to authentic conversations that can only happen between true friends and industry legends. “The Cutting Up” goes deep on fashion, music, activism, and identity.
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Lina and Conne welcome Aiden Wharton, the Hawaii-born writer, sex educator, and former Broadway actor behind Gay Buffet—a Substack serving culture, sex advice, and plenty to chew on. They dig into his journey from rural Hawaiian yurt life to Broadway to the sex-advice business… and the pros and cons of the apps.. Then they get into the mess: dating-app pressure, online disinhibition, and phones turning perfectly capable adults into distracted little rectangles of emotional unavailability. The...
Connie and Lina sit down with comedian Jay Jurden to talk about finding your people, owning your voice, and getting laughs without leaving your identity at the door. They get into Jay’s journey from Mississippi to New York, his first stand-up set at a gay bar, and the Eddie Murphy performances that helped shape his comedy. Along the way, they unpack masculinity, celebrate Black queer comedy, and give the genre’s overlooked queer roots their flowers. Also on the table: his Hulu special Yes Ma’...
This week we welcome Dr. Demetre Daskalakis for a conversation that goes from NYC nightlife nostalgia to speaking truth to power, including his decision to leave the CDC. Connie, Lina, and Dr. D. revisit their shared club roots and the lessons that followed Demetre from the dance floor into medicine: read the room, build trust, and meet people where they are. Their takeaway? Knowing the science matters. Knowing how to talk to people matters, too. They dig into LGBTQ+ healthcare at Calle...
This week we’re cutting up with Sutton Stracke, talking Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, life after divorce, and finding your power without pretending you’ve got it all figured out. First, we revisit that woozy reunion moment—because bronchitis and a corset were never going to be a dream team. Sutton gets candid about healing, motherhood, loss, and learning to care a little less about everyone else’s opinions. We get into turning 55, building a better relationship with ourselves, and why per...
Raquel Willis, author, activist, and co-founder of the Gender Liberation Movement, joins us for a powerful conversation on trans rights, Black queer liberation, Southern organizing, civil disobedience, and the courage it takes to bloom. Raquel reflects on growing up in Augusta, Georgia, how her Southern and Catholic roots shaped her activism, her arrests during direct actions for trans rights, the work of the Gender Liberation Movement, building support spaces for families of trans and non-bi...
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