The Waves with Steph Colbourn

This Queer Book Saved My Life

All of the queer futures that we can build for ourselves.
Our guest today is the CEO and founder of editaudio, Steph Colbourn.

editaudio is a podcast production company with a mission to hire more women, nb and trans people in media. Founded in 2014, Steph put together an amazing queer team of producers and staff to make the audio industry more representative of what the word actually looks like. And it looks queer!
Steph (they/she) shares with us the book that saved her life: The Waves by Virginia Woolf. And what are we exploring in this episode? What’s that feeling when you read an unrequited love story from decades before your time? How does that feel to know we were there, queer people falling in love? And how does it feel feel to read on the page your queer life being normalized, even your anxiety?
The Waves is one of Woolf's most experimental novels. Some say, her masterpiece. It begins with six children—three boys and three girls—playing in a garden by the sea, and follows their lives as they grow up, experience friendship and love, and grapple with the death of their beloved friend.
Connect with Steph
Twitter: @steph_colbourn
Instagram: @stephcolbourn
LinkedIn: https://ca.linkedin.com/in/steph-colbourn-52b11212a
email: [e-mail]
website: https://editaud.io
Buy The Waves
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