Transcripts Presents: Slow-Burn Seeking

Transcripts

This week: an amazing piece of trans experimental audio, plus a big announcement during the end credits.

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Slow-Burn Seeking, is a short work of audio fiction inspired by text from dozens of 80's & 90's era personal ads drawn from an archive of the On Our Backs women's erotica magazine. Using only remixed text from these ads and from their own contemporary dating profile, Ariana Martinez composed this heart-to-heart conversation between a lovesick queer, nonbinary person still finding their footing and a benevolent queer ghost (voiced by Casey Orozco-Poore). This re-imagined conversation makes space for more expansive readings of gender than were present in the original archival material and lays bare some of the questions and anxieties that come with seeking love and physical intimacy as a nonbinary person.
This work originally aired on March 17, 2020 on BBC Radio 4’s Short Cuts with support from Falling Tree Productions.

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