Jordan Sirois brings the big screen to Columbia, SC with Watching Movies Podcast

Jordan Sirois brings the big screen to Columbia, SC with Watching Movies Podcast

This week, host Kat Kezon sits down with Jordan Sirois, host of the Watching Movies Podcast. Jordan talks about how movies have remained a steady interest and hobby, and has since produced a movie podcast with family and friends. Jordan advocates for visiting your local movie theatre and creating your own analog movie collection at home. Tune in to hear about how Jordan's show has led him to an amazing relationship with South Carolina's only nonprofit arthouse cinema, The Nickelodeon Theatre.

The Magnolia Drifters tackle rugby culture, body positivity, and women's sports

This week, Kat sits down with Britt and Kara of the Magnolia Drifters womxn's rugby club, a 501(c)3 and womxn's social club promoting positive rugby culture and community service. The teammates discuss falling in love with the sport, especially thanks to their amazing teammates.

Dogon Krigga crafts their love letter to Columbia SC's artists

This episode is truly a love letter to the Soda City. Kat has the pleasure of sitting down with multi-talented paper craft, fabrication, and graphic artist Dogon Krigga whose Afrofuturist, Afrosurrealist art can be found all around the city of Columbia. Dogon shares on their artistic roots in the city and the current day art scene. We talk synesthesia, loving our neighbors, the importance of art spaces, their teenage rap sheet, tarot, mutual aid, Hoodoo, and so much more. Dogon also gives us an update on our friends at Columbia Community Fridges.

Rebekah Cadet builds a village in Columbia, SC celebrating Black motherhood

It's Black Maternal Health Week! And host Kat Kezon has the pleasure of sitting down with Rebekah Cadet, the founder of The Black Mom Village, who opens up about her personal experiences in motherhood that set her on the course to find and build her village. Rebekah has created a space for Black moms in Columbia, SC that centers lived experience, advocacy, de in the face of disparities in healthcare access, maternal outcomes, and support systems.

Evelyn Berry sings Queerness through the US South one poem at a time

This week, your host Kat sits down with trans, Southern author Evelyn Berry for another Carbonated Conversation. Evelyn discusses the books that built her, the practices that sustain her, and the Southern treats that delight her. We talk Queerness and the United States South, Queerness IN the United States South. Evelyn even performs two poems from her latest published collection "T4T'. Tune in to hear about the many ways her poetry has been transformed, transposed, and transfixed into other artistic mediums.