01/07/2021
[PRESS RELEASE]
RADYO DRAMA is a five-episode radio drama podcast about an unbelievable q***r family. The story spans three generations over five decades, hurtling across different sets of timelines and characters.
Joy, the matriarch, disappears one day after her husband commits su***de. She leaves her two children, Jun-Jun and Roma in the hands of her unstable sister-in-law, Auntie Charlie.
Years later, on the eve of her final gender affirmation surgery, Roma comes face to face with her father’s su***de note. She dreams of a woman with a thousand breasts. She begins her search for Joy.
Roma, a trans woman is RADYO DRAMA's main protagonist. While RADYO DRAMA is also trans in its storytelling and presentation. A mutable, shifting story that is close to the trans, q***r, and non-binary experience: the search for family. We see here unbelievable characters that re-imagine what family consists of, and how family can strain all too human relationships, but that can also heal the wounds that family trauma inflicts.
RADYO DRAMA doesn't ask the question, how can family accept trans, q***r, and non-binary beings? Instead it asks, what untangles the family to be reclaimed for trans/q***r flourishing, and why it falls apart when it tries its best to be cis and binary, whether under matriarchy or patriarchy? Demand the impossible! If nature is oppressive, change nature! (Laboria Kuboniks)
The series will premiere on June 28 at radyodrama.org.
