Cameron Esposito
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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Small, big adult. Yeah.
But I think I'm Abby's height, but that's not true. And we found this out in a green room once. Because I had my arm around Abby and I turned, there was a mirror and I said, literally, I think I said, and we're the same size. I don't know why that was the summary of our hangout. We'd been hanging out before the show. I turned, I said, and we're the same size. I think I am...
Nine inches shorter than Abby.
Yeah, absolutely. Okay. I'm so glad we're starting by talking about this because for me, you know, a lot of stuff that I've been thinking about recently is also as a little gay kid, but also like a gender non-conforming kid. Even when I wrote, because some of this is from Save Yourself, that qualification as a little gay kid. But I think a lot of what I was talking about was gender.
When I wrote this book, which was just a few years ago, that was not something that was on my mind the same way. I feel like When I came out 20 years ago, I was like, okay, well, first the word that I used was gay. And then eventually I was like lesbian. And then eventually I was like queer. And I still use all of those words.
But I think the other thing that was going on when I was a little kid is that there's something... going on with me that I notice and that other people have always noticed that is not quite a woman and also a woman. I feel like gender fluid is a word that's making sense to me right now, but a lot of what I was writing about when I was writing about being a little gay kid is
is that I was like Robin Hood for every Halloween. And I collected Kens. And I was only ever Joseph when my sisters and I were doing the nativity play. And when I was in fourth grade, I auditioned for the male lead of the school play. And my school called home to ask my parents what they wanted to do about this. Big problem. And my parents said, was she good?
They were like, yeah, I mean, obviously I'm talented. So they let me do it, but the school wouldn't let there be just me. So I had to split the performances with a guy. There was like a guy that they, so they were like, we'll do this, but not totally. For real. That's so weird. But all of those were childhood experiences. And I think a lot of what I've been thinking about over the last,
even just a couple of weeks or months as things have been coming out in Florida and Texas about children and preventing teachers from talking to children about The actual world. I've never been different than this. And I don't even know what this is, but I've never been different than this.
I don't need to tell you two this because you've recently lived in Florida and I have not, but those are our people. That's right. I mean, I travel so much for work and I have traveled for, I've been doing this job for 20 years in some capacity.
And I often think that there's this weird, especially like in the last couple of election cycles, there's this like coastal elites versus like people that live everywhere else. And I will just tell you queer people are everywhere. I don't need to tell you, but for any of the listeners that might, not know this because maybe your job doesn't put you in every situation.
Career people are everywhere and like can't leave. Yeah. Also sometimes don't want to leave. That's where that person lives. Yeah. And so I think when I think about these folks, it's like, yo, we are, we are there. Like that's us, you know?
Yeah. And I mean, you know, because we've talked about this as human friends, I have a very complicated relationship with my bod. I mean, I think there's a couple different things going on. And some of this I'm actually experiencing in like such a hot way because I'm on a network TV drama right now. So I've done everything in comedy.
But when you're doing something in comedy, you can kind of be like... I'm joking. You know, even if you're like the love interest, you know what I mean? It's like, yeah, we're kissing, but like, you know, take it or leave it. Yeah.
You can have like an armor, but you have to be earnest in acting. Exactly. And so, so on a drama, a million little things is a drama. My character is supposed to be like hot enough that Grace Parks character is
somebody I've been watching on TV since Battlestar Galactica and, like, think is amazing, my character has to be hot enough that Grace Parks' character would want to slam them up against a wall for one of those classic TV makeouts that we all know so much about. Oh, my God. And my shirt has to come off and all this stuff.
And I had to believe that that is true, which has been, like, a really wild thing because I think even... I don't even think we're used to seeing somebody that looks like me on TV, period. Yes. But then especially that's not undercut by joking around. Yes. Yes.
And then the thing I've got going on with my body, which is that, like, I have a, you know, kind of a angular and sharp face and giant sticking up hair. And then I also have, like... D cup breasts and some Italian-ness going on. What does that mean? I think it's like, I'm actually supposed to live in like my, because I'm, I think I'm actually supposed to live in like Rome and be like...
airing laundry out the window like like uh-huh and all my children are supposed to be around it like body wise i'm supposed to be soft i want to be hard got it i like do a billion push-ups to be like please god damn it i totally get this make my arms the way i want my arms to be you know i 100 get this Yeah. And so this body stuff has been happening my whole life.
I think maybe a reduction eventually could be something that happens, but I'm not really looking to have top surgery. I'm not really looking to be on hormones or anything like that right now, which some people are an awesome ride for them. It's not really something I'm looking to pursue.
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