Kennedy Ryan
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368 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 2 Jul
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For me as a writer and as a creative, it's the most, probably the most fascinating artistic era for me in history.
And, you know, this it's kind of like a movie inside of that story.
And I honestly thought about it's Desi Blue is the fictional character.
You know, she's a fictional historical character.
Yes.
Well, you know, and she is based on kind of amalgamation of people like Ma Rainey and Billie Holiday and performers from that era.
It's kind of an amalgamation of all of these.
Her queerness, she's bisexual, is a reflection of that.
Her grit, you know, her talent, her experience, some of the things that I document in real actually are things that I read about these women experiencing in real life, you know, fictionalizing those things to make it feel even more authentic.
I'm always amazed that people are like, I'm Googling Desi Blue and I cannot find her.
Because they think she's real.
Yeah, I think that having a fictional character like Desi Blue rub up against who would have been that character's contemporaries, it makes it feel more real, and it also gives me the opportunity to share and educate the audience about a lot of characters, like real-life people, who's
contributions in their art may have been lost or may have been buried or may have been forgotten.
You know, in score, we're talking about Gladys Bentley.
You know, they go to a club and she is performing in Harlem in her white tuxedo and her white top hat and her close cut t-shirt.
you know, hair and she's presenting very masculine, but she's a woman and she is in real life an LGBTQ plus pioneer, you know, a trailblazer.
So to have someone like that in the book, it is a reflection of what was actually going on in that time.
And it makes it feel more real and more grounded in reality.
I saw a documentary.
I can't remember the name of the documentary now, but it was a documentary about the pipeline protests that we saw, you know, I don't know, 2015, 2016, like somewhere around there.
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