I feel super lucky to have spent time chatting with this week’s guest, Tin Lorica. I have admired them as a stand-up comedian for a long time, and as you will learn in this episode, they’re also an incredibly talented poet, too. In fact, I got to hear from Tin about how their first stint in poetry and being on stage led them to comedy too. Now they explore their creative art through both and we are so lucky! Check out Millenial Line, a live comedy and poetry show they co-host.
If Tin looks familiar, it might be because you have seen them on stage around the city of Vancouver, in Season 2 of CBC’s New Wave of Stand Up, on many many shows each year at Vancouver’s Just For Laughs Festivals or if you were as lucky as me, you would have caught them opening for Alok at The Rio Theatre. Seeing them on that show, as a fellow poet/comedian to Alok, was A TREAT! I think about the show often, almost a year later. It was an incredible experience and Tin absolutely crushed the show. Amazing.
When I asked Tin what they would like to share in our conversation, they told me they would love to give their perspective from someone who is a first-generation Filipino nonbinary bitch. Need I say more? Obsessed with them. While sharing this experience, Tin delves into their thoughts about respecting their energy. As a lot of us know, the experience of coming out is an ongoing one, but Tin explains a refreshing approach of caring less and less when it comes to people they do not know. They say if people want to know, they can ask questions. If not, that is awkward for that person, not for them. Energy is precious. Hell yeah.
Additionally, Tin shares how they learned to enjoy themself as a newly independent Queer person and found support through the people in their Women’s Studies program — a lot of whom were gay and all shared similar values — when they first moved to Vancouver.
In this episode:
It is an ongoing theme: this is a podcast about coming out and mullets!
Revealed! Queer people might hold each other to higher standards than boring straight people! You heard it here first! Maybe.
We discuss both navigating confusing feelings as a teen through our writing!
I discover that Tegan and Sara had an impression on Tin’s journey. Icons!
Tin delves into how most Queerness is centered around whiteness! Listen up!
We want to tell you that is really hard to make friends in Vancouver! But East Van is a winner!
I tell you why everyone should be a guest on The Drew Barrymore Show! Especially Tin!
We decide that we need more fun perverts!
RESOURCES
Follow Tin on Instagram! @selfiemixtape
Watch Tin on Season 2 of New Wave of Stand Up on CBC Gem
Get a copy of Tin’s chapbook - Soft Armour by DM’ing them on IG
(Do you have one you want to share? That you wrote? Send it to me mydadstolemylimelight@gmail.com)
🌈 Queer joy of the week.
(I want Queer joy from the community! Email me your photographic, artistic, meme, or other joy to mydadstolemylimelight@gmail.com so I can share it with the community!)
🌈 5-star review showcase.
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music: Shawn Kangro
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lauren deborah
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Tin Lorica (they/them)