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If you missed today’s Tandem Talk with The Gloomy Girl Variety Show author Freda Epum (@fredaepum) and Nonbinarian Newsletter Editor and Book Club Coordinator Samantha Puc (@theverbalthing), you can watch the recording right here! 📚 

The Gloomy Girl Variety Show explores Epum’s identity as a queer, disabled Nigerian American whose concept of safety and home is partially influenced by her relationship to media and culture—particularly HGTV. 🏡 In today’s Tandem Talk, Freda and Samantha talked about TV, academia, craft, the business of being a writer, and more.

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Nonbinarian Tandem Talk with Freda Epum

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Fat Forward Books is Samantha Puc's Bindery tastemaker page, celebrating books by fat authors and about fat experiences, across every genre and age group. Follow and subscribe for reviews, author interviews, book news, and more. 

Samantha Puc (she/they) is a fat, disabled, lesbian writer and editor whose work focuses primarily on LGBTQ+ and fat representation in pop culture. Their writing has been featured on Polygon, Refinery29, Bitch Media, them., and elsewhere. Samantha is the Community Voices Blog Editor at NAAFA, the co-creator of Fatventure Mag, and a contributor to the award-winning Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives. They graduated in May 2025 with a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative nonfiction from The New School. When Samantha is not working or writing, she loves spending time with her cats, reading, and perfecting her grilled cheese recipe.

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