About this episode
Four storytellers share personal and impactful stories on stage in Seattle.
One chilly Seattle night in February 2014, four storytellers on the RISK! stage said some things they probably wouldn’t have otherwise said out loud. Dan Savage told the story of his early days writing Savage Love in Seattle, doing drag to hide his identity, and one late-night encounter that left him genuinely bewildered by his own desire. (Content note: murder, sexual assault) Kelleen Conway Blanchard grew up carrying fragments of a story no child should know: her cousin Pam was murdered in her apartment, and the man everyone suspected walked free. Twenty years later, a phone call changed what Kelleen knew, though not necessarily how it felt. Summer Waldron was freshly divorced, newly medicated for depression, and committed to a long-planned threesome. Then the night itself unraveled, pulled apart by side effects, a panicked call from her mother, and a body that had simply stopped cooperating. Emmett Montgomery nearly died of hypothermia on a high school survival trip in the Utah desert, hallucinating through every bad decision on the way there. Full episode details and music credits at risk-show.com/podcast/live-from-seattle-cre518 Be Part of RISK! 🎟 See RISK! live in NYC on…
People in this episode
Guests: Dan Savage, Kelleen Conway Blanchard, Summer Waldron, Emmett Montgomery
Topics covered
- storytelling
- personal experiences
- trauma
- identity
- relationships
Keywords
- storytelling
- Seattle
- Dan Savage
- trauma
- relationships
- identity
- personal stories
Mentioned in this episode
Places: Seattle
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