V Wanna Know

While touring across the USA for her sophomore album, PANORAMA, singer Hayley Kiyoko (known amongst her fans as the Lesbian Jesus) took a moment to join host Mathias Rosenzweig in learning about gerrymandering. Because like, what even is that?

Our specialist on today’s episode is Mark Gaber, the Senior Director of Redistricting at Campaign Legal Center, where he manages lawsuits to fight gerrymandering and racial discrimination in voting. Mark is a graduate of Stanford Law School.

Singer and actor Fin Argus, one of the stars of Peacock's Queer as Folk reboot, joins host Mathias Rosenzweig as well as associate professor and author Eric Stanley to learn about the history of gender queerness. The topic is broad and thus impossible to cover in a single episode. That said, Fin and Eric hone in on representations of gender queerness throughout history, the semantics surrounding queerness, and their own personal journeys through gender exploration. 

V WANNA KNOW was created by the host Mathias Rosenzweig

The show is produced by Ryan Killian Krause and Mathias Rosenzweig

Our Editors are Citizens of Sound

This week, American singer-songwriter Angel Olsen joins host Mathias Rosenzweig to learn about synesthesia, the perceptual phenomenon in which stimulation of one sensory or cognitive pathway leads to involuntary experiences in a second sensory or cognitive pathway. Like, what does that even mean! Angel learns: what are the different types of synesthetes? How did we prove that this is a real phenomenon and not just a bunch of cooky mooky? And is she herself a synesthete? 

Our specialist on today's episode is artist and founder of the American Synesthesia Association Carol Steen.