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And… SCENE. *deep bow* 

We came, we ushered in a glorious age of elucidating female desire, coined a few salient expressions of desire, and poof! like magic, we were gone. That’s right, we did it, folks: we’ve decided to wrap up Thirst Aid Kit as a weekly podcast. 

We want to thank you — all of you — for your ears, your enthusiasm, your tweets, your sent-in drabbles, your Asks, your Thirst Sommelier requests, your marriage proposals (1) and your gifs. Thank you, even, for the requests (that we did/do no take! 😆). Thank you for allowing us to find a home on your podcast feed these past few years, thank you coming to our live shows both at home and abroad. Thank you for rocking with us when we lost our first home, and then GLEEFULLY welcoming us into our new one. 

Thank you letting us share our thoughts, our expertise, our knowledge, our analysis, and our laughter with you — and in turn, thanks for sharing yours. Thank you for coming to the movie nights, and yelling out thirst at the screen with us and for gasping with delight and lust with us. Thank you for whispering a heartfelt “bitch..!” with us (well, with Bim, because NICHOLE 😂). Thank you for being giddy with us whenever we landed a celebrity Thirst Object  and also… for noticing when we asked them the questions you wanted answers to. 👀 

Thank you for letting us be Black women expressing Black joy, desire, pleasure and exhaustion. Thank you for allowing us to widen the understanding of what matters to Black women, besides the usual (narrow) diet we are fed. Thanks you to the producers and editors, the advertisers, the teams of people who made the show possible in all forms. Thank you, thirst-buckets. Thank you, friends.

Consider this final episode as a song of joyous gratitude and pride. Two Black women talking about female desire, race, and culture week in, week out? Yeah, we did THAT. 

WITH ALL THAT SAID… We do not think this is the end of Thirst Aid Kit! Yes, the weekly podcast has drawn to a close, but we’re hopefully not done with Thirst Aid Kit just yet. Once the world opens up again, we hope to be there: movie nights, live shows, maybe even a live tour? Wouldn’t that be nice! What we’re saying is: STAY TUNED.

But please do not despair. (also important to note: this was OUR decision; no need to start any campaigns to save us! 😃) This is just a perfect example of one door closing in a mansion full of other doors and windows. The weekly podcast is ending, but we remain. Keep an eye on our Twitter and Tumblr for updates on what we’re up to and where. This isn’t the end, but we will miss you. 

You can listen to the whole episode RIGHT HERE (more ways to listen are listed below).

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We’re on Apple and Stitcher and Podbean and Google Play and Overcast and iHeartRadio and Spotify and and and… Search ‘Thirst Aid Kit’ wherever you get your podcasts, and we’ll come up. Promise. All our episodes are also up at Slate.

We’re on Twitter at @thirstaidkit, and though we’re gonna go dark for a bit, any and all updates will be found there. You can reach us via email too, at [email protected]. 

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...at all times.

Thirst-buckets…

WE MADE IT BACK FROM THE THIRST WILDERNESS!

Some quick housekeeping: we now live at Slate Podcasts, and we are settling in nicely, thank you for asking. We also have a new producer, Cher Vincent (hi!), and between the three of us we have A LOT planned. But let’s get into Dan Levy the smokeshow RIGHT NOW.

So, you may have noticed that we were away for nine months, thirst-buckets, and it turns out that’s the perfect length of time to gestate a precious thirst-baby… and we named it Dan! We have lots to talk about: his forever-coiffed hair, his intense eyebrows, his smirk that makes us want to share secrets with him… 

What to love about Dan Levy, a brief list:

His excellent eyebrows, as inherited from his fine daddy, Eugene 👀

His superb sense of humor, as exhibited in Emmy-nominated comedy Schitt’s Creek, of which he is co-creator, showrunner and star (hello, competency kink!)

His kind eyes. It’s a thing; look it up, and seek it out IRL.

His commitment to telling stories that acknowledge the prejudice in the world and then actively choose to portray LGBTQIA lives in a way that does not centre that pain as the only tenet of identity. (that’s hot)

He fine. Like, look at him, FFS.

Some other stuff we discussed in a segment we like to call Hiatus Schmiatus:

The astonishing multi-strand hotness contained in Crazy Rich Asians

Our uncredited cameo in Avengers: Endgame. Also America’s Ass™:

The Hulk’s spectacles-and-sweater situation in Avengers: Endgame aka “Professor Daddy” (™ Nichole Perkins, 2019)

The moment Marcus (Randall Park) pushed Sasha (Ali Wong) against the wall in Always Be My Maybe and we felt the air whoosh out our collective lungs… *bites fist*

You can listen to the whole episode RIGHT HERE (more ways to listen are listed below).

SOME STUFF TO WATCH AND READ, IF YOU LIKE!

Dan explains why there’s no homophobia in Schitt’s Creek

A little bit about the radical queer vulnerability of the Schitt’s Creek characters

That time Dan explained pansexuality to Larry King. Sigh/LOL.

He told Stephen Colbert he loves giving his dad shit. Don’t we all, eh?

This GQ profile, and also this interview in Esquire.

This lovely interview with friend-of-TAK E. Alex Jung where they go clothes shopping.

These photos of him in Out. Bitch.

TO LISTEN TO THE SHOW

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We’re on Twitter at @bimadew and @tnwhiskeywoman; the show is on Twitter at @thirstaidkit. Send us your (short! please!) drabbles at [email protected]. Rate and review us on Apple Podcasts, please, because we’re asking nicely and we were told politeness counts? Thanks! 

Also: if you’re in the New York area, come thirst out loud with us at a Thirsty Movie Night! On Monday October 7 at the IFC Center, our Thirsty Movie will be is Point Break, starring one of our patron saints, Keanu Reeves, and one of our Sadly Dead Baes, Patrick Swayze. All tickets come with a free large soda, and Slate Plus subscribers get $5 off. More details here. Buy tickets here. 

Guess what!

To celebrate our long-awaited return to your ears (😭), we’ve teamed up again with the IFC Center to put on another Thirsty Movie Night! That’s right, NYC-area thirst-buckets — we hope you can make it to join us as we bring Kathryn Bigelow’s classic Point Break (1991) back to the big screen.

It’s a beloved classic, and not just because it stars two of our gave baes — TAK patron saint Keanu Reeves and Sadly Dead Bae Patrick Swayze — but also because it’s got the waves, the ridiculous hair, the tender friendship between two beautiful men, and naturally, The Female Gaze. 👀

We’ll briefly introduce the film, and there might even the chance to get some #TAKPod goodies!

DETAILS 👇🏾

Date: Monday, October 7th Time: 7pm Venue: IFC Center, 323 6th avenue, New York, NY 10014

All the info and tickets 👉🏾here.

Since we now live at Slate (yay!), we have a special $5-off offer if you are a member of Slate Plus — just use the discount code listed on the Slate Plus welcome page. You can become a member of Slate Plus here.

And even if you’re not a member, everyone gets a free large soda on us included in the price of a ticket! 🥤

We’ve missed you. See you there, thirst-buckets — come lust out loud with us!

You may have already seen the news but…

WE’RE COMING BACK, BABY!

Thirst buckets, we missed you so flippin’ much!

Set your alarms for September 26, when we will begin our new, superpowered era with Slate Podcasts.

We thank you for the outpouring of excitement, affection, and naturally, unadulterated THIRST since our announcement on Twitter. That’s that life-sustaining shit, and we appreciate it.

To our old and new subscribers: We hope to please you for as long as we can by serving up fresh new thirst every Thursday. To reiterate:

                                     🎉SEPTEMBER 26🎉

This is us heading back into the studio, pumped up 👇🏾