Conversational podcast · Released
The Other What
Mid-life, lesbian identity, and the work of being multiple "others".
The Other What is a podcast hosted by Sharon Goh and Désirée Jamerson — two Atlanta-based queer women of color in mid-life, talking about what mid-life actually contains when you are navigating divorce, lesbian identity, chosen family, dating apps, and the daily work of being multiple "others" inside a heteronormative world.
What's inside
The labels you arrive with at twenty-five are not the ones you walk into the next room with.
Season 1 maps the terrain — labels, queer family dynamics, ideas of love, dating by decade, third spaces, breakups. Season 2 has gotten into the harder rooms: white privilege, women's health, coming out in your forties, kids, chosen family. Recent episodes take on lesbian hall passes, dating-app fails, and a Black Gay Pride Atlanta recap.
Episodes run anywhere from 25 to 90 minutes — the conversation gets to be the length it needs to be.
It is what community-led storytelling sounds like when the people most affected are also the production line. No intermediating editor. No externally-staged "perspective." Two people doing the thing they are describing, in conversation, on the record, in their own city.
Where to find it
Listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Pandora, Amazon Music, iHeart Radio, or wherever you get your podcasts.
The full episode archive — plus merch — lives at theotherwhat.com.