The Pride Has Spoken | Episode 21: Carolyn Wiger
6/12/20261 hr 29 min
The Pride Has Spoken | Episode 21: Carolyn Wiger
?This week, Dr. Evvie Jagoda (@EvvieJag), Matt Scott (@MattScottGW), and Grace Leeder (@HiFromGrace) are joined by Survivor 44 and Traitors standout Carolyn Wiger for a candid conversation about identity, sobriety, queerness, reality TV, healing, and the courage to live more fully as yourself. Carolyn reflects on getting sober, embracing the word “pansexual”, navigating vulnerability on and off screen, and choosing self-acceptance over changing yourself to be liked. Follow Carolyn on social media and Patreon for more, and be sure to check her out on the new show Bed Rot Challenge.??We want YOU to share your story: What has being LGBTQ+ in the Survivor community meant to you?Please submit your video or audio response by Sunday, June 21st for a chance to be included in an upcoming episode of The Pride Has Spoken. Submit your story here: bit.ly/tphs2026??They also discuss this year’s Pride merch campaign. Profits from merch sales will go toward three LGBTQIA+ charities chosen by the hosts:
Rainbow Railroad
https://www.rainbowrailroad.org/
Ten Oaks Project
https://www.tenoaksproject.org/
Sisters PGH
https://www.sisterspgh.org/
You can find The Pride Has Spoken merch at:
http://robhasawebsite.com/store
The hosts also highlight several other charities and organizations that listeners suggested, including:
Our Spot KC
Lambert House
Kindling Collective
Ali Forney Center
Branching Out Adventures
NAGLY, the North Shore Alliance of LGBTQ+ Youth
LGBTQ+ Outdoors
BAGLY
Queer History Project
HITOPS Princeton
Zebra Youth
Out & Equal
SMYAL
The Okra Project
Trinity Place Shelter
Us Helping Us
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Order a #ThePrideHasSpoken buff, t-shirt, mug, or more at robhasawebsite.com/store. All proceeds during June will support The Trevor Project.
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Transcript preview
First 90 secondsGrace Leeder· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Welcome back to The Pride Has Spoken. This is episode two of series five. How exciting. My name is Grace. I use she/her pronouns, and our lovely crew of folks are here. We're all gonna introduce ourselves. Why don't you go first, Matt?
Matt Scott· Host0:27
Yeah. I'm Matt Scott. My pronouns are he/him. I'm thrilled to be here.
Evvie Jagoda· Host0:33
And I'm Evie Jagoda, and I use they/them pronouns, and I'm also so excited to be here for our first real full episode of The Pride Has Spoken this season. So excited. So excited to be here with you all.
Grace Leeder· Host0:45
Last week was just a little tease, but a good tease, I think, so.
Evvie Jagoda· Host0:49
Yes.
Matt Scott· Host0:50
Yeah.
Grace Leeder· Host0:50
Yeah. Lovely to hear people be excited about the show, so yeah. Uh, and it's, uh, the last time we recorded it was not Pride Month, and now it is Pride Month.
Evvie Jagoda· Host0:58
Yes.
Grace Leeder· Host0:58
So Happy Pride everybody. I mean, everybody al- they already, we already told them- Happy Pride, yeah ... Happy Pride. Uh, Evie, Happy Pride especially to you, who's, you know, really going back to the roots of Pride, and using it- Yes ... as a, a way, a means to protest.
Evvie Jagoda· Host1:11
Yes. Thank you, Grace.
Matt Scott· Host1:12
Mm-hmm.
Evvie Jagoda· Host1:12
Thanks for the setup. Um, yeah, if you don't follow me on social media, uh, you know, I posted a lot about this past weekend was Boston Pride. And first of all, it was really fun. I was having a great time marching with, uh, Unite Here, which is a union, and I was marching with my friend