How Are You Lighting Up The Runway For Representation? with Munroe Bergdorf

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

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🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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We love a “both and” moment, and this week’s guest is giving us just that: Munroe Bergdorf is both a stunning model and an incredible LGBTQIA+ role model. She and Jonathan celebrate this month’s “Pride In Nature” series with a conversation about her early love for the outdoors, the importance of trans inclusion in sports, and her hopes for representation in the fashion industry and beyond. Munroe Bergdorf is a writer, model, and activist. She has spoken on international panels from Oxford to Princeton and contributed to publications such as the Guardian, Grazia, i-D, Teen Vogue, ELLE and Paper. In 2019, she was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Brighton for her contribution to campaigning for transgender issues. Can't get enough of Munroe and Jonathan? Check out their episode together on Munroe's podcast The Way We Are. You can keep up with Munroe on Instagram @munroebergdorf. Join the conversation, and find out what former guests are up to, by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Love listening to Getting Curious? Now, you can also watch Getting Curious—on Netflix! Head to netflix.com/gettingcurious to dive in. Our executive producer is Erica Getto. Our associate producer is Zahra Crim. Our editor is Andrew Carson. Our socials are run and curated by Middle Seat Digital. Our theme music is “Freak” by QUIÑ; for more, head to TheQuinCat.com. Getting Curious merch is available on PodSwag.com. Headshot Credit for Munroe: Luke Nugent

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0:00.0	Welcome to Getting Curious. I'm Jonathan Van S and every week I sit down for
0:03.8	gorgeous conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that
0:07.5	makes me curious. On today's episode I'm joined by Monroe Berdorf where I
0:11.8	ask her, how are you lighting up the runway for representation? And before we
0:16.4	get going everyone I just want to say thank you so much for listening to
0:19.6	Getting Curious. Thank you so much for supporting Getting Curious and our
0:22.9	team. We work so hard to bring this show to you week after week and we love
0:27.6	doing it. We love you for supporting us. And I just never really hop on and say
0:31.8	that at the top and I just wanted to say I thank you and I love you and thank
0:36.3	you so much for your support. And this week we have such an incredible guest
0:40.4	Monroe Berdorf. Yay!
0:44.5	Welcome to Getting Curious. This is Jonathan Van S and we have got such a
0:47.9	fucking gorgeous episode for you not to cross right off the top but it really is
0:50.9	just so gorgeous. And without any further ado, welcome Monroe Berdorf. Who is a
0:55.6	model and social activist if you've been living under several rocks? Earlier
0:58.8	this year I got to be on her podcast the way we are. Today she's the guest
1:02.5	on ours. Honey, how are you Monroe? I'm psychic how are you? Really good. So obviously
1:08.0	spoilers out your British. You are. You got the British accent. So first of all
1:16.6	this is gonna be coming out in pride. So happy pride. Happy pride everybody. I
1:22.2	would do it's in our strongest pride ever on getting curious. We've been
1:25.9	exploring like what queer joy and nature looks like. So we've studied honey
1:30.4	like queer my college. You know what that is? No. It's like queer mushrooms. It
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