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Cameron Esposito is an American actress, comedian, and podcaster known for her show Take My Wife and her podcast Queery. She is openly lesbian and genderfluid, and has appeared on various comedy shows and festivals.
Cameron Esposito is a stand-up comedian, actor and writer based in Los Angeles. She is known for her TV shows Take My Wife and Ask A Lesbian, and her podcast Put Your Hands Together.
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- Overview
- A pandemic-friendly book tour
- The airplane oxygen mask rule
On Easter Sunday, lesbian comedian Cameron Esposito paid homage to her queer family and her Catholic roots in two colorful Instagram posts. Dressed in over-the-top, rainbow-striped religious regalia, she bestowed a poignant but hopeful message to her followers in one of them.
“To my queer folks raised in non-queer-affirming Christian faiths who wonder where our place is today: We are the risen, who have stepped out of our tombs. Keep rising, pals. Keep rising,” she wrote.
The posts, which sit at the intersection of her current identity and her religious past, come on the heels of her bestselling memoir, “Save Yourself,” which charts her long, queer journey from Catholicism to comedy. The title, deep with meaning for Esposito, explores how she safely navigated the hills and valleys of growing up gay, while being raised in a deeply Catholic suburb of Chicago, where she was taught if she played by the rules, God would save her.
A series of (often hilarious) observations and recollections, “Save Yourself” is a deep dive into Esposito's ingrained devotion to Catholicism and her subsequent clawing out of it, which both contributed to her becoming who she is today, which, among other things, includes being a nationally known comedian.
The memoir outlines how she went so far as to major in theology at a Catholic college where homosexuality could be grounds for expulsion. She wanted to be a priest, and a standout passage in the book reads, “Being a Eucharistic minister is the closest you can get to being a priest if you're a woman. You can be a nun if you're a woman, but nuns don't get to stand on the stage, er, altar,and talk to the congregation about their opinions. Stand-up comics do, though.”
In an interview with NBC News, Esposito described “Save Yourself” as the story her younger self needed to read.
Before Esposito’s memoir was released March 24, she was fully prepared for a “Save Yourself” book tour — but then the coronavirus pandemic shut down the world. When her in-person promotion hopes fell through, like the rest of us, she turned to social media and Zoom. Over the past several weeks, she’s been wrangling queer wordsmiths and fellow memoirists — including Jacob Tobia, Michelle Tea, Lydia Polgreen and Roxane Gay — for “in conversation” virtual chats.
“Everybody who's been speaking with me, I know personally, and that's been really nice at a time like this,” she said. “It's amazing that we live in a time when there's other formats that exist. It actually becomes even bigger, in a sense, in how you're connecting with people.”
Esposito's Instagram followers were encouraged to download Zoom meeting IDs and join in, thus salvaging her book tour in a way she'd never imagined. She also went out of her way, repeatedly, to draw attention to platforms such as Libro.fm and Kobo — services that funnel sales back to local booksellers who wrestle to compete with Amazon.
“I mean, I'm a small business owner myself, right?” Esposito asked. “To be a comic is to be a small business owner. So I certainly understand the sorts of pressures that a small business owner would be thinking about right now, and also folks who work in the gig economy. If there's no gig to do, we aren't really protected in a larger way.”
Amid the pandemic, it hasn’t just been small businesses and gig workers that Esposito has been trying to protect: She was also faced with a health crisis that hit dangerously close to home after her live-in partner, Katy, contracted what doctors presumed to be COVID-19.
As her memoir attests, Esposito has spent a long time learning to abide by the airplane oxygen mask rule: Put your own mask on first before assisting others. Katy’s illness made Esposito put this lesson to the test, as she struggled not to play caretaker for Katy, who had to be quarantined, away from Esposito, in the Los Angeles home they share. Esposito wrote about the harrowing experience in an op-ed published in Refinery29 last month.
cameron esposito is a los angeles-based standup comic, actor and writer. Cameron is an award-winning standup comic who has released critically acclaimed specials, including the culture-shifting Rape Jokes, written a nationally bestselling book, Save Yourself, and appeared across television and film, including on her on show, STARZ’s Take My ...
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