Skye shares a hilarious story of feeding pot brownies to unsuspecting nuns at their Catholic school in 1976. Our conversation explores the reasons for teenage rebellion and the unexpected consequences of transforming from “bad kid” to honor student. We talk about anger as life force, dealing with family dysfunction, claiming authentic identity as a non-binary person in an era without language for it, and how the people who see our potential can change everything. It is an episode about how the funniest stories often carry our deepest truths.

Skylar Lyralen Kaye, fae/they, is an award-winning writer, storyteller, actor and solo performer. They won the Moth Slam in 2017, the Boston Story Slam in 2018, the San Francisco Fringe Festival Best in Fringe and Techie Best in Fringe in 2018, the NE Film Star Award in 2021, the Meryl Streep Writer’s Lab in 2015 and their web series, Assigned Female at Birth, has won 13 Best New Media Awards internationally. They ran the theater company Another Country Productions from 2003-2018, teaching the Meisner acting technique as well as movement for theater. Their novella, Priest Kid and novel Leaving Winter for a Desert Sky are available through Amazon.com and multiple other platforms, and they hope to release the memoir Bachelorx in 2026. In their spare time they teach yoga, edit writing and work for social justice. They believe in giving to their community and paddle boarding until they drop.

Link to My Mother, the Nun and Me, Moth winner: themoth.org/storytellers/lyralen-kaye

Assigned Female at Birth, a web series: www.youtube.com/c/anothercountrytv

Skye's web site with acting and writing samples: www.lyralenkaye.com

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