The Freedom of Becoming

Poet, comedian, storyteller, and radio personality Peggy Smulsky traces her journey from childhood concealment to living openly as herself.

She reflects on gender, rejection, addiction, creativity, homelessness, forgiveness, and the making of Moochie the Dumpster Cat, revealing how pain became art and self-acceptance became a form of freedom through connection.

Weirdinary is a documentary conversation podcast from Albany, NY, hosted by writer and journalist BradQuan Copeland. It explores the psycho-philosophical inner worlds of everyday people in order to better understand ourselves.