In the Closet

Ajahnis hosts D.J. Mausner—who loves to play with formalwear but doesn’t play with politics. ••• It’s a party by day and a protest by night. Ajahnis Charley gets into it with writer and activist D.J. Mausner about expressing masculinity through fashion and the absolute necessity of owning a Soprano-style bowling shirt.

“Are you a boy or a girl?” “I’m an icon.” Ajahnis kikis in the closet with Drag Queen Chelazon Leroux. They discuss bougie Aunties and the pageantry of gender. Later, things get emotional as we explore the deeper meaning of Chelazon’s iconic red dress—there’s genuinely not a dry eye in that closet.

If there’s one thing actor Amanda Cordner will not do, it’s shrink—not their size or their aura. Ajahnis and Amanda talk auditioning while Black and not fitting in—to clothes or spaces that weren’t designed for you. It’s giving unapologetic self-acceptance!

Ajahnis gets all the tea on comedian Meg MacKay’s East Coast upbringing, their eclectic androgyny and the oh-so-familiar act of using “customer-service voice.”

From rosaries to rhinestones, Bren D’Souza knows how to accessorize. Ajahnis takes a trip into Bren’s fluid, psychedelic, sequinned world. For legal reasons, we DON’T mean that kind of trip.

Silk! Suede! Cashmere! Oh my! In this episode, iconic host Ajahnis Charley reflects on the closets we met along the way, clocking their own journey of gender and fashion.