To paint your face in the street is to risk being seen, not as a mask, but as a mirror. In this episode, queer performance and visual artist Arthur Gorras invites us into a space where beauty is not surface, but survival; where makeup is a language of resistance, and music a vessel for healing what the body cannot carry alone.

What does it mean to be visible in a world that would rather look away? How do we hold the tension between performance and vulnerability, between being endlessly “presentable” and secretly undone? And what makes strength, the gaze of strangers, the art that shaped us as children, or the quiet questions we never knew how to ask?

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