Andrés N. Ordorica is a Queer

Latinx writer and educator based in Edinburgh, Scotland. As a writer, heaspires to create liminal worlds filled with characters who are from neitherhere nor there ( ni de aquí, ni de allá ). His work has been published byConfluence Medway, The Acentos Review, 404 ink, The Colour of Madness, TheSkinny, and Bella Caledonia. His writing often addresses mental health, loss,sexuality and living in a liminal state.

Andrés and Michael chat about otherness, denial, long distance relationships,

finding liberation in a double-wide trailer outside of Ithaca, and whathappens when your mom discovers gay porn on the family computer.

Andrés’s Five Songs.

• Bidi Bidi Bom Bom by
  Selena.
• Brothers on a Hotel Bed by
  Death Cab for Cutie.
• Single Ladies (RedTop
  Remix) by Beyoncé.
• Latch by Disclosure feat.
  Sam Smith.
• Make It Up to You by Julia
  Michaels.

Show Notes.

Andrés’s website and

Twitter.

Things Andrés has written that you can read

online.

Andrés‘s love letter to Beyoncé.

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