CHIKA on Autism, Queer Love & Surviving Her Darkest Years

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Grammy-nominated rapper, actor and writer CHIKA joins the Wrong Sauce Podcast for an honest, hilarious and deeply personal conversation about queer love, autism, mental health, fame and finally feeling like herself again. CHIKA opens up about discovering she was autistic at 27 and how the diagnosis completely changed the way she understood her relationships, emotional meltdowns, burnout and years of feeling fundamentally misunderstood. She also discusses going to rehab, losing her father, surviving some of the darkest periods of her life and finding happiness again.The conversation gets into CHIKA’s queer dating patterns, dating men versus women, ethical ho behavior, lesbian culture in Alabama, religion and queerness, sexual preferences, group sex, touch-me-nots and the complicated ways we define sexuality.CHIKA also tells the wild story of how Donald Trump’s 2016 election indirectly launched her career, why a viral video got her suspended from Twitter, how she turned that attention into a rap following and what it took to go from working at Chipotle to becoming a Grammy-nominated artist.She explains how releasing her first Warner project immediately before the COVID-19 shutdown affected her career and mental health—and why people misunderstood what was really happening behind the scenes.Plus, CHIKA talks about returning to the studio, reconnecting with her creative voice and preparing to release new music.

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