PODCAST · health

Dreaming of Saturn

by Aydrelle Collins

Sex in Color is back.After two years away — years filled with illness, surgeries, an autoimmune diagnosis, and the hard reality of navigating the healthcare system as a Black woman — I’m returning with a new lens, a new direction, and honestly… a new body to do this work in.In this episode, I’m talking about why I stepped away, how Black speculative fiction carried me through recovery, and why futurism — especially erotic and liberatory futurism — is the framework guiding this new era of the show.We’re talking Saturn.We’re talking imagination.We’re talking pleasure as possibility.And we’re naming the grief, rage, and collective horror of living in a country where ICE murdered Alex L. Peretti and Renee Good — violence Black and brown people have been bracing for in our bodies for generations.This is not an escape episode.It’s a dreaming one.A roadmap for what pleasure, safety, and intimacy could feel like when we allow ourselves to imagine a different world.Welcome back to Sex