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During the previous season of Survivor, I wrote about the glorious Karla Cruz Godoy — whose narrative arc was energizing, inspiring, and ultimately devastating (please do another season, Karla!!).
This season, there’s no Karla, which is very unhappy, but all is not lost because guess what? There are not one, not two, but THREE queer women on season 44! In the blessed name of Jeff Probst, what a delightful rotate of events!
Who are they, you ask? How will they fare? I possess no idea, but if there’s one thing you can count on me for, it’s to leap to conclusions about Survivor contestants’ personalities extremely initial on, with no plan whatsoever if I am even vaguely correct or not! Let’s dive in.
Claire Rafson
First up, we contain Claire Rafson. I could tell you what I’ve gleaned from social media and other publications, prefer that she’s from Brooklyn and is a 25-year-old tech investor, but why share that when I could instead tell you who I think she is in Survivor universe? Let’s do that.
This stare was the precise moment in which Claire Rafson became an icon
Claire lodged a secure spot in my heart in episode two, when she dubbed herself the “Czar of Laziness.” It was a shor
After Hurricane Sandy in 2012, Keith Carson was unable to stay where he was living due to flooding. The openly queer HIV/AIDS activist moved around from living with relatives to apartments and motels. He now owns a single-family home in Barnegat, N.J., which he purchased in March 2013.
However, his current home is not safe either. Carson was diagnosed with lung cancer, which spread from an earlier diagnosis of anal cancer, and is unable to pay his mortgage.
“I’m really terrified that I’m going to lose my house and I’ll be out on the street,” Carson said. “With the current condition that I’m in, that’ll kill me.”
Carson’s cancer caused him to black out while driving, resulting in him having to go on disability in June 2014. The state of New Jersey has denied his pension, which he funded through working as a professor at Atlantic Cape Group College and as a human-services specialist for Ocean County’s Board of Social Services, on a technicality: After reviewing the case, the representatives for the mortgage company determined Carson’s disability was associated with lung cancer that disabled him as of Jan. 20, 2016. He was not considered disabled at the time he left empl
Survivor 44: The Ancient Alliance Between Homosexual Men and Eccentric Women Takes Center Stage
Yam Yam Arocho and Carolyn Wiger (Photo: Robert Voets/CBS)
[Editor’s Note: This display contains spoilers for Survivor Season 44, Episode 2, “Two Dorky Magnets."]
The outcome of this week's Survivor Tribal Council makes all the sense in the world if you were following the editing choices over the season's first two episodes. In a toss-up between voting out Helen or Carolyn, you had to realize we wouldn't be losing Carolyn, who's been the season's biggest character so far and kicked off last week's premiere episode with a cold-open confessional in which we actually got to hear the producer speak because Carolyn was such a tongue-tied mess.
From an on-the-island perspective, however, it makes much less sense. Why would Yam Yam and especially Carson choose to align with the demonstrably erratic Carolyn over the calm, clever, and more predictable Helen? For Carson, he might own reasoned that Helen was more of a threat to him in the long run, someone who could outsmart him when the time came. He also seems to (mistakenly) think Helen was displaying some "I found the immunity idol" body l