Episodes

  • Introducing: Gay Girl Gone

    Introducing: Gay Girl Gone
    Nov 7 2023
    It’s the dawn of the Arab Spring and Amina is a revolutionary blogger in Syria, fighting not just for justice but for gay liberation. When she’s snatched off the streets of Damascus, her followers frantically mobilize to save her. In this six-part series, journalist Samira Mohyeddin investigates what happened to Amina and the chain of events that sent shockwaves around the world. Launching Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2023.
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    3 mins
  • EP 1 - The Unicorn

    EP 1 - The Unicorn
    Nov 15 2023
    It's 2011, and the Arab Spring is being documented by a heady mixture of up-to-the-minute citizen reporting, tweeting and blogging. One particular voice begins to stand out — the Gay Girl in Damascus — Amina Arraf. On her blog, Amina describes herself as an out lesbian with a passion for human rights and her homeland. Amina’s evocative writing describes her everyday life, the occasional sexy anecdote and the stirring rebellion around her. It wins her adoring fans from around the world. And also leads Sandra, a woman in far away Montreal, to fall in love.
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    35 mins
  • EP 2 - My Father, The Hero

    EP 2 - My Father, The Hero
    Nov 15 2023
    As the conflict in Syria escalates, Sandra begins to worry for her girlfriend Amina’s safety. Amina’s blog has grown in notoriety, attracting the interest of Western media like The Guardian and NPR. But as a newly-minted media darling, Amina is under added surveillance and increasingly in danger.
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    35 mins
  • EP 3 - The Trustworthy Fortune Teller

    EP 3 - The Trustworthy Fortune Teller
    Nov 22 2023
    The unthinkable has finally happened. Amina has been taken by the regime and is missing. In Montreal, Sandra is determined to pull on every lever possible to find Amina. Other journalists and locals are doing the same before it’s too late.
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    29 mins
  • EP 4 - On the Face of It

    EP 4 - On the Face of It
    Nov 29 2023
    As forces around the internet unite to try to find Amina, more doubts begin to pile up. Especially when it's revealed that the photos on Gay Girl in Damascus, of a beautiful young woman with chin-length brown hair, belong to another woman entirely.
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    33 mins
  • EP 5 - Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are

    EP 5 - Come Out, Come Out, Whoever You Are
    Dec 6 2023
    The shocking truth about Amina finally comes out. Sandra is devastated as the enormity of her new reality starts to sink in. Members of the international media are also scrambling to update their coverage. In Istanbul, Turkish reporter Irem Koker hatches a plan to confront the real Amina.
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    37 mins
  • EP 6 - The Blast Radius

    EP 6 - The Blast Radius
    Dec 13 2023

    The fallout from the revelation about Amina — and others like her — continue to ripple across the world. A furious Sandra wants closure. Danny, living in Damascus, faces a life-threatening decision. And the blog’s loyal readers are left with one persistent question — why?
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    54 mins
  • Gay Girl Gone Introduces: Deepfake Porn Empire

    Gay Girl Gone Introduces: Deepfake Porn Empire
    Feb 24 2026

    Deepfake porn is a billion-click industry built on stolen faces, while the people making it hide theirs behind screens. Hosted by journalist Sam Cole, Understood: Deepfake Porn Empire traces the decades-long rise of synthetic porn, the targets who are fighting back, and the global investigation that led to its Canadian kingpin.


    Understood takes you deep inside the seismic shifts reshaping our world right now. From online porn and crypto chaos to the rise of tech oligarchs, deepfake AI, and the broken promises of the internet — we explore the stories that define our digital age with hosts and characters embedded in the heart of the action.


    More episodes of Deepfake Porn Empire are available wherever you get your podcasts, and here: https://link.mgln.ai/DPExGGG
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    39 mins