THE POD BLOG

I'm Sloan Kooshan, the creator of the pod. I started a few years ago a stand-up comedy show based in Montreal named The SWANA Comedy Show . SWANA stands for South West Asian North African. My goal for the show was to increase the visibility of SWANA comedians in my hometown. I basically started doing stand-up comedy and realized that I didn’t feel like any show represented my intersectionality of being queer and SWANA, which is how the show was born. Then, shortly after, I wa