ABOUT THE PROJECT

LOGLINE
Wives, Lynnex & Chris, investigate Queer Herstories along California’s coast to restore narrative balance to documented Histories. Well-rounded, inclusive discussions about Aliens, Ghosts, and Emotional Regulation ensue atop engaging AfroPop cinematography.

SYNOPSIS
In a world where the mere act of existing as a queer, Black, Trans, married couple is politicized, the co-host couple felt it would be cutting edge to explore the living Herstories of fellow queers who sit at marginalized intersections as they find joy, peace, and adventure. This series lightheartedly embodies the balance of our collective left-brain’s documentation of the past, with our collective right-brain’s intuition from blood memory. The pair ambitiously, and neatly, weaves these seemingly dichotomous perspectives into a distilled story of what we’re told & what we truly know on each episodic Topic.

The director-producer duo approach each episode like a fresh sandbox waiting to be molded into the live obstacles and tailwinds that will help co-create an authentic non-fiction adventure in California. Lynnex & Chris, have cultivated a paradigm in which they’ve unburdened themselves from past trauma cycles tied to their Blackness, Queerness, Femininity, and Masculinity. As a result, they are now emboldened to masterfully philosophize episodic Topics of morality, creativity & critical-thinking, that is absent of Patriarchal influence.

These charming Black Women are game to challenge Western History on their own terms. They differentiate History’s “facts which have been commemorated in textbooks and museums,” from the Divine Feminine Herstories, which they define as “living Truths within oral archives, passed down through the tales and psalms of society’s Queers over the ages. With each episode’s Topic, the pair dares to look beyond themselves to composite a balanced POV that serves the highest collective good. The audience vicariously explores each episode’s Topic in cathartic playfulness as they form an intimate sense of familiarity with the host couple. The overarching series aim is for the protagonists, and the audience, to reach higher pinnacles of inner knowing and outer understanding, while catalyzing their own creative pursuit of happiness.

PROJECT TYPE Episodic - Documentary

DIRECTOR Lynnex Auguste
PRODUCER Chris Auguste
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER Chris Auguste

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