#Wilder Yari

[yourdailyqueer]

Wilder Yari

Gender: Non binary (they/them)

Sexuality: Queer

DOB: N/A

Ethnicity: Iranian, white

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor, artist

[mndvx]

quantum leap the show that you are 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

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I just watched the second (and final) season of Quantum Leap. As a nonbinary person, this scene really got me in the feels. It's really hokey and showing what should be basic human behavior. And I'm really glad it exists and it made me cry both times I've watched it.

Context for those who don't know, Mason Alexander Park plays Ian Wright, a nonbinary character in the main cast of the show. So they are reacting to this conversation among siblings, which is taking place in 1953.

And as a fan of the original QL in the early 90's, this is definitely a far cry from the overtly homophobic and transphobic aspects of some episodes back then. So, I guess it is nice to see specific evidence of some progress. Even as the backlash continues and we fight for actual liberation.

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The scene in question

Excerpt from "The Family Treasure" NBC Quantum Leap (2024) 2x10

Transcript:

Sarah Malek: Oh my god, are you okay? Are those bandages? Are you hurt? Dean Malek: Not exactly. *takes off shirt to reveal chest bindings* It is a bandage, but that’s not why I wear it.

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Ian Wright: Wow. Transmasculine in the ‘50s. I mean, I had a hunch. But this is … Jenn Chu: Isn’t that dangerous though, binding with elastic bandages? Ian: Good eye. Look at you. But there weren’t exactly a lot of options back then. Dean must feel so alone.

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Sarah: I don’t understand. Dean: When I wear this, I feel more like myself. Sarah: So do you want to be a man? Dean: No. That’s not it. Sarah: Do you think it’s shameful to be a woman? Dean: No! Being a woman is great … for some people. But I’m not really one or the other. I’m just Dean.

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Ben Song as Nadia Malek: You look badass. Dean: You two like the whole “miss” and “ma’am” thing, but that’s not me. And I’m … I don’t want to be “sir,” necessarily. I wish I had better words for it. Ben: You know, my best friend b-back at, um, finishing school- Ian: *laughs* Ben: They also feel the same way. So they ask us to use “they” and “them” instead of “he” or “she,” which is really binary. Dean: Binary like spy code? Ben: Yes, and also, a binary is anything with only two possibilities. A light switch is either on or off. A person is either good or bad. Sarah: But I don’t think that’s true. Ben: Exactly. So we need more possibilities than binary, right? Ian: *tears up* Ben: My friend identifies as nonbinary. Dean: I like that. Sarah: So that’s what you are, nonbinary? Dean: I mean, I’m not ONLY that. But yeah. Feels like me. Sarah: But you’re still my sister? Dean: I’m your sibling. Sarah: Okay. I can live with that. Come here *hugs them* I love you, Dean. Dean: I love you, too. Thank you for listening to me when I tell you who I am. Ian: Well done, Ben Song

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If only I were she!

[iamjcalvarez]

iFeature | NBC’s QUANTUM LEAP and Its Hidden “Treasure”

A Behind The Scenes Interview In its Second Season, the NBC hit Original Series QUANTUM LEAP continues to push the boundaries of epic adventure and science-fiction story-telling, all the while evolving authentic tales of diversity and inclusion. It’s rare in entertainment when the stars align, and from that combustion, a hit show emerges! 30 years ago, a physicist found himself in a scientific…

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Keisha & Jessica

4400 s01e04

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"That's what's going on between you and Agent Tanner, huh? Connections?"

[mndvx]

wilder.yari what a joy. go watch quantum leap on @peacock and make sure these angels get another season. last slide is a photo and story I kept returning to throughout the shoot. We’ve always been here, haven’t we?✨

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Yaris Sanchez Beautiful Even In The Wilderness🌲🌱🌿

[cherryblossomshadow]

Quantum Leap's Nonbinary Indiana Jones Episode

Jessie Gender After Dark

0:00

Jessie: I was able to do [an interview] with the wonderful creative team behind the most recent episode of Quantum Leap – the episode titled the Family Treasure

0:30

Jessie: This episode specifically was a lot of fun, because it is an Indiana Jones-style episode. You know “go on adventure and find treasure,” that sort of thing. But doing it with a nonbinary actor and non-binary character: Wilder Yari playing the character of Dean I was able to talk to not only Wilder who played the non-binary character Dean, as well as Shakina, who was the writer of this episode (who is also I believe the executive story producer of the show and has written several episodes of the series before including season 1's uh trans focused episode as well)

2:10

Shakina: I love injecting queerness into these tropes that we know and love. And finding a place for us where we haven't necessarily been able to find a place for ourselves before. So Quantum Leap gives us the chance to do that week to week in a different genre, and I was just like really lucky when I got handed this genre. I was sort of asked to create a kind of adventure treasure hunt story and given the challenge of finding a way to bring a non-binary character to life in that

4:05

Jessie: I'm curious what it felt like for you, to be able to have fun [and] tell the story [where] being non-binary was like a source of connection [for this family]. Usually it's a source of derision, especially in tales set not-in-the-modern-day

4:30

Wilder: It was such a joy. So wonderful. I really give a lot of that credit to Shakina for writing a story that was about an empowered moment as opposed to story that comes from pain, shame, “I hope you accept me; I hope I'm okay.” Dean, when we meet them, is already like, “this is me. This is how I am, and I'm okay with that.” Also what I really loved about it was that it felt more realistic in a way, like life happens while you're doing other stuff. “You're looking for this treasure, also I'm non binary. But we're looking for the treasure. That’s the point.” Like, that's not the whole point of the story. We are more than just our gender identity. So it felt really nice to be able to be part of a narrative that was like, “Yeah we're looking for gold. That's what we're doing.”

5:30

Jessie: I thought one of the coolest moments obviously was the chest binder moment. I'm curious what it felt like to you to film that. It can be a very vulnerable scene, like showing your body, especially in this way. But it also was a very empowering moment. Especially in like media made for wide consumption like Quantum Leap, you don't get to see that like, “Hey, binders are this cool part of it.”

6:00

Dean: Yeah, I really loved it. I mean, I'm an actor; I'm a freak. I'm like, “Yeah, put me on a hillside, put 40 people around. Yeah, I'll take my shirt off. That sounds great.” But what I really loved about it was that I felt really taken care of and loved on the set. Truly. And again a huge part of that is working with Shakina, having her on my side the whole time, and the Costume Department as well

7:00

Jessie: I wanted to ask about putting that important point about how binding could be dangerous, if not done well or properly. I thought that was really nice to get in there, because we don't really hear that discussed very much, and it's an important aspect of it to talk about

7:20

Shakina: Yeah I mean trans health is really important. Especially when you're coming into your own self, and there's not a way to learn about things. We get these like clues and hints from the world around us. So this was in service of the show, like I'm trying to write a great episode of TV here, because I love Quantum Leap and I want to keep it going. But also in service to my community. Like, “Okay, here's one shot to get a little something out there. You know, for the kids.” And it's like, we've always been here. We've always been doing this. We had unsafe ways to do it in the past, but we did it anyway. Now we have safer ways to do it. Talk to your family, come out when you're ready, be open, be in your power.”

8:00

And in that scene particular. The Trope of the trans masc person being exposed for wearing a binder and being a liar and not being who they were. That is something we've seen in Hollywood movies literally for generations. And what I wanted to do with that scene is reclaim the Trope in a way Because it's beautiful iconic imagery. I mean, Wilder looks so good standing in the sunset on this hillside with the tattered fabric, and they're just this like Dreamboat James Dean nonbinary matinee idol, and it's like, we never get to be that. And we're that now. Instead of like you know the Brandon Teena story or “just one of the guys” or “she's the man” or some sort of “I'm crying and I'm sorry, I was lying to you about having breasts.” And it's like, “No that's not what this is.” So it was a chance to spin that narrative and introduce something new

9:00

Jessie: To get kind of philosophical, because something I've been reading more and more about and been writing about my own stuff has been discussions of Queer Temporality and how queer people view time differently across generations and through our community and through our own personal histories. And one of the things that I really loved in this scene is how Ben's relationship with Mason/Ian informed how they interacted with the character in the episode and learning how to give the language to what it means to be non-binary in that moment. And I'm sort of curious what you were thinking about in that sort of wibbly wobbly timey wimey of it. Of someone from the future giving voice to someone in the past, but then that can influence in the future as well. And how that feels very queer well

9:50

Shakina: I think that queer identity, we get these gifts of being able to name ourselves. And that usually comes from like an angel in our path who gives us the language that we didn't know that we needed. And so this opportunity to show that that happened to me in my life, and now I'm like dramatizing that for the show. But what I love about Ben's Journey with Ian is that in season one “And let them play,” Ben learned how to become an accomplice and Ian guided him through it and ultimately got to like come in and see it happen. This time, we don't need to tap the non-binary person into their emotional labor, because Ben's got it. He knows how to be an accomplice. He knows how to show up. So in that moment where it's like, “Should he step in and intervene?” Like, “Oh no, we have a non-binary question! Who can answer it?” There is the cis accomplice being like, “Hey, let me tell you what I know from my friend,” and share this information. It's just a beautiful kind of solidarity, and the fact that it happens through time- Listen if you got me started on the actual psychological Quantum healing nature of rewriting- I love that conversation, but it’d be an hour. But I believe in it hardcore, and I think that's what we're doing on the show. And so I hope that in some Multiverse way, we have restored some self-authorship to our transmasc and non-binary siblings of the past

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[norcaltenkara]

2021: Hightlights and Heartbreaks

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Happy New Year everyone! As we get through the holiday season, I find myself reflecting back on the roller-coaster that was 2021. Not only was the year filled with physical peaks and valleys, but there were emotional ones as well!

Most of the heartbreaks throughout the year came by way of wildfire. Now, we're no strangers to wildfires, both Maddie and I lost our homes in the 2018 Camp Fire that devastated the town of Paradise, CA. What once seemed like a freak occurrence now seems like a yearly thing. Two of our biggest trips this summer were canceled by fire closures. The worst one was a planned trek of the North Lake to South Lake loop in the Sierras. I had never been and was ecstatic about my opportunity to possibly catch my first golden trout. We made a seven hour drive down and got a hotel with plans to set out in the morning, only to have the servere fire danger and nearby Caldor Fire cause all national forests to close. Crushed, we had to make the seven hour drive back home the next morning instead.

Another possible contender for the biggest bummer of the year happened on an overnight trip. The first trip of my 30s. It was my turn to pick our destination for the weekend, and I was feeling fishy. I chose an old favorite, with a new route in. A place that I knew held some big rainbows. Upon arriving at our lake and setting up camp, I set out to fish. I set up the Yari rod with a pheasant tail nymph and made my way along the lake shore. As the sun got lower, I finally saw one on the prowl. A bigger rainbow than I remember seeing here. I cast a bit in front of him and as he made his way by, I gave my fly a twitch. Fish on. I quickly realized that this was one of the biggest trout that I'd ever had on my line, and I was fighting it with 6x tippet. I tried a handful of times to bring it to net, and after a three to five minute fight, I ended up chopping my tippet with my net and losing the fish. The sun set and I went to bed defeated.

When the sun rose, so did my determination. I knew I only had about an hour before we had to break camp and I didn't want to do home with just a fish tale. I ate a quick breakfast and was back on the hunt. Stalking the lakes edge, it didn't take long to find one feeding again. I was unable to entice a bite, and lost sight of that one after another ten or fifteen minutes. The clock was ticking. Across the lake I could see fish rising off an adjacent point. I scrambled my way around the shoreline and found a whole school of large rainbow trout feeding off the surface. I already had the nymph tied on, so I cast it into the commotion to see what would happen. One of the fish exploded out of the water, flying nearly a foot into the air, but missing my fly. I took another cast into the mess, and the next fish didn't miss. Fish on. What felt like about a three minute fight ensued, and just like the night before I broke my tippet trying to scoop the fish in the net. This time, I lept into the lake! I quickly scooped the fish up and into my net. It measured 19" and was thicc! At the time of the writing, it still stands as my largest fish on a tenkara rod. The heartbreak from the night prior had been mended. The fluctuations of excitement on that trip are still unmatched for any overnighter that I've done.

Excitement isn't the only thing that makes a trip great though. Sometimes the "where" plays a big factor. I could talk forever about all the places that we went this last year, but there's two that really stand out to me. A four day, three night loop through. Desolation Wilderness, and a trip of the same length in the Yosemite backcountry. I recently published an article with Tenkara Angler about my Desolation trip, so I won't go into to much detail here. (The article can be found in the Winter 21/22 issue). Our trip to Yosemite was to make up for missing out on the Sierras. I hadn't been to the park so seeing all the domes was incredible to say the least. Most every water source was a pocket water paradise, each looking fishier than the last. The waterslides made for some of my most scenic fishing of the year. I also caught my first tenkara brown trout on this trip, so that made for a fun memory as well.

Another very important part of this year was forming the Fixed Line Freaks (FLF) group on Instagram. Some of the friendships and memories that has brought me will last a lifetime. I don't want to get into naming too many names, as I don't want anyone to feel left out. I will however extend a huge thank you to Justin and Nate for helping be admins and keep things running when things get busy. Before the FLF, I had never seen someone fish using tenkara, at least not in person. Now, we have had dozens of meet-ups, at least with a handful of the west coast members. I've learned a lot, and also have been able to help spread the fun to others. The tenkara community is so helpful and welcoming, and I'm very thankful to have found my place in it.

The last thing I'd like to add is less of a highlight and more of an evolution of sorts. Fishing alpine lakes is what drew me to tenkara, but that's not its traditional use. This year I have fallen in love with smaller rivers and creeks. Backcountry fishing at its finest. I still enjoy fishing at lakes using fixed line, most of the time I don't feel too many limitations. My attention has definitely shifted to the creeks and streams or to the inlets and outlets of the lakes. There was a particular moment while on an overnight trip with out friend Noah that really opened my eyes. We had stopped to filter some water, and a foot-long fish flopped past us in three inches of water, down to a near-by pool. We all looked at each other dumbfounded. I've never looked at a creek the same way again. I'm a firm believer that there are fish everywhere, you just have to find them.

What were some of your best (or worst) moments of 2021? Do you have a resolution for 2022? Let me know in the comments! Happy trails and tight lines!

Until next time,

-Nick @norcaltenkara

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"Out Loud & Live!" Episode #404 | Shakina & Wilder Yari and go behind the hit NBC original series QUANTUM LEAP!

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Preview- 4400 Ep. 7: Empowered Women Empower Women

Preview- 4400 Ep. 7: Empowered Women Empower Women

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