Thirst Aid Kit
podcast
Thirst Aid Kit was a podcast about celebrity lust and sexual desire hosted by journalist Bim Adewunmi and writer Nichole Perkins. It premiered on November 1, 2017, and the finale episode aired on September 17, 2020. It was officially produced by BuzzFeed until January 2019 and was picked up by Slate in September 2019.
Thirst Aid Kit was named on "best podcast" lists by Time and Entertainment Weekly.
History
Development
Adewunmi and Perkins worked together at BuzzFeed and mutually enjoyed discussing pop culture and their celebrity sexual interests. This encouraged them to pitch the idea of a podcast about celebrity crushes to BuzzFeed executives.
The purpose of Thirst Aid Kit (TAK) was to openly discuss celebrities the hosts found attractive and to do so in an unabashed manner. According to Perkins, "It's really important to give women a space to show what we are interested in and what women want." They also used TAK to highlight people whose work may be well known, but whose faces are less familiar, such as director Ryan Coogler. The name Thirst Aid Kit refers to the slang meaning of the word thirst, which refers to sexual desire. Adewunmi and Perkins referred to their fan base as "thirst buckets."
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The first episode premiered on November 1, 2017, as a production of BuzzFeed.
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