Molly Burdick 🏳️‍🌈

Not over it and will never be!!!! Doing a @podandprejudice live show has been a dream for 4 years, and it was more than I could ever have hoped for! Because I’m being earnest on main lately: a story I’ve told often is the one where my dad came into my room before he died and told me that the artistic work I’m doing is meaningful, and making one person’s life a little better is just as important as large scale activism, etc. To see the community we’ve built over these last four years come out in person and digitally to see us talk about Wishbone was proof that we’ve done something good and beautiful and I am so so so so so proud of us! Stay fuckin proper 😭😭😭😭 📸: @melrubin2

Pyramid spoilers and sappy post ahead!!! If you’d told me 2 years ago that I would be on a game show, I would’ve said you had the wrong Molly. This is something I NEVER in a million years thought I would/could do. I applied at @melrubin2 ’s encouragement, and the farther I got in the casting process, the more clear it became that maybe I was actually kind of *good* at the game and maybe I actually *could* do this. BUT! I wasn’t good at it naturally. I worked my butt off and practiced in every bit of spare time I had. I learned the rules, I drilled them to no end, and I found so much joy in doing so. Unhinged of me to get so emotional over a game, I know, but studying for/competing on #100KPyramid showed me that I can do anything I set my mind to. If you’re watching and thinking “I could never do that,” seriously, think again. I said the same thing at first, and now I’ll never say it again. Pyramid made me believe in myself. It also proved to me that there are so many people in my life who support me and love me and believe in me. A special shout out to Mel—if it weren’t for her, I absolutely would never have applied, but I also would never have made it all the way to Hollywood. She practiced with me every single night, for as long as I wanted, until our voices were sore. She got as much joy in seeing me succeed as I got in succeeding, and for that I am forever grateful and so in love with her. And to my mom and every other friend who let me list things to them over the phone at random hours of the day, thank you. Sure, Billie Jean King and badly thrown bowling balls will haunt me for the rest of my life, but the real pyramid was the friends we made along the way.

April!! The month we all decided we want to be astronauts! A month of celebrating friendship, love, and life! A month of eating so much sushi (like way more than pictured here)!

It’s Mel’s birthday! Mel is the definition of if she wanted to she would! Mel goes after the things she wants in life so earnestly and I really admire that about her! She always always always shows up for her friends! She cries at movies much more easily than you’d expect! She is beautiful and talented and funny! I love her!

Happy birthday daddy, I love you 💞 I know it’s just a weird photo development issue but the ghostly hand over my dad’s heart in this picture and the golden glow on his face makes me feel like he’s looking down on me today. I think he’d be proud of my life right now, which is what I will always strive for. My dad loved the movie Contact, and it doesn’t feel like a coincidence to me that his birthday is the day after the Artemis team returned safely to earth. There’s just so much out there and we’re so small in the universe. My dad didn’t believe in an afterlife, but I just think there’s no way he’s not out there somewhere. That’s why I have my “they should’ve sent a poet” tattoo. And what’s so cool is that the Artemis II mission really did send poets. Outer space inspires faith in me in a way religion never could. Pardon the word vomit, there’s just been so much good space content lately. Amaze amaze amaze etc.

My two beautiful nieces 💜🐘 happy 5th heavenly birthday, baby e. Love you more than words can say. Watching you live on through juniper, watching her play in your honor, watching her talk about you, is truly magical. Your parents are doing such a beautiful job keeping your memory alive and present for her and for all of us.

happy luck…or something day to all who celebrate 🍀💞 swipe for mine and Hannah’s 3rd grade performance of why not at the school talent show

In the words of @cmatbaby , “this whole thing is a cult…and I’m jooooining!” God I love @justwannaweekend so much and I can’t think of a better way to spend my birthday. To be for just a few days in the world we dream of, where everyone is welcome and encouraged to come as they are, where love is the top priority, and where everyone’s music taste is impeccable, is pure magic. I’m grateful to cult leader @brandicarlile for creating this space, but more so am grateful for every single person who attends and makes the community what it is 💞🌈

2025 retrospective with a heavy emphasis on January because Scotland. A year of travel, friendship, love, travel, family, food, travel, etc. 1. December - Christmas with the family, the best part of which was getting to know the person Juniper is becoming. 2. November - grateful to my mom for taking Mel and me to Portugal. We ate so much good food, drank so much good wine, and saw so many good tiles. 3. October - Halloween as the little rascals at @jukeboxtheghost with the boys 4. September - Spain! Grateful for lifelong hometown friends, home cooked meals, and the best views I have ever seen in my life. 5-6. August - Ally got married and I got to wear my first ever bridesmaid dress! AND John and Em got married and it was the best cocktail hour we’ve ever been to. Why are all my friends so hot????? 7. July - Allison’s post-wedding bachelorette in the Catskills. Once again, I love my friends. 8-9. June - @douglaswidick and @leesa_mee AND Becca and Mike had classy AF weddings. 10. May - Becca’s bachelorette in the Berkshires! 11. April - Shrek reading for Kyle’s birthday. Unhinged and perfect. 12. March - Kyle and Chris’s epic wedding blowout party extravaganza. 13. February - Grace visited me in Scotland! Are we gonna buy a cottage in a beach town in the UK? Maybe. 14-20: January - saw many castles, pretended the Queen’s boat was the Titanic, hiked a mountain with Mel, had literally the best 30th birthday ever. Before Scotland, Mel surprised me with all our friends, a Chinese food charcuterie board, and a screening of wicked as a little goodbye party. And last, New Year’s Eve last year!

I went to Porto a month ago with @melrubin2 and @jcmalk9 and we got so many photos and did so many cool things that I couldn’t decide on what to post. Here’s a small sampling. We ate, we drank, we walked so many steps, and we absolutely fell in love with the city. Grateful grateful grateful!

🍂 October 🍁

From h8rs to luvrs 🤍 What an honor to get to stand by @allys1021 as she married her best friend @brandon.welch