The Queer Spirit podcast has conversations with artists, healers and activists who enliven, heal and empower the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Gender Queer+ communities. Each episode we'll be interviewing a different guest who does work in the world to nourish the Queer Spirit in us all - authors, coaches, teachers, body workers, mystics, creatives, ritualists, diviners and MORE. We'll dive deep into sexuality, spirituality, yoga, energy work, shamanism, healing trauma, relationships, ...
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Welcome! My name’s David Guignion and I distill complicated philosophical and theoretical ideas for wide audiences. While ideas are important to help us understand the world, it is even more important to put ideas into action. Some of this channel’s key theoretical and pragmatic influences include, but are not limited to, Marxism, Decolonialization, Feminism, Gender and Queer theory, and Critical Race Theory. This channel’s content is recorded on the in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal, the traditional t ...
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Welcome to Gender Reveal, a podcast about nonbinary and transgender folks. Join us as we interview notable trans guests, analyze current events, answer advice questions and get a little bit closer to understanding what the heck gender is.
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Welcome to Trans Joy Boise, the podcast where we celebrate the vibrant stories, resilience, and connections of Boise’s trans community. 🌈 Through heartfelt conversations, uplifting narratives, and shared experiences, we explore the many ways trans joy thrives despite challenges. Each episode highlights inspiring voices, from local advocates and artists to everyday heroes, showcasing the beauty and strength of being trans in Boise and beyond. Together, we foster understanding, amplify voices, ...
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An Australian LGBT podcast, hosted by a Transgender teacher and a Pansexual healthcare worker, dedicated to amplifying diverse queer voices. We share personal stories, expert insights, and valuable resources on LGBTQIA+ topics—including gender identity, coming out, queer history, mental health, relationships, and activism. Join us as we build an inclusive space for learning, open discussions, and a sense of community. Whether you're queer, questioning, an ally, or simply curious, our podcast ...
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The Queer Collective Podcast is a bi-weekly queer podcast that takes a deep-dive into every subgroup of the LGBTQ2S+ community. Co-hosts Emily and Karbon, the dynamic duo navigating their own polyamorous journey and gender identities, invite guests to provide detailed perspectives on a specific topic. Whether you're interested in bisexuality, queer sex ed, compulsory heterosexuality, or any facet of LGBTQ+ life, we cover it all with a unique blend of casual conversation and deep journalism. ...
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David K Davey & Tara Watson, two housemates with a shared love of cats, gender & queer culture unravel the news of the day!
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Country Queers is a podcast featuring oral history interviews with rural and small-town LGBTQIA2S+ folks. We uplift often unheard stories of rural queer experiences across intersecting layers of identity including race, class, gender identity, age, religion, and occupation. Produced by and for country queers all over, we hope these stories help add more complexity to conversations and ideas about rural spaces and queer communities.
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LGBTQ+ Stories: The Creative Process: Gender, Equality, Gay, Lesbian, Queer, Bisexual, Homosexual, Trans Creatives Talk LGBTQ Rights
Gender, Equality, Gay, Lesbian, Queer, Bisexual, Trans Creatives: Creative Process Original Series
LGBTQ+ episodes of the popular The Creative Process podcast. Listen to Gay, Lesbian, Queer, Bisexual, Trans creatives tell their stories, discuss their lives, work & creative process. To listen to ALL arts & creativity episodes of “The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society”, you’ll find our main podcast on Apple: tinyurl.com/thecreativepod, Spotify: tinyurl.com/thecreativespotify, or wherever you get your podcasts! Exploring the fascinating minds of creative people. Conversations with w ...
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Join Jonathan Van Ness (Queer Eye) each week for their next exciting endeavor! “Getting Better with Jonathan Van Ness" is here to empower listeners (and also make them laugh) by using curiosity as a tool for personal growth. In a world that often feels overwhelming—where it’s easy to feel stuck, frustrated, or helpless—Getting Better offers a lifeline. Each week, Jonathan Van Ness, alongside experts and thought leaders, guides us through our shared challenges—confidence, productivity, mental ...
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"Queers These Days" is a podcast that delves deep into the lives, experiences, and thoughts of queer individuals in the modern era. Each episode features candid conversations with a diverse line-up of guests, ranging from activists to artists, educators to entrepreneurs, all sharing their unique perspectives on what it means to be queer in today's world. The podcast delves into pressing social issues such as intersectionality, mental health, and the evolving landscape of gender and sexuality ...
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All the Genders is a new interview podcast where bi-gender host Quinn talks with people of many identities about their lived experience of gender and queer issues. It’s meant for queer folks, allies, folks who are questioning, and anyone interested in LGBTQ+ and identity issues.
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A podcast for and about marginalized actors. Interviews with actors who identify as plus-size, BIPOC, queer, gender non-conforming, trans, parents, Asian...the list goes on. Working together to foster inclusivity and representation, one conversation at a time.
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Cum one, Cum all! We are Cale and Avery, or Avery and Cale depending on who you ask, and we are gay! Welcome to our new podcast! Please enjoy our coming out stories and we hope this resonates with you. We welcome all who want to listen, talk, and provide your own insight as well! We would love to hear from you! You can reach us at [email protected] or at instagram @qi_pod. Let us know what you think! Stay queer friends.
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Gender and sexuality are far more different from what is preched to us by our society. Unboxing the social stigma and creating awareness, we bring to you "Rangula Ratnam" A queer specific telugu podcast where we discuss multiple gender and sexuality definitions, interact with queer artists, activists and individuals and spread information on vast range of topics about gender and sexuality. This podcast is presented by Telugu Drag queen Patruni Sastry.
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Satch & Leo's Transmission is a Substack about navigating trans life, rights, and experiences through candid conversations, humour, and personal insights. satchleostransmission.substack.com
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Welcome to Rainbow Parenting, a queer- and gender-affirming parenting podcast. Every week, queer educator Lindz Amer starts conversations about the intimidating first steps on how to affirm queer, trans, and nonbinary kids. They talk to experts who explain how to approach age-relevant early childhood sex ed, queer kid lit, gender reveal parties, and much more. And this isn’t just for parents; educators, caregivers, librarians, and anyone who knows, loves, and works with kids can start the pr ...
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The Tokyo Closet Ball members interview local artists, talk about LGBT news and celebrate the community. Featuring Tatianna Lee, Stefani St. Slut, Mx Terious, Lil Sprout, Top Tear Gender Queer, Indigo Soho, and more! https://linktr.ee/Tokyo.Closet.Ball
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How much do you know about gender & sexuality? /Queer takes us beyond the lens of 'LGBTQ' and Western concepts in this oral histories podcast of human diversity. Across Seasons 1 & 2, gender & sexuality researcher Georgie Williams travels through the USA, Japan, Indonesia, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta, Turkey, South Africa and Lesotho- interviewing human rights workers, activists, professors and everyday people whose lived experiences fall under the umbrella of 'gender and sexuality va ...
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Interviews with Scholars of Gender about their New Books Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies
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The Quilt: Living memories of queer Britain & Northern Ireland An audio exhibition open to anyone, anywhere, at any time of day, produced and hosted by Tash Walker and Adam Zmith. Born from a collaboration between the producers of the award-winning podcast The Log Books and the UK’s first and only LGBTQ+ museum Queer Britain, The Quilt challenges who and what makes queer history. The series takes the listener on a journey across the UK, collecting queer memories, from queer people. The Quilt ...
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A comic book podcast dedicated to covering trans, non-binary, and gender queer representation in comics, manga, and webtoons. Hosted by comics writer Tomi Trembath, along a variety of guest creators behind trans media of all kinds. If you have requests for comics or creators to feature on the show, you can send them our way at one of the links below: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TranscendingComics Twitter: @TranscendComics https://twitter.com/TranscendComics Email: transcendingcomics@g ...
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Where does freedom of religion end and freedom from discrimination begin? In 2019, one trustee’s incendiary remarks sent shockwaves across the Toronto Catholic District School Board. Michael Del Grande argued that if Toronto Catholic schools were to protect queer and trans people from discrimination, then they should do the same for pedophiles and cannibals. His comments and the ensuing legal battle put a spotlight on the ideological divide around queer and trans inclusion. Teachers, student ...
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Tina, a conservative christian woman and Bonnie Violet, a trans gender queer drag queen have an anti-cancel culture conversation. While many family members are choosing to no longer speak, we have chosen to sit at the table and engage in difficult conversation to find peace and restoration. We continue to push the depths of our relationship even further by tackling the difficult conversations that we fear may separate us. Season 6 is coming soon! What would you like to hear us speak more abo ...
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Welcome to the Life Through a Queer Lens Podcast, where anyone with an open mind and heart can learn about the LGBTQIA+ Community from the people within it! We're your hosts, Jenene (she/her, they/them) and Kit (they/them).
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A weekly question-and-answer podcast that explores life outside the gender binary. We discuss transgender, nonbinary, asexual, queer, and even lesbian & gay topics!
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A series of interviews that seek to unpack and explore the concept of 'heteropessimism' as well as its travels throughout scholarship and popular culture, with the ultimate goal to find a way forward, towards a 'hetero-optimism'. This is a podcast for straight and queer folks alike interested in thinking holistically about gender, relationships and sexuality today.
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An open forum for gender and sexuality discussions with a focus on realities of the LGBTQ+ community in Africa.
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A podcast by and for queer and gender diverse folk going through IVF/IUI. Laugh, cry and sigh with us as we make our credit card families.
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Hosted by Ally Beardsley and Babette Thomas, Gender Spiral is a quest to explore the modern experience of being a human in our gendered world. Each episode of the podcast explores important topics and questions about navigating expectations of gender and presentation in our society through conversations with the foremost experts on the topic: trans and queer people. You'll hear firsthand accounts of gender variant folks of all stripes and walks of life, to highlight the liberation of questio ...
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Trans in the City is an open collaboration between global organisations, corporates and companies raising awareness to help further the inclusion of transgender, non-binary and gender diversity in business.
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Two black South African cis men. One queer. One straight. Based on their experiences within the boxes of life. Focusing on gender and queer issues
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This isn’t your average podcast—it’s a radical little book club for your ears. Each week on Assigned Reading, feminist business coach Becky Mollenkamp invites a brilliant guest to read and unpack a feminist essay. Together, they dive into the juicy, nuanced, sometimes uncomfortable questions these texts raise about power, identity, leadership, liberation, and more. If you’ve ever wanted to have big conversations about big ideas—but without having to get dressed, make small talk, or leave you ...
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QTPOC nerd podcast is a space for queer, trans*, bi, gender neutral, gender non-conforming, intersex people who also identify as nerds or geeks, to come together and share our experiences with being QTPOC Nerds. Hosted by Gian-Luca Matsuda.
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The Comics Canon is the podcast that reads, reviews, and renders judgment on the greatest comic book stories of yesterday and today. Each episode, Curt Holman and Kevin Moreau take a critical and completely subjective look at one of the biggest stories and most seminal moments in the medium's history, as they decide: Does this belong in the pantheon of classic and iconic tales known as ... The Comics Canon?
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Nature is Gay is a biweekly podcast all about the queer world around us and just how gosh darn normal it is. Every Monday we explore gender and sexuality in animals, plants, fungi, and everything in between!
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One of the longest running LGBTQ+ radio shows in Canada, Queer FM Vancouver: Reloaded blends current events, human interest, arts, news and entertainment with a focus on LGBTQ+ involvement and community building. Get your rundown on Vancouver, Canada, and the World in every colour of the LGBTQ+ rainbow, our allies and more. Check out Barb Snelgrove and DJ Denise on Queer FM Vancouver: Reloaded with highlights from LGBTQ+ artists and content from around the world with special attention on hom ...
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A pop culture comedy podcast hosted by Erin Gibson and Bryan Safi who cover LGBTQ+ and gender issues of the moment with both hilarity and healthy doses of absurdity. Sales and Distribution by Lemonada Media https://lemonadamedia.com/
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A feed drawing from Slate’s podcast network, including The Waves and Outward, featuring episodes that take a critical eye to the world around us, how we define ourselves, and how gender itself is defined.
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Welcome to Technically Queer, a show exploring tech beyond binaries. Join hosts Alex, Bryan, Cass, Quinn, and more as they explore how technology and queerness intersect, impact, and inform each other and the rest of the world.
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TAGLINE: A celebration of queer joy and creativity in an increasingly hostile world! ****** SYNOPSIS: Former Atlanta improvisers and childhood friends Ari (he/they) and Charlie (they/she) talk about coming out as trans in their late 20s, do improv scenes together, and collaborate on creating stories. ****** TONE: If you enjoy the conversational best friend meanderings of Nicole Byer and Sasheer Zamata, the off-the-rails improv scenes of Hey Riddle Riddle, and/or the personal trans stories of ...
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Join Charl and Aislinn on a journey of self-discovery, sexuality, relationships, and gender. Through weekly candid discussions, the self-proclaimed "professional lesbians" find themselves joined by special LGBTQ+ guests to share their truths.
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Fans of On Being and Los Culturistas love this 2024 GLAAD Media Award nominee for Outstanding Podcast. Featuring Carmen Maria Machado, Alison Bechdel, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Greg Louganis, Becky Albertalli, and so many more, guests from across the rainbow tell these authors how their books helped them overcome alienation, gender dysphoria, familial homophobia, and being outed. Essayist and Lambda Literary Fellow John Parker hosts the conversations with a gentle and energetic style, standing ...
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Conversations about lesbian bars, sapphic spaces, and beyond! Not sure where to start? You don’t have to listen in order! Pick your favorite city, space, or LGBTQ+ icon and dive in. Season 1 follows creators Sarah Gabrielli, Rachel Karp, and Jen McGinity on their 2021 cross-country road trip to every lesbian bar in the U.S., sharing the stories of the humans that run these spaces and the humans that call them a home. Season 2 features 14 more spaces, chronicling the current lesbian bar resur ...
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We are your friendly neighborhood Queer couple that cover LGBTQ+ topics and foster a welcoming environment
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From Palestine and Sudan to Duwamish and Lenape lands – we are a mass movement of people interconnected not only in our struggle against injustice, but in celebration of our collective power to demand and create change. Join host Zahyr Lauren – aka The Artist L. Haz – in conversation with movement leaders and trailblazing artists who use their cultural power to confront erasure and censorship with creativity and connection. Produced by and centering the voices of women, queer, trans, and gen ...
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M. Myrta Leslie Santana, Transformismo: Performing Trans/Queer Cuba" (U Michigan Press, 2025)
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58:47In Transformismo, M. Myrta Leslie Santana draws on years of embedded research within Cuban trans/queer communities to analyze how transformistas, or drag performers, understand their roles in the social transformation of the island. Once banned and censored in Cuba, transformismo, or drag performance, is now state-sponsored events. Transformismo su…
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Building Bridges, Breaking Cycles: Personal Stories of Healing, Social Justice & Activism
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12:59How do our personal relationships affect political movements and activism? What can we learn from Native American tradition to restore ecological balance? How can transforming capitalism help address global inequality and the environmental crisis? DEAN SPADE (Author of Love in a F*cked-Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell T…
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Outward | Queer Travel Writing with Alden Jones
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41:28Outward’s Bryan Lowder and Christina Cauterucci talk to Alden Jones, editor of the new anthology, Edge of the World. With essays from Alexander Chee, Daisy Hernández, Edmund White, and more, the collection makes clear that queer travel writing isn’t just overdue—it’s transformative. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices…
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On this episode, We’re With the Banned, our miniseries on banned and challenged graphic novels, takes on the most banned book of the past several years – Gender Queer: A Memoir, by Maia Kobabe, published by Lion Forge Comics/Oni Press! We discuss some fairly personal topics and fumble a bit (although not as much as we may have feared) with the auth…
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Nneka D. Dennie, "Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Essential Writings of a Nineteenth Century Black Radical Feminist" (Oxford UP, 2023)
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1:02:32In 1849, the Mary Ann Shadd Cary had not yet become one of the first Black woman newspaper editors in North America. She was decades away from being admitted to Howard University’s Law School and becoming the first Black woman to so enroll in the United States. She had not yet begun to lobby for women’s right to vote, and she had not yet emigrated …
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LGBTQ+ News, Bert & Ernie and the Hallmark or Queer Film Game
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30:43Send us a message We are an LGBT podcast and on this episode of Let's Be Perfectly Queer, we're diving into the politics of queer visibility — from Pride bans to census questions — and how the fight to be seen is far from over. We’re breaking down everything from the importance of LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Australian census to the backlash against Pr…
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Adriana Smith was nine weeks pregnant when she was declared brain dead in February—far enough along that her fetus showed cardiac activity. The hospital then refused to let her family decide whether or not they want to keep Smith on life support long enough for the fetus to be delivered. Guests: Imani Gandy, Editor-at-Large for Rewire News Group, c…
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Nao Tomabechi, "Supervillains: The Significance of Evil in Superhero Comics" (Rutgers UP, 2025)
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43:40Alongside superheroes, supervillains, too, have become one of today’s most popular and globally recognizable figures. However, it is not merely their popularity that marks their significance. Supervillains are also central to superhero storytelling to the extent that the superhero genre cannot survive without supervillains. Bringing together differ…
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Supreme Court Reviewing ACA Preventative Care, Toxic Masculinity, Salome and The Greatest Genitalation
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1:02:16This week spring has sprung while Erin is in Vancouver, Bryan gives us a review of Salome at The Met, and we ponder whether the "Gen" in Gen X, and Gen Z is referring to private parts. Bryan informs us about the pending Supreme Court case of mandated coverage for preventative care which could affect access to PrEP, STI testing and cancer screenings…
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Care Chats are short mindful conversrations where we share what's on our hearts + minds. Join TanyaMarck + Nick for this heart to heart chat about Discipline + Care as Saturn moves into Aries. Links + Resources + Invitations: An invitation to the private Queer Spirit Community to continue the conversation and connect with other listeners. Join us f…
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We’re With the Banned, our miniseries on banned and challenged graphic novels, concludes (at least for now) with a stop at Daniel Clowes’ Ice Haven, a “narraglyphic picto-assemblage” published by Pantheon Books! A collection of comic strips covering a variety of styles and perspectives, this peek behind the curtain of suburban America introduces us…
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Jane Elizabeth Dougherty, "Narrating Irish Female Development, 1916-2018" (Edinburgh UP, 2024)
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49:08Narrating Irish Female Development, 1916-2018 (Edinburgh UP, 2024) studies narratives of Irish female and feminized development, arguing that these postmodern narratives present Irish female maturation as disordered and often deliberately disorderly. The first full-length study of the Irish female coming of age story, the book develops a feminist p…
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Outward | America’s Gay Restaurants with Erik Pipenberg
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45:55This week, Christina Cauterucci is joined by Erik Piepenburg, author of Dining Out, a new book that explores the history of gay restaurants in the United States. Piepenburg traces how restaurants have long served as essential spaces for queer people as places to gather, connect, and express themselves at a time when most public spaces were hostile …
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Your Local Libraries Matter Now More Than Ever with Julie Murphy
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54:30#1 New York Times Best Selling Author Julie Murphy stops by to talk with JVN about the recent attacks on local libraries, investing in independent bookstores, why exposure to Queer voices is paramount for young readers - plus! The two go all in on their new YA book Let Them Stare. Julie Murphy is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of books fo…
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Intersectional Feminism vs. Girlboss Feminism: Chatting about Lindy West with Paige Worthy
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58:49This week’s text: ✍️ “What No One Else Will Tell You About Feminism” by Lindy West This week’s guest: Paige Worthy (she/her) is a writer, editor, and brand messaging strategist for progressive entrepreneurs. Known for her spicy takes, thoughtful wordcraft, and zero tolerance for misogynist bullshit, Paige shows up in business and life as a truth-te…
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Luanjiao Hu, "Inclusion, Exclusion, Agency, and Advocacy: Experiences of Women With Physical Disabilities in China, With Worldwide Implications" (IAP, 2024)
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1:05:22Inclusion, Exclusion, Agency, and Advocacy: Experiences of Women With Physical Disabilities in China, With Worldwide Implications (IAP, 2024) explores the lived experiences of six women, including the author herself, with physical disabilities in China. The book provides in-depth descriptions of each woman's experiences in different aspects and ana…
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Death, Sex & Money | Betraying a Friendship to Get a Viral Story
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1:04:37When blogger AJ Daulerio broke the Brett Favre sexting scandal in 2010, it became one of the biggest stories of his career. But it came at a cost: he had betrayed Jenn Sterger, the woman at the center of the story, who had confided in him as a friend and explicitly asked him not to name her. The fallout was immediate and lasting. Jenn became the ta…
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Angela Denise Davis on ZAMI NOBLA and moving through the world as a Black, blind, lesbian.
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1:06:17This week, we sit down with Angela Denise Davis, the creative director and podcast host for ZAMI NOBLA - the National Organization of Black Lesbians on Aging. She's also a scholar, organizer, minister, and Ukulele instructor. ZAMI NOBLA, founded in 2011 by Angela's partner Mary Anne Adams, is the leading advocacy organization dedicated to empowerin…
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Diving Into The Wreck with Kris Kleindienst
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33:42I was hungry for language. And stories. And how to tell our stories. That's what this book gave me. But let's not make a Bible out of it. Today we meet Kris Kleindienst and we’re talking about the queer book that saved her life: Diving Into The Wreck by Adrienne Rich. Kris is a 72-year old queer lesbian writer, bookseller, and activist. She owns Le…
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EP71: Queerness Before Gravity, Sir Francis Bacon's Hidden Story
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28:51Sir Francis Bacon, born in 1561, was the Lord Chancellor of England, a philosopher, author, statesman, and proud member of the LGBTQIA+ community who developed what we now call the scientific method. His story demonstrates that queerness isn't new but has existed throughout human history, even before we had the terminology to describe it. • Bacon s…
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Michelle H. S. Ho, "Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo's Pink Economies" (Duke UP, 2025)
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41:28In Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo's Pink Economies (Duke UP, 2025), Michelle H. S. Ho traces the genders manifesting alongside Japanese popular culture in Akihabara, an area in Tokyo renowned for the fandom and consumption of anime, manga, and games. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in josō and dansō cafe-and-bars, establishments wher…
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Karen Read Retrial, The Supreme Court Deadlock, and Supporting Independent Bookstores
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28:25This week on The Monday Edit: The Let Them Stare drop, Karen Read Retrial, The Supreme Court Deadlock, eating around friends, and independent bookstores. Not A Phase. Trans Lifeline Follow us on Instagram @gettingbetterwithjvn Jonathan on Instagram @jvn and senior producer Chris @amomentlikechris New video episodes Getting Better on YouTube every W…
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Hannah Jeans, "Reading, Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England" (U London Press, 2025)
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50:13In Reading, Gender and Identity in Seventeenth-Century England (University of London Press, 2025), Hannah Jeans explores the reading habits of early modern women and the ways in which their reading became a site of identity formation and promotion. Jeans studies both contemporary prescriptions around women's reading, particularly their consumption …
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Lori Jo Marso, "Feminism and the Cinema of Experience" (Duke UP, 2024)
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50:11Political theorist Lori Marso has been intrigued by filmmaker Chantal Ackerman for many years and has integrated Ackerman’s work into her courses at Union College and into her writings and scholarship as well. So it is no surprise that Feminism and the Cinema of Experience (Duke UP, 2024) is both an academic and a personal journey into Ackerman’s w…
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TikTok Trans Dad to Be, Goes Viral Asking for Help to Leave Idaho
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50:22Send us a text Today on Trans Joy Boise, we welcome Asher, a trans local in Idaho whose viral TikTok post about wanting to flee the state with his pregnant wife caught our attention. From growing up in Washington to finding himself stuck in a small, conservative Idaho town, Asher shares the real-life struggles of trying to survive — and eventually …
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The Lesbian Identity Crisis: Trans And Non-Binary?! ft. Jay-Marie and Eirene
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1:46:16Use code QUEERCOLLECTIVE for 15% off Aisle: https://periodaisle.com/ Download FEELD: https://feeld.onelink.me/TRZt/queer Vizzy Hard Seltzer: https://www.vizzyhardseltzer.ca/en-CA Think all lesbians are women? Think again. We're queering the label with trans and non-binary lesbians who are redefining what it means to love, resist, and rebel. From ge…
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Kevin Smokler, "Break the Frame: Conversations with Women Filmmakers" (Oxford UP, 2025)
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51:39In the twenty-first century alone, women filmmakers have succeeded at directing every size, genre, and style of motion picture. Their movies have won Oscars (Free Solo), made actors into household names (Jennifer Lawrence in Winter's Bone), received induction into the Library of Congress's National Film Registry (Real Women Have Curves), and become…
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Vermont's S.28, Montana's SB99, GLAAD's Social Media Safety Index, The Good Dumbwaiter and Suspension Bridges
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51:23This week Bryan reminisces about his family's (now closed) Italian restaurant in El Paso, and Erin gets in a fight with a Russian man at a Vancouver suspension bridge. Erin shares some good news with Vermont passing S.28 shoring up the state's shield laws for abortion medication and healthcare, plus Montana's striking down of SB 99 which would have…
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May '25 CareCast: 3rd Sunday Chanting + Breath Work
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43:48QS Community Care Circle recording of May 18th, Chant + Breathe. This year we're are posting recordings of our monthly CareCircles to the podcast - this is our "CareCast." We invite you get comfy, grab some hydration and join us in chanting together. The Queer Spirit Community gathers on the 3rd Sunday of each month for practices in devotional chan…
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Care Chat: Liberating Love in a F*cked-Up World with Dean Spade
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24:57Care Chats are short, mindful conversrations where we share what's on our hearts. Join TanyaMarck + Nick + Dean Spade for this juicy chat about what it means to liberate love + beauty + queer joy during challenging times. Dean Spade (he/him) has been working in movements for queer and trans liberation, anti-militarism, and police and prison aboliti…
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ICYMI: Pope Leo XIV is the Taylor Swift of Catholicism
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38:48Kate Lindsay and Candice Lim are joined by Slate staff writer Molly Olmstead to talk all things Pope Leo XIV, who made the internet go wild following a highly-covered conclave, strong Chicago ties, and a digital footprint that keeps unfurling. But another reason the Pope has seemed more exposed than ever before is because for some groups online, it…
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Emily Colbert Cairns and Nieves Romero-Diaz, "Early Modern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic" (Amsterdam UP, 2024)
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48:49Emily Colbert Cairns of Salve Regina University and Nieves Romero-Díaz of Mount Holyoke join Jana Byars to talk about Early Modern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic (Amsterdam University Press, 2024). It is the first volume to emphasize women's personal experiences and their life trajectories as mothers within the Peninsula and across the Atlanti…
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Why Your Brain Craves Revenge and How to Break Free
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51:00Revenge, why do we want to get revenge so bad? And where does that urge come from? And how do we go from wanting to get revenge to being able to forgive someone or others? James Kimmel Jr., Yale lecturer and co-founder of the Yale Collaborative for Motive Studies, is on Getting Better this week to teach us just that. James gives us insight into the…
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We’re afraid you’ll have to wait another week for our episode on Daniel Clowes’ Ice Haven. But that doesn’t mean you’ll have to wait a whole week to hear Curt and Kevin talk at length about comics. In fact, you can hear them render judgment on some fun comic-book stories of yesteryear this very day! Confused? Kevin’s here to explain.…
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Objectification Begins With Words: Reading Robin Wall Kimmerer with Nancy Harris
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47:54This week’s text: ✍️ “Speaking of Nature” by Robin Wall Kimmerer This week’s guest: Nancy Harris (she/her) is an executive coach, keynote speaker, and facilitator supporting leaders and organizations committed to equity, people-centered work, and transformational change. She’s the founder of Restart Consulting, host of The Intersection podcast, and…
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Surprise! We're giving you one of our favorite Dateline Recaps from behind the paywall! Dateline Season 33, Episode 5. Condos. Condominiums. Jade earrings. Full purses. Count how many times we say the victim's sister's name in this recap. A murder unearths an unsolved mystery from years earlier; as the connection between the two cases becomes clear…
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Sébastien Tremblay, "A Badge of Injury: The Pink Triangle as Global Symbol of Memory" (de Gruyter, 2023)
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1:03:27Sébastien Tremblay is a historian specialized in queer, global, and conceptual history. Born in Montreal / Tiohtià:ke, he received his PhD at the DFG Graduate School 'Global Intellectual History' at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institute in 2020. He is currently a Postdoc at the Department for History and Didactics of History at the University of Flensbu…
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The Virgo Garden Witch Who Raised Me (with my mum)
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26:01In this episode of Queers These Days, my mum (self described Garden Witch, cosmically crowned Virgo) and me chat about the evolution of our bond, the importance of honesty in parenting, and the spiritual connections that influence our lives. Mum shares her insights on authenticity and the importance of being true to oneself, while also talking abou…
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The Gaily Show: New Novels From Blair Fell and Mac Crane
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46:14A new episode in our special limited series featuring owners/staff of LGBTQ bookstores drops next week on May 27th! In our off weeks, we air a recent episode of The Gaily Show which John hosts. The Gaily Show is the only daily LGBTQ news and talk shows in the country airing in Minneapolis (AM950-KTNF) and Chicago (WCPT 820). In this episode, two pr…
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