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  • “Lavender Sounds” with Stacey Copeland

    “Lavender Sounds” with Stacey Copeland
    2026/08/24
    Listen, this episode is as delightful as it sounds. Audiophile Stacey Copeland tells me all about feminist soundwork, radical radio, and lesbian podcasts – all of which Stacey writes about in the excellent new book Lavender Sounds. Tune in for the sonic histories, stay for the moment when Stacey illustrating the crafted intimacy of podcasts will make you a little weak in the knees. If you are interested in the politics and potential of audio media, you will absolutely love this episode.

    References:
    Stacey Copeland’s Lavender Sounds: From Lesbian Radio to Queer Feminist Soundwork (University of Michigan Press, 2026)
    Amplify Network
    Copeland, Stacey "Sustaining queer joy and potentiality: Through independent production with homoground music podcast." Journal of popular music studies 35.4 (2023): 111-124.
    Betty Friedan
    Lavender Menace
    Michele Hilmes
    Bluestockings Cooperative
    bell hooks
    Hannah McGregor
    The Lesbian Show Fonds are held at the City of Vancouver Archives https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/the-lesbian-show
    Kaitlin Prest
    Jennifer Lynn Stoever’s The Sonic Color Line (NYU Press, 2016)
    Silva Tenenbein’s original interview with Stacey aired on FemRadio in 2018 https://soundcloud.com/scopeatryerson/the-lesbian-show
    Dykes on Mykes is back on the airwaves at CKUT Montreal https://ckut.ca/playlists/DM
    The ArQuives - https://arquives.ca/
    ‘Temporal drag’ is a reference from Elizabeth Freeman’s Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (Duke University Press, 2010)
    The Heart’s “Lesbian Separatism is Inevitable” - https://www.theheartradio.org/solos/2020/1/15/lesbian-separatism-is-inevitable
    NK (Nicole Kelly)
    Phoebe Unter
    staceycopeland.com
    Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives - https://www.nfb.ca/film/forbidden_love/
    Studio D – The women’s film studio founded in 1974 under the NFB (National Film Board of Canada)

    Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
    1. How does Stacey define lavender sounds and why is the colour lavender connected to queerness, historically and politically?
    2. What is soundwork? What is feminist soundwork?
    3. Why is audibility important to consider, not just visibility?
    4. What does Stacey mean when speaking about the everydayness of soundwork?
    5. Why does radio hold radical potential?
    6. How does sound relate to time in Stacey’s work?
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    44 分
  • LIVE at Out and Wild with Ayse and Queer Girls Book Club

    LIVE at Out and Wild with Ayse and Queer Girls Book Club
    2026/08/10
    Meet Ayse, founder of Queer Girls Book Club, defender of the heated debate, and dyke of the people. In this live recording from the amazing Out and Wild festival, Ayse tells me about why running a queer book club is not just about putting LGBTQIA+ titles on your reading list, all the work she is doing to nurture her bookish community, and a why disagreeing is a good skill to have. To quote Joelle Taylor: That’s community, babe!

    References
    Out and Wild
    https://www.outandwild.co.uk/
    Housmans
    Joelle Taylor’s The Night Alphabet
    Emily Witham
    Grace Flahive
    Polly Shute
    Gillian Anderson
    Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and Spent
    Gay on Wye
    Carol Ann Duffy’s Rapture and “Forest”
    Jackie Kay
    Lamya H’s Hijab Butch Blues
    Zoë Berryman

    Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
    1. Why did Ayse start Queer Girls Book Club? Have you ever thought about starting a group? What was/would have been your motivation?
    2. What does Ayse say about contributing to community? How do you feel about this?
    3. We speak about literature as being a protected space to practice debate and disagreement. Have you ever experienced this? Which example does Ayse give?
    4. How does Ayse speak about marginalised voices in the publishing industry? What can we as readers do to promote change?
    5. Are you coming to our next live recording?
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    40 分
  • “Spin Cycle” with Zofia Zerphy and Rhiannon Bell

    “Spin Cycle” with Zofia Zerphy and Rhiannon Bell
    2026/08/03
    In the sapphic launderette play Spin Cycle, the washers are loaded and so are the questions. Penned by Zofia Zerphy, Spin Cycle is an absurdist exploration of intense connections, queer memory and lesbian storytelling. In this summer special, I am joined by Zofia and Rhiannon Bell, who play the main characters and speak to me about crafting a play in queer community, why queer narratives can operate in different realms of sense and meaning making, and why exploring flawed characters is vital to queer and trans representation.

    References:
    Berserk Theatre
    The L Word
    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
    Mitski’s “Washing Machine Heart”
    Act On Tap
    Bethan Rose
    Edinburgh Dyke Bar
    Ros Watt’s Trans People Are Awful
    Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness
    Joe Carstairs

    Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
    1. Zofia and Rhi speak about the different responses queer and non-queer audience members had to the play’s absurdist elements. What do they say about queer narratives making sense and what is your take?
    2. Which trope(s) of sapphic storytelling do we mention in the episode?
    3. We speak about Spin Cycle using memory and forgetting in queer ways. What could queer memory mean? What does it mean to you?
    4. Rhi highlights the importance of showing flawed trans and nonbinary characters on stage. How do you feel about this? Can you think of another example of a flawed LGBTQIA+ character in literature or theatre?
    5. Have you ever seen yourself represented on stage? What was that like?
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    42 分
  • “Cisgender” with Perry Zurn

    “Cisgender” with Perry Zurn
    2026/07/20
    Who coined the term cis and why are some people calling it a slur? Amazing return guest Perry Zurn joins me to discuss what the concept of cis does, why it’s helpful to look at its origins and etymology and where it might oversimplify the project of gender. Not one to be missed!

    References:
    Perry Zurn’s Cisgender: Disorienting a Category (Duke UP, 2026)
    Perry Zurn’s How We Make Each Other: Trans Life at the Edge of the University (Duke UP, 2024)
    John Hollister
    Riva Lehrer’s Golem Girl
    Marquis Bey’s Cistem Failure: Essays on Blackness and Cisgender (Duke UP, 2022)
    Stephanie Clare’s Nonbinary: A Feminist Autotheory (Cambridge UP, 2023)
    Jonathan Ned Katz’s The Invention of Heterosexuality (1995)

    Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
    1. What does cis mean?
    2. Which term is older: cis or trans? When does the term cis emerge?
    3. Which community coined the term cisgender and why?
    4. What is Perry saying about simplified notions of cis and which example does he give?
    5. How does Perry put disability and race in dialogue with cisness and transness?
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    46 分
  • “Queer Wales” with Emily Garside

    “Queer Wales” with Emily Garside
    2026/07/07
    From popstars to rugby players, this episode has all the Welsh queer icons you could want. Emily Garside teaches me about H from Steps, Russel T. Davies, the Ladies of Llangollen and so many other fascinating LGBTQIA+ people from Wales. We talk about whether wondering if you’re queer enough is similar to wondering if you’re Welsh enough and how the prejudice against ‘sounding gay’ relates to sounding Welsh.

    Books by Emily Garside:
    Rainbow Wales: Queer Icons Past and Present (Calon, May 2026)
    Out of the Box: Queer TV through the Decades (Manchester University Press, January 2027)
    Gay Aliens and Queer Folks: How Russell T Davies Changed TV (Calon, 2023)
    Seasons of Love: Why Rent Matters (Applause)
    You Are My Happy Ending: Schitt’s Creek and the Legacy of Queer TV (Applause)
    Angels in America at the British National Theatre (McFarland)
    Love that Journey for me: The Queer Revolution of Schitt’s Creek (404 Ink)

    Other References:
    Russel T Davies
    Ladies of Llangollen
    Edward II.
    Piers Gaveston
    Steps
    Ian ‘H’ Watkins
    Elliot Page
    Luke Evans
    Eisteddfod
    Cymru
    Marquess of Anglesey
    Viscount Tredegar
    Norena Shopland
    Jan Morris’ Conundrum
    Ivor Novello
    Colin Jackson
    Connie Orff
    Alun Saunders
    Natha Wyburn
    Queer As Folk
    It’s A Sin
    Lisa Power
    Section 28
    @emigarside (IG)
    https://thenerdynotebook.substack.com/
    https://emilygarside.com/
    Surrey Rainbow Choir
    https://www.rainbowchoir.co.uk/

    Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
    1. Is there such a thing as a cohesive Welsh queer identity? What are Emily’s thoughts on this and what is her approach?
    2. Emily speaks about parallels between attitudes towards Welsh and queer identities. Which one does she discuss? Is there a facet of your identity that feels similar yet different from your queerness?
    3. What is an eisteddfod? Please look it up if you’re not familiar because we forgot to explain the term in the episode.
    4. Have you ever askes yourself whether you are queer or trans enough? How do we speak about this question in this episode?
    5. Who was your favourite person to learn about in the episode?
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    44 分
  • “A Black Queer History” with C. Riley Snorton and Darius Bost

    “A Black Queer History” with C. Riley Snorton and Darius Bost
    2026/06/22
    If you have not read A Black Queer History of the United States yet, you are so lucky to have this fantastic book in your future! And lucky for me that this is also an excellent opportunity to speak to two dream guests: C. Riley Snorton and Darius Bost speak about gender trouble in the Black queer archives, how Black and queer histories need to be thought together and why grounding oneself in community is part of what it means to survive.

    References:
    C. Riley Snorton and Darius Bost’s A Black Queer History of the United States (2026)
    C. Riley Snorton’s Nobody is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low (U of Minnesota Press, 2014)
    C. Riley Snorton’s Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity (U of Minnesota Press, 2017)
    Darius Bost’s Evidence of Being: The Black Gay Cultural Renaissance and the Politics of Violence (U of Chicago Press, 2019)
    Cathy J. Cohen “Deviance as Resistance: A New Research Agenda for the Study of Black Politics” (2014)
    William Cathay/Cathay Williams
    Phil Black
    The Funmakers Ball
    Cheryl Dunye’s The Watermelon Woman
    Erica R. Edwards
    Marsha P. Johnson
    Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR)
    Combahee River Collective
    National Black Justice Coalition
    “Black Lesbian Thought” with Briona Simone Jones
    @c.rileysnorton
    dbost@uic.edu
    @windycitybq
    Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman’s Neptune Frost
    Jellicle Ball
    Essex Hemphill’s Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry

    Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
    1. Why do Black and queer history need to be thought of together? How are they sometimes separated?
    2. Darius speaks about the book having two parts. What is each about?
    3. Riley speaks about gender and sexual deviance as forms of survival or escape. What does this mean? Can you name an example?
    4. What does Darius say about the relationship between civil rights ideology and non-normative gender?
    5. Why is it important to speak about collectives as well as individuals when engaging with Black queer history?
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    43 分
  • “Rainbow Trap” with Kevin Guyan

    “Rainbow Trap” with Kevin Guyan
    2026/06/09
    Who designs the rules of inclusion? Kevin Guyan has given a lot of thought to this question in his excellent book Rainbow Trap, which thinks through the many categories that fall under the rainbow umbrella and how they might include, exclude, limit, and even harm the people they are supposed to benefit. Listen now to learn more about why our future might hold fewer boxes to tick and how we can break boundaries to get there.

    References:
    Kevin Guyan’s Rainbow Trap: Queer Lives, Classifications and the Dangers of Inclusion (2025)
    Kevin Guyan’s Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action (2022)
    https://kevinguyan.com/
    @kevin.guyan on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/kevin.guyan/)
    kguyan on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kguyan/)
    Gender Recognition Reform Bill
    Gender Recognition Act
    Kit Heyam
    Geoffrey Bowker and Susan Leigh Star – in particular, Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences (1999)
    Ian Hacking
    Looping effect
    Sara Ahmed – in particular, On Being Included: Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life (2012)
    A Black Queer History of the United States (2026, C. Riley Snorton and Darius Bost)
    Gender and Sexuality Data Lab (https://gensexdatalab.com/)
    Queer Data Showcase
    Mystika Glamoor
    Dean Spade’s Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law (2011)

    Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
    1. What is a rainbow trap? Have you ever been trapped in one?
    2. Kevin speaks about ‘the dark sides of being included’. What does this mean? Have you experienced this form of categorisation?
    3. What does Kevin think about in the chapter on health and fitness?
    4. How are labels multidirectional? What are ‘looping effects’ in this context?
    5. What is a box breaker? Are you one?
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    47 分
  • “The Dinner Party” with Cat Fitzpatrick

    “The Dinner Party” with Cat Fitzpatrick
    2026/05/25
    We’re all still here, still ready to love, and to build community with trans books! In this extremely fun conversation, Cat Fitzpatrick talks about her poetry, her work with Little Puss Press, and a person called Crabstick. If you are wondering how all these things can go together and if you want to hear a fantastic poet speak about her favourite lyric forms as well as her favourite forms of activism, this episode is for you.

    References:
    Cat Fitzpatrick’s The Dinner Party (Seven Stories Press, 2026)
    Little Puss Press
    Cat Fitzpatrick’s The Call-Out
    Cat Fitzpatrick’s Glamourpuss
    Meanwhile, Elsewhere (edited by Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett)
    https://www.catfitzpatrick.net/
    @intermittentcat
    Chiara Pellegrini
    The Earl of Rochester
    “A Letter from Artemesia in the Town to Chloe in the Country”
    Richard Barnfield
    Uxorious
    Virgil
    Aphra Behn
    Gwen Aube’s Missed Connections with Tall Girls
    Violet Allen’s Plastic, Prism, Void
    Sybil Lamb’s I’ve Got a Time Bomb
    Jeanne Thornton’s A/S/L
    Shola von Reinhold’s Lote
    Imogen Binnie’s Nevada
    Sophia Dahlin’s Glove Money
    Futurepoems
    Joss Barton's Goodbye to a Dream Believed

    Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
    1. Cat and I speak about several poetic forms in this episode. What is Cat’s take on poetic form and the patriarchy? What is yours?
    2. Which kinds of love do we speak about in the episode?
    3. Cat describes part of her writing process as “I hold on to my feelings until I can make use of them.” Can you relate to this?
    4. What does Cat mean when she talks about books as time capsules?
    5. How can literature help us build community and engage with trans rights?
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    46 分