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Queersplaining

201 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★ - 276 ratings

Intimate portraits of LGBTQ lives and the issues that shape them

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the ultimate redo

August 10, 2022 03:03 - 24 minutes - 33.8 MB

its been awhile friends. i'll tell you more about all that soon, but for now, QS is back with a rad talk about a rad book written by some rad trans folks. check out If You're a Kid Like Gavin, by Gavin Grimm and Kyle Lukoff.

queering the recording studio

May 06, 2022 19:05 - 20 minutes - 28.1 MB

Aki McCullough runs Nu House Studios and has found a super cool way to get more trans art into the world

i don't play these games

April 29, 2022 09:00 - 42 minutes - 58.2 MB

Jack is trans and works at a large erotic boutique. i just have so many questions about what that's like

kabayashi maru community building

April 11, 2022 23:09 - 53 minutes - 73.2 MB

James has spent a long time working in community building for The Ethical Society. He's thinks it might be time to end the org and rebuild. James' blog: 

top surgery at michael's

April 02, 2022 21:15 - 40 minutes - 55.7 MB

i met some rad folks at my local TDOV event

the truth of the bed and breakfast

March 26, 2022 23:14 - 45 minutes - 61.9 MB

possum creek games took a moral stand and put their meal ticket at risk in the process.    https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/yazeba-s-bed-breakfast#/

take your science and GET OUT

March 18, 2022 07:17 - 50 minutes - 68.9 MB

Danielle got sober toward the beginning of covid, and she wrote an amazing article about it. she's here to tell us more...   https://jezebel.com/i-got-sober-in-the-pandemic-it-saved-my-life-1848380935

a fake trans documentary?

February 25, 2022 07:23 - 25 minutes - 35.2 MB

shady right wingers doing shady things...weird! follow Eli on Twitter: https://twitter.com/EliErlick

but to connect with Carlos

February 18, 2022 10:00 - 43 minutes - 60.2 MB

One of the reasons newer Star Trek has rad queer stories is that we're in the writers room! 

coming back into life

February 11, 2022 10:00 - 28 minutes - 39.1 MB

Imara Jones is an incredible journalist, writer, activist and advocate <3

and now people are listening

February 04, 2022 10:00 - 36 minutes - 49.8 MB

LaShana used to have trouble communicating. now people are listening to her <3

transing las vegas

January 28, 2022 10:00 - 38 minutes - 52.8 MB

my new friend June is a trans pro poker player. do i really have to say anthing else to get you interested haha?

transing las vegas

January 28, 2022 10:00 - 38 minutes - 52.8 MB

my new friend June is a trans pro poker player. do i really have to say anthing else to get you interested haha?

capital F feelings

January 21, 2022 10:00 - 37 minutes - 51 MB

Ada grew up in India and came to the US at the age of 24. Before then she'd not really encountered queerness or transness. And when she did, she felt some capital F feelings about it...

the best sleepover ever

January 14, 2022 10:00 - 32 minutes - 45.1 MB

Jenna and her partner had some stuff to talk about. So as one does, they had a living room slumber party...

faith in the small

January 06, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 91.9 MB

welp...2021 happened. 2022 is happening. and we're having feelings about that...

choose to live

December 17, 2021 11:12 - 58 minutes - 80.4 MB

I don't often do conversation type episode on QS. but this is a good one. longer than normal by quite a bit, but i think its worth the time. love you friends <3

being noticed on purpose

December 10, 2021 10:00 - 22 minutes - 31.5 MB

my friend Elya shares some joy with us <3

the hidden case of ewan forbes

December 03, 2021 10:00 - 17 minutes - 24.2 MB

Zoë Playdon got a wild phone call one night...

its been about me the whole time!

November 26, 2021 10:00 - 25 minutes - 35.4 MB

Laser is in a very cool band called The Doubleclicks, and they just released a musical!

a cloud of nano bots

November 19, 2021 10:00 - 20 minutes - 19.5 MB

Jaelen has tried HRT and figured out it wasn't for them. We don't hear enough of those stories.   Join the Discord here: https://discord.gg/4UNKsnZr   Love you friends <3

particle physics is the bee's knees!

November 12, 2021 10:00 - 32 minutes - 45.4 MB

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is a theoretical physicist, feminist theorist, and she thinks particle physics is amazing. so do i!

we came to play

November 05, 2021 09:00 - 32 minutes - 44.1 MB

did you know there was once a women's pro football league? i didn't...

respectability politics gone wild

October 29, 2021 09:00 - 33 minutes - 30.5 MB

unshockingly, trying to publish science that challenges the status quo is hard   follow Nicole on twitter @nbedera  

i'm not my parents

October 13, 2021 16:52 - 36 minutes - 49.9 MB

Keira's had a lot stacked against her in life

you don't respawn

September 30, 2021 22:02 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MB

Detryck is Black, queer, leftist, and a gun owner. he's going to tell us why the left needs to give another look to the gun debate

why are dreams?

September 10, 2021 16:57 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MB

has some pretty intense ones lately

keep calm, its just tourette's

September 03, 2021 09:00 - 19 minutes - 17.8 MB

Emily has Tourette's syndrome, but thats not actually the source of her problems

queer art lego

August 27, 2021 09:00 - 28 minutes - 39.3 MB

Samuel Hatmaker decided to make a Golden Girls house out of LEGO. Then a few things happened...   check out Sam's stuff here: https://samhatmaker.wordpress.com/about-the-builder/

i won't become the wall

August 20, 2021 20:46 - 32 minutes - 44.9 MB

my friend Nichole recently got out of a pretty rough relationship. here's how she did it

the last resort is minimum wage

August 13, 2021 06:00 - 30 minutes - 41.6 MB

We don't always do a great job talking about sex work. Mostly because sex workers are often left completely out of the conversation. So let's do some of that...

clickbait transphobia

August 06, 2021 09:00 - 25 minutes - 35.4 MB

transphobia in the UK seems to have its own special flavor. what's the deal with that?   Check out Michelle's podcast What The Trans?! here: whatthetrans.com  Check out the Trans Safety Network here: https://transsafety.network/  Michelle also wanted to lift up Nim Ralph, follow them here: https://twitter.com/NMRLPH 

just man things

July 30, 2021 09:00 - 26 minutes - 36.9 MB

the queer community's discourse on masculinity could be a lot better   connect with Dallas on Twitter @dallas_hawthorn   check out their work @Fireside_Folk and https://firesidefolktale.wixsite.com/site

and i still love you

July 23, 2021 09:00 - 24 minutes - 33.5 MB

sometimes its the things we don't say

together

July 16, 2021 09:00 - 23 minutes - 31.7 MB

new meds. who's this?

we are the rainbow people

July 09, 2021 12:39 - 33 minutes - 45.5 MB

okay but how do you say "gay" in Klingon?

it's a good face

June 25, 2021 14:37 - 13 minutes - 19.1 MB

i tried something different this week. it feels good. and weird.

queer as in...

June 18, 2021 09:00 - 11 minutes - 16.3 MB

language is hard

7 out of 10

June 11, 2021 09:00 - 30 minutes - 42.4 MB

given the media we had easy access to as kids...its honestly a miracle any of us figured out who we are

speaking ill of the dead

May 28, 2021 09:00 - 16 minutes - 22.5 MB

someone who was really important to me at one time died recently. and i'm feeling pretty complicated feels about that.

art therapy

May 21, 2021 09:00 - 29 minutes - 40.7 MB

we know art can help you heal, but what happens when you're not able to do it the way you used to?

cal and jam

May 14, 2021 09:00 - 17 minutes - 24.7 MB

i got to start making music again. it was neat <3

a less than triumphant return

May 07, 2021 09:00 - 13 minutes - 19.1 MB

i had a picture in my head of what it would be like to skate on a skating floor again. 

go hard or go home

April 30, 2021 13:59 - 50 minutes - 68.8 MB

Dr Simonis is a scientist who studies chemical weapons, and they've seen and documented some pretty scary stuff in Portland and other places https://www.dapperstats.com/ https://twitter.com/JuniperLSimonis chemicalweaponsresearch.com

to the journey

April 23, 2021 06:00 - 17 minutes - 23.7 MB

i thought i was done with big trans related changes, but...

therapy rules

April 16, 2021 14:13 - 13 minutes - 18 MB

i figured something else important out the other day...

that tall man is me!

April 09, 2021 08:00 - 27 minutes - 37.5 MB

transitioning during a pandemic is something else

being your own doctor

April 02, 2021 08:00 - 34 minutes - 47.4 MB

quite often, the medical profession just....isn't great to us

something changed

March 26, 2021 09:00 - 12 minutes - 17.4 MB

is this....healing?

endaera

March 12, 2021 10:00 - 30 minutes - 41.4 MB

Incarcerated folks get basically no institutional support when they leave the system. so they have to figure out their own ways of dealing with life when they come home. 

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