Latest Coming out Podcast Episodes
How Fashion Fuels Queer Visibility
Queerability - October 20, 2023 05:00 - 46 minutesWelcome to this week's episode of Queerability; How Fashion Fuels Queer Visibility In this episode, we look at how fashion has played a part in queer history. How our community uses fashion as a form of self-expression. And how trends go from being queer to mainstream. Join us for an intimate ...
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr - October 17, 2023 07:05 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 48 ratingsSpooky Season continues as Brenna and Joe tackle Alvin Schwartz's collection of folklore urban legends, as well as André Øvredal's 2019 adaptation. We heap praise on the illustrations by Stephen Gammell and acknowledge Schwartz's campfire tales as gateway horror. The film doesn't work as well:...
Love and Monsters (2021)
Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr - October 10, 2023 07:05 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 48 ratingsSpooky Month continues, but we're moving away from scares into drippy monsters! Thankfully Michael Matthews's Love and Monsters features plenty of comedy and heart, courtesy of star Dylan O'Brien's voice over and a script from Matthew Robinson and Brian Duffield (the latter wrote previous epis...
Mailbag 21: Alanna Apology & Political Dystopias
Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr - October 06, 2023 23:34 - 7 minutes ★★★★ - 48 ratingsMailbag returns with an Alanna apology to Earl, a political dystopia discussion for Tea, Books & Chocolate and a thank you to Eric, who appreciates Brenna's musical taste. Wanna connect with the show? Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and BlueSky @HKHSPod or use the hashtag #HKHSPod: > Brenna: @...
A Brief and Unorthodox Overview of Queer History
Queerability - October 06, 2023 05:00 - 42 minutesWelcome to this week's episode of Queerability - A Brief and Unorthodox Overview of Queer History In this episode, we dive into a snapshot of different areas of queer history that we found interesting. We look at how different historical events have impacted the community today. Join us for an...
The House with a Clock in Its Walls feat. Dede Crimmins
Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr - October 03, 2023 07:05 - 45 minutes ★★★★ - 48 ratingsSpooky Season begins with a look at John Bellairs' 1973 franchise starter The House with a Clock in Its Walls, as well as Eli Roth's 2018 adaptation. Joining us for the ride is film critic Dede Crimmins, who brings a unique POV because she saw the film first. The book is *very* 70s and features...
Queens Bees & Wannabes / Mean Girls
Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr - September 26, 2023 07:05 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 48 ratingsOn Tuesdays we wear pink! After many years of missing Oct 3, Brenna and Joe *finally* cover Mark Waters 2004's film Mean Girls and its source material, Rosalind Wiseman's parenting guide, Queen Bees & Wannabes. We've got some pretty major problems with Wiseman's 400 page tome, which relies heav...
First Daughter (2004)
Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr - September 19, 2023 07:05 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 48 ratingsJoey is off to College in this film from director Forest Whitaker (!) from a story by Jerry O'Connell (!!) Alas that's what's most interesting about this frankly boring movie that fails to create a character for Katie Holmes' Sam. The romance isn't interesting and the narrative seems stuck on ...
A Sister (2017) / Falcon Lake (2022)
Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr - September 12, 2023 07:05 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 48 ratingsBrenna and Joe kick off Book Six with Bastien Vivès' 2017 comic Une Soeur/A Sister and Charlotte LeBon's film, Falcon Lake (2022). C/W: Vivès is under investigation for child pornography. We're fascinated by the similarities and differences in these texts, which both focus on a sexual awakening...
Allegiant
Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr - September 05, 2023 07:05 - 52 minutes ★★★★ - 48 ratingsIt's the end of Book Five, so we're closing the door on Veronica Roth's Divergent series with a look at her 2013 book Allegiant and director Robert Schwentke's 2016 film adaptation. We actually find good things in the beginning and end of the book, though the draggy middle section about eugenic...
Mailbag 20: More on Alanna
Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr - September 01, 2023 07:05 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 48 ratingsWe missed listener Victoria's contributions to Book Club, so we're revisiting Alanna: The First Adventure to talk about a few extra scenes. Wanna connect with the show? Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and BlueSky @HKHSPod or use the hashtag #HKHSPod: > Brenna: @brennacgray (BlueSky) or @mitten...
Alanna: The First Adventure (1983)
Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr - August 29, 2023 07:05 - 39 minutes ★★★★ - 48 ratingsIt's our last Book Club for the year! Brenna and Joe are joined by listeners Emma, Charlotte and Tea, Books & Chocolate to discuss Tamora Pierce's Alanna: The First Adventure (1983). While folks warned us the book hasn't aged super well (colonialism, white saviour, gender essentialism, etc), ov...
Mailbag 19: More on Red, White & Royal Blue
Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr - August 28, 2023 13:06 - 17 minutes ★★★★ - 48 ratingsWe have follow-up work from our Red, White & Royal Blue episode, including an apology (courtesy of Miriam) about Casey McQuiston's pronouns, and three points about characters and politics (courtesy of Tea, Books & Chocolate). Then we fold in one additional thought about Charlie & Ben in Heartst...
Mailbag 18: Ben & Heartstopper S02
Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr - August 25, 2023 07:05 - 5 minutes ★★★★ - 48 ratingsBrenna and (moreso) Joe discuss listener Andrew's response about Joe feeling bad for Ben in Heartstopper S02. Wanna connect with the show? Follow us on Twitter, Instagram and BlueSky @HKHSPod or use the hashtag #HKHSPod: > Brenna: @brennacgray (BlueSky) or @mittenstrings (Instagram) > Joe: @b...
Finding Queerland
Queerability - August 23, 2023 11:00 - 54 minutesWelcome to this week's episode of Queerability - Finding Queerland Join us for an intimate and enlightening journey through the diverse and vibrant world of queer identities with your hosts, Nick and Ellie! Brought to you by Across Rainbows Productions, a ground-breaking LGBTQ+ organization co...
Red, White & Royal Blue
Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr - August 22, 2023 07:05 - 54 minutes ★★★★ - 48 ratingsBrenna and Joe are late to Casey McQuiston's phenom Red, White & Royal Blue which has just been adapted to film by Matthew López for Amazon. We're fans of this fun, flirty read which tackles a few substantive topics in a low-key fashion. The film...isn't working for us unfortunately. Despite s...
Queerability Trailer
Queerability - August 16, 2023 09:00 - 49 secondsBrand New trailer. Queerability is back with Nicholas Cousin and Miss Pru Dance. They will be your host discussing a range of topics from; fashion, films, politics. Looking through all the topics with a queer lens. They will also be joined by a plethora of guests to join them on their journey....
Imogen, Obviously (2022)
Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr - August 15, 2023 07:05 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 48 ratingsWe couldn't help but discuss Becky Albertalli's new book Imogen, Obviously which feels like a semi-autobiographical account of the author's own experiences coming out as bisexual. Yes there's fluffy, bubblegum romance, but Albertalli is doing something far more complicated with the book's "vill...
Heartstopper S02 (2023)
Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr - August 08, 2023 07:05 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 48 ratingsWho's ready for Paris?! Brenna and Joe return to the world of Alice Oseman's Heartstopper for S02 of the Netflix series, which loosely corresponds to Volumes 3 & 4 of the comic. There's hickey drama, more queer teachers and even more diversity in the LGBTQIA umbrella. But while we're loving mor...
Piglettes (2015)
Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr - August 01, 2023 07:05 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 48 ratingsThanks to listener Laura's recommendation, Brenna and Joe check out Clémentine Beauvais' delightful Piglettes (2015) about three fat girls who bike to Paris. There's nothing lost in translation because the witty wordplay shines through in this fun, breezy, feminist book. While Brenna has issues...
Tomorrow, When The War Began
Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr - July 25, 2023 07:05 - 56 minutes ★★★★ - 48 ratingsThanks to listener Miriam, we're tackling John Marsden's Tomorrow, When The War Began (1993), as well as its 2010 film adaptation by Stuart Beattie and the Brendan Maher-directed season of TV from 2016. This massive Australian hit is highly teachable, though don't go looking for commentary on c...
Mailbag 17: Can Literature Change The World?
Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr - July 21, 2023 07:05 - 10 minutes ★★★★ - 48 ratingsThis week's mailbag is courtesy of listener Victoria, who asks if it's possible for literature to incite change anymore. Despite Brenna and Joe's initial melancholy outlook, John Green's interest in tuberculosis and the power of individual readers (plus the vital importance of YA) offers a possi...
Stolen (Book Club)
Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr - July 18, 2023 07:05 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 48 ratingsAt the behest of listener Evelina, we're reading 2023's Stolen, by Sami author Ann-Helén Laestadius. C/W: graphic animal murder. Using contributions from listeners Victoria and Tea, Books & Chocolate, we dig into this three part intergenerational tale of trauma, environmental activism, racism, ...
Chrissy Flanagan
OUTcast Podcast - July 16, 2023 03:45 - 57 minutesRosie has a fascinating conversation with Sydney’s ‘chaotic socialite’, Chrissy Flanagan, who discusses coming out on TikTok in her 40s, being diagnosed with autism and ADHD around the same time, her new life as a baby queer and how’s she’s tackling the last taboo – saying you want to make some ...
Mailbag 16: Defining NA
Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr - July 14, 2023 07:05 - 12 minutes ★★★★ - 48 ratingsThanks to listener Neera, Brenna and Joe cook up a definition of NA (New Adult), who or what falls into it, and why agents shouldn't dismissive of the category! Wanna connect with the show? Follow us on Twitter @HKHSPod or use the hashtag #HKHSPod: > Brenna: @brennacgray / @mittenstrings (Inst...
Nimona (2023)
Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr - July 11, 2023 07:05 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 48 ratingsAfter waiting forever, Brenna and Joe finally get to watch Nick Bruno and Troy Quane's feature film adaptation of Nimona (2023) and it's...fine? Ok, it's more than fine, but there is something missing. While the obviousness of the trans elements and the changed ending are perfect for the curren...
Mailbag 15: What's a Wattpad?
Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr - July 07, 2023 07:05 - 8 minutes ★★★★ - 48 ratingsListener Tea, Books & Chocolate asks the important question: what *is* Wattpad? Brenna and Joe discuss the platform's model, why we have issues with it, and announce a lucrative new partnership! Wanna connect with the show? Follow us on Twitter @HKHSPod or use the hashtag #HKHSPod: > Brenna: @...
The Summer I Turned Pretty S01 (2022)
Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr - July 04, 2023 07:05 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 48 ratingsZzzzzz. Oh sorry, Brenna and Joe fell asleep trying to read Jenny Han's debut YA novel The Summer I Turned Pretty and watch her seven episode Amazon TV show. Belly...is so boring and we can't make ourselves care about her romantic triangle, which is confusing because we're huge Han Stans! Plus...
Clone High S02 (2023)
Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr - June 27, 2023 07:05 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 48 ratingsJoe introduces Brenna to the silly, satirical humour of Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Bill Lawrence's Clone High (we watched all 10 episodes of S02). Up for discussion: the Gandhi controversy that literally got the show cancelled, how the white male creators are a model for controversy, the...
Mailbag 14: Monkey Beach Genre Exercise
Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr - June 23, 2023 07:05 - 6 minutes ★★★★ - 48 ratingsListener Jessica writes in with details about how she used the show's Monkey Beach episode as a genre categorization exercise for her university students, which prompts Brenna and Joe to discuss our desire for the show to act as a breezy accessible academic text. Wanna connect with the show? Fo...