Latest Semiotics Podcast Episodes
DCC 38 Chrysanthemum White Alder: Chaos Magnet/15th Century Pagan Nun
Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - February 12, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingHello! For episode 38 I spoke to Chrysanthemum White-Alder about her Medieval Pagan Nun style. She's an interdisciplinary artist, witch, and academic currently working on a Masters of Education at Lakehead University. She's also studied intermedia and cyberarts at Concordia U; and is an amazing...
DCC 37 SARAH POTTER: COLOUR WITCH MOB BOSS
Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - January 22, 2020 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingI'm back for the first new episode of 2020 with an amazing interview! Sarah Potter is a lecturer, curator, practitioner of colour magick, and a tarot card reader. She's been all over the witch-ternet (sorry) lately, featured in Architectural Digest, Dazed magazine, In Style magazine and Teen...
DCC 36: IVORY CONOVER
Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - November 07, 2017 11:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 rating"It's the biggest reason why I do what I do: as a model, as a performer and why i;m so mouthy about the whole thing. I belong to all these intersectional communities that are constantly told to be smaller, that are already fringe and already left out. and so as someone who takes up a lot of spac...
DCC 35: Gigi Castorina "Everyday Vintage at Gigi's House of Frills!"
Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - June 29, 2016 11:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingGigi is a long time vintage collector, appreciator and wearer. And an even longer time lingerie enthusiast! She is the owner/operator of Toronto's only Vintage Style Lingerie Boutique : Gigi's House of Frills. We talked about 'everyday vintage', and her dedication to fashion and details fr...
DCC 34: Amazon Syren "Little House on the Orchestral Pagan Folk Metal Prairie"
Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - May 31, 2016 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAmazon Syren is a queer, poly leather femme, a sex-workers' rights activist, and a Professional Naked Girl. She's also a witchy glamazon who sings opera, writes poetry, reads tarot, grows veggies, works magic, spins her own yarn, cooks, preserves, and darns a lot of socks. The secret ingredien...
DCC 33: Femme Space Amanda Arkansassy Harris
Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - May 04, 2016 12:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingI encountered Amanda Harris’ work via a Gender and Media class. I love her Femme Spaceproject and was so excited to talk to her for this episode! Amanda is a queer high femme charmer from the South. She was the co-curator of Y’all Come Back: Stories of Queer Southern Migration in the 2015 Nati...
DCC 32: Crystal Kotow
Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - March 08, 2016 13:00 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCrystal is a fat activist who moved from fashion blogging to tackling more contested spaces in fat feminist thought: cultural hatred of fat bodies; and how fatphobia can manifest as violence in intimate partner relationships. She's in her second year of a PhD gender, feminist and women's studies...
DCC 31: Jenna Danchuk "New Age Vamp"
Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - January 12, 2016 13:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingJenna Danchuk is a writer, researcher, and occasional maker of things. Jenna Danchuk is an Assistant Editor for Spiral Nature, a magazine style website dedicated to alternative spiritualities, practical magick, and exploring occulture. She is also a PhD student in the Gender, Feminist, and Women...
DCC 30: Vivek Shraya "What I'm doing is not about a performance"
Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - October 22, 2015 12:36 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingVivek Shraya is a multimedia artist living in Toronto with strong ties to prairie malls. She's produced 10 albums, written 3 books (with 2 more set for release next year) and created 4 short films, all to great acclaim. She talked to me about the production of art, how performance grounds her, ...
DCC 29: Andrea Zanin "More butch...and more femme"
Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - September 27, 2015 12:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingI'm baaaaack this week with Andrea Zanin, a butch/femme academic and leatherwoman who writes prolifically and teaches about BDSM/Leather/kink, power dynamics, non-monogamy and queer sexuality. She's also pursuing a PhD in Gender Feminist and Women's studies (I didn't realize when I booked her th...
DCC 28: Mimi Thi Nguyen "New Wave Party Girl....or Monster HIgh Doll"
Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - July 29, 2015 10:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMimi Thi Nguyen is an associate professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois. Her research interests are war, empire and...zines! I first encountered her work via her amazing blog (a collaboration with Minh Ha T Pham) called Threadbared. Her ...
DCC 27: Zoe Dodd "You're cool, stay weird, don't change"
Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - July 08, 2015 10:00 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAnother park interview! Zoe's an aspiring orthinologist and all the birds came out to see her. She's a harm reduction and hep C worker very dedicated to anti-poverty and social justice activism. Anarcho-feminism FTW! She's a long term participant and contributor to Toronto's hardcore punk scen...
DCC 26: Sam Conover "Lady Drag"
Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - June 17, 2015 12:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSam Conover dresses in deliberately modest and traditionally 'feminine' style which borrows from 1940s to early 1960s styles....she calls it "lady drag". She also clarifies that she's going for a modest 'mumsy' look that is more 1950s housewife than pin up girl. She's a bra fitter, lingerie en...
DCC 25: Imbyr "Power....and Control"
Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - May 31, 2015 11:00 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingI got to do my first park interview of 2015 with Imbyr, who describes their style as 'transmasculine harshfemme' and is obsessed with wrestling, dogs, and reading (mostly sci-fi). They are a health sciences student and the vocalist for Antibody, a gay doom sludge band based in Toronto. We tal...
DCC 24: Dre Ngozi & Jade Lee Hoy (aka Hilary and Denise) "Find your tribe and be comfortable with who you are"
Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - May 06, 2015 10:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingIt was fun and inspiring to talk to Dre Ngozi and Jade Lee Hoy of Toronto's clothing project Hilary & Denise. Hilary and Denise celebrates and pays tribute to women of colour using pre-loved clothing to cultivate self expression that incorporates culture. Dre and Jade named the project for 90s s...
DCC 23 Merritt Kopas "Patti Smith Cyber Waif"
Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - April 21, 2015 01:33 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingMerritt Kopas is a multimedia artist, video game designer and writer whose focus of interest is digital play as an access for exploring care relationships. Her first book came out in April 2015, Videogames for Humans, published by Instar Books. She also contributed to another recent book, the ...
DCC 22: Amy Medvick of Os Tropies "Tropicalia, Cleopatra and Carmen Miranda"
Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - April 06, 2015 20:09 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAmy Medvick is the vocalist and flautist with Os Tropies, and an ethnomusicology grad student studying the Brazilian diaspora and its musical legacy. Her interests in culture, food and dress lie in Brazilian psychedelic rock (Tropicalia!), and she also referenced exotica, both as a musical and a...
DCC Episode 21: Shannon Shaw (Shannon and the Clams) "Eccentric Homemaker meets '80s Bad Kid"
Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - March 25, 2015 00:48 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingShannon Shaw almost catfished me, but I finally got to talk to her between recording the new Clams album and touring! She told me about the books that keep her worrying about serial killers, her love of illustration, metal smithing and girl bands including the Ronettes! She is a black eyeliner...
Dress Code Cracker Episode 20: Laina Dawes "Conservative with an Edge"
Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - March 09, 2015 14:45 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingLaina Dawes is the author of What Are You Doing Here? A Black Woman’s Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal (Bazillion Points, 2012).What Are You Doing Here? is Laina’s first non-fiction book and the first non-fiction, general interest book to specifically focus on race, gender and identity in meta...
DCC Episode 19: Virgie Tovar "Miss PIggy meets RuPaul" #losehatenotweight
Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - February 18, 2015 03:11 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingI was introduced to the work of VIrgie Tovar by way of reading about body politics a few years back. I picked up her book "Hot and Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on LIfe, Love and Fashion" and I loved how she and the essayists in the book connected fat fashion to political activism. She's one of North...
DCC Episode 18: Liza Kelly "I like to bounce between different eras"
Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - February 04, 2015 03:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingTheatrical costuming student and vintage clothing expert Liza Kelly told me where the 'weird shit' is this episode of the show! We talked about her love of film (old musicals, Fellini, Ken Russell, Terry Giliam), classic sitcoms (Rhoda and Maude), plus the ballet! She loves bright colours and ec...
DCC Episode 17: Charm Torres "Lazy Glam"
Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - January 11, 2015 20:41 - 50 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCharm Torres describes her style as "lazy glam", but it's hard to reconcile the word lazy with this woman! She has two careers she is passionate about, one in LGBT health care and a second as a make up artist (freelance and with MAC). She takes her inspiration from queer femme culture, POC stree...
DCC Episode 16: Alia O'Brien from Blood Ceremony
Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - December 14, 2014 19:31 - 59 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAlia is the vocalist, flautist and organist for Blood Ceremony--a hard/occult/horror rock band based in Toronto. They've also aptly been called 'witch rock'. She describes her style as 'what you might have worn to a Black Sabbath show in 1972', and talked about dressing for the stage and for t...
DCC Episode 15: Matthew Simpson
Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - October 28, 2014 01:44 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingI interviewed Matthew for a crazy long time earlier in the fall (edited down dear listener)--mainly because, not only does he have a terrific 'telephone voice', but he also has funny and refreshingly uncensored opinions on things. TThis is a guy who thinks about fashion, and clothes, about const...
Dress Code Cracker Episode 14: Dame Darcy : "The older I get, the more I look like a female version of Adam Ant”
Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - September 23, 2014 23:32 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAHHHH!!! I'm still blown away that I got to interview the amazing Dame Darcy. I've been obsessed with her work since the mid 1990s--she's not only an amazing artist/cartoonist/painter she's also a storyteller, musician (her project is called Death by Doll), film maker, fashion icon (she makes he...
Dress Code Cracker Episode 13: Cyndi Zhang
Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - September 05, 2014 19:00 - 51 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCyndi is a heavy metal guitarist based in Toronto. I loved that in talking about her style evolution, she said “I don’t always have to be looking at my vinyl album covers and trying to look like these guys from the eighties”--without any irony. We discussed dressing for the stage and dressing ...
DCC Episode 12: Caroline Shadood from Broadist "Nautical grandma, road tripping summer child"
Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - August 04, 2014 20:12 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingCaroline Shadood was a pleasure to talk to about her 'practical over flattering' style--and her rejection of the entire concept of 'flattering'. Her blog Broadist has gotten a lot of attention for it's refreshing take on style/politics/'lady troubles' and body positivity. She doesn't buy new c...
Dress Code Cracker Episode 11: Lorraine Hewitt (aka Coco LaCreme)
Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - July 10, 2014 02:21 - 57 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingThis weeks guest--Lorraine Hewitt-- has been on the periphery of my 'Toronto personalities' awareness for a long time--from her burlesque performances with Skin Tight Outta Sight Rebel Burlesque troupe, to her role as co-creator of the ground breaking Feminist Porn Awards, to seeing her in my fr...
Dress Code Cracker Episode 10: Sheryl Yvette
Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - June 24, 2014 01:55 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingI first encountered Sheryl Yvette via her blog where she sometimes goes by "Bitch Cakes". She makes a retro glamour look seem effortless, running marathons; cycling New York/Brooklyn/Queens without a hair out of place, and posting body positive bikini shots on her instagram and tumblr. I was sur...
Dress Code Cracker Episode 9: Samra Habib
Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication - June 14, 2014 03:27 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 1 ratingSamra is a Toronto based photographer, fashion editor and writer. She describes her style by referencing aging female rockstars, androgyny, messy hair and lesbian butch fashion. Her newest project is a photography exhibit opening next week at Toronto World Pride called "Just me and Allah: Ph...
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