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Kristen Stoeckeler & Kelly McKay
We're back! Older, wiser, maybe self-improved?! In this episode of Broadside Kelly interviews the local famous blogger Sarah von Bargen, creator of the Yes and Yes blog, and we talk all things self-help.
With the Radical Housewife Shannon Drury, Broadside takes a breather and then discusses political feelings and futures at the brink of this nuclear dawn of the T-Bag Era.
Episode 12 is our Comedy episode! We chat at you about Ali Wong's hilarious stand-up special Baby Cobra out earlier this year on Netflix, Maria Bamford's wacky new Netflix series Lady Dynamite and Tig Notaro's quirky new series One Mississippi available on Amazon.com. Then we Real-Talk National Coming Out Day. Real. Talk. Featuring local "bluegrassy, dirty, comedy" music by Courtney McClean & The Dirty Curls!
In episode 11 of Broadside, we discuss Michael Elyanow's play The Children, a contemporary spin on the classic Medea story. Kelly lambasts the Amazon Original series Transparent and Kristen loves on it. Lastly, we sing the praises of local feminist blogger Shannon Drury's new book Diary of a Rad Housewife.
In the very first episode of season two of Broadside, we review Sandbox Theatre’s feminist post-apocalyptic play 600 Years, discuss Mary Dore’s 2014 women’s lib documentary film She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry, and give you the low-down on some rad liberationist feminist manifestos from the 1970s.
In this episode of Broadside we review three awesome queer podcasts: The Queer Truth, The Queer Public, and Tagg Nation. We also discuss the 2010 film The Runaways and drool over Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett (hot hot hot!!). Finally we chat about Jaime Hernandez' Maggie the Mechanic from the comic series Love & Rockets
In our first of two special mini-episodes of Broadside--'cuz Kristen's skipping town for a few weeks--we review the film Duke of Burgundy at the suggestion of one very special listener, institute a new system for rating movies based on the fist, and introduce the new segment Broadside Real Talk by gettin' real about bros at the gym ('cuz someone's gotta).
This episode is COMICS themed! We speak to Twin Cities-based queer cartoonist Anna Bongiovanni about being a queermo in the world making art. We also review the wonderful YA graphic novel Nimona by Noelle Stevenson, as well as tell you our big feels about the 2013 film Blue is the Warmest Color based on the graphic novel of the same title by Julie Maroh.
In episode five, we speak with Dykes Do Drag producer Heather Spear (aka the Gentleman King) about queer drag and the history of the country's longest running queer performance cabaret. We also discuss Queen Latifah in the film Bessie, and our big feels about Mo'Nique as Ma Rainey in drag. Finally, we talk about Ellen Page's documentary series Gaycation...real talk!
In our fourth episode of Broadside, we discuss the play Love Person written by Aditi Brennan Kapil and currently playing at Park Square Theatre in St. Paul. For Broadside Book Club, we review Maggie Nelson's book The Argonauts, and for Broadside Film Skool we review Harry Dodge and Silas Howard's film By Hook or By Crook.
In the third episode of Broadside we interview Executive Artistic Director of Gadfly Theatre Productions, Cassandra Snow, on Gadfly's queer show season and hunt for a permanent home. We also discuss Tribe 8's Lynnee Breedlove and his book Lynnee Breedlove's One Freak Show, as well as the 2015 feature film Freeheld starring Julianne Moore and Ellen Page.
In this episode we discuss the Guerrilla Girls Twin Cities Takeover, the Oscar-nominated film Carol, as well as Carrie Brownstein’s memoir Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl.
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