Cheers & Queers

Hello queers! This is Kirya, she/her femme if you're nastyI've missed y'all! It's been too long…I'm back in your ears because I made something really special that I want to share with you. For those of you who loved Cheers & Queers for our Black Femme realness, our occasional witchy remarks, and our commitment to center things Black & femme… I think you're going to really enjoy this limited series that I made in collaboration with the Dance Theater company, Sydnie L Mosley Dances. Spotlight in PURPLE - The Podcast. There are currently three episodes in season 2 that I wrote, hosted, produced, and edited MYSELF (with some support from a couple of amazing friends and colleagues who responded to my late-night texts and DMs with nothing but love)... I'm honestly really proud of this work, and so… I'm dropping the first episode here in this feed. If you like it, please go over the Spotlight in Purple show, subscribe, and share with others. It would mean the world to me!Thank you!!!Former C&Q Co-host, Kirya, share's a new podcast she's been working on. Spotlight in PURPLE -The Podcast shines a light on themes and questions in the creative work of the Dance Theatre Company, Sydnie L. Mosley Dances. In Episode 1, Building the Altar: The Creation of PURPLE by SLMD, we learn about the history of how SLMDances became a collective, the values that guide the work, and how those values show up inside their newest work, PURPLE: A Ritual in Nine Spells.SIP - The Podcast was Hosted, Edited & Produced by Kirya TraberExecutive Production by SLMDancesAssistant Production by Ziiomi Law ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Are they cute or are they just lightskin? Isake and Queen talk about colorism, pop culture things that have brought us Black joy. Please follow us on Instagram and Twitter @CheersNQueers, and support our Patreon.

Isake talks with Jennifer Eden about kink, sex education, and centering self-pleasure in the midst of a continued global disaster. Please follow us on Instagram and Twitter @CheersNQueers, and support our Patreon.

Kirya and Isake talk with Jewel about party spaces, survival-centered transformative justice practices, and what it means to be crafting the way forward with practice, grace, and twerking. Please follow us on Instagram and Twitter @CheersNQueers, and support our Patreon.

We are back with a mini-episode to begin Season 3! Kirya and Isake talk about the apocalypse, dry January, and give you some important show updates. Please follow us on Instagram and Twitter @CheersNQueers, and support our Patreon.

Isake and Kirya giggle a lot with our guest, storyteller, and musician Be Steadwell. We talk about her new album, Succulent, what is getting us through in the midst of a wild world, and what we are imagining things could be.

The first of our Star Trek mini-series! We talk through Enterprise and discuss if it’s really as bad as everyone says it is. (Spoiler alert, it’s the worst thing to ever happen to space, but listen anyway for a Black queer analysis of why it’s so terrible!) Please fill out our listener survey and check out our Patreon!

Isake and Kirya drink different things and meander through their lives in the time of the ‘Rona. BONUS: Now you can give us your money! (Please take a few moments to fill out our listener survey, the link is in the show notes below)

Another throwback episode! We (extensively) cover Vulcans at First Contact, consider the work Black femmes do for everyone, look for queer history from 1619 to 2019, misandry, and chat with Angelique Roche about the journey to freelance, content creation, and being a professional nerd.

A blerdy review of our trek fandom with Cleopatra From the Bronx. Recorded live at Respect: Women’s Podcast Festival hosted by the Black Tribbles in at Amalgam Comics in Philly, August 24, 2019.

A smol aperitif to get you ready! We chat about co-habitating, marriage, plant witchery, and what the show is doing next. Follow us at CheersNQueers, Isake @is_she_okay on Twitter and IG & Kirya @kiryatraber (twitter) @kiryat (IG).

Isake and Kirya get witchy. Kirya gives Isake her first ever Tarot reading, and they talk about rituals, both magic and otherwise, for the Black femme with special guest model and artist Lorelei Black @blacklorelei7 (IG). Follow Isake @is_she_okay on Twitter and IG & Kirya @kiryatraber (twitter) @kiryat (IG).

Isake and Kirya have an unfiltered conversation about cultivating spaces for black queerness to thrive with, Jarvis Green, the Founder & Producing Artistic Director of Jag Productions, a Black theatre company in Upper Valley Vermont. We touch on friendships, family, and the presence and absence of queer narratives in our history and our lives.

We’re back for Season 2! We celebrate a year of making shows with a fight of rum cocktails, and updates on our lives and the world.

Our very first live show! We talk about the origins of Cheers & Queers, share what we find erotic, celebrate the birthday of the indomitable Audre Lorde with scholar and best aunt ever, Alexis Pauline Gumbs and the NYC based organizing center, The Audre Lorde Project, then play a drinking game with erotic Star Trek fan fic. Grab a drink and join us!

**HEAR YE, HEAR YE! THIS EPISODE IS FULL OF SPOILERS!** We chat with Tony Ray, of Everybody Loves Tony Ray, about ALL OF OUR FEELINGS, good, bad, and complex. But in the end, we all agree: WAKANDA FOREVER.

On this episode we chat about our favorite love relationships in fandom, how to pick a bubbly wine, and what might come after the revolution (aka how to get yo money right when money doesn’t exist anymore). AND we hear from listeners and past guests who share their practical, visionary, and heartfelt thoughts on economics, capitalism, and blackanomics (or something like that).

On this episode we chat about hooking up at Hogwarts, warm dranks, handling the holidays, street harassment, gender, flirting, the failure of She’s Gotta Have It, representation, and all the ways to Femme with artist Sal Muñoz. We also want you to give us your thoughts on economics, capitalism, and blackanomics (or something like that). Send your one minute or less voice memo to us at CheersNQueers@gmail.com

On this episode, we chat about queers and non-monogamy, spoons, our homies on the left coast, relationships, and a different kind of love with Ericka Hart and Ebony Donnely over some fancy rosé! Show Notes Drinking Pinot de Sud Côtes-de-thongue rosé Music Intro: Sage by Be Steadwell Additional Music Restore by Abel Shiffera Hands by Boomscat Conga House by Abel Shiffera Satisfied from Hamilton Outro: Hey by Boomscat The Team Hosted by Isake Smith and Kirya Traber Produced by Isake Smith, Kirya Traber, Lance John, and Jassel Hernndez Edited by Jassel Hernandez Links to: The Spoon Theory. (http://bit.ly/2l2T4pQ) 9 Things Monogamists Can Learn From Polyamory. (http://bit.ly/2l0xWjX) 9 Things Polyamorists Can Learn From Monogamy. (http://bit.ly/2kYCkja) The Giant Pool of Money. (http://bit.ly/2l0DBGz) Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized Podcast. (http://apple.co/2l18Jpm) Ericka Hart: (http://www.ihartericka.com/#home)

Summary On this episode chat with the legendary Khane of Camera Ready Kutz and the legendary Queer dance party SWEAT!, talk about Queer Aesthetics, review blerDCon 2017, give a toast with some Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey! Show Notes Drinking Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey: https://www.jackdaniels.com/en-us/whiskey/tennessee-honey Music Intro: Sage by Be Steadwell Additional Music Restore by Abel Shiffera Thoughtful by Abel Shiffera Conga House by Abel Shiffera Outro: Back That Ass Up by Juvenile The Team Hosted by Isake Smith and Kirya Traber Produced by Gifted Sounds Edited by Jassel Hernandez Links to: Khane’s LGBTQIA Barbershop GoFundMe - https://www.gofundme.com/lgbtqiabarbershop Camera Ready Kutz, Inc. - www.CameraReadyKutz.com

On this episode, we introduce the show, preview some future segments, give a toast to Pride month, and try a new drink!