Looking/Feeling/Queering

Katie and I chat about new Carhartt overalls, the gendered difficulty of finding a good overalls fit, and the healing from wearing camouflage overalls. Also, Katie and I realized after we recorded that we had totally forgotten to talk about makeup, and in particular GLITTER, both of which are very important to Katie’s queer expression. Keep listening at the end to hear some beautiful glittery words from Katie. Intro and outro music: New Year by Sacrosanct https://sacrosanct.bandcamp.com

Lee and I talk about ear cuffs, the difficulties of queering winterwear, a brief timeline of denim jackets, and high school purple converse with rainbow laces. Intro and outro music: New Year by Sacrosanct https://sacrosanct.bandcamp.com

Connor and I chat about queer cartilage piercings, being a typeface nerd, rainbow necklaces in PTown, and having a killer sweater game. Intro and outro music: New Year by Sacrosanct https://sacrosanct.bandcamp.com

Cam and I talk about queers gravitating towards each other in film school, presenting the same way since forever, wearing a suit at a big family event for the first time, accidental pink hair, and being a mild radical. Note: The description of this episode has been edited to reflect a name change, but unfortunately I can’t edit the audio track. Intro and outro music: New Year by Sacrosanct https://sacrosanct.bandcamp.com

Maia and I chat about feeling too gay in high school, rocking a /fully/ plaid outfit, covering her leg hair for job interviews, and shared custody of a denim jacket with a partner. Intro and outro music: New Year by Sacrosanct https://sacrosanct.bandcamp.com

Martine and I talk about formalwear in high school speech and debate, being /a/ gay family member and no longer /the/ gay family member, the physical autonomy of body mod, and purple yarmulkes. ​ Intro and outro music: New Year by Sacrosanct  https://sacrosanct.bandcamp.com

Rachel and I talk about being high femme, body positivity, rocking the pin-up look, and moving from classical opera to the burlesque scene.   ​ Intro and outro music: New Year by Sacrosanct  https://sacrosanct.bandcamp.com

Grace and I chat about puns, lying about going to the “library” (aka a pride event in her small town) and not caring too much about appearances. Intro and outro music: New Year by Sacrosanct https://sacrosanct.bandcamp.com

Matt and I talk about being former theatre kids, sizeism in queer spaces, ginger snark, the bear community, and beanies. Intro and outro music: New Year by Sacrosanct https://sacrosanct.bandcamp.com

Phoebe and I chat about tampon ads, queer aggression, all girl’s schools, Liza Minelli, and being queen of the GSA. Intro and outro music: New Year by Sacrosanct https://sacrosanct.bandcamp.com

Griffin and I talk about red maxi skirts, casual friendly gay jokes, industrial bar piercings, and tattoos as a way to fully inhabit our bodies. Intro and outro music: New Year by Sacrosanct https://sacrosanct.bandcamp.com

Rachel and I chat about queer-adjacent haircuts, Ashleigh Shackleford, abandoning the word androgyny, #poppunkforever, and tattoos as a bolding of the font of queerness. Intro and outro music: New Year by Sacrosanct https://sacrosanct.bandcamp.com

Josh and I chat about nail polish experiments, dinosaur turtlenecks, the hegemony of rainbows, and manscaping.  ​ Intro and outro music: New Year by Sacrosanct  https://sacrosanct.bandcamp.com

Lindsay and I chat about wingtips and banana shirts, the benefits of tomboyhood, tattoos as therapy, and the large poster of Kristen Stewart covered with hearts hanging in her work office.  ​ Intro and outro music: New Year by Sacrosanct  https://sacrosanct.bandcamp.com

Rabbi Nikki and I talk about Ani DiFranco, the freshman year Vampire Red Manic Panic incident, moving past the rainbow phase, and the infamous black and white Doc Marten wing tips. Intro and outro music: New Year by Sacrosanct https://sacrosanct.bandcamp.com

Frida and I chat about choker necklaces, the disappearance of undercuts, tiny earring rebellions, strategic makeup, and the utility of pronoun buttons. Intro and outro music: New Year by Sacrosanct  https://sacrosanct.bandcamp.com

Olivia and I talk about non-compliance, long hair feelings, going bra-less, and learning to love makeup again outside of a daily requirement. Intro music: New Year by Sacrosanct  https://sacrosanct.bandcamp.com

Tommy and I chat about gingerhood, t-shirts with funny slogans, having blue hair in Ireland, and laptop sticker real estate. Intro music: New Year by Sacrosanct  https://sacrosanct.bandcamp.com

Jaysen and I talk about norm core, the impossibility of blackness co-existing with queerness or androgyny, and our queer squad dynamics. Intro music: New Year by Sacrosanct  https://sacrosanct.bandcamp.com

Jude and I talk about beards, stick and pokes, and unfunny jokes that invalidate nontraditional queer aesthetics like long hair and skirts on AFAB trans and non binary folks. Intro music: New Year by Sacrosanct  https://sacrosanct.bandcamp.com

Arthur and I talk about baby queer radicalism, the relationship between facial hair and trans masculinity, and the power of body modification and names in identity validation. Intro music: New Year by Sacrosanct  https://sacrosanct.bandcamp.com

Anesu and I talk about dandy fashion and Oscar Wilde, class rings, shopping in UNIQLO’s unnecessarily gendered sections, and cashmere coats. Intro music: New Year by Sacrosanct  https://sacrosanct.bandcamp.com

In this episode, Parisa talks about being alt-straight passing, rejecting having masculinity or a lesbian identity ascribed to her, and dry-cleaning her favorite sweater. Intro music: New Year by Sacrosanct  https://sacrosanct.bandcamp.com

We chat about masculinity and makeup–when is makeup on men coded as queer and when is it not? Scott grapples with feeling empowered by heels and makeup as a queer AMAB person who also recognizes that a lot of people get criticized for not participating in beauty standards. He talks about his endless search for the perfect matte black lip, and spoiler alert, I’ve seen the pictures and it’s damn hot. Intro music: New Year by Sacrosanct  https://sacrosanct.bandcamp.com

Xena and I chat about gaydar, queer hair length, the aesthetic parallels between queerness and punk, Teddy Girls, and fisting handkerchief codes. Intro music: New Year by Sacrosanct  https://sacrosanct.bandcamp.com

Teaser episode of the upcoming Looking/Feeling/Queering, a podcast that dives into what it feels like to "look" (or not look) queer. We'll cover everything from clothes to hair dye to radical patches. In this teaser, I ask people if they think they look queer. Check back soon to listen to the longer form individual interviews.