Queer as Folklore

**New episodes coming soon!** A folklorist, an ethnologist walk into a podcast – This is Queer as Folklore! Welcome to a semi-academic hangout, where the questions are more important than the answers.     Music: Logan Nickleson

We chat about Pride season and discuss episode eight of Queer as Folk, where we find many variations of power dynamics at play, as well as the dichotomy pride and shame. Vince slams the car door on commitment to Cameron, Stuart smashes the shop window... Read More

Our discussion keeps circling back to adulthood, or rather becoming an adult. What is our generation to do when we can no longer rely on, or afford, the markers of adulthood that were afforded to the generation before us, like cars and houses? Episode seven... Read More

In 1999 in the faraway land of Manchester there are many ways to form family. What does episode six of Queer as Folk teach us about family? We found many opposites at work here: marriage/divorce, family of origin/chosen family and the spectrum between accepting and... Read More

Queer + folklore = ❤ What does “queer” and “folklore” mean on this podcast? Is folklore queer? This is our first episode NOT discussing the tv-show Queer as Folk. This is, however, NOT a minisode even though we say so in the intro. In the... Read More

Strap in for a hands-on, pink, denim, fill-in-the-blank overview of episode five of Queer as Folk! Towards the end we lightly touch upon the concept of dating culture. Our discussion on adulting and gay archetypes was lost due to technical difficulties but the themes will... Read More

Episode 4 of Queer as Folk: Death & Remembrance. We talk funeral rituals, queer death studies and masturbation folklore.

Death, disease and drugs. Camp, queer and characterizations. Fat, food and phobias. Spaces, scenes and sex, notably threesomes. Episode three of Queer as Folk: It happened one night… Camp Alexander arrives in Manchester with his friend Dane and his boy toy Lee, and the rest... Read More

We get into queer history and sexual narratives. We open with a piece of local Finnish queer history that relates to Queer as Folk in a surprising way! Then we head off into some sex talk: specifically sex acts seen in Queer as Folk and... Read More

Coming out continues as a theme in episode two of Queer as Folk. We get into 00s fashion, boybands and queerbaiting, straight pubs and the gay scene. Also queer folk art, namely the AIDS Memorial Quilts. Stuart goes on a manhunt at work, teen Nathan checks... Read More