Queer For It

This week's episode was recorded a little while back and we had on one of our favorite guests yet so do not hesitate for one second and go listen to this baby right now!! Remington Johnson (she/her) joins us to talk about trans joy and trauma - the queer experience, bowties as the gay agenda, trans people in sports, and lots more. You can find Remington on social media at @remington_johnson and often at the Capitol in Austin advocating for trans rights.    Also as always, submit any questions to us via our contact page or at queerforitpodcast@gmail.com Be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, rate us, review us, and share us with your friends! Episodes coming to you every other week!

This week's episode features Rachel (pronouns she/her, IG: @rachtilldeath) from rebellious PR (@rebellious.pr) — in one of our lengthiest but most favorite chats yet!    We talk all about reclaiming the word queer, drag race, roller derby, trans athletes, glee, Rachel's PR business, and so much more.    Somehow we recorded this back in April and Chris just never edited it and got it out, please check it out and comment how much you enjoyed it so you can prove to him he should edit our episodes faster. Also because Rachel was just the absolute best and you will all enjoy what she has to say! Also leave us a 5star review if you haven't yet and share us with all your pals!

Episode 37 is our first remote guest, Bonni Erizo, pronouns she/her, former president of PFLAG Austin. Bonni is the mother of a trans son, business consultant, and LGBTQIA+ advocate and ended up being one of our favorite conversations to date!      Also as always, submit any questions to us via our contact page or at queerforitpodcast@gmail.com   Thank you so much to our recording sponsor, Draper Startup House Austin! Check them out in downtown Austin and use the code QUEERFORIT for 20% off any of their membership options for co-working! You can find them online at draperstartuphouse.com/usa.   Be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, rate us, review us, and share us with your friends! Episodes coming to you every other week!

Episode 36 brings on an incredibly special guest all the way from St. Louis -- our good friend Max! Max uses he/they pronouns and can be found on instagram @kngmaxy -- we cover all things queer and coming out, what it felt like being clunky girls, and how Max found his way in sport and landed in Men's Health Magazine as the first openly trans boutique fitness instructor. This is a really great one so tune in and demand that we have Max back, because we sure as hell know we want him to come chat with us again!    Thank you so much to our recording sponsor, Draper Startup House Austin! Check them out in downtown Austin and use the code QUEERFORIT for 20% off any of their membership options for co-working!    Also as always, if you want to be a guest on our show or want to submit any questions to us head to our contact page at www.queerforit.com or at queerforitpodcast@gmail.com   Be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, rate us, review us, and share us with your friends! Episodes coming to you every week! 

Episode 35 is all about catching up after the holidays and going over the recent tragedy Chris experienced in losing his dog, Rowling, in December. This episode deals with some pretty traumatic retelling of what happened with Rowling that led to her passing away, so be advised if that might trigger you when listening.    This episode was recorded in our home because our normal recording studio space was closed over the winter holidays.    Also as always, if you want to be a guest on our show or want to submit any questions to us head to our contact page at www.queerforit.com or at queerforitpodcast@gmail.com   Be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, rate us, review us, and share us with your friends! Episodes coming to you every week! 

We finally wrangled our BFF, Kaleb, for an episode!!! We chat with him about his time in the military, his college graduation (which just happened, so give him some congrats!), how we met, and what it's like to transition with your best friend. you can find Kaleb on instagram at @kaleb_mccracken and his pronouns are he/him.    Thank you so much to our recording sponsor, Draper Startup House Austin! Check them out in downtown Austin and use the code QUEERFORIT for 20% off any of their membership options for co-working!    Also as always, if you want to be a guest on our show or want to submit any questions to us head to our contact page at www.queerforit.com or at queerforitpodcast@gmail.com   Be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, rate us, review us, and share us with your friends! Episodes coming to you every week! 

This week features candid banter in the wake of the election results and our response to the news of the new President-Elect Joe Biden. Please note, this episode was recorded two weeks ago, before the current administration acknowledged the results of the election. Also note, we are not experts on government just 3 queers chatting after an exceptionally stressful political season.   Thank you so much to our recording sponsor, Draper Startup House Austin! Check them out in downtown Austin and use the code QUEERFORIT for 20% off any of their membership options for co-working!    Also as always, if you want to be a guest on our show or want to submit any questions to us head to our contact page at www.queerforit.com or at queerforitpodcast@gmail.com   Be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, rate us, review us, and share us with your friends! Episodes coming to you every week! 

It's just us 3 this week, chatting all about routines -- how we navigate them, or how we don't. This is especially important now during the last year throughout COVID-19, how we have maintained or changed our routines with all the changes happening around us.    Thank you so much to our recording sponsor, Draper Startup House Austin! Check them out in downtown Austin and use the code QUEERFORIT for 20% off any of their membership options for co-working!    Also as always, if you want to be a guest on our show or want to submit any questions to us head to our contact page at www.queerforit.com or at queerforitpodcast@gmail.com   Be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, rate us, review us, and share us with your friends! Episodes coming to you every week! 

Our guest this week is Jordyn (he/him), and we chat all about CBD, the cannabis industry, and running a business with your fam. You can find Jordyn on instagram at jojopollack and you can find his CBD company at ziggysnaturals.com! Use our code QUEERFORIT at checkout for 30% off your first purchase from them :)   Thank you so much to our recording sponsor, Draper Startup House Austin! Check them out in downtown Austin and use the code QUEERFORIT for 20% off any of their membership options for co-working!    Also as always, if you want to be a guest on our show or want to submit any questions to us head to our contact page at www.queerforit.com or at queerforitpodcast@gmail.com   Be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, rate us, review us, and share us with your friends! Episodes coming to you every week! 

Our guest this week is our good friend, Amanda (she/her), and we chat all about buying a home, what made her want to become a realtor, the Austin housing market, rugby, and some serious TMI banter. You can find Amanda on instagram at awhite223, slide into those DMs y'all.  Thank you so much to our recording sponsor, Draper Startup House! Check them out in downtown Austin and use the code QUEERFORIT for 20% off any of their membership options for co-working!  Also as always, if you want to be a guest on our show or want to submit any questions to us head to our contact page at www.queerforit.com or at queerforitpodcast@gmail.com Be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, rate us, review us, and share us with your friends! Episodes coming to you every week! 

This week we tackle one of our fave topics as heavily inked people -- tattoos! We put out an ask for topic ideas and quite a few of you said you wanted to hear about our tattoos/tattoos in general so this is a lengthy one as we share the stories (and non-stories) behind all our body art. Thank you so much to our recording sponsor, Draper Startup House! Check them out in downtown Austin and use the code QUEERFORIT for 20% off any of their membership options for co-working!  Also as always, if you want to be a guest on our show or want to submit any questions to us head to our contact page at www.queerforit.com or at queerforitpodcast@gmail.com Be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, rate us, review us, and share us with your friends! Episodes coming to you every week! 

We have some big news in our latest episode and some higher quality sound for y'all! Super excited to be recording in our new space at Draper Startup House in downtown Austin, we are really grateful to be able to use their podcast recording space + equipment. We talk a bit about this new co-working space and how to pitch yourself to brands and network as a creative person doing business!   Also as always, if you want to be a guest on our show or want to submit any questions to us head to our contact page at www.queerforit.com or at queerforitpodcast@gmail.com   Be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, rate us, review us, and share us with your friends! Episodes coming to you every week! 

It's been two months since our last episode -- a global pandemic will put a damper on productivity, who knew?? But a lot has happened in the last 2 months! (The title of this episode is a bit of a spoiler, lol). Mostly this week is a catch-up between Cris, Chris, and Courtney -- but you can catch Maria, Kristen, and Val (*new character*) in the background.    Also as always, if you want to be a guest on our show or want to submit any questions to us head to our contact page at www.queerforit.com or at queerforitpodcast@gmail.com   Be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, rate us, review us, and share us with your friends! Episodes coming to you every week! 

So last week we caught up about what we have been up to during quarantine/social distancing and this week we get down to the topic of the cause of all that — COVID-19. We brought on our good friend Lindsay in who lends here expertise as a PA and also as someone who had Coronavirus earlier this Spring. Lindsay uses she/her pronouns and can be found on instagram at @lindsjt. We also have April (Lindsay’s gf) filling in for Cris this week, April also uses she/her pronouns and can be found on instagram at @aprilapriel_   Also as always, if you want to be a guest on our show or want to submit any questions to us head to our contact page at www.queerforit.com or at queerforitpodcast@gmail.com   Be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, rate us, review us, and share us with your friends! Episodes coming to you every week! 

This week's episode turned into a catch up and prequel of the episode we will be putting out next week covering COVID-19. We brought on our good friend Lindsay as we catch up since our last recording session back in March and prepare to chat about all things quarantine/COVID and what life is looking like! Lindsay talks about her coming out experience, dating men and women, meeting her bae (our friend April who was on our politics episode a few weeks back), and will be telling us all about COVID-19 next week as a PA and someone who actually contracted and survived the virus earlier this Spring. Lindsay uses she/her pronouns and can be found on instagram at @lindsjt. Be sure to tune in next week for the serious half of this topic and keep practicing safe and healthy social distancing during this time!!    Also as always, if you want to be a guest on our show or want to submit any questions to us head to our contact page at www.queerforit.com or at queerforitpodcast@gmail.com   Be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, rate us, review us, and share us with your friends! Episodes coming to you every week! 

This week's episode is someone Courtney and Chris have known for literally her entire life -- our little sister, Alexis! We brought her on to talk about Gen Z kids, her experience voting for the first time, how kids these days are going about dating, and what it was like having queer siblings growing up. Alexis uses she/her pronouns and can be found on instagram @alexiss.47   Also as always, submit any questions to us via our contact page at www.queerforit.com or at queerforitpodcast@gmail.com   Be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, rate us, review us, and share us with your friends! Episodes coming to you every week!

This week we are talking all about transitioning with our guest, Dunhill! She is a very special guest to us because she was the last fundraising partner we had a FLAVNT for her gender affirming top surgery (breast augmentation) and she is just the absolute best. Dunhill uses she/her pronouns and can be found on instagram @bydunhill    Also as always, submit any questions to us via our contact page at www.queerforit.com or at queerforitpodcast@gmail.com   Be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, rate us, review us, and share us with your friends! Episodes coming to you every week!

This week we are talking all about sex education as well as mental health with our guest, Ryan! Ryan uses they/them and he/him pronouns and can be found on instagram @theopenbookchat    Also as always, submit any questions to us via our contact page at www.queerforit.com or at queerforitpodcast@gmail.com   Be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, rate us, review us, and share us with your friends! Episodes coming to you every week!

This week we have our good friend, April, on to chat about politics -- the elections in 2020, local government, and what the fuck even is a caucus?    Also as always, submit any questions to us via our contact page at www.queerforit.com or at queerforitpodcast@gmail.com   Be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, rate us, review us, and share us with your friends! Episodes coming to you every week!

Our guest from episode 17 is back -- Jessica -- she was stoked to join us again as we talk all about New Year's Resolutions, 2020 Goals, goal setting, making good habits, and how to be kinder to ourselves. This is an especially lengthy episode, but it's a good one y'all, enjoy!    Also as always, submit any questions to us via our contact page at www.queerforit.com or at queerforitpodcast@gmail.com   Be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, rate us, review us, and share us with your friends! Episodes coming to you every week!

Think of this episode like sexpisode 2.0 -- only this time we are focusing almost specifically on sex toys with our guest, Maria (Cris' awesome girlfriend).    Also as always, submit any questions to us via our contact page at www.queerforit.com or at queerforitpodcast@gmail.com   Be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, rate us, review us, and share us with your friends! Episodes coming to you every week!

This week we have our second guest on the podcast Jessica, Cris' good friend and ex-girlfriend (who knew those two things could go hand-in-hand? definitely not in other Chris' world at least lol) who joins us for a talk all about vulnerability, plus we chat about our holidays and catch up as usual! Happy New Year y'all!    Also as always, submit any questions to us via our contact page at www.queerforit.com or at queerforitpodcast@gmail.com   Be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, rate us, review us, and share us with your friends! Episodes coming to you every week!

This week we chat about entrepreneurship because we are all small business owners and it's what originally brought the QFI group together -- and we have our first guest on the podcast Chef Kristen Torres who chats with us about her small biz as well. This is a lengthy episode, and we tackle some of y'all's business related questions at the end so stick around through the whole thing if you can!    Also as always, submit any questions to us via our contact page at www.queerforit.com or at queerforitpodcast@gmail.com   Be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, rate us, review us, and share us with your friends! Episodes coming to you every week!

We chat a bit about moving on after breakups, specifically the idea of "getting under someone to get over someone" and in turn one night stands, casual hook-ups, and all that jazz.     Also as always, submit any questions to us via our contact page at www.queerforit.com or at queerforitpodcast@gmail.com   Be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, rate us, review us, and share us with your friends! Episodes coming to you every week!

It's been a minute, y'all! We are back after a 2.5 month hiatus and we are updating you on what's been going, where we've been, some format changes to this podcast, and touching a bit on the topic of red flags.    Also as always, submit any questions to us via our contact page at www.queerforit.com or at queerforitpodcast@gmail.com   Be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, rate us, review us, and share us with your friends! Episodes coming to you every week!

This week we have a light-hearted topic for y'all where we just chat about our fave celeb crushes, including the ones that were formative to us growing up! This episode ended up running really long so the questions we received this week are going to be in their own episode next week! (we tackle some really good Q’s from y’all so it’s worth a listen)   Also as always, submit any questions to us via our contact page at www.queerforit.com or at queerforitpodcast@gmail.com   Be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, rate us, review us, and share us with your friends! Episodes coming to you every week!

Hello all of you lovely queers and queer allies -- this week we are chatting about social media -- the good, the bad, the beautiful, and the ugly. This one is a fun topic for us because it's how we get to reach all of our listeners, social media was formative for a lot of our coming out, and we get to share some of our favorite accounts that we follow just for fun with y'all.    Cris' favorite IG pages: udwende & hackrod_incBri's favorite IG pages: gabunion, lenawaithe, & tallulah_moonCourntey's favorite IG pages: paigearminta & tristanj22Chris' favorite IG pages: justinliv & heydavina    Also as always, submit any questions to us via our contact page at queerforit.com or at queerforitpodcast@gmail.com   Be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, rate us, review us, and share us with your friends! Episodes coming to you every week!

Episode 11 tackles the topic of friendships, specifically toxic friendships, and how to know if it’s time to end them, working through friendships ending, and also some more lighthearted friendship talk. We also talk about this horse girl — check out the videos for yourself.

Episode 10 brings you what we can only imagine is the first of many sex related episodes -- we talk our first times, the results of our BDSM quiz, some never-have-i-ever's, and answer a couple of our listener's questions as always. We hope this candid conversation surrounding sex makes y'all feel comfortable and welcome, and would love to answer more of your questions on the topic during future episodes!    If you're interested in the quiz we discuss you can take it here: https://bdsmtest.org/select-mode   Also as always, submit any questions to us via our contact page on our website www.queerforit.com or at queerforitpodcast@gmail.com Be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, rate us, review us, and share us with your friends! Episodes coming to you every week!

We are chatting about Pride month, our first pride experiences, how we feel about corporations running pride campaigns, and then somehow get to the hot topic of Taylor Swift’s new video. We also answering a handful of y’all’s questions at the end of the pod, plus there’s a cute new little bit we like to call the C(h)risCast snuck in there for your listening pleasure! Links we discuss in this episode: https://www.npr.org/2019/06/22/734124675/i-didn-t-think-it-was-possible-north-carolina-city-rings-in-its-first-lgbtq-prid (The article Bri mentions during our DOMtops segment about Hendersonville’s first pride) https://bdsmtest.org/select-mode (we are taking this quiz and will be chatting about our results and sex in general next week on the podcast so take this if you’re interested in your results!) https://www.flavnt.com/clothing?category=PRIDE (our new pride collection at FLAVNT!) https://youtu.be/Dkk9gvTmCXY (T-Swift’s new video) https://www.netflix.com/title/80211563 (Tales of the City on Netflix) Also as always, submit any questions to us via our contact page or at queerforitpodcast@gmail.com Be sure to subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts, rate us, review us, and share us with your friends! Episodes coming to you every week!  

Who else is freakin' tired of even having to argue that people should have the right to decide what they do with their own bodies?? This week we are talking about the abortion bans being pushed through in states like Alabama and what we think about controlling women and all uterus-having individuals bodies is really about. We urge you if you live in a state where reproductive rights are up for discussion to write to your legislators, donate to organizations providing accessible affordable healthcare to all, and to get out there at vote in every election big or small!    Thanks so much for listening and be sure to like, comment, review, and subscribe and tell your friends about us! Also as always, submit any questions to us via our website or shoot us an email at queerforitpodcast@gmail.com

Just about a month ago the sporting world was up in arms about Caster Semenya, a female track runner from South Africa with "higher than normal" levels of testosterone competing (and winning) her races. This may not be on many people's minds now, but we hope it wasn't just a fleeting topic and that this discussion doesn't stop with her. Policing people's bodies is a topic we are discussing in our next episode as well as it's incredibly politically relevant and we have a lot to say on the matter.    As always, thanks so much for listening and be sure to like, comment, review, and subscribe and tell your friends about us! Also, submit any questions to us via our website or shoot us an email at queerforitpodcast@gmail.com

This week on Queer For It we talk about love languages, then tackle about 30 minutes worth of y'all's questions! They're some good ones so be sure to give it a listen. Thanks so much for listening and be sure to like, comment, review, and subscribe and tell your friends about us! Also as always, submit any questions to us via our website or shoot us an email at queerforitpodcast@gmail.com

This week on Queer For It we discuss representation, particularly while growing up, and any queer people we saw in media and may have looked up to or associated with. Thanks so much for listening and be sure to like, comment, and subscribe and tell your friends about us! Also as always, submit any questions to us via our website or shoot us an email at queerforitpodcast@gmail.com  

This week on Queer For It we decided to tackle dating which we know is a never-ending topic, but we think it was a fun one! Thanks so much for listening and be sure to like, comment, and subscribe and tell your friends about us! Also as always, submit any questions to us via our website or shoot us an email at queerforitpodcast@gmail.com   ps- Chris apologizes for the clicking of the keyboard, he was uploading a previous episode during the recording of this episode. he's the worst, we know. 

Queer For It is a podcast made up of four queer friends in Austin, TX bringing you a weekly dose of honesty, laughs, and growth.⁣ This week on Queer For It we tackle the ever-important topic of self love. This is something that the four of us were very interested to talk about and share our journeys with, so we hope you enjoy! Feel free to submit any questions or topic suggestions to us via our website or shoot us an email at queerforitpodcast@gmail.com Find us at www.queerforit.com

This week on Queer For It we decided to go Live on Instagram and take y'all's questions to get to know our audience and it led to some great discussions and banter. Thanks so much for your engagement and be sure to submit any future questions to us via our website or shoot us an email at queerforitpodcast@gmail.com

Queer For It is a podcast made up of four queer friends in Austin, TX bringing you a weekly dose of honesty, laughs, and growth.⁣ Episode 1 is a brief introduction of who we are as a group -- covering our 2019 goals and coming out stories.  Find us at www.queerforit.com