Queersplaining

a pretty rad football game happened on TDOV this year

and sometimes the answer is "no" and it can still be okay

Laser is a cool pal and it felt like a good time to catch up after our conversation a few months ago.  Check out the video for The Way You Look at Me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECFZPK8hvbc Laser's twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/lasertheboy

corporate censorship makes things real complicated   check out Lux's newsletter: https://bisexuality.substack.com/

turns out they can make a great team

the queer community has a long and complicated relationship with the mainstream organized religions of our society. let's wrestle with that for a minute.   Links: Shannon TL Kearns: https://www.shannontlkearns.com/ Shannons book: https://bookshop.org/p/books/in-the-margins-a-transgender-man-s-journey-with-scripture-shannon-t-l-kearns/18263081?ean=9780802879486 Queer Theology: http://www.queertheology.com

work can be complicated for trans folks in the best of circumstances. but very few of us exist in the best of circumstances.

a story about where i've been, and some feels dumping about family

its been awhile friends. i'll tell you more about all that soon, but for now, QS is back with a rad talk about a rad book written by some rad trans folks. check out If You're a Kid Like Gavin, by Gavin Grimm and Kyle Lukoff.

Aki McCullough runs Nu House Studios and has found a super cool way to get more trans art into the world

Jack is trans and works at a large erotic boutique. i just have so many questions about what that's like

James has spent a long time working in community building for The Ethical Society. He's thinks it might be time to end the org and rebuild. James' blog: 

i met some rad folks at my local TDOV event

possum creek games took a moral stand and put their meal ticket at risk in the process.    https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/yazeba-s-bed-breakfast#/

Danielle got sober toward the beginning of covid, and she wrote an amazing article about it. she's here to tell us more...   https://jezebel.com/i-got-sober-in-the-pandemic-it-saved-my-life-1848380935

shady right wingers doing shady things...weird! follow Eli on Twitter: https://twitter.com/EliErlick

One of the reasons newer Star Trek has rad queer stories is that we're in the writers room! 

Imara Jones is an incredible journalist, writer, activist and advocate

LaShana used to have trouble communicating. now people are listening to her

my new friend June is a trans pro poker player. do i really have to say anthing else to get you interested haha?

Ada grew up in India and came to the US at the age of 24. Before then she'd not really encountered queerness or transness. And when she did, she felt some capital F feelings about it...

Jenna and her partner had some stuff to talk about. So as one does, they had a living room slumber party...

welp...2021 happened. 2022 is happening. and we're having feelings about that...

I don't often do conversation type episode on QS. but this is a good one. longer than normal by quite a bit, but i think its worth the time. love you friends

my friend Elya shares some joy with us

Zoë Playdon got a wild phone call one night...

Laser is in a very cool band called The Doubleclicks, and they just released a musical!

Jaelen has tried HRT and figured out it wasn't for them. We don't hear enough of those stories.   Join the Discord here: https://discord.gg/4UNKsnZr   Love you friends

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is a theoretical physicist, feminist theorist, and she thinks particle physics is amazing. so do i!

did you know there was once a women's pro football league? i didn't...

unshockingly, trying to publish science that challenges the status quo is hard   follow Nicole on twitter @nbedera  

Keira's had a lot stacked against her in life

Detryck is Black, queer, leftist, and a gun owner. he's going to tell us why the left needs to give another look to the gun debate

has some pretty intense ones lately

Emily has Tourette's syndrome, but thats not actually the source of her problems

Samuel Hatmaker decided to make a Golden Girls house out of LEGO. Then a few things happened...   check out Sam's stuff here: https://samhatmaker.wordpress.com/about-the-builder/

my friend Nichole recently got out of a pretty rough relationship. here's how she did it

We don't always do a great job talking about sex work. Mostly because sex workers are often left completely out of the conversation. So let's do some of that...

transphobia in the UK seems to have its own special flavor. what's the deal with that?   Check out Michelle's podcast What The Trans?! here: whatthetrans.com  Check out the Trans Safety Network here: https://transsafety.network/  Michelle also wanted to lift up Nim Ralph, follow them here: https://twitter.com/NMRLPH 

the queer community's discourse on masculinity could be a lot better   connect with Dallas on Twitter @dallas_hawthorn   check out their work @Fireside_Folk and https://firesidefolktale.wixsite.com/site

sometimes its the things we don't say

new meds. who's this?

okay but how do you say "gay" in Klingon?

i tried something different this week. it feels good. and weird.

language is hard

given the media we had easy access to as kids...its honestly a miracle any of us figured out who we are

someone who was really important to me at one time died recently. and i'm feeling pretty complicated feels about that.

we know art can help you heal, but what happens when you're not able to do it the way you used to?

i got to start making music again. it was neat

i had a picture in my head of what it would be like to skate on a skating floor again. 

Dr Simonis is a scientist who studies chemical weapons, and they've seen and documented some pretty scary stuff in Portland and other places https://www.dapperstats.com/ https://twitter.com/JuniperLSimonis chemicalweaponsresearch.com