The Bitching Hour

Hey kitty girl... this episode is about a super rare thing that people hardly experience anymore, so we're a little worried it might not resonate. LMAO just kidding it's about being harassed on the street/in public, so definitely be prepared that this ep is a little intense. We share our funniest comebacks, our fears, our stories, and even some of YOUR stories that you slid in our DMs! 

Listen, it's like six billion percent humidity outside and we are NOT feeling cute, so we thought we'd chat about times that we have! This episode is all about how we manage to feel hot when it's literally hot as f*ck outside -- that means dressing for work, finding a bathing suit, drawing inspiration from style icons, and more.

Hit the showers, ladies... this week's ep is all about grooming and personal hygiene! Continuing with our mini-series about bodies, we're talking hair, makeup, perfume, and special edition bath bombs.

Welcome back, witches! Season 2 is upon us, and we're going right in for a mini-series on bodies. To kick us off (get it?) this episode talks all about women, gender, and sports.  Let's dig into that long, beautiful history of dykes in professional athletics and explore some of our own feelings around strength, competition, pressure, and team bonding. 

It's our final Pride episode, and we're sending you off with a proposal! This week, we're talking all about gay marriage -- what it means to us as queer people, the importance it has legally and logistically in LGBTQ+ lives, the role it has played in mainstream gay organizing, and the way it has overshadowed many, many other issues related to the health and safety of queer people. 

This week we have a lot of feelings (wow, something new and different for us) about growing up and growing old - we're talking queer futures. When we were younger, we never could have imagined what gay young adulthood would look like, so what is it going to look like to become real adults? In our Main Brew, we're grateful for queer role models in the media, the collective queer and trans history that came before us, and The Sims.

In honor of Pride Month, we're only using rainbow bath bombs. JK, we both like showers better anyways. This week, we're talking self care, that pesky buzzword that we totally need but can't always define. Join us to discuss self-soothing, doing chores, being luxurious, using gay spaces as self care, and needing self care after leaving gay spaces!

Happy Gay-lidays! It's PRIDE Month, and we're feeling AMAZING but also maybe … shameful? We're kicking off June with a deep dive into our feelings about parades, party culture, capitalism, cops, straight allyship, cisnormativity, and queer spaces. So dust off your TD Bank free rainbow plastic sunglasses and get ready to march right past Stonewall - the site of a protest against racist, transphobic police brutality - with us! … We promise this episode isn't exclusively a sad critique of the state of gay organizing.

We missed you so much last week! To make up for our absence, we're coming at you with not just one Main Brew, but many, many little topics. Gender reveal parties? Yep. Straight women at gay bars? Yeah, we go there. RuPaul's Drag Race? Obvi. Tune in for some hot takes and some cold, hard truth.

Just a little snack in case you get hungry while we're off the air this week.

For our 10th episode, we're paying homage to a childhood fave, Reading Rainbow! Except literally, you know, like ‘rainbow' in the homosexual way. We're talking queer books - yes, that means young adult fiction, Giovanni's Room, Our Lord and Savior Alison Bechdel, etc. What lesbian pulp are YOU reading this summer?

This week you're in for a real treat… we performed open-heart surgery, and you get to listen to it! LOL nope, but we did talk about being both aspiring healthcare professionals and queer patients. How will our knowledge of receiving care as queer people influence our future practice? Is it ever appropriate to out yourself to your patients? How do we tell our doctors what they actually need to know, when gender and sexuality labels can be so imperfect and the medical industrial complex can be such a nightmare?

It's going down in the DMs. Not really. This week we made a gay pilgrimage back to Western Mass to interview our twitter genius friend, Rochelle! We spoke with her about her twitter, learned about Finstas (are we getting old?), and the ways we edit ourselves on the internet. Tune in to hear us talk about queer representation on social media, the moments it's important to display our mistakes, and mooooore! Listen, subscribe, rate, & review on iTunes!

Who's in YOUR MySpace Top 8? This week, we're going in on chosen families. We're discussing blood, marriage, wine, and glitter* as we think about why chosen families may be necessary, how they form, and how they provide for each other. It's true, not all members of our chosen families are queer, but this episode is still super gay, don't worry. We hope this episode inspires you to hold your loved ones close… or enjoy drinking your wine and eating that burrito on your own, because it's called chosen for a reason.

Hard Femme, Soft Butch, Futch over easy. On this week's episode we're discussing Butch & Femme. Have we lost sight of the historical context of these identifiers? How have they changed? How is Butch more than a haircut but also… often seen as a god damn haircut? On this episode we slip into something comfortable (flannel) and try to make sense of the language we use to talk about butch & femme; the way our clothes, voices, and behaviors help us convey to the world who we are -- for the moment.

Oh honey, we need to let you know that you're really just promiscuous and it's probably just a phase! This week we welcome artist and 3D-illustrator Elise Guillen onto the show to discuss language, labels, and stereotypes pertaining to bisexuality. When do we use the words ‘bisexual' and ‘queer,' and why? How is your bisexuality (in)validated in queer spaces when you are in a long-term, monogamous relationship? We tried discussing some of these questions, but bi women are invisible and don't actually exist, so it proved difficult.

If you thought we'd tire of talking about gay movies… you were wrong. This week we're talking about our favorite queer flicks. We're here to discuss our least favorite tropes, consider how much we're willing to put up with to see queer love, and ask the hard-hitting questions: where is the camp in lesbian movies? In this episode we have definitively concluded that Bend it Like Beckham (2002) is a GAY movie.

Carol, Call Me By Your Name, Harold & Maude -- what's the deal with queer intergenerational love in movies? This episode's Witch's Brew is all about age differences in queer relationships-- is there always an inherent power dynamic? How do age and experience differ in this context? Is there a way to utilize that power dynamic as a site of meaning-making for young queers? Maggie and Mia attempt to tease out these questions, lament the casting of Arm & Hammer, and wonder what ever happened to that peach?

It's time for those undergrad skeletons to come out of the closet. This week we spoke about being queer in college. We shoutout to our alma mater and talk shit about AALLLLL our exes. Just kidding! But what the hell is a BDOC? And why does white heteropatriarchy reiterate itself in queer spaces? Tune in to hear our hot ass takes on these questions & more!

Have you ever been ghosted? Have you ever ghosted someone? Is ghosting ever okay-- or necessary?  This week's witch's brew is about the ultimate use of the silent treatment. Maggie and Mia investigate the ghoster & ghostee inside all of us.