Podcasts about Queer Nation

Cet épisode a été enregistré en live au Théâtre de la Croix-Rousse dans le cadre de Festivi·iel ! Dramathis est un podcast écrit, produit, réalisé et mis en musique par Mathis Grosos, pour le financer, c'est par ici.Références de l'épisode :  Bazin, Hugues. « Quels espaces populaires pour la culture ? ». Mouvements, 2009/1 n° 57, 2009. p.57-66. William Foote Whyte, Street Corner society.Hurstel, J., Chroniques culturelles barbares, Paris, Syros, coll. « Alternatives », 1988.Richard MèmeteauM. Certeau (de), « La beauté du mort » in La culture au pluriel, Paris, Christian Bourgeois, 1974, (Points Essais), 1993.P. Mayol, « De la culture légitime à l'éclectisme culturel », Ville-École-Intégration Enjeux, n° 133, juin 2003.BUTLER, Judith. 2004 [1997]. Le Pouvoir des mots. Discours de haine et politique du performatif (C. Nordmann & J. Vidal, trad.). Paris : Éditions Amsterdam. HEBDIGE, Dick. 2008 [1979]. Sous-Culture. Le sens du style (M. Saint-Upéry, trad.). Paris : Zones. QUEER NATION. 1990. « Queer Nation : a Manifesto » SEDGWICK, Eve Kosofsky. 1998. « Construire des significations queer », in Les études gay et lesbiennes, ERIBON Didier (éd.). Paris : Éditions du Centre Pompidou. Marie-Émilie Lorenzi, « « Queer », « transpédégouine », « torduEs », entre adaptation et réappropriation, les dynamiques de traduction au cœur des créations langagières de l'activisme féministe queer », GLAD!, 2017 Keivan Djavadzadeh et Pierre Raboud, Le populaire est-il soluble dans les industries culturelles ? Courants dominants et contraires des cultures populaires Lawrence Levine, Culture d'en haut, culture d'en bas. L'émergence des hiérarchies cultu- relles aux États-Unis, Paris, La Découverte, 2010. John Clarke, Stuart Hall, Tony Jefferson et Brian Roberts, « Subcultures, cultures and class », in Stuart Hall et Tony Jefferson (dir.), Resistance Through Rituals. Youth Subcultures in Post-War Britain, Londres, Hutchinson University Library, 1976, p. 10 (nous traduisons). Culture, Class, Distinction, Tony Bennett Philippe Coulangeon, Les métamorphoses de la distinction : inégalités culturelles dans la France d'aujourd'hui, Paris, Grasset, 2011. Get bonus content on Patreon Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

From the very earliest days of the epidemic, women got infected with HIV and died from AIDS — just like men. But from the earliest days, this undeniable fact was largely ignored — by the public, the government and even the medical establishment. The consequences of this blindspot were profound. Many women didn't know they could get HIV.But in the late 1980s, something remarkable happened. At a maximum security prison in upstate New York, a group of women came together to fight the terror and stigma that was swirling in the prison as more and more women got sick with HIV and AIDS. Katrina Haslip was one of them. An observant Muslim and former sex worker, she helped found and create AIDS Counseling and Education (ACE), one of the country's first HIV and AIDS organizations for women. And when she got out of prison, she kept up the work: she joined forces with women activists on the outside to be seen, heard and treated with dignity. This is her story — and the story of scores of women like her who fought to change the very definition of AIDS.Voices in this episode include:• Katrina Haslip was an AIDS activist who was born in Niagara Falls, New York. She spent five years at the Bedford Hills Correctional Center, during which time she served as a prison law librarian and helped found the organization AIDS Counseling and Education (ACE). After her release in 1990, she continued her advocacy through ACE-Out, an organization she formed to support women leaving prison, as well as ACT UP and other organizations.• Judith Clark spent 37 years in prison for her role in the October 1981 Brink's robbery. In prison, she helped found AIDS Counseling and Education (ACE), along with other programs to support and counsel women. Since her release in 2019, she has continued to work on behalf of incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women.• Maxine Wolfe was a member of the women's committee of ACT UP. Wolfe is an American author, scholar and activist for AIDS, civil rights, lesbian rights and reproductive rights. She is a co-founder of the Lesbian Avengers, a coordinator at the Lesbian Herstory Archives, and a member of Queer Nation. Wolfe is currently professor emerita of women's and gender studies at the Graduate Center, CUNY.• Terry McGovern is a lawyer and senior associate dean for academic and student affairs in the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. In 1989, McGovern founded the HIV Law Project and served as the executive director until 1999. Her successful lawsuit against the Social Security Administration enabled scores of women with AIDS to receive government benefits.• Dr. Kathy Anastos is a professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Anastos's work advances HIV and AIDS research and treatment, both globally and in the Bronx. She has been the principal investigator of the New York City/Bronx Consortium of the Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS) since it was launched in 1993.This episode title comes from a Gran Fury poster. Gran Fury was an artist collective that worked in collaboration with ACT UP and created public art in response to the HIV and AIDS epidemic.Resources: "The Invisible Epidemic: The Story of Women And AIDS" by Gena Corea.Blindspot is a co-production of The HISTORY® Channel and WNYC Studios, in collaboration with The Nation Magazine.A companion photography exhibit by Kia LaBeija featuring portraits from the series is on view through March 11 at The Greene Space at WNYC. The photography for Blindspot was supported by a grant from the Economic Hardship Reporting Project, a nonprofit organization that promotes coverage of social inequality and economic justice.

Episode 33 - Ernie Lightfoot, MSW and an openly gay person, and longtime survivor of HIV-AIDS, was involved with direct action groups, ACT UP and Queer Nation in the 1990s. Disclaimer: Please note that all information and content on the UK Health Radio Network, all its radio broadcasts and podcasts are provided by the authors, producers, presenters and companies themselves and is only intended as additional information to your general knowledge. As a service to our listeners/readers our programs/content are for general information and entertainment only.  The UK Health Radio Network does not recommend, endorse, or object to the views, products or topics expressed or discussed by show hosts or their guests, authors and interviewees.  We suggest you always consult with your own professional – personal, medical, financial or legal advisor. So please do not delay or disregard any professional – personal, medical, financial or legal advice received due to something you have heard or read on the UK Health Radio Network.

Meg goes to the Village's beloved gay club Uncle Charlie's and discovers all kinds of drama. Jessica reveals the intersection of real estate and religion at the Carnegie Hill mosque and The Watchtower. Please check out our website, follow us on Instagram, on Facebook, and...WRITE US A REVIEW HEREWe'd LOVE to hear from you! Let us know if you have any ideas for stories HEREThank you for listening!Love,Meg and Jessica

Wynter is back and we have an episode filled with SPOILER ALERTS for both the season finale of Dave and all of Black Mirror, season 6. Which of Streamberry's eps do we love, or…not so much? KT has an action alert for the LGBTQ+ community, as the GenX 1990s activist organization Queer Nation revs back up in Los Angeles to fight the ‘phobes. Plus, Japanese yacht rock and our undisputed song of the summer.   To get early access to releases and bonus content subscribe to our patreon at: patreon.com/waitingtoxhale

Matt Rice is a long-time transitioned (more than 30 years) non-binary trans guy. Matt began his activism in the late 1980s and early 1990s with ACT UP and Queer Nation in Chicago. Matt was involved in trans visibility activism in the early 1990s in San Francisco. Matt was a research assistant for the SF Department of Public Health on the first HIV seroprevalence study of the transgender community in San Francisco in the late 1990s.

The impact of The Arsenio Hall Show was far-reaching and has never been replicated. It's the only time in late night history that the culture was at the forefront. From Magic Johnson's appearance following his HIV announcement, to Bill Clinton playing the saxophone, to the Queer Nation clip that still makes the rounds on social media, Arsenio brought Black excellence to network television long before the term was popular. 

From oppressing mentions of LGBTQ lives in schools, to terror threats against health centers, aggressive conservative social media personalities are creating life threatening harm to LGBTQ kids and their families. Today we review recent reports on the incite that these influencers are enacting and the harm they are causing. Our guests include James Finn , who is a columnist for the LA Blade, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Queer Nation and Act Up NY, and an “agented” but unpublished novelist; and frequent guest, Brynn Tannehill, who is a senior analyst at a Washington D.C. area think-tank, and is the author of “American Fascism: How the GOP is Subverting Democracy.” and "Everything You Want to Know About Being Trans But Were Afraid to Ask."   With co-host Brody Levesque

Fraser is a Scottish Catholic highlander who now edits (brilliantly) the Spectator in London. Deeply versed in Tory politics, and sympathetic to Boris, he seemed the ideal person to ask to explain what’s been going on in Westminster, what went so wrong under PM Johnson, and who is likely to replace him. It’s a one-stop guide to contemporary British politics in a mild Scottish accent.You can listen to the episode right away in the audio player above (or on the right side of the player, click “Listen On” to add the Dishcast feed to your favorite podcast app). For two clips of our convo — on how Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss compare to one another, and what Fraser calls the “absolutely electrifying” effect of Kemi Badenoch — pop over to our YouTube page.A good complement to this episode is the one I had last year with Dominic Cummings, the brilliant strategist behind Brexit and the rise of Boris. Here’s the transcript. Here’s a clip about Dominic’s break from Boris:To continue the debate over my recent column on Trump and Boris, a reader writes:Here’s a dissent: You are right about Trump. You are wrong about Johnson.Lying comes naturally to Johnson. It’s not just to get out of trouble. He lies about everything. Max Hastings knew this and presciently forecast it would all blow up.  It has.Let’s turn to Brexit. First take the term “elites.” This glib, trash term is overused, over-hackneyed and should have no place in your lexicon. Unless very carefully defined, it is completely meaningless. I know as many lawyers and city types who voted for Brexit as did Remain, and likewise for gardeners, carpenters, plumbers etc. The British public was conned, lied to and persuaded there was a problem of the EU’s doing. To be fair, there were problems, some of which can be laid at the EU’s door, but for too many years, blame deflection was the name of the game. Most of the problems the country faced were homegrown. Now look at what has happened: we have a stuttering economy, low growth and haven’t yet introduced the checks at our borders we are supposed to, as it will cause even more chaos — Jacob Rees-Mogg has admitted as much. That’s what happens when you erect major trade barriers with your neighbours and largest market. We can debate immigration as much as you like, but the problem has got worse, and as you correctly pointed out, the numbers have increased.Now let’s look at the so-called Conservative Party. Under Johnson, one-nation conservatism died. He killed it. It was replaced, deliberately, by a populist, divisive style of rule, not dissimilar to Trump’s, quite happy to bend or break laws and conventions in order to further its agenda. Its leading persona was Boris Johnson, and to the eternal shame of the Conservative Party, precious few demurred. The problems the country now face stem directly from Brexit: a plethora of unfulfillable promises built on lies. There are still many who think Brexit was a good thing, but there is a growing and significant majority that now recognises it isn’t working and was a mistake. It’s happened, and Keir Starmer is right to say that the next step should be to improve relations with the EU and to see what can be made to work, starting with the Northern Ireland Protocol (putting a border down the Irish Sea was, you’ll remember, a promise Johnson swore he would never do.  And then promptly did “to get Brexit done”). All the deceit involved drives me mad, but the Labour Party, by electing a no-hoper and no-brainer in Jeremy Corbyn, made winning a majority inevitable (and remember FPTP didn’t require a significantly higher number of votes to achieve this).It might be too early to write off the Conservative Party, much as I would like to, despite having voted for them most of my adult life. But they are tainted, out of ideas, and despite the diversity you applaud, not impressive. I fear the next few months may prove as entertaining as the last few years.One aspect that you haven’t touched on is the role of the media. It is staggering to see the degree of partisanship on display. The Telegraph, Mail and Express appear to be living in an alternative universe where truth and fantasy commingle without differentiation. And why did the Times, which I read along with the Guardian, pull the blow-job report? This, along with the Londongrad money saga, is for another day.  By the way, I am pleased you quoted Marina Hyde. Her sassiness, razor-sharp intellect and acerbic wit are spot-on.We will have her on the Dishcast soon enough. Here’s a reader in London:Sure, there was mounting frustration about Boris Johnson’s lying — not just the lying, but the fact that he invariably had to follow with “oh yes, come to think of it …” But voters, as opposed to MPs, think politicians lie all the time anyway, so I don’t think the cut-through is as great as might be supposed. I think the great point lost in all this is that Boris got his landslide because of Brexit and the increasing frustration with his inability to grasp the potential benefits became a hugely increasing sore, exacerbated by the daily shots of illegal immigrants turning up on our shores in rubber dinghies, often helped by the lifeboat service. This and his inability to grasp until too late how badly the economy was going to hit Mr & Mrs Average was what cost him public support as much as, if not more so, than his economy of truth. Another point not made enough is that Boris seemed to be a prisoner of focus groups and vocal groups of MPs, which meant he was constantly veering from one view to another. He made a string of supposedly exciting announcements that remained just that, never getting anywhere. You can only do that for so long before the public wises up.Yes, it was the MPs who knifed him, but these were MPs getting it in the neck from their constituents for what was (or more often was not) going on. My neighbour tore up his Tory membership card in sheer frustration and told our MP about it. Boris could offer no clear guiding principles we could cling to that would help us bat aside the machinations of Cummings, the BBC et al, who were manifestly on a mission to defenestrate him. In the end, even those who fear for Brexit in the wake of his departure could see there was no other course.Looking back to last week’s episode with Peter Staley, here’s a key moment where he calls the federal incompetence over monkeypox “Covid 2.0”:The whole 20-minute segment on monkeypox is here. Another listener “enjoyed the episode”:I share Mr. Staley’s concerns about the government’s handling of the monkeypox outbreak. I agree with him that the US did a disturbingly poor job of handling the Covid pandemic at the start. However, I have two important qualifiers:The US was hardly the primary “bad actor” in Covid; stupidity and misconduct in other countries was more flagrant and more consequential.I don’t know the details of the bureaucratic mangling of the monkeypox vaccine, but everything Staley reports sounds sadly accurate. However, it seems to me that the core problem early in the AIDS pandemic, and in the past two months with monkeypox, was the unwillingness of many in the gay community to modify their behavior consistent with obvious public health concerns. I was struck that neither you nor Staley mention this, beyond your effort to provide some rational current health advice, which is however strongly tilted toward vaccination over behavior modification.We did urge gay men to “cool it” for a while. Maybe we should have been more adamant. It’s also becoming clearer how this version of monkeypox is spread: primarily through sexual contact. If mere skin-touching were spreading it, then it seems to me the epidemic would be much, much larger, given the crowds during Pride. That means, of course, that we have the ability to help stop it, by not having sex until vaccinated. That’s not sex-phobic or homophobic. It’s just sensible health advice.Another dissenter expands on the reader’s second point:Your discussion of monkeypox really bugged me, for a reason I hope you take to heart. The vast majority of it was focused on the failures of the FDA and CDC, which I don’t take issue with. But the assumptions of the world you live in, particularly when in Provincetown, were alarmingly similar to the assumptions you make (rightfully) about the progressive left — that it takes for granted people not having agency in their own lives.The US government has (probably) failed with monkeypox, as it has with other diseases. Given that, what should people do? You and Staley both took it for granted that you seemed to have a right — almost an obligation — to party hard in P-Town, which the government’s failure was interfering with. It wasn’t until more than halfway through this part of the conversation that Staley and then you mentioned offhand that “some” people were suggesting people “cool it” for a month or so.But listen again to the rest of your conversation about monkeypox. Time and again, you blamed the government for its failures and never said anything about maybe the party boys could do something besides bemoan the inability to get vaccinated — maybe party less or (trigger warning) not go to Provincetown one summer. Self-restraint in the face of a still small but looming epidemic was only on the margins of your assumptions.At this early stage, restraint now among the mostly gay-male monkeypox spreaders would have exponential benefits going forward. Isn’t that a message about social good that is worth the telling?I’m older and was never much of a partier, so I guess it’s easier for me to say this. But the pretty confined groups of A-Gays ought to take some agency in their own lives at this critical time, and maybe give something up temporarily for the benefit of both themselves and a very real group of future A-Gays and B-Gays and whatever letter the rest of us get. Not to mention heterosexuals.As you can see, I take your point. Another listener moves to a different part of the discussion:Your interview with Peter Staley was fairly interesting regarding his participation during the critical years of AIDS. But the conversation became electric when the subject turned to critical queer theory, the indoctrination of children, and the discussion of sex identity in preschool. You kept asking Staley if he thought it was ok to teach children this curriculum and he kept nervously laughing and avoiding to answer and said that you’re confused and banging your little drum. I agree with you: critical theory has hijacked the gay community, gay rights, etc. and there very well could be an anti-gay backlash. Please continue to voice your side and fight for common sense. Your observations of critical theory’s dangerous impact are not anecdotal — they’re unfortunately everywhere.To decide for yourself, here’s a clip of that heated exchange:From a listener in San Francisco:I had never heard of Peter Staley before (I’m a 49-year-old gay man in SF). ACT-UP and Queer Nation had already fallen apart when I landed there in 1993 as a young punk rock guy. So I was interested in hearing his retelling of that period in the late ‘80s. But then the convo moved to gay activism today — and wow. I thought, “Well this is it. This is the denial that so many gay men have about the gender ideology cult.” They are f*****g terrified of speaking out against this. And of course it’s because they know it would mean expulsion from polite Democrat society.I was recently discussing the mass delusion period we’re living through around Gender ID extremism. Someone said we should get ready for a massive gaslighting from people who will tell us that they never believed in this cult.For what it’s worth, I keep hearing from gay men in Provincetown how alienated they are from this ideology, but also how scared they are to voice their concerns — especially about what this indoctrination is doing to gay children. Peter is emblematic of the majority, however, who prefer dismissing these concerns as overblown, and sticking to their own political tribe, which they have now internalized as “LGBTQIA+”. It’s maddening, but a function of real homophobes latching onto the “groomer” discourse, and tribal gays closing ranks in opposition. The real trouble is that the non-profit institutions allegedly representing us are packed with critical theory zealots who experience no pushback, and if they do, purge the dissenters. My view is that gay men should stop funding groups that are dedicated to the abolition of homosexuality. From a parent:It was so hard for me to listen to Peter Staley downplay the gender stuff for kids. My five-year-old stayed up an hour past her bedtime last night because she was worried she could suddenly become male, or that my breasts might disappear. She is extremely confused. At a time in her life when she is only beginning to understand what it will mean for her to grow up and become a physical woman, she thinks her “pronouns” might suddenly change and she might become genderless. Teenaged camp counselors with clear and obvious feminine features are telling her that they are neither male nor female. The worst part of that, is that my daughter is beginning to believe that her sex is determined by her interests and behavior. For example, she thinks that if I swear too much, I may become male. The result is her belief that womanhood is some sort of cartoonish stereotype of old-fashioned gender roles. It’s all so regressive. As a lifelong liberal, I am repulsed by the mainstream push to reinforce gender stereotypes and essentialism. What might be an even bigger crime for a writer like myself is that my daughter — who hasn’t even started kindergarten yet — thinks pronouns are a personal trait, not a part of speech. As horrified as I am at the regressive and sexist gender roles being pushed on my child, I am equally grimacing at the grammatical confusion this creating. Can’t the school teach my kid what a pronoun even is before scrambling her brain? Happy to air your personal experience. It’s horrifying. Another worried parent:I just had the most intriguing conversation with my 17-year-old daughter. She said that if she ever had a child who was trans, she would totally support that. Curious, I asked why. She said, “Because it’s all about who you love, and it’s ok to love different people.”I said, “Hold up, you’re talking about being gay. Trans doesn’t have anything do with who you love.”She insisted that it did. I said again, “No, you’re talking about being gay.” She said, “They're the same thing. Whenever a guy wants to be a girl, it’s because he wants to be able to date other guys. And when a girl wants to be a guy, it’s so that she can date other girls.”I said, “Now you're just confirming it — you are literally talking about being gay. There is no connection. Sometimes a guy transitions to being a woman, but still wants to date women — and will say that he has become a lesbian.”She just didn’t believe me! She shook her head and said something like, “It’s all over TikTok, and 99 percent of the time, when someone wants to be trans, it’s because they’re just trying to be gay.”We changed the subject, but even though this is just one data point (my daughter), I do wonder how prevalent her point of view is among other teenagers who watch TikTok.God only knows. But the attempt to conflate very different gay, lesbian and trans experiences is part of an ideological project, rooted in postmodernism. It is designed to destroy anyone’s coherent understanding of stable human nature. This next listener is on Staley’s side, not wanting to scapegoat queer theorists:I have to agree with Peter Staley that mass indoctrination of critical trans/queer/gender theory in school children is not the cause of any rise in gender confusion and trans identity. Something else is going on. My theory: the biological organism of homo sapiens is undergoing evolutionary reproductive change due to mounting environmental stresses.Let’s start with the simple observation that schools are only one small part of the cultural, political, environmental, familial and technological waters children swim in. One lesson from the story book How To Raise A Trans Inclusive Child is not going to make much of a sexual identity dent in the ocean of information, stress and confusion children are growing up in these days.There are so many other stresses that are going to have far greater biological impacts. Overpopulation is of course the big one that cannot be discussed. There are too many rats in the cage. Humans now live on a planet in which they are constantly bathed in low doses of industrial and agricultural chemicals of every kind. It is in our food, air and water. Developing embryos are all bathed in these chemicals to some degree.Throw in all the current economic and political chaos. Add in the bugaboo of social media and the cultural worship of money and fame. Body modification with tattoos, piercing and plastic surgery is a norm. You can create yourself to be anything.A big change, of course, is the rising equality of women. Economically, that is going to give women a better hand to play in reproductive choice. House husbands are becoming more and more common. Stereotypical gender expectations are pretty much kaput. Let’s not forget the #MeToo movement — that certainly threw a wrench into heterosexual relations.So what are these kids supposed to think about sex and gender? These are just some of the dots that Staley suggested may need a bit more connecting. So it’s a bit of a stretch to pin any rising gender confusion and dysphoria on indoctrination with critical gender/queer/trans theory in school children. That would be about as effective as conversion therapy for gay men. It’s not that simple to convert.But it’s very easy to confuse a third-grader. One more reader keeps another debate going:I wanted to respond to your response to the theory that another reader “wanted to float by you” about the nature/nurture debate over trans identity and sexual orientation. First, I think you dismiss this person’s idea a bit too readily. The possibility that sexual orientation isn’t inborn (even though I agree with you that it’s involuntary) is actually relevant to this discussion. Much of the modern trans movement incorrectly attempts to hitch its claims to the claims made by the gay rights movement, and “born this way” is no exception to this trend. If people are born trans, as this movement claims, then it’s theoretically possible to identify trans children with perfect accuracy and medicalize them before they go through puberty. But if instead, maturing into a trans adult is a stochastic process, then it’s impossible to predict perfectly which kids will persist in their trans identity after puberty. And in such a case, convincing the public to support youth medical transition is a much harder sell.Additionally, I disagree with you on whether trans people choose to be trans. Dysphoric individuals like Lauren Black, who choose to deal with their gender dysphoria without transitioning, complicate the claim that transitioning is the only possible outcome for someone with gender dysphoria. I think there are some people with dysphoria severe enough that medical transition is the best choice for them. But the decision of whether to transition or handle dysphoria in other ways is still ultimately a choice.As always, send your dissents, as well as other comments and personal stories, to dish@andrewsullivan.com. Get full access to The Weekly Dish at andrewsullivan.substack.com/subscribe

Back in 1969 a small group of 8 police officers went into the local gay bar to conduct a weekly shakedown of the mafia-bar-owners for some cash and to hassle some queers.  The Stonewall Inn was the night home to all the queers: gays, lesbians, transgender people, drag queens, and assorted randos.  The cops went in on a normal night, just before midnight on June 27th, ready to check some genitals (for real) and grab some cash; they came out a few hours later on the morning of June 28th to a brave new world, cashless and bruised - beaten by a pack of queers.  There were some hurt feelings and it took 50 years for the police commissioner of the NYPD to apologize publicly for the years of weekly harassment and beatings that the gay community endured at the hands of local police. The events on June 28, 1969 gave birth to a movement, and pride parades, Queer Nation, ACT UP, Lambda Legal, HRC and gaydom in general.  Gays and allies alike owe a big thank you to the brave people who knew how to fight and how to throw a good party at the same time. But the fight is far from over - all minorities are feeling this today.  The fight never ends, even after the apology is offered.  We all, BIPOC, women, queers, really sexy good looking people, we all are in trouble as history tries to repeat itself - get ready to fight because the fight is ready for you.

- 00:20 - Dr. Mischa Cohen Peck - 00:35 - Mischa explains Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy - 02:40 - Psychoactive drug therapy - 03:14 - Timothy (not Thomas) Leary - O4:00 - Activism, Act Up, Queer Nation - 05:17 - Drugs are not a path to authenticity - 09:05 - Trans identity and pronouns - 09:27 - The false dichotomy of binary - 09:40 - Replace "or" with "and" to expand! - 11:31 - Labeling in "reaction to" binary construct - 14:45 - Critical thinking breeds empathy - 15:48 - Mischa's "super power"? - 17:10 - Adapting to more expansive thinking - 19:55 - "Gender is nothing and everything" - 20:47 - Facts exist AND can evolve - 21:24 - Epigenetic download, observation, survival - 23:15 - Education and critical thinking - 25:05 - CriticalThinking.org - 29:26 - Brain Operating System and 'manufacture's defects' - 34:08 - Fear is a 4-letter word - 35:40 - Brain as unreliable witness - 39:00 - Deep conversations or (and) great meds? - 40:00 - Gender affirming surgery = ego-integration - 41:26 - When Catherine met Mischa - 43:00 - Love, be loved, born for connection - 45:00 - Younger generation disconnect? - 48:22 - James is the "get off my lawn" guy! - 51:56 - "Nothing has meaning except the meaning you give it" (Thanks Hector) - 53:13 - "Marlena Miata", stick-shift (of course), "2NonQ" - 59:00 - Bat shit crazy as diagnosis? - 1:02:40 - Trans-generational transmission of trauma and family connection - 1:03:58 - Three random questions in closing - 1:04:17 - Shout out to Manny! - 1:05:37 - Dog person, cat tolerant!

After purchasing a house in Park Slope in the 1980's to be closer to her kids, Dr. Rusty Mae Moore and Chelsea Goodwin opened their home to homeless trans folk. Transy House, as it was called, aimed to be a place where trans people could feel safe from the objectification and harassment. To this day, the continue to live with other trans folks on Long Island, where they've discovered and forged new community affinities. In this interview Chelsea Goodwin speaks passionately of Goth and Pagan culture's relationship to Trans Community as being like "peanut butter and jelly". A seasoned activist, having worked with Act Up, Queer Nation and Dyke Action Machine, her piss-and-vinegar vibrancy emphasizes social change from the ground up, rather than legislative reform. Dr. Rusty Mae Moore came out in her 50's and through parenting, her career and travel to Brazil navigated the particularities of her own transition. Together they share their intimate understanding of Trans Liberation.

What it means to be visibly queer when you're surrounded by boring people: Creating a Queer Nation, having fun at the Olympics and a potted history of The X-Men. Sort of. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Inspired by the American direct action group of the same name, Queer Nation was a club night that started in London in 1990 and quickly built a reputation as an attitude free, affordable and welcoming night that played the best in soulful house. And my guest this week is the activist, health promoter, and mentor Marc Thompson, who tells me why the night is so dear to his heart. As well as being an absolute sweetheart Marc has an incredibly impressive CV and I'm just going to break down a few of his accomplishments. He is: Co-director of The Love Tank (http://thelovetank.info/), a community interest company that promotes health and wellbeing of under-served communities through education, capacity building and research, Co-founder of Prepster.info (https://prepster.info/), a community based intervention that aims to educate and agitate for PreP access in England and beyond. Co-founder of Blackout UK (https://blkoutuk.com/about/) a movement dedicated to working with and building safe spaces for Black gay men. Key to all of this work is a focus on Black and queer communities, sexual health and HIV, and he is particularly interested in the intersection of race, sexuality and HIV. Ah, and a quick note - the club got around, having been hosted in venues including Fire, Crash, and Barcode, but the era that we focus on in our conversation is in its early days at Gardening Club, where it first started, and Substation South. Follow Marc on Twitter - https://twitter.com/marct_01

The early 90s was an exciting but difficult time to be a queer person in the United States. The AIDS crisis was still claiming so many lives and after 8 years of President Regan not even mentioning the word AIDS and 4 years of President Bush’s inaction, LGBTQ folks felt invisible, and our visibility was a matter of life and death.In the spirit of making a political statement, and shocking the squares, Joan Jett Blakk, backed by Queer Nation, launched her bid to become President of United States with the catchy slogan “Lick Bush in ’92.”This bold political performance art would had been just a delightful footnote in the history of queer activism until this year when Broadway director Tina Landau and Moonlight Oscar winner Tarell Alvin McCraney presented their new play, “Ms Blakk for President,” now playing at the Steppenwolf Theater.Today Terence Alan Smith, the artist behind the drag personage of Joan Jett Blakk joins us to talk about that amazing time when a black drag queen ran for President of the United States and how 27 years later she’s back making a big splash. Will she run again in 2020?{Best of Feast of Fun, originally ran as FOF #2759 - The Time When Ms. Joan Jett Blakk Ran for President, Jul 3, 2019}

På senare år har det rapporterats om allt snävare gränser för det polska kulturlivet. Sommarens omval av president Andrzej Duda befäste regeringspartiet Lag och rättvisas starka ställning har det haft någon betydelse? Joachim Brudziski är EU-parlamentariker för Lag och rättvisa och häromdagen twittrade han apropå pandemin och krisen för de polska kulturarbetarna om en skådespelare som "...blivit galen av hat mot den här regeringen och som gått på om fascism och diktatur. I dag, vem söker de om hjälp hos?" Dagen efter intervjuades regissören Agnieszka Holland i polsk TV där hon menade att det var ett typiskt uttalande för en representant för Lag och rättvisa och påpekade att "Herr Brudziski beter sig som om han var Polens ägare och som om pengarna var hans privata pengar". Stefan Ingvarsson, kulturskribent och tidigare kulturråd i Moskva, medverkar i dagens P1 Kultur för ett samtal där han reder ut hur läget för de polska kulturarbetarna och konstinstitutionerna. MER POLITIK I P1 KULTUR PRESIDENTVALET I USA NÄRMAR SIG Det har väl inte undgått någon att det är val i USA snart, nyheter och analyser pumpar på dygnet runt. Det är lätt att förlora sig i flödet och hur ska man förstå dagens politiska situation i landet? DN-journalisten och tidigare USA-korrespondenten Sanna Torén Björling, gäst i dagens program, har nyligen gett ut reportageboken "Allt vi har gemensamt" där hon söker svar på landets politiska utveckling och hur det kunnat bli så polariserat som det är idag. NY ROMAN AV SUCCÉ-FÖRFATTAREN YAA GYASI 2016 kom den ghanansk-amerikanska författaren Yaa Gyasis prisade debutroman "Homegoing" ("Vända hem" på svenska 2017) som handlar om slavhandelns konsekvenser och hur det drabbar släkter i generationer. Nu är hon är aktuell på svenska igen med romanen "Inte av denna världen" Anna Tullberg kommer till studion för att berätta om den nya romanen. DAGENS ESSÄ En armé av älskare kan inte förlora, heter det i Queer Nation-manifestet som delades ut på prideparaden i New York 1990. Sedan dess har mycket hänt och frågan är i vilket grad orden fortfarande är giltiga. Författaren Lyra Koli reflekterar över hur sexpositivismen och kategoriserande av begär tillfredsställer något annat än människorna bakom identiteterna. Programledare: Gunnar Bolin Producent: Maria Götselius

Sexpositivism har blivit status quo, så vad det är det folk tror att de gör uppror mot när de matar företagen med alltmer detaljerade sexuella identiteter? Författaren Lyra Koli ser en kamp gå vilse. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna. Prideparaden i New York, 1990. AIDS-epidemin har härjat i snart ett decennium. En samling texter skrivna av anonyma, desperata och rasande hbtq-personer delas ut av aktionsgruppen Queer Nation. Slagord som "Everytime we fuck we win", "Varje gång vi knullar vinner vi", viskas och skriks från sidorna i vad som snart kommer att bli känt som det ikoniska Queer Nation-manifestet. Det var en tid av extrem sårbarhet för communityt. Hundratusentals dog i AIDS, och istället för att göra allt för att rädda dem använde konservativa makthavare epidemin som en ursäkt för att smutskasta deras sexualitet. Unga människor, som ofta redan blivit utkastade av sina familjer och förlorat sina jobb, förtvinade nu i sjuksängar under fruktansvärda plågor. Samtidigt fick de höra att deras lidanden var ett rättmätigt straff från Gud. Att framställa queera begär som vackra och njutbara och eftersträvansvärda var under den tiden verkligen en radikal handling. Att lyckas mötas och älska varandra, när så många krafter i samhället bara ville låta hela folkgruppen självdö, kändes som en seger. Men lång tid har passerat sedan dess, och jag är rädd för att det som en gång var ett livsviktigt motstånd numera mest liknar lydnad. Sexpositivism har blivit status quo. Att kritisera en term som låter bejakande (som valfrihet, kreativitet och flexibilitet) är svårt, vilket marknaden sedan länge vetat. Termen sexpositiv lanserades av porrlobbyn för att få den feministiska porrkritiken att framstå som sexnegativ. Att vilja begränsa den massmediala förnedrande objektifieringen av kvinnokroppen blev plötsligt jämställt med att inte kunna släppa loss och ha kul. Den språkliga manipulationen fungerade så bra att termen idag har adopterats av de flesta feminister, och dessutom kommit att omfatta en alltmer spridd positiv inställning till prostitution. Vi är positiva till sex i alla dess former, det känns progressivt, frigjort, och ja, sexigt. Att skylta med sina egna sexuella preferenser och praktiker ses som subversivt, samtidigt som det har blivit norm. Begrepp som subversion, omstörtning, och trangression, överskridande, har blivit legio i samtida humaniora, i takt med att de har urvattnats. Som litteraturvetaren Elisabeth Ladenson poängterar så brukar termerna sällan granskas närmare, utan används som tomma tecken för värde. Vi tenderar att läsa böcker som Madame Bovary och Lolita för deras subversiva kvaliteter, skriver hon, men vad som slarvas bort på vägen är att de värden som omstörtas är andra än våra egna. Det råder i princip konsensus idag om att sexualiteten ska bejakas. Ändå ses sexuellt utmanande skildringar som subversiva, för att de en gång hotats av censur. Trots att humanioran numera ofta anklagas för att domineras av så kallat postmoderna tänkare som Michel Foucault, får man lätt en isande känsla av att allt färre faktiskt läser Foucault. I Sexualitetens historia säger han nämligen klart och tydligt att vi inte ska tro att vi säger nej till makten genom att säga ja till sex. Tvärtom. Det är bara en skenbild att den verkliga makten vad gäller sex skulle handla om förbud och censur. Själva illusionen av att det finns ett slags allmänt nej vi överträder genom att bejaka vår sexualitet är snarare en lockande uppmaning till oss att delta i produktionen av våra offentliggjorda begär. Makten verkar, skriver Foucault, genom att förnya, annektera, uppfinna, penetrera kropparna in i minsta skrymsle och kontrollera befolkningen på ett alltmer omfattande sätt. Det är i kravet på att agera ut och bekänna det vi tror är vi själva som den verkliga politiska styrningen finns. På det viset kan alltmer av våra kroppar och relationer bevakas, kontrolleras och profiteras på. Sexpositivismen gör inte uppror mot den här utvecklingen. Den driver på den. Det implicita kravet på att konstant definiera och manifestera sina egna lustar har blivit så ihärdigt att alla inställningar kräver särskilda identiteter. De som blir kära innan de blir kåta kallar sig demisexuella, och de som inte vill ligga alls definierar sig som asexuella. Faktum är att queerrörelsen, som en gång var inriktad på att kritisera uppdelningen av människor i essentialistiska roller, numera mest sysslar med att försvara en alltmer detaljerad taxonomi av identiteter. Sådana här senkapitalistiska klassifikationssystem skapar illusionen av unikhet, samtidigt som de utraderar all skillnad. Ivrigt slåss man för självbilder som ambivert, switch och pansexuell; tre termer som egentligen bara betyder att man gillar lite olika saker. Samtidigt gör man nedärvda upprorsberättelser som Queer Nation-manifestet till fetischer, för att få en anakronistisk kick av motstånd. Homo- och transfobin har naturligtvis inte upphört. Men föreställningen om att detta förtryck framförallt skulle utgå från en rädsla för sex är, åtminstone i vår del av västvärlden, gravt förlegad. Situationen är inte densamma som när Queer Nation delade ut sitt manifest i New York 1990. Pridefestivaler har blivit till lukrativa folkfester. Paraderandet av sexuella praktiker är idag mera säljbart än omstörtande. Sociala medier gör det också uppenbart att det som vi tror är upproriska självbilder i själva verket fungerar som konsumentprofiler. När vi tar ställning och hittar oss själva ger vi material åt algoritmerna för att lotsa oss in i de kanaler där uppmärksamhetsekonomin kan skörda som mest av vår tid. Att kartlägga våra känslor kring sex är förstås helt centralt. Ingenting genererar så mycket klick. Varje gång vi knullar registrerar platsdatan i våra telefoner att vi har tillbringat natten ihop, vilket förskjuter informationen vi får se om varandra i sociala medier dagen därpå. Inte bara du och jag förresten, utan också vänner och eventuella partner, som får upp oss som personer du kanske känner för att trigga dem till ett skvallrigt eller svartsjukt stalkande som kan hålla dem uppslukade av sina skärmar i timmar. Varje gång vi knullar vinner någon. Men jag är inte längre så säker på att det är vi. Lyra Koli, författare och tillsammans med Elin Bengtsson översättare av Queer Nation-manifestet.

Balloon Boy 2.0 joins us, Mr. Skin talks about Skin doc, vigilante murders in Kenosha, No NBA Playoffs, Jerry Falwell Jr's gay-friendly hostel, Big Gretch v. Lil Mitch, and the creepiest peeping tom.There's the creepiest ladder-wielding Peeping Tom in Eastpointe and Coronavirus is aiding his capture.Timesha Beauchamp may have experienced Lazarus Syndrome.Mr. Skin dials in to promote his new documentary 'Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies'.Lucas Giolito of the Chicago White Sox pitched the 2020 season's first no-hitter and no one got to see it.The NBA postponed their games Wednesday due to the additional violence in Kenosha. Meanwhile, people are trying to figure out why the NBA's ratings are diving.David Spade has been guest hosting Jimmy Kimmel.Kenosha is absolutely out of hand as 2 more die following clashes with protesters and armed citizens.8-year-old J.T. Head smoked Bobby Bradley's hot air balloon record and everything goes great until he bonds with Marc about soccer.Protesters in Washington DC shout at diners. "White silence is violence"! No justice, no pizza!New Deadspin thinks the MLB is racist.Bernard Kerik wants LeBron James to be a police officer.Tom Arnold got Michael Cohen to admit he buried some risqué photos of Jerry Falwell's wife. No one at Liberty University thought it was odd that he invested in a gay-friendly youth hostel in Miami... that has so many 1 star reviews.CANCEL BETTE MIDLER!Tom Cruise went to the movies and didn't want anyone to know... except for the people that saw his selfie video.Mitch Albom is clearly the one bullying Gretchen WhitmerKids sometimes cry at their first day of Kindergarten, even if it's online. You shouldn't put your kid on blast if they do.We revisit the time Arsenio Hall blew up on Queer Nation.The Borat nude fight scene is the funniest nude scene in film history.The State of Michigan is not as broke as originally thought.Nicholas Sandmannnnnnn won't be canceled from whatever it is that he does.Allan Lichtman predicts a Joe Biden victory, others show the path for a Trump victory."Can you believe the roots on Tiffany Trump?"Follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter (Drew and Mike Show, Marc Fellhauer, Trudi Daniels and BranDon).

The early 90s was an exciting but difficult time to be a queer person in the United States. The AIDS crisis was still claiming so many lives and after 8 years of President Regan not even mentioning the word AIDS and 4 years of President Bush’s inaction, LGBTQ folks felt invisible, and our visibility was a matter of life and death.In the spirit of making a political statement, and shocking the squares, Joan Jett Blakk, backed by Queer Nation, launched her bid to become President of United States with the catchy slogan “Lick Bush in ’92.”This bold political performance art would had been just a delightful footnote in the history of queer activism until this year when Broadway director Tina Landau and Moonlight Oscar winner Tarell Alvin McCraney presented their new play, “Ms Blakk for President,” now playing at the Steppenwolf Theater.Today Terence Alan Smith, the artist behind the drag personage of Joan Jett Blakk joins us to talk about that amazing time when a black drag queen ran for President of the United States and how 27 years later she’s back making a big splash. Will she run again in 2020?[Originally posted as FOF #2759 - The True Story of When Ms. Joan Jett Blakk Ran for President, July 4, 2019]

The authors  of Bookable have the most amazing friends. We wondered what would happen if we asked a former Bookable guest to choose an author they admire and interview them. In our first bonus episode, Alexander Chee talks to Rebecca Solnit. Writer, historian, and activist Solnit is the author of more than twenty books on feminism, western and indigenous history, popular power, social change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and disaster, including her latest book, just out, entitled Recollections of My Nonexistence. Episode Credits:This episode was produced by Andrew Dunn, Beau Friedlander and Amanda Stern. It was mixed and sound-designed by Andrew Dunn who also created Bookable's chill vibe.  Our host is Amanda Stern. Beau Friedlander is Bookable's executive producer and editor in chief of Loud Tree Media.  Music:"Books that Bounce" by Rufus Canis, "Different Strokes" by Jupyter, "Uni Swing Vox" by Rufus Canis.

In this episode of Queers & Co., I’m joined by Cameryn Moore, an award-winning playwright/performer with seven solo shows under her belt but perhaps best known as the founder of Smut Slam, a global network of community dirty-storytelling events. We chat about becoming an activist in the mid-80s, the power of learning to dance later in life, sex positivity versus being sex aware, how people who have a problem with sex work really have a problem with capitalism, growing up Mormon and undoing our issues around sex. Plus, the joys of creating personalised smut on the street for passers by! If you haven't already, be sure to join our https://www.facebook.com/groups/301006967271836/ (Facebook community) to connect with other like-minded queer folks and allies. To book your ‘by donation’ coaching session, https://app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?appointmentType=13630712&owner=16971628 (visit here). Find out more about https://my.captivate.fm/www.gemkennedy.com (Gem Kennedy) and https://my.captivate.fm/www.gemkennedy.com/queersandco (Queers & Co.) Podcast Artwork by https://www.gemmadsouza.co.uk/ (Gemma D’Souza) Resources Check out http://www.camerynmoore.com/ (Cameryn’s website) to find out about upcoming performances and events. Follow Cameryn on https://www.facebook.com/camerynmoore (Facebook), https://www.instagram.com/camerynmoore/ (Instagram) and https://twitter.com/camerynmoore (Twitter) Follow Smut Slam London on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/smutslamlondon (here) and Smut Slam International https://www.facebook.com/SmutSlamInternational (here) Watch Juno Mac’s TED Talk - The Laws that Sex Workers Really Want https://www.ted.com/talks/juno_mac_the_laws_that_sex_workers_really_want?language=en (here) Cameryn’s recommendation: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3281548/ (Little Women (2019) ) More info on performer and fat activist Heather McAllister can be found https://pridesource.com/article/23614/ (here) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heather_MacAllister_(activist) (here) Full Transcription Gem: Hi Cameryn, thank you so much for joining me. Cameryn: Oh, it’s good to be here. Thank you! Gem: So, it’ll be really great if you just tell us a bit more about you and how you identify. Cameryn: I am a playwright and a performer and a facilitator of smut. That’s kind of my professional designation I guess. I identify as an activist in a lot of ways around sex and fat and sex work. And phew, I’m just a middle-aged lady that didn’t really get the memo on how to be middle-aged sometimes is how I’m feeling like, yeah. Gem: And so, there’s lots to explore there. I’m just wondering how you first got into activism. Cameryn: I first got into activism when I was 16 actually. This was back in the mid-80s, so 1986. Nuclear war was kind of the constant looming thing. I don’t know how it was for other places, but certainly in the US, there was this constant sort of—it just hung over everything right? I started a peace activist group at my high school in a very conservative town. And that was probably also the time when I started shedding my introvert tendencies and found myself becoming an extrovert in support of causes that I felt strongly about. Before that, I was very shy and definitely still the same geek that you see before you today. But I was really shy and not wanting to put myself forward. And nuclear disarmament was something I felt so strongly about that I just made myself go out and do things. And I think that I definitely had become that extrovert in real life. But most of the causes that I’m loud and brassy about are… they’re causes. They’re not just me. It’s things that I feel strongly about. So, that all started when I was 16. It’s gone from nuclear disarmament to queer rights. I came of age as a little baby queer in the late ‘90s when Queer Nation was big on the scene in North America. And so, I moved through that into fat activism as well in the mid-90s in the San...

Dans ce podcast sur la création artistique, on a demandé à Elisabeth Lebovici de nous parler d'histoire de l'art à travers le prisme queer. On lui a demandé comment on faisait, nous, individus invisibilisé.e.s, pour s'inscrire dans une culture où lorsqu'on réclame plus d'inclusivité, on se fait silencier. On a aussi voulu savoir ce que c'était un art queer, et comment est-ce qu'on peut faire de cet art une continuité de nos luttes dans la société. On s'est aussi demandé.e.s comment est-ce qu'on faisait pour réintégrer nos communautés dans les arts visuels, pour nous inclure dans nos musées, et pour inclure nos artistes dans un monde de l'art gouverné par une logique marchande, blanche, et hétéropatriarcale ? Elisabeth Lebovici nous a expliqué la nécessité de faire tomber les barrières entre "haute" et "basse" culture, de queeriser l'histoire de l'art, mais aussi d'œuvres qui vous sauvent la vie. Bibliographie non exhaustive : - Femmes artistes, artistes femmes : Paris de 1880 à nos jours, avec Catherine Gonard, 2007, Hazan. - « Généalogie queer », in Critique 2010/8-9 (n° 759-760), pages 669 à 681 - Ce que le sida m'a fait. Art et activisme à la fin du XXè siècle, publié avec l'Association des amis de la Maison rouge, 2017, JRP Ringier Références et artistes cité.e.s : - Queer Nation : groupe transpédégouine radical fondé en mars 1990 à New York aux Etats Unis par des militant.e.s d'ACT UP. - David Halperin : historien et théoricien queer américain. - Jose Esteban Muñoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity, 2019, NYU Press : en cours de traduction - Art & Queer culture, Catherine Lord et Richard Meyer, 2013, Phaidon - Art queer. Une théorie freak, Renate Lorenz, 2018, Éditions B 42 - Griselda Pollock : critique d'art et de culture moderne et contemporain, et professeur en Histoire de l'Art et de Cultural Studies à l'Université de Leeds. Elle est l'autrice notamment de Differencing the Canon. Feminism and the Writing of Art's Histories, 1999, Routledge - Renate Lorenz & Pauline Baudry : duo d'artistes créant notamment des vidéos portant sur l'histoire des personnes queers. - Henrick Olesen, Some Faggy Gestures, 2008, JRP Ringier - Andy Warhol, Thirteen most wanted men : murale des criminels les plus recherchés, créée pour l'exposition universelle de 1964 à New York - Isabelle Alfonsi, Pour une esthétique de l'émancipation, 2019, Éditions B 42 - Guerrilla Girls : groupe d'artistes féministes fondé à New York en 1985 en réaction à l'infime représentation des femmes artistes dans les musées. - Claude Cahun – Marcel Moore : couple d'artistes, figures du mouvement surréaliste, qui ont notamment lutté contre le poids de l'hétérosexalité comme norme de conduite. - Zoe Leonard : artiste et activiste américaine, qui accède a la reconnaissance lors de la documenta IX en 1992 à Kassel. - Les Argonautes, Maggie Nelson, 2015, Éditions du sous-sol Lexique : - Male gaze : action de montrer les femmes et le monde dans la pop culture via le prisme du regard masculin dominant et hétérosexuel. - Art en grêve : label qui réunit des militant.e.s de différents secteurs du monde de l'art, engagés dans une réflexion sur le monde du travail. - Le CLAQ : Comité de Libération et d'Autonomie Queer - La Buse : collectif qui s'intéresse aux conditions de travail des travailleur.euse.s de l'art. Furies est un podcast de la Queer Week, cet épisode a été enregistré en janvier 2020, écrit par Anaïs Reinhardt et Clara Grimaud, réalisé et monté par Anaïs Reinhardt. La musique originale est de Clara Apolit.

In-fighting only strengthens those who seek to silence us.Have you ever seen this happen? Queers come together at a large event like Pride where everyone wants to have their voice heard, their opinions honoured and recognized as having value. Sometimes this leads to division or in-fighting within a specific group, like gay male “bitchiness” or one part of the community against another.There are many reasons for the causes of such division. It may involve personal emotions, shame, not knowing oneself well-enough, or something situational. Within the politics of leadership and working to improve humanity and make the world a better place, we may have conflicting needs as a group or a collective of LGBTQ people, but not necessarily conflicting values.In this episode, I share a story from my early foray into leading (or my inability at that time) and my involvement with Queer Nation in Ottawa, Canada. I talk about the relationship between leadership and influence, and it’s opposite – recruitment and persuasion. The later is the very human challenge of the ego unchecked, blinded by our fears and defensiveness, which leads to many of the challenges we are facing in the world today, including climate change, toxic capitalism, neoliberalism, the demise of democracy, populism, and the silencing and scapegoating of the “other” in society.If everyone were taught to understand that power is an illusion and a complete disconnect from humanity, human beings become more aware of their need to take care of the thing that supports their life in the first place – the planet.Support The Way of Queer Leadership.More Queer Thought LeadershipHow Otherness Empowers a Queer Leadership – LOP099Read the post, What Constitutes a Queer Leadership?Queering Leadership: An Evolutionary, Humanitarian Approach – LOP101Read the post, The Way of Queer Leadership Is Never a Straight PathImage: “Division” by Peter Dekkers

In this Pride Month special, some of our Gays Against Guns members talk about how they became activists. We share our personal paths to activism, our work with GAG, ACT UP, Queer Nation, discuss strategies to encourage others to join us, and how to communicate with folks who may not always agree with us.

Take a knee, open up, and let us gush all inside you… about protests. Topics: Colin Kaepernick, sip-in, Stonewall, Russia Day, Queer Nation, drag queens

In the first episode, Kathi and Terri talk about the word ‘queer’ – how the Q in LGBTQ can both divide and unite. We discuss Queer Nation, Queer Eye and Queer Duck all as we sip on a Queensbury.

Our first in a series of interviews supported by the Ford Foundation, Jillian speaks with Kene Esom who until very recently was the Director of AMSHeR, African Men for Sexual Health and Rights. Kene is a Barrister-at-Law advocating for marginalised communities including unaccompanied/separated children, refugees and asylum seekers, survivours of sexual and gender-based violence, and sexual minorities on the African continent. Jillian and Kene discuss the concepts of othering and being "queer", intersectionalities and privilege, and the roles of religion, culture and social justice towards a more equitable and empathetic world.

Christopher Phelps is an associate professor at the University of Nottingham and co-author of Radicals in America: The U.S. Left since the Second World War (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Phelps and Howard Brick have written a comprehensive history of the American left. Beginning with the multiple strands of radicalism prior to 1940, the book traces its development to recent movements such as Occupy Wall Street, Queer Nation, and Earth First! As a heterogeneous group the left has sought to expand personal freedom, and social, economic and political equality through the broad distribution of power. Instead of progressive reforms of existing systems radicals have called for a change in the structures of society. Under a large ideological tent the movement has included socialist, communist, labor activist, anarchist, and pacifists working against the hierarchies of class, race, and sex. From the New Left of the 1960s to the sanctuary movement of the religious left, as activist they have challenged all forms of inequality, militarization, capitalism, and ecological disaster. Radicals have continually struggled with factional disputes, cooptation by the mainstream, and a lack of a coherent and unifying political strategy. Currently at low ebb, radicalism is facing extremes form of capitalism, police states, resource scarcity, and a dystopian future calling for a new realism and for reaching out to a wider constituency. The authors argue that the effectiveness of radical movements must reflect egalitarian and democratic values while retaining a concern for the rights of the individual.

Christopher Phelps is an associate professor at the University of Nottingham and co-author of Radicals in America: The U.S. Left since the Second World War (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Phelps and Howard Brick have written a comprehensive history of the American left. Beginning with the multiple strands of radicalism prior to 1940, the book traces its development to recent movements such as Occupy Wall Street, Queer Nation, and Earth First! As a heterogeneous group the left has sought to expand personal freedom, and social, economic and political equality through the broad distribution of power. Instead of progressive reforms of existing systems radicals have called for a change in the structures of society. Under a large ideological tent the movement has included socialist, communist, labor activist, anarchist, and pacifists working against the hierarchies of class, race, and sex. From the New Left of the 1960s to the sanctuary movement of the religious left, as activist they have challenged all forms of inequality, militarization, capitalism, and ecological disaster. Radicals have continually struggled with factional disputes, cooptation by the mainstream, and a lack of a coherent and unifying political strategy. Currently at low ebb, radicalism is facing extremes form of capitalism, police states, resource scarcity, and a dystopian future calling for a new realism and for reaching out to a wider constituency. The authors argue that the effectiveness of radical movements must reflect egalitarian and democratic values while retaining a concern for the rights of the individual. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Christopher Phelps is an associate professor at the University of Nottingham and co-author of Radicals in America: The U.S. Left since the Second World War (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Phelps and Howard Brick have written a comprehensive history of the American left. Beginning with the multiple strands of radicalism prior to 1940, the book traces its development to recent movements such as Occupy Wall Street, Queer Nation, and Earth First! As a heterogeneous group the left has sought to expand personal freedom, and social, economic and political equality through the broad distribution of power. Instead of progressive reforms of existing systems radicals have called for a change in the structures of society. Under a large ideological tent the movement has included socialist, communist, labor activist, anarchist, and pacifists working against the hierarchies of class, race, and sex. From the New Left of the 1960s to the sanctuary movement of the religious left, as activist they have challenged all forms of inequality, militarization, capitalism, and ecological disaster. Radicals have continually struggled with factional disputes, cooptation by the mainstream, and a lack of a coherent and unifying political strategy. Currently at low ebb, radicalism is facing extremes form of capitalism, police states, resource scarcity, and a dystopian future calling for a new realism and for reaching out to a wider constituency. The authors argue that the effectiveness of radical movements must reflect egalitarian and democratic values while retaining a concern for the rights of the individual. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Christopher Phelps is an associate professor at the University of Nottingham and co-author of Radicals in America: The U.S. Left since the Second World War (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Phelps and Howard Brick have written a comprehensive history of the American left. Beginning with the multiple strands of radicalism prior to 1940, the book traces its development to recent movements such as Occupy Wall Street, Queer Nation, and Earth First! As a heterogeneous group the left has sought to expand personal freedom, and social, economic and political equality through the broad distribution of power. Instead of progressive reforms of existing systems radicals have called for a change in the structures of society. Under a large ideological tent the movement has included socialist, communist, labor activist, anarchist, and pacifists working against the hierarchies of class, race, and sex. From the New Left of the 1960s to the sanctuary movement of the religious left, as activist they have challenged all forms of inequality, militarization, capitalism, and ecological disaster. Radicals have continually struggled with factional disputes, cooptation by the mainstream, and a lack of a coherent and unifying political strategy. Currently at low ebb, radicalism is facing extremes form of capitalism, police states, resource scarcity, and a dystopian future calling for a new realism and for reaching out to a wider constituency. The authors argue that the effectiveness of radical movements must reflect egalitarian and democratic values while retaining a concern for the rights of the individual. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Christopher Phelps is an associate professor at the University of Nottingham and co-author of Radicals in America: The U.S. Left since the Second World War (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Phelps and Howard Brick have written a comprehensive history of the American left. Beginning with the multiple strands of radicalism prior to 1940, the book traces its development to recent movements such as Occupy Wall Street, Queer Nation, and Earth First! As a heterogeneous group the left has sought to expand personal freedom, and social, economic and political equality through the broad distribution of power. Instead of progressive reforms of existing systems radicals have called for a change in the structures of society. Under a large ideological tent the movement has included socialist, communist, labor activist, anarchist, and pacifists working against the hierarchies of class, race, and sex. From the New Left of the 1960s to the sanctuary movement of the religious left, as activist they have challenged all forms of inequality, militarization, capitalism, and ecological disaster. Radicals have continually struggled with factional disputes, cooptation by the mainstream, and a lack of a coherent and unifying political strategy. Currently at low ebb, radicalism is facing extremes form of capitalism, police states, resource scarcity, and a dystopian future calling for a new realism and for reaching out to a wider constituency. The authors argue that the effectiveness of radical movements must reflect egalitarian and democratic values while retaining a concern for the rights of the individual. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With DALLAS DELLAFORCE and naughty talks Like us on facebook: www.facebook.com/burlesqueonair Watch all the lessons/advices: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_…GJpLtnZtFvEb1bY4V ** SPECIAL DRAG QUEEN ♥ DALLAS DELLAFORCE ♥ EDITION ** ♥ ♥ ♥ Dallas Della Force is the long ago created and continually recrafted alter ego of performer and stylist Daniel Squires Cater. With a strong focus drawn from the details and styles of fashion history and popular culture, traditional drag and burlesque performance, Dallas has become a cross cultural identity transcending more than the entertainment genres that provided her initial outlet. Dallas's drag performance appearances have been highlights of such main stream gay events as Mardi Gras, Sleaze ball, Inquisition and Queer Nation parties to more underground/fringe events such as Misfits, Kooky, Man Jam. She has also performed for the Opera House Studio for DRAG, the Spiegletent and colaborations with the paciti company for performance space. And of course, as you all probably know, he is part of the most amazing show on earth: BRIEFS: all male, all vaudeville, all trash! ♥ ♥ ♥ This episode includes *An hommage to Blaze Starr *The amazing INTERVIEW of the fabulous Dallas Dellaforce sharing with us all his drag queen secrets and all of his wonderful stories *A super glamorous DRAG QUEEN MAKE UP TUTORIAL *Get the answers to your most intimate questions and in this episode we're talking about FOOT FETISHISM! *Subscribe our YouTube channel for our super glamorous make up tutorial! https://www.youtube.com/user/RadioImpala *** You can listen to it on the cable radio, or on the Alex Radio website from anywhere in the world! http://www.alex-berlin.de/radio/livestream.html Thank you Alex Radio for broadcasting our show. We are so happy and proud that it is getting bigger and better! *** Ask Lady Lou & Lada Redstar whatever your heart desires, whether its advice about dating, sex, relationships, styling, Burlesque, love, lust, seduction or how to be happy with your life. Lada specializes in kinky naughty advice for the adventurous listeners, and then Lou is there to help with body confidence and life advice for those who might need a little help. Together they will delight you with their humor, and wealth of knowledge in anything kinky to kind, sparkling to spanking, naughty or nice. You can send your message via: **Email: questions.burlesqueonair@gmail.com **Written message or voice message: https://www.facebook.com/burlesqueonair Your voice messages will be aired on the show. Let us know if you wish to remain anonymous and then give us a fun alias name instead. We look forward to receiving your messages! Like our page: https://www.facebook.com/burlesqueonair Listen to our previous shows: https://soundcloud.com/kirkuss-radio/sets/burlesque-on-air Watch our video tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_w-MxIBWNcgwlvMGJpLtnZtFvEb1bY4V *** “Ask Lou & Lada“ - frag Lou & Lada, was auch immer dein Herz begehrt, sei es ein Rat zum Dating, Sex, für die Beziehung, das Styling, zu Burlesque, Liebe, Lust, Verführung oder wie du mit deinem Leben glücklich sein kannst. Lada ist die Spezialistin in dreckigen, unanständigen Fragen für die abenteuerlustigen Zuhörer, während Lou für diejenigen da ist, die Hilfe bei ihrem Körberbewusstsein und Lebensberatung benötigen. Zusammen werden sie dich mit ihrem Humor und ihrem Reichtum an Wissen beglücken, in allen Belangen von frivol bis fröhlich, prickelnd bis peitschend, neckisch bis nett. Sende uns deine Nachricht via: E-Mail: questions.burlesqueonair@gmail.com Schriftliche oder Sprachnachrichten: https://www.facebook.com/burlesqueonair Deine Sprachnachrichten in der Show gesendet! Lass uns wissen, ob du anonym bleiben willst und gib uns stattdessen einen lustigen Alias-Namen an. Wir freuen uns auf deine Fragen!

This episode, we welcome Diana Morningstar, who tells us about her coming out and transition as a transgender woman. She also talks about her life in the pagan and queer communities, pre- and post-transition. Diana gives an honest look at herself, her certainties and doubts about transitioning, and her gravitation towards Goddess culture and the issues she ran into in that culture.    Diana Morningstar has been involved in the neopagan movement since the mid 80's and has participated in Church of All Worlds, NROOGD, Umbanda, and Feri tradition rites among others. She is an initiated witch, a shameless eclectic, and an amazon forest warrior. She has been involved in activism with Earth First! and Queer Nation, and lately with trans issues. She is a transsexual woman living in Sonoma County, CA and is 56 years old. She has journeyed beyond the ninth wave to reach the Isle of Women, and is immensely grateful to be at last on that shore. She writes software, makes graphic art, plays piano and harp, and loves to cycle and hike. The moonlit forest is her true home.   Links Email: diana@miragearts.com Website: http://www.miragearts.com To Survive on This Shore: http://www.tosurviveonthisshore.com/photographs-and-interviews Beautiful collection of stories and pictures from transgender elders.   Books Whipping Girl: A Transsexual Woman on Sexism and the Scapegoating of Femininity by Julia Serano Transgender History by Susan Stryker Nevada by Imogen Binnie

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the guest. Her new memoir, The End of San Francisco, is now available from City Lights Books. Kirkus calls it "A blisteringly honest portrait of a young, fast and greatly misunderstood life. . . . An outspoken, gender-ambiguous author and activist reflects on her halcyon days as a wild child in San Francisco." And The San Francisco Chronicle says "It would be easy to describe The End of San Francisco as a Joycean 'Portrait of the Artist as a Young Queer' (although the book's intense stream of consciousness is reminiscent of the later, more experimental, Joyce) . . . but this is misleading. This journey of a life that begins in the professional upper-middle class (both parents are therapists) and the Ivy League and moves to hustling, drugs, activism -- Sycamore was active in ACT UP and Queer Nation -- and queer bohemian grunge, is profoundly American. At heart, Sycamore is writing about the need to escape control through flight or obliteration." Monologue topics: my awkwardness, the over-analysis of my awkwardness, preemptive crucifixion, Pontius Pilate-ing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Boys get upgraded by the S&P to a triple A for giving woodies. This week they talk about muppets getting married, Charles Nelson Riley singing in a banana suit happy and gay,  Settlement reached in back of the bus case and New Balance asking us not to Hate them for 500K donation to Romney. Paulie reviews Titan Men Hellions at 3 splats and loved some of the fattest cocks in porn. David review the new "clamp" cockring from Metal Workx high quality steel and hand-polished to perfection, this heavy duty pleasure enhancer is equal parts art and pleasure. They get down with the gay twin Rappers (with a gay pig) Queer Nation by Elephant. They answer your question about reality TV, how to become famous and how to build your confidence. Hope you summer is going Hot and Stay Hard!

We're excited to bring you our conversation with gay identical twins Coleman & Jackson Vrana, the guys behind Elephant. This punk-infused hip hop duo talks to us via video Skype (we got to see them, you don't!) about their cutting-edge music, their eclectic audience, the whole twin thing (yup, Scott went there), and their pet pig Coyote, who they suspect is gay. You'll dig these hotties as well as two tracks off their new Don't Sit There. It's Wet album, Queer Nation and Great 4 Play. Get ready for some hardcore, people. This ain't your standard gay bubblegum pop. These guys are trampling stereotypes and "...turning hip hop on its head." Also on this episode... Steve & Scott tell you about their trip to see Janet Jackson; Dale gets burned; We find out if Jason is into fisting; ABC cancels "Desperate Housewives"; The world premiere of Scott's "My Pussy Now" song; Britney is (allegedly) a pig; Fleshjack hires a new hottie foursome (see photo way below); Scott's second favorite redhead turns 100; and, The guys play "Whose Dick Is Bigger?" Episode 146 is called, "Queer Nation," in honor of Coleman & Jackson.

AS ONE "EASTER SPECTACULAR" Saturday 23rd April 2011 11pm-7am @ Fire LONDON As One returns for a phenomenal Easter Saturday party with DJs and promoters working ‘as one’ to bring the scene something truly special, with dancers, performers and music from all corners of the UK. Clubs lined up to take part include hot bears night MEGAWOOF, new Brazilian sensation CASALATINA, gay urban night QUEER NATION, tranny-tastic TRANNYSHACK, Soho hot-spot LO PROFILE, hot boys hangout KU BAR, the glamorous LOVECHILD, Fire afterhours A:M, and the underground phenomenon that is RAW. Mix by DJ Mattias

I first met Ray Hill in the early 90’s when I became involved with Queer Nation. As a fledgling queer activist, he was always someone I looked up to, as [...] Continue reading → The post MikeyPod 64 | Activist Ray Hill appeared first on MikeyPod.

I first met Ray Hill in the early 90’s when I became involved with Queer Nation. As a fledgling queer activist, he was always someone I looked up to, as [...] Continue reading → The post MikeyPod 64 | Activist Ray Hill appeared first on MikeyPod.