Dr. Fazilat Soukhakian, Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Design, discusses her Queer in Utah photography project and cross-culture hiding of vulnerable groups. See the Queer in Utah project along with Fazilat’s Defiance project displayed at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art or online at the FotoEvidence Metaverse Gallery, and the description here. See Dr. Soukhakian’s website and read this USU Today Article for more info. 

Conscious Content Consumption for this episode includes: 

• The Seagulls - an episode of Radio Lab with Lulu Miller @radiolab @lutimestwoo
• Lesbian Seagulls with Lulu Miller - an episode of You’re Wrong About @yourwrongaboutpod
• Vida - a series on Hulu

Also Mentioned:

• A League of Their Own (2022)

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For Post:  There are fireflies in Utah? Nevada? Montana? YES. The fantastic Christy Bills, the Entomology & Malacology Collections Manager at the Natural History Museum of Utah, joined us on the pod to talk about not just fireflies, but how cool all insects are, what insects are, and inspire you to think of them not as scary or gross, but cool and mysterious. Also, all the ants you see are fem 💖 so stop calling them “little guys”

Conscious Content Consumption:

• The Mystery of Luci's Missing Lantern a children's book written by Melissa C. Marsted and illustrated by Liesl Cannon
• Corina Newsome aka @hood_naturalist on Insta, is a Conservation Scientist who focuses on Environmental Justice + Wildlife Conservation 
• Anything for the Count (‘Clout” Remix”) - a dope music video by Corina Newsome about nerdily counting birds
• Let us blow ya mind - female scientists' response to Discovery’s all-male Hooked on a Feeling rebrand video. Read more.
• Their Eyes are Watching God a novel by Zora Neale Hurston
• River Writing Collective, follow in Insta @riverwritingcollective
• Nan Seymour and the 47-day vigil
• Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation on Insta @xercessociety

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Meeting the new cohost of Long Hair Do Care: Merry MaGee! She/they is a witty, fabulous creative being steeping in the world of acting, writing, and moving through what can feel like a hard, straight world. Just wait, the pod is going to improve tenfold with this queeirdo (queer weirdo😊). Listen to hear about her and the bright future for the show. The time is now to be passionate. 

Conscious Content Consumption: 

• Harry and Cherry written by Adrienne Dawes @Heckleher
• Abbot Elementary
• Blackish 

Also Mentioned:

• Salt Lake Acting Company @saltlakeactingco
• Untitled Orphan Project - TV show on Hulu written by Adrienne Dawes @Heckleher

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Erika Lindstrom, the Gender and Sexuality Coordinator at the Utah State University Inclusion Center, comes on to discuss the representation (and lack of representation) of people of color and queer characters in the Lego universe.

Conscious Content Consumption for this episode includes:

• Joseph Sanders, aka @reelsonwheels (for his wildlife photography) and @saintmmonroe (for his urban photography)
• The book Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the United States by Eduardo Bonilla-Silva 
• The Ologies (@ologies) episode titled: Aperiology (MACRO PHOTOGRAPHY) with Joseph Saunders
•  @blackafinstem 

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Patrick Kelly, The director of education at Stokes Nature Center, discusses the history of the center, the intrinsic and ecological value of our wild spaces, outdoor preschool, fireflies in Utah(!!), and how you can get involved.

Conscious Content Consumption for the episode includes:

• Black Men Can’t Jump in Hollywood, a dope movie podcast hosted by Jonathan Braylock, Jerah Milligan, and James the Third @blackmenpodcast @jonbraylock @jerahmilligan @james3rdcomedy
• A pandemic music session from Cantwell, AK 

Also mentioned is Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold

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Sarah Woodbury and Georgie bond over Boreal toads while discussing the collection of engaging programs Sageland Collaborative has to offer, including mimicking beaver damns and catching wildlife on camera. Follow on Insta @sagelandcollab

Conscious Content Consumption for this episode includes:

• Ologies, a podcast hosted by Alie Ward
• The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World, a nonfiction book by David Abram

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Georgie’s taking the month off! But will still share quick words about cats, wildlife, and Conscious Content Consumption.

Conscious Content Consumption for this episode is the song Don’t Ask Me Why (music video) by Great Caesar. Listen to Great Caeser’s stuff here. Follow them at @greatcaesarband on Instagram.

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Why did Georgie name the podcast “Long Hair Do Care”? In a short episode, she discusses stereotypes, fluidity, queefing, and flagging. 

Conscious Content Consumption for the episode is The Principles of Pleasure, a limited series on Netflix.

Also mentioned: 

• IconoClad - @iconoclad 
• Come as You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski - @enagoski

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The delightful Jaimi Bulter, a Great Salt Lake lover and expert, talks about how magical and important our dear salty lake is and what is happening to it now. Jaimi worked as the Coordinator for Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster College for 13 years and is full of spunk and knowledge. 

Conscious Content Consumption for the episode includes:

• The Overstory, a novel by Richard Powers
• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Also mentioned:

• Ripple Effect - a podcast about water law hosted by Emily Lewis
• The Great Great Salt Lake Monster Mystery, a children's book by Jaimi Bulter and Dr. Bonnie Baxter
• Great Salt Lake Biology: A Terminal Lake in a Time of Change by Jaimi Bulter and Dr. Bonnie Baxter
• Salty Science Seminars by Great Salt Lake Institute

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Your host discusses their research on queer birders and how birding, birds, and Great Salt Lake are queer. They explore what queer ecology is and why it is important to get diverse groups of people into the outdoors.

Conscious Content for the episode is:

• Booksmart - a 2019 film
• Talia Keys, found at taliakeys.com
• Blacklivesmatter.com
• Equaljusticeinitiative.org
• Marchforourlives.com
• Sunrisemovement.org

Also mentioned:

• All Bodies on Bikes
• Black AF in STEM and Black Birders Week
• Tracy Aviary (and check out their Let’s Go Birding Together (LGBT) events here)
• Birdabillity 
• Ebird - and app for birding
• Feminist Bird Club
• FRIENDS of Great Salt Lake
• Great Salt Lake Audubon
• HawkWatch International
• Latino Outdoors
• Queer Ecology, Explained by Ingrid Bååth found on climatecrisis.co.uk
• Unlikely Hikers

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