Ollie and Sai talk through some more of the slightly behemoth topic of parenting. Please be aware of the many conversations, plans, campaigns, and naps taken to make more inclusive practices for queer women, non-binary, intersex and transgender parents.

Image by Nehru Suleymanovski [CC BY-SA 4.0], via Wikimedia Commons

That this is a bit of a time capsule of things as they stand for our two presenters . They've also put together a tiny starting pool of...

...Links to resources:

PFLAG Australia:  http://pflagaustralia.org.au

Birthing Beyond the Binary:  https://birthingbeyondthebinary.com

AK Summers:  http://www.aksummers.com

Rainbow Families:  http://www.rainbowfamilies.com.au

MAIA Midwifery: http://maiamidwifery.com/home/resources

Birth for Everybody Resource List:  http://www.birthforeverybody.org/what-we-do/ 

Milk Junkies: Breastfeeding and Parenting from a Transgender Perspective:  http://www.milkjunkies.net 

A Womb of Their Own:  https://www.facebook.com/story.php?id=100006309491362&ref=bookmarks&story_fbid=2130518367168459 

Music in this episode:

'Found/Tonight' - Ben Platt & Lin-Manuel Miranda

'Rainbow Connections' - Garfunkel & Oates

'Frozen Lullaby' - Garfunkel & Oates

'Bohemian Rhapsody' - Queen

Join us for Transgender Day of Visibility!

Tonight's episode contains as much gender questing as you can poke the proverbial stick at! But please, be gentle about it. Mx Eun Ju Kim-Baker is a queer about town currently based in Canberra, ACT, Australia. Robin M Eames is a queer crip punk poet who is only mostly dead. They live on Gadigal land.  Cody Smith (Intersex / Agendered - pronouns are being hunted by the government) is the intersex project worker for A Gender Agenda. A passionate advocate for education and peer support in the ACT, you can reach Cody on Facebook or Twitter (@IntersexAtAGA)Sai is the queer parent, disabled and non-binary YouTube cultist that the media warned you about.

 

Music in this episode:

'Kinky Boots: Just Pee (Where You Wanna Pee)' - Cyndi/Kinky Boots reprise

'Dumb' - Todrick Hall

Episode links:

Sai on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thequicksaiand Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/p/BFTITxuB5iz/ 

Robin's website: http://robinmeames.organd Twitter: https://twitter.com/robinmarceline 

Cody on Twitter: http://twitter.com/IntersexAtAGAand Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/Fray.Joker 

A Gender Agenda:  http://genderrights.org.au 

Ruby Rose's Break Free on YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFjsSSDLl8w  

The Moment: Jenni Atkinson at HerCanberra:  http://hercanberra.com.au/cppeople/the-moment-jenni-atkinson/

Orchids: My Intersex Adventure trailer on YouTube:  https://youtu.be/t3QOTMCVREE 

Sky Cubacub's Rebirth Garments:  http://rebirthgarments.com/#skycubacub

Pigeon Pagonis:  http://www.pidgeonismy.name

Queerscreen's Mardi Gras Film Festival is celebrating its 25th anniversary by bringing some highlights from the festival to Canberra this weekend.

Before you grab your passes and your popcorn and head up to the ARC Cinema, you can hear Ollie chatting to Festival Director Lisa Rose about this year's films, yesteryear's films, and the ups and downs of Bring Your Child To Podcast Day.

The schedule (all showings at the ARC, National Film and Sound Archive):

Friday 23 March 20187pm: Witches, Fags, Dykes and PooftersSaturday 24 March 20186pm: Signature Move8pm: A Moment in the ReedsSunday 25 March 20184pm: Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin6pm: Sensitivity Training

Episode links:

Queer Screen's site: https://queerscreen.org.au , with ticket sales: http://tix.queerscreen.org.au/browse.asp? 

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia: https://www.nfsa.gov.au 

Witches, Fags, Dykes and Poofters: https://www.nfsa.gov.au/events/nfsa-restores-witches-faggots-dykes-and-poofters

Signature Move: https://signaturemovemovie.com

A Moment in the Reeds: http://amomentinthereeds.com 

Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin: https://www.armisteadfilm.com 

Sensitivity Training: https://www.facebook.com/sensitivitytrainingmovie

History or her story? Daria takes us through a film featuring bisexuality, polyamory, lesbianism, kink, feminism and comics by a lesbian writer-director. That's right, it's the story of Professor Marston and the Wonder Women.

Film poster, copyright Sony.

Episode links:

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women official site:  http://professorm.movie 

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women on iTunes:  https://itunes.apple.com/au/movie/professor-marston-the-wonder-women/id1304059344Soundtrack:  https://itunes.apple.com/au/album/professor-marston-and-the-wonder-women/1291501404

What 'Professor Marston' Misses About Wonder Woman's Origins by Christie Marston at Hollywood Reporter:  https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/what-professor-marston-misses-wonder-womans-origins-guest-column-1049868

Professor Marston and the Wonder Women's Angela Robinson Defends Her Interpretation of Lead Characters' Sexuality at Vulture:  http://www.vulture.com/2017/10/angela-robinson-professor-marston-queer-characters.html

This fortnight, we'll be taking a sneak peek at a new podcast, and then delving back in time to International Tenants' Day 2016. We talked about the joys and troubles of being a tenant, and the ways that issues around insecure housing and the imbalance of power in a tenant-landlord relationship can adversely affect marginalised groups such as the queer community. The episode was lost in the archives, but has just been unearthed. If you're a tenant or ever have been, you might want to listen as Nicky puts her Lipster and Tenant Union hats on at the same time.(What is the sound of two hats, anyhow?)Plus! Fresh to this podcast, never heard before, some more FNLS cat chat!

Maison pour Chat by Santenard (Own work) [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Note: We apologise for the 'archive' (ie, not very good) quality of some of the Tenants' Day part of the show. It is an artefact of the studio equipment of the time, and we only had limited resources to clean it up. 

Episode links:

Check it Out at AIDS Action Council:  http://aidsaction.org.au/aids-action-council-services/check-it-out-podcast.html 

Tenants' Union ACT's International Tenants' Day site:  https://www.itd-tuact.com 

Abbi Jacobson at Wikipedia:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbi_Jacobson 

Ellen Page Comes Out As Gay at the Hollywood Reporter:   https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ellen-page-comes-as-gay-680563

Canberra Cat Vet:  http://www.canberracatvet.com.au 

Asphalte, aka Macadam Stories, at IMDB:   http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4357368/ 

Acoustic Soup:  http://foodco-opshop.com.au/events/acoustic-soup-at-the-food-co-op/ 

First presented: 30 September 2016 & 11 February 2018

As heard in the most recent episodes, when the time came for Australia to learn the results of the marriage postal vote, FNLS gathered the local rainbow community and our supporters for a party in the park to watch together.

No Lipster realised how big the event would get. But you can learn now as we bring you the cover recorded on the day. On the spot at Haig Park, on what is now known as Yes Day!

Episode links:

ABC News: https://www.youtube.com/user/NewsOnABC/featured

Australian Marriage Equality on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/amequality/

Recorded live 15 November 2017

Friday Night Lip Service took to the stage at the AIDS Action Council's Fair Day.

Recorded live at the event (so, apologies for some of the quality), their interview guests are Shoeb Ahmad and Luciana Harrison of Oranges, and comedian Kirsty Webeck. 

Music in this episode:

'Romance' - Shoeb Ahmad

Episode links:

Shoeb Ahmad at Bandcamp:  https://shoebahmad.bandcamp.com

Oranges at Bandcamp:  https://orangesband.bandcamp.com

Kirsty Webeck's page:  http://www.kirstywebeck.com

AIDS Action Council:  http://aidsaction.org.au

Recorded 28 October 2017.

FNLS is back. An increasingly tired Daria, Nicky, Nida and Saige touch on marriage equality, Transgender Day of Remembrance, hot chocolate, the 1966 World Cup, allies, pasta, parties, parliament and everything else they need catching up on.

Music in this episode:

'What Do You Say?' - Holly Throsby

'Come Together' - The Beatles

'Volare' - Domenico Modugno

Episode links:

The Winding Path to Marriage Equality Through the Eyes of Cartoonist David Pope:  http://www.canberratimes.com.au/photogallery/act-news/the-winding-path-to-marriage-equality-through-the-eyes-of-cartoonist-david-pope-20171205-gzz4hx.html 

Love, Tolerance and Justice Triumph in Same Sex Marriage Survey:   http://www.canberratimes.com.au/comment/ct-editorial/love-tolerance-and-justice-triumph-in-same-sex-marriage-survey-20171115-gzlyyc.html 

Australian Population Clock:   http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs%40.nsf/94713ad445ff1425ca25682000192af2/1647509ef7e25faaca2568a900154b63?OpenDocument 

Democracy sausage at Wikipedia:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Sausage 

And Daria's 51-year-old reference explained:   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_think_it%27s_all_over

First broadcast: 8 December 2017

In the words of the bard Aqua, 'Halloween. Halloweeeeeeeeeen.'

Our queer film nerds bridge Friday the 13th and Hallowe'en with look at what creeps, creaks and crawls. Listen...if you dare! 

Music in this episode:

‘Girlhood’ – The Preatures

‘The Time Warp’ from The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Episode links:

It Follows on iTunes:  https://itunes.apple.com/au/movie/it-follows/id991205117

The Babadook Official Site:  https://www.causewayfilms.com.au/the-babadook

The Slender Man at Creepypasta Wiki:  http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/The_Slender_Man

Queer Horror is Having a Moment Right Now at Fader:  http://www.thefader.com/2017/05/08/queer-horror-movies-get-out-raw-personal-shopper

The Most Feminist Horror Films of All Time at Glamour:  https://www.glamour.com/gallery/the-most-feminist-horror-movies

First broadcast: Friday the 13th of October 2017

As Bisexuality Visibility Day comes our way again, our Lipsters ponder the meaning of the B in our favourite alphabet, and why it needs its own kind of visiblity. And many of other things, including that time someone played a hip-hop song at a rugby league match and a lot of upseteros lost their mind.

Music in this episode:

'Same Love' - Macklemore X Ryan Lewis feat Mary Lambert

Episode links:

Bi Visibility Day 2017: http://www.bivisibilityday.com/year2017/

Macklemore pledges to donate Same Love earnings to same-sex marriage Yes campaign at ABC News:  http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-30/macklemore-will-donate-aus-earnings-of-same-love-to-yes-campaign/9004420 

The Bisexual Flag image by Peter Salanki via CC-BY-2.0, adapted.

First broadcast: 29 September 2017