Homo Sapiens

Queer Poetry Special! What with it being #WorldPoetryDay this week, we are going hard on our haikus and talking all things Poetry with two very special guests: Superstar poet Shanay Neusum James, and the delightful founder of Queer Poetry Anthology @14Poems (and my good mate), Ben Towley-Canning. We’ll be finding out what has Sylvia Plath got to do with Butt Magazine? Why is Queer Poetry in a golden age? And what on earth has Rihanna got to do with all of this…? Chris x

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Queer Poetry Special! What with it being #WorldPoetryDay this week, we are going hard on our haikus and talking all things Poetry with two very special guests: Superstar poet Shanay Neusum James, and the delightful founder of Queer Poetry Anthology @14Poems (and my good mate), Ben Towley-Canning. We’ll be finding out what has Sylvia Plath got to do with Butt Magazine? Why is Queer Poetry in a golden age? And what on earth has Rihanna got to do with all of this…? Chris x

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Ever watched TV while also scrolling through your phone? Well author & hit TED talker Johann Hari has written a book with mind-blowing discoveries about why big tech companies make it their business to keep us scrolling 😵‍💫 and it’s a fascinating read. Johan’s clever perspective on life has a knack of making you feel like you’ve been sleep walking through it until he wakes you up with another powerful take on it all - first it was addiction, then it was depression, and now he’s turned his incredible mind to Attention. He came by for a good old yarn about his new book ‘Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention’, what that means for LGBTQ+ people, and we find out what crazy thing happened to a Picasso painting in Vegas 😵

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Ever watched TV while also scrolling through your phone? Well author & hit TED talker Johann Hari has written a book with mind-blowing discoveries about why big tech companies make it their business to keep us scrolling 😵‍💫 and it’s a fascinating read. Johan’s clever perspective on life has a knack of making you feel like you’ve been sleep walking through it until he wakes you up with another powerful take on it all - first it was addiction, then it was depression, and now he’s turned his incredible mind to Attention. He came by for a good old yarn about his new book ‘Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention’, what that means for LGBTQ+ people, and we find out what crazy thing happened to a Picasso painting in Vegas 😵

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Crossover episode alert! This week the Homo Sapiens Podcast and The Guilty Feminist have teamed up for a collaborative extravaganza to raise money for Comic Relief. I joined Deborah Frances-White on stage to admit to the popular pillars of queer culture that myself and you listeners just can't get on board with! Thank you ALL for your brilliant contributions to this episode. We loved doing this with a live audience so we hope you enjoy listening back to the episode as much as we enjoyed recording it - Chris x

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📍Check out The Guilty Feminist website for all the amazing stuff that they have coming up. Deborah's taking the show on the road again in the Spring with our former guest Tom Allen AND she'll be taking the tour down under!

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It’s LGBT+ Adoption & Fostering Week so we’re talking to the wonderful Tom Cox aka @unlikelydad who has shared the wonderful story of him and his husband adopting their son Kai on instagram. I adore Tom because he has a huge generous heart, making it his business to help other LGBTQ+ people become parents. He shares with us the most surprising thing about becoming a dad, how to be an honest instagrammer, and we find out - why has he got the hump with Lady Gaga? Press play and enjoy! - Chris x

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It’s LGBT+ Adoption & Fostering Week so we’re talking to the wonderful Tom Cox aka @unlikelydad who has shared the wonderful story of him and his husband adopting their son Kai on instagram. I adore Tom because he has a huge generous heart, making it his business to help other LGBTQ+ people become parents.  He shares with us the most surprising thing about becoming a dad, how to be an honest instagrammer, and we find out - why has he got the hump with Lady Gaga? Press play and enjoy! - Chris x

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In a week that has seen terrible events unfold in Ukraine we would love to point you to Outright International who are doing brilliant work to to help support the LGBTQ+ people of Ukraine. 

https://outrightinternational.org/ukraine

If you can, please donate.

This week on the show we’re talking to a very special LGBTQ+ couple, Luke Whitehouse and Lachlan Mantell who were refused a viewing and a chance to buy a house in London because of their sexuality. The pair have been together for eight years but received a message from the sellers saying “we just want to make it clear that we would be unwilling for two men in a partnership to view or buy our house”. They’ve come on to tell me their side of the story and not wanting to give their money to someone who doesn’t want to give them a home, how this sort of thing probably happens every day but isn’t reported on and feeling “ashamed” of being gay for the first time in years. It’s a shocking story but they’ve been so brave to come out and tell it.

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In a week that has seen terrible events unfold in Ukraine we would love to point you to Outright International who are doing brilliant work to to help support the LGBTQ+ people of Ukraine. 

https://outrightinternational.org/ukraine

If you can, please donate.

This week on the show we’re talking to a very special LGBTQ+ couple, Luke Whitehouse and Lachlan Mantell who were refused a viewing and a chance to buy a house in London because of their sexuality. The pair have been together for eight years but received a message from the sellers saying “we just want to make it clear that we would be unwilling for two men in a partnership to view or buy our house”. They’ve come on to tell me their side of the story and not wanting to give their money to someone who doesn’t want to give them a home, how this sort of thing probably happens every day but isn’t reported on and feeling “ashamed” of being gay for the first time in years. It’s a shocking story but they’ve been so brave to come out and tell it.

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📍NEW EPISODE Every Thursday

📍Come play with us on socials Facebook & Instagram @Homosapiens

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Writer of HBO’s mega hit ‘Succession’ Georgia Pritchett joins us for a Culture Club bonus episode to talk about her brilliant memoir ‘My Mess Is A Bit Of A Life’, with wonderful stories of being a queer woman in TV, hanging out with Michelle Obama plus we find out : is Roman heading for a gay future in Succession Season 4??

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