Is It Transphobic Podcast

Ashley welcomes her friend, performer Chloe Koser to gush about Patti Harrison (NOT Patti Jenkins) from the Hulu show Shrill, her character Ruthie, and Chloe's experience in the comedy world!

My friend JN and I tackle a piece of iconic queer cinema in "But I'm a Cheerleader."  I highly recommend y'all watch this movie if you haven't.  It's (Legitamately, not pirated) on Youtube for FREE.

That said it does tackle conversion therapy so you should know and understand that before going in.

Author, actor, cisgender ally, (and good friend of Ashley's) Leanna Renee Hieber talks about her background as a performer and how that influences her writing, how historical fiction draws from contemporary politics as well as historical precedents, and we even chat, as fans, about DC's Doom Patrol!

Also, side-note, one of the writers on the Doom Patrol Comic (Famous writer in his own right) Grant Morrison came out as nonbinary! 

Check out all of Leanna's work at her website:  https://www.leannareneehieber.com/

Six inches forward, five inches back... We've got a new episode for you!  Ashley, Bear, and AJ talk about the controversial punk rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch written by John Cameron Mitchel and Steven Trask!

November 9th Girl Tales Podcast

November 10th The Parsnip Ship will be having a Parsnip Play Club featuring my work in Progress Untethered Angel

I meant to do this before Halloween but the world, unfortunately, exhausted me.  This past night, Halloween MAXA went live on Facebook for the release of the "Strange Power" music video, followed by an interview with the artists including L Morgan Lee as well as a few others. https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1027393817709973

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Hello Boils, Ghouls, and Non-Batnary individuals!  Welcome to The Is It Transphobic Podcasts's  Halloween  Frightacular!  For tonight's auditory autopsy Ashley is joined by comedian Sammie James and mime, clown, performance artist Rachel Weekley for Ridley Scott's Alien.

It was revealed in the DVD box set of (sequel movie) Aliens that the character of Joan Lambert  (The only female character aside from Sigourney Weaver's Ellen Ripley).  The specific wording from the special feature is: “Despite conversion at birth from male to female, so far there are no signs of suppressed trauma from gender reassignment.”   This is a lot to unpack!

Samara Abigail Hunt is the Georgia-born author of the Amazon Top 10 Horror Malus Domestica series, and the Outlaw King fantasy series, winner of Reddit.com's /r/Fantasy "Independent Novel of the Year" 2014 Stabby Award. She is also a "Mentor of Poetry, Prose, & Performance" with the National Creative Society.

Ashley and Morgan (of Diversity Horror Blog)  talk about Hazbin Hotel, a cartoon show about Hell!  It  was announced in August that A24 optioned Hazbin Hotel to become a full series!  With that of course comes scrutiny...  But how does the pilot created for Youtube hold up to the issues presented?  Let's jump in and figure that out!

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Cry little sister, love is with your brother.  Today Ashley chats with Sylas and SA Hunt talk about late 80s classic Vampire flick The Lost Boys... But wait, there are no trans people in The Lost Boys... are there?  After Ashley's friend Thom pointed out some interesting choices in set design we took a deep dive into the history of the film, analysis of the plot as it relates to other horror movies of the period, and the queer interpretations of the film that already exist to ask Is It Transphobic?

Tickets to We Are Trans Fest: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/we-are-trans-fest-tickets-116927546439?fbclid=IwAR0HDA8M2lDhHKZ9WZmPJHWawi8b_1Osgpi5UygC8meFvRunHJTbxf94t-s

It's been 4 years since we started this Podcast.  Thank you all so much for listening... Now Ashley, V, and Sylas tackle Dallas Buyers Club...  DBC was the reason Ashley started the Podcast, it was an academy award-nominated film with both Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor awards going to its actors...  So was DBC as transphobic as everyone made it out to be or was there more nuance?  Buckle up buckaroos because this is going to be a bumpy ride... 

Ashley and AJ talk about Showtime's "Work In Progress."  Both Ashley and AJ gush about how much they enjoy the show for its messy but realistic portrayal of queer relationships and the comedy which doesn't let up!  Check this one out!