Isn't It Queer

Stacey Calvert joins Julie and Jonny to discuss upcoming Pride events in the month of June, including a discussion of the origins of Pride and personal experiences with Pride events.

Jonny and Julie are joined by Liz to discuss the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival's "womyn born womyn" policy and the politics of exclusive spaces based on gender and/or sexuality. We apologize for the slight hiss in the recording; we are still working to optimize studio recordings of our broadcast.

Elizabeth Kovach and Becky Potter join Jonny and Julie in the studio to discuss a recent grassroots protest movement in Marion IL challenging anti-Marriage Equality billboards on the corner of Rts. 13 and 148. We also debrief last Saturday's (4/12) Carbondale AIDS Walk and share a speech delivered there by local HIV/AIDS activist, Steven St. Julian.

Our discussion and sharing of queer spoken word poets around North America. You can find a full set of links to videos of these performances at: http://isntitqueerwdbx.blogspot.com/2014/01/links-to-queer-spoken-word-poets-we.html

We are back! The podcast has been on a forced hiatus as our radio station brings online a new studio. The new studio has increased capabilities, but easily recording output is not one of them. The sound quality on this podcast is not as good as we hope for future episodes, but it is listenable. In this episode, Jonny interviews Craig Gingrich-Philbrook about The Advocate's selection of Pope Francis as Person of the Year. We also unpack this controversial decision via some queer theory from the recently departed José Esteban Muñoz.

Jonny and Julie cover a variety of news items pulled from the "Isn't It Queer" Flipboard magazine. This resource allows us to pull together news items from various sources into one digital "magazine." You can subscribe to the magazine here: https://flipboard.com/section/isn%27t-it-queer-bHXj3f

In this episode, we celebrate the passage of SB10 in the Illinois Legislature, putting Illinois firmly on track to be the 15th state that recognizes marriage equality. We also discuss the status of ENDA as it moves out of the Senate. Finally, we discuss disturbing news about where HRC gets some of its largest donations.

Our coverage of the October 22 Marriage Equality Rally and March on Springfield, including a 25 minute montage of rally speeches recorded at the event.

Julie interviews local author, Larry Franklin. Franklin's work investigates a particularly horrific hate crime in Southern Illinois from 1988 as well as issues of memory, sexual abuse, and PTSD.

Interview with Nichole Nicholson, who is involved with a double bill of two shows associated with LGBTQ History Month on the SIU Campus.