Queer View Mirror

Host Sam Elkin and writer Jonathan Butler are joined by critically-acclaimed writer and performer Kristen Smyth to talk about her new play Cruel Brittania: After Frankenstein, a transgender reimagingng of the original Frankenstein, set in the 1980's: Margeret Thatcher's Britain.

Then they speak to Angela Savage, the editor of Spinning Around: The Kylie Playlist. Angela is an award-winning writer, the former CEO of Writers Victoria and current CEO of Public Libraries Victoria. Spinning Around: The Kylie Playlist is a sparkling new anthology written by 24 writers, a third of whom identify as LGBTQIA+ , using Kylie's music as a springboard for original pieces.

Recipients of the State Library of Queensland's Rainbow Research Fellowship, Dr Marion Stell and Professor Celmara Pocock join Queer View Mirror to talk about how they discovered the phenomena of cross-dressing in family photo albums. Their project, Queering the Lens: Cross-Dressing in Family Photograph Albums, shines light on how we embrace and capture queer culture within all facets of our society - the expected and unexpected.

Plus, Georgia Grace, certified sex and relationship practitioner and somatic therapist, comes on to tells us all about her new book, The Modern Guide to Sex, and her upcoming tour!

The Queer View Crew first have a chat with sociologist Dr Lukasz Krzyzowski from Edith Cowan University about the Rainbow Migrants Living Lab, also known as RaMiLab, which is a new initiative that aims to improve the lives of LGBTQIA+ migrants in Australia through research, professional development and community engagement.

They then welcome CEO of Transgender Victoria, Dr Son Vivienne, to discuss the many activities the advocacy, education, and peer support organisation is running for Trans Awareness Month including the big Gender Revel Gala on November 1 with Anna Piper Scott, Rosie Rai, Robert Baxter, Mama Alto and more.

The Queer View crew chat with author and screenwriter, Mira Robertson, to discuss her recently published sapphic coming-of-age story Grace and Marigold which draws on her own experiences at the height of the English counter culture movement in the 1970s.

They then talk with AlxGoslow and Dokta Mayhem, the artists behind Queer Shit Show; a combination of live music, spoken turd, shit tarot, dance, rave, and pop beats happening at Cafe Gummo as a fundraiser for PARA and Black Peoples Union.

Sam and Gemma chat to literary siblings, Liz and Andrew Sutherland, on poetry, polyamorous fantasy, Overland literary journal, and the Emerging Writers' Festival.

Sam Elkin is running the show solo in this episode of Queer View Mirror. He first has a chat with North American editors and authors Willow Catelyn Maclay and Caden Mark Gardner to discuss their new book Corpses, Fools and Monsters - The History and Future of Transness in Cinema which explores the radical history of trans representation in cinema and the political possibilities of its future. He is then joined by Naarm based non-binary writer Michael Earp to discuss their recently anthology Avast! Pirate Stories from Transgender Authors and upcoming appearances at the Emerging Writers Festival.

Sam and Gemma first welcome public theorist and writer McKenzie Wark to discuss her autofictional memoir Love and Money, Sex and Death which reimagines her past through a new perspective after coming out as trans at 56 years old.

They also talk with Professor Paula Gerba of Monash Faculty of Law about the landmark ruling in the Australian Federal Court case of Tickle v Giggle.

Sam has another bookish episode with two literary guests lined up.

He first has a chat with kinky, queer, mother, grandmother, sexologist, and author of recently released Slutdom, Hilary Caldwell, whose doctorate Women Who Buy Sex in Australia was the first study in the world exploring women buying sexual services.

Sam then talks with award winning author, artist, and screenwriter, Dylin Hardcastle, about their most recent book A Language of Limbs which celebrates queer life in all its vibrancy and colour.

Sam Elkin is back for Queer View Mirror with a jam-packed guest line up. Author and professor at ANU, Tessa Morris-Suzuki, discusses her recently published book, A Secretive Century: Monte Punshon’s Australia which explores late nineteenth and twentieth century queer experiences through "the world's oldest lesbian". Then, he's joined in the studios by Gavin Campbell, Gerard O’Connor, and Jono Francisco about the 30th anniversary of the notorious Tasty Raid and their upcoming celebration honouring Naarm's LGBTQIA+ community.

Guest host Kirby Fary has a chat with queer Naarm-based artist and writer Georgia Mill about her recently published article Queer admin: When our stories don’t fit on forms, featured in Archer Magazine.