Queer View Mirror

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.

Guest host Kirby Fary fills in for the Queer View Crew and has a chat with queer advocate, producer, educator, and owner of the queer rave Unicorns, Adele (delsi cat) Moleta, about their return to film with her short documentary Femme premiering at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. Kirby also talks with composer and artistic director of contemporary classical group Ensemble Mania, Dominic Flynn, to discuss Tempo Rubato's TEMPO QUEER 2024.

Sam and Hamish talk with Jax Brown who is running TGD Book Club, a book club for trans and gender-diverse people at Thorne Harbour Health, and author Marcel Liement about their trans dark fantasy novel Doom Bringer.

They then welcome podcaster for Queer View Mirror, Paige Dunstone, as well as Eva, Rosie, and Alannah of Naarm based punk band Hot Milk Machine to discuss their involvement as young people in the music scene and upcoming gigs.

Sam and Hamish first have a chat with Stacey Stokes, contributor to the 2022 anthology of trans and gender-diverse writing Nothing to Hide to discuss her experiences of incarceration as a trans woman and her law reform activity. They then talk with Newcastle based author David Owen Kelly about his newly published fusion of memoir and alternative history Hope City which explores queer experiences admist the HIV pandemic.

Sam and Hamish are first joined by Aotearoa based, Ngāti Maniapoto/Ngāpuhi poet, publisher, editor, and teacher, Stacey Teague, to discuss her new collection of poems Plastic. They then have a chat with Robert Tait, known under the pen name of John Roberts and author of Mardi Gras: The Novel, about his recently published novel Oxford Street Trash; He is also a member of the OutStanding Committee who are currently hosting a short story competition.

Continuing into Pride Month, Sam, Hamish and Gemma get together to chat with Leigh Boucher (he/him) one of the authors of the book "Personal Politics: Sexuality, Gender, and the Remaking of Citizenship in Australia." Later, they speak with Orlando Silver (he/they), editor of "I Write the Body: Queer & Trans Kink, Desire, and Defiance".

Sam, Gemma, and Hamish make their triumphant return for the begining of Pride Month and speak to two authors in this episode dedicated to younger readers and younger stories. They first have a chat with Auckland based writer, lawyer, and winner of Survivor New-Zealand Avi Duckor-Jones about his recntly released queer coming-of-age novel Max. The Queer View crew then talk to adult and young-adult fiction writer from Melbourne Troy Hunter about his debut novel Gus and the Missing Boy.

Guest host Kirby Fary fills in for another episode of Queer View Mirror, they have a chat with writer and digital rights activist Sam Floreani about automated gender recognition software (AGR) in response to Sam's piece Computers are Binary, But Human's Aren't - why automated recognition is high-tech gender essentialist fantasy.

Guest host Kirby Fary returns for another episode of Queer View Mirror. They first welcome arts educator and multidisciplinary artist Luciano to discuss community arts initiative Queer-ways: From Archive to Artwork which will be featuring in Melbourne Design Week. Kirby then chats with Marlo W about his celebration of older transgender and generdiverse people in their new photographic book Foreground.