Queer View Mirror

Hamish and Gemma have a chat with award winning queer director Kathryn Yates about her theatre performce, ALTAR, featuring as part of Midsumma. They also welcome First Nations artist, writer, producer, and bakery-enthusiast SYCCO to discuss her new single and their upcoming headliner at Victoria's Pride Street Party.

Join Sam Elkin and Hamish McLachlan with Yugambeh writer, editor and researcher Arlie Azzili to chat about his contribution to new book The Long Lede Anthology exploring the trans perspective of Powerlifting. Also joining Sam and Hamish is Dino Dimitriadis, the director of new play Overflow playing at Arts Centre Melbourne; and Historian and author Graham Willett chats about the Australian Queer Archives which celebrates the history of LGBTIQA+ people in Port Philip.

Join Kirby Fary in their last time filling in for the team on Queer View Mirror for the summer as they play back some audio from a lecture at The National Library of Australia given by Sam Wallman, a prolific comics journalist and political cartoonist based in Naarm. In this lecture, Sam talks about his research into the Pink and Green Bans, the former being strikes conducted to protect and preserve older buildings and sites, and the latter being stoppages carried out by construction workers in support of the LGBTQA+ community.

The team chat to Scott-Patrick Mitchell, a talented queer non-binary poet on his new poetry book Clean, a book about the power of addiction and the power of coming clean. Gavin Yuan Gao is a genderqueer, billingual immigrant poet who grew up in Beijing and Brisbane, who won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for their collection, At the Altar of Touch. The team also speak to Italian-Australian Drag King: Silvio Di Baci, about their really new and really exciting drag show at the Old Bar.

In this epsode Sam Elkin and Gemma Cafarella talk to Dr Jacob Bloomfield about their book Drag: A British History. Stay tuned to know about the British History of the sustained popularity and changing forms of male drag performance in modern Britain and mouch more!

Sam and Gemma welcome transgender American historian, professor, filmmaker, theorist, and author Susan Stryker to the show to talk about her career so far and what she has in store for the future.

Queer View Mirror welcomes a range of queer and gender-diverse literary editors and contributors in this episode. Sam has a chat with Kate Hall and Timothy Christopher Ryan of Q-Lit as well as contributors Martin John Lee and Coral Reeve about the upcoming anthology Out-Side: Queer Stories and Art from Regional Victoria releasing as part of Midsumma's Regional Activations. He also talks with editor Seth Malacari and contributor Jes Layton about the new YA anthology An Unexpected Party which features a collection of stories from emerging LGBTQIA+ authors.

The Queer View Mirror crew have a literary raunch-fest in store; Welcoming non-binary writer Mx. Sly to talk about their memoir of transformation and self-discovery Transland: Consent, Kink, and Pleasure. The team also have a chat with historian, social media "hit", and PhD candidate Esmé Louise James, to discuss her new book Kinky History which brings a contemporary lense to historical sex scandals.

The Queer View Mirror crew invite director of Rebel Queers: Ukraine’s Queer Resistance, Angelika Ustymenko to discuss their documentary short following the experiences of queer Ukrainians during wartime. The team also have a chat with Rhys Nicholson about their new book Dish: Spiels, scoops, emotional outbursts and the occasional recipe.

The Queer View crew are joined to the show by Cat Fitzpatrick, author of The Call Out: A Novel in Rhyme, and discuss the importance of queer representation, trans literature, independant book stores, and much more!