This week starts off with a brief but important discussion about the day after inauguration. Tara and Kris reflect on the feeling of holding your breath for four years, the perils of burnout and how nice it is to feel a little bit hopeful.

Thankfully they follow it up with Tara’s favourite book of the decade (Vivek Shraya’s The Subtweet) and passionate lady-sex (the Kate Winslet movie, Ammonite) along with a host of other suggestions, confessions and recommendations. It’s a real journey.

This week, Tara and Kris queerly recommend:

• QR superfans, including fantastic authors, Fiona Riley and Cathy Pegau
• Burnout by Emily Nagoski & Amelia Nagoski
• Jojo Siwa
• Hades (again!)
• Salvation (television series)
• Spontaneous
• News of the World
• RuPaul’s Drag Race (this one’s pretty much always going to be here)
• Lawrence Cheney
• Outlawed by Anna North
• The Queen’s Gambit (minus the ever present rapey vibe)
• The Subtweet by Vivek Shraya
• Ammonite

Get this episode's transcript

They didn’t turn to salt, but holy shit what happened these last couple of weeks? Tara and Kris start off discussing the attempted American insurrection before getting into what they love. And this week? They love a lot. Dolly Parton, Anna Burke, Hades, Bridgerton, Nora Roberts (that fucking badass). Their official recommendations for this week are Tara’s favourite book of all time (Hoosier Daddy by Ann McMan and Salem West) and the TV show that captured Kris’s heart and attention (Wynonna Earp).

It’s a good episode. And what did it cost them? Friends, apparently. Kris has no more friends now. They know what they did. Seriously. Listen to find out.

This week, Tara and Kris queerly recommend:

• Scent by Kris Bryant
• The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
• Nora Fucking Roberts
• Hades (Nintendo Switch)
• Songteller: My Life in Lyrics by Dolly Parton
• Bridgerton (Netflix)
• Spindrift by Anna Burke
• Football! (As long as our team is playing)
• Pride and Prejudice (the one with Colin Firth, aka the only real one)
• Hoosier Daddy by Ann McMan and Salem West
• Wynonna Earp
• ClexaCon

Get this episode's transcript

Before jumping into 2021 with both feet and a prayer, Kris and Tara tempt turning into pillars of salt and look back at some of their favourite queer content that got them through Hell Year. 

Tara starts off first with Who We Could Be by Chelsea M. Cameron and Kris takes us home with Netflix’s Teenage Bounty Hunters. 

This week, Tara and Kris queerly recommend:

• Schitt’s Creek
• RuPaul’s Drag Race
• Teleparty (formerly Netflix Party)
• The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
• Dexter
• Who We Could Be by Chelsea Cameron
• Teenage Bounty Hunters
• Wrong Number, Right Woman by Jae
• The Mermaid, the Witch, and the Sea by Maggie Tokuda-Hall

Get this episode's transcript

Look, fuck 2020. It took our time, our mobility, our security and for some of us, our lives. Locked in our houses, bored to all variety of tears, we searched for the things that made us happy. Out of that trashfire, SO MANY PODCASTS were born. And among those? Us.

This one. Queerly Recommended is a bi-weekly podcast where critic (fancy for book reviewer) Tara Scott and award-winning author (just fancy), Kris Bryant, introduce themselves and give you an idea of what to expect going forward. So sit back, relax in your fallout shelter, and get to know them a little.

• Visit Kris’s website
• Follow Kris on Twitter
• Follow Tara on Twitter

Get this episode's transcript