This week Daisy gives us her knowledge* on why the internet is so important for queer people coming of age, finding community, exploring who we are through social media.

*The report was published in Jan 2021 - not Jan 2020 as accidentally stated. Check out the report yourself below!

DIGITAL 2021: GLOBAL OVERVIEW REPORT

This week we have a special guest Julia Peck (@Juliafpeck) take us on her Bridging Binaries tour of the University of Cambridge's Polar Museum, where we learn about queer sea goddesses, gay penguin pair bonding, fabulous pantomimes and the first LGBT-friendly continent.

This week Daisy discusses how Artificial Intelligence is inherently biased against queer people and Hannah covers the history of pronouns in English and why "They" has always been used as a singular pronoun.  

Things to watch!

Amanda Montel - Where do gendered pronouns come from

Jake Edwards - History of Pronouns

 Janelle Monae Film - Dirty Machine

This week Hannah and Daisy explore the link between Autism Spectrum Disorder and being queer, and how the legacy of Sapho, The Poetess, lives on still after 2600 years. 

Mentioned on  the show:

https://mindout.org.uk/

https://aru.ac.uk/news/study-finds-transgender-non-binary-autism-link

https://www.makingqueerhistory.com/articles/sappho

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/16/girl-interrupted

This week we have a, slightly shorter than usual, special episode with historian Meg Roberts (@megeroberts) to learn about the queer history of the top hat! 

This week we talk about taking your queers out on a walk and why its good for them, and the incredible surrealist artists Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore.

This week we explore why queer people are drawn to wicca and witchcraft, and the  history of the dandy Flâneur and whether we can become one

This week Hannah talks about the Stonewall uprising and we learn some Polari with Daisy. 

Putting on the Dish - a short film in polari

This week Daisy TG tells us about the most inclusive cities in the world and Hannah talks about the legacy of activist Marsha P Johnson.