Southern Queeries

We are currently booking our guests, researching, recording new episodes for our new season coming up. In the meantime, we are sharing some awesome Queer podcasts that we love. Today, our bonus episode is from Near and Queer to My Heart

Episode 56 features Amanda G's conversation with New Orleans based musician Joy Clark. It is a heartfelt and soulful interview, and we hope you enjoy it. 

Follow Joy Clark online at https://www.joyclarkmusic.com/ 

Facebook: https://www.instagram.com/joyclarkmusic/ 

https://www.facebook.com/JoyClarkMusic/ 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/joyclarkmusic 

You can Follow Near and Queer to My Heart at: 

Want to help us make the show?

Follow Aubree on twitter: @AubreeCalvin

Follow India on Instagram:  @indiabastien

Also, we have merch! Check out our Teepublic store and support the show!

We are currently booking our guests, researching, recording new episodes for our new season coming up. In the meantime, we are sharing some awesome Queer podcasts that we love. Today, our bonus episode is from Homoground!

Episode 257 features the words and music of Ahli, a pop singer/songwriter from Nashville, TN. In this episode, Ahli talks about what it was like growing up in a conservative town while discovering their identity plus advice for those who are currently living in more conservative areas.

The songs featured in this episode: “Ghost” and “Past Life”

Follow Ahli online at ahlismusic.com

While Southern Queeries is on a break, we want to share with you an episode from our friends at History is Gay Podcast. Please support their work. This episode has Aubree as a guest host talking about Sister Rosetta Tharpe, one of the originators of what we now call rock n roll. 

Also, we're on Patreon!!! Learn more about that in the beginning of the show. 

You can follow History is Gay at: https://www.historyisgaypodcast.com. They're also on facebook and twitter at https://www.facebook.com/HistoryisGay/ and https://twitter.com/HistoryisGayPod 

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Want to help us make the show? You can now donate to us through Paypal! Just go the https://www.southernqueeries.com/podcast and click the donate button. We’d be grateful for anything you give, and you’ll receive a private thanks from us. You can also support us through Bookshop and Patreon. Keep up with us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by searching Southern Queeries. To keep up with India, go to indiabastien.com, and to keep up with Aubree go to aubreecalvin.com

We talk to Jess McDowell of Turtle Creek Chorale and the Cathedral of Hope church, both in Dallas, Texas, about coming out, where gay chorales came from, and the importance of finding places that feed your sense of community and belonging. 

For additional information about what we talked about check out: 

Gay and Lesbian Choruses - Then and Now 

Our Story | SFGMC 

Turtle Creek Chorale defends concert with tea-bagging singer Sandi Patty 

20 Southern Sayings The Rest of America May Not Understand 

Pride Weddings 2014: The wedding spinner 

Links for Turtle Creek Chorale:

Turtle Creek Chorale - When We No Longer Touch 

https://turtlecreekchorale.com/podcast/ 

Turtle Creek Chorale - Turtle Creek Chorale

Cathedral of Hope:

 https://cathedralofhope.com/ 

Want to help us make the show? You can now donate to us through Paypal! Just go the https://www.southernqueeries.com/podcast and click the donate button. We’d be grateful for anything you give, and you’ll receive a private thanks from us. You can also support us through Bookshop. You can also keep up with us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by searching Southern Queeries. To keep up with India, go to indiabastien.com, and to keep up with Aubree go to aubreecalvin.com

Follow Aubree on twitter: @AubreeCalvin

Follow India on Instagram:  @indiabastien

Also, we have merch! Check out our Teepublic store and support the show!

What does it mean when a store advertises itself as a collectively owned queer  feminist collective that focuses on uplifting marginalized voices? We talk to Libertie from Firestorm Books and Coffee in Asheville, NC. We talk about what it means to be an anarchist thought and culture hub in North Carolina, what events they hold, and of course queer books. 

Shownotes: 

You can keep up with Firestorm Books at:

https://firestorm.coop 

https://www.instagram.com/firestormcoop/

Want to help us make the show? You can now donate to us through Paypal! Just go the https://www.southernqueeries.com/podcast and click the donate button. We’d be grateful for anything you give, and you’ll receive a private thanks from us. You can also support us through Bookshop and Patreon:

https://bookshop.org/shop/southernqueeries.

https://www.patreon.com/southernqueeries 

Make sure you keep up with us at southernqueeries.com for additional show notes and a behind the scenes look at this episode and how we make the podcast. You can also keep up with us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by searching Southern Queeries. To keep up with India, go to indiabastien.com, and to keep up with Aubree go to aubreecalvin.com

In this episode we sit down and have a in depth chat with Stacey Stevenson about her life from her coming out story, her family dynamics, to  co-founding Lez Talk, a Dallas LBTQ+ women’s empowerment conference,  her wife's company The Changists and more. We even get the story of how she met her now wife, Cheralyn.

We talk to Prof. Jaime Harker about the need to include lesbian voices in our examination of southern literature. Her book, The Lesbian South: Southern Feminists, the Women in Print Movement, and the Queer Literary Canon, examines the untold story of lesbian writing and presses. We also talk about her latest project, Violet Valley Bookstore, the only queer and feminist focused bookstore in all of Mississippi. We mention a lot of different book titles in this episode. You can find a complete list on our website and you can purchase them on our new Bookshop page: https://bookshop.org/shop/southernqueeries. 

Follow Jaime Harker:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/violetvalleybooks/ 

Instagram: @violetvalleybooks

Website:https://www.violetvalley.org/ 

Twitter: Violet Valley Bookstore (@VioletValleyMS)  

Make sure you keep up with us at southernqueeries.com for additional show notes and a behind the scenes look at this episode and how we make the podcast. You can also keep up with us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by searching Southern Queeries. To keep up with India, go to indiabastien.com, and to keep up with Aubree go to aubreecalvin.com

Want to help us make the show? You can now donate to us through Paypal! Just go the https://www.southernqueeries.com/podcast and click the donate button. We’d be grateful for anything you give, and you’ll receive a private thanks from us. 

Hey All! Southern Queeries is on a break to enjoy some much needed time with our families. We'll see you next week with an all new episode!

For many queer people, coming out is not a one time thing. Whether its meeting new people, talking to family, or just coming to a greater understanding of one self, coming out can be a continual process. We talk to artist, barber, and activist, Frankie Love, a non-binary trans man about the importance of having family support and the power of getting a haircut that affirms your spirit. Frankie is also the spouse of burlesque artist, Rachel/Candi LeCoeur, and we talk to them about the ins and outs of polyamory. 

Guest Links:

Follow Frankie Love at:

Frankie's Barber Instagram: @everyheadismycanvas

To Book Frankie: everyheadismycanvas.com 

For Candi LeCoeur’s Instagram: @candi_lecouer

Want to help us make the show? You can now donate to us through Paypal! Just go the https://www.southernqueeries.com/podcast and click the donate button. We’d be grateful for anything you give, and you’ll receive a private thanks from us. 

Make sure you keep up with us at southernqueeries.com for additional show notes and a behind the scenes look at this episode and how we make the podcast. You can also keep up with us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by searching Southern Queeries. To keep up with India, go to indiabastien.com, and to keep up with Aubree go to aubreecalvin.com

Where are all the lesbian bars?! We talk to the team at the Lesbian Bar Project about their efforts to raise money to support feminine centered queer spaces during COVID. Then we chat with iconic Dallas activist Kathy Jack, General Manager of Sue Ellen's. 

Guest Links:

Donate to lesbian bars here:

lesbianbarproject.com 

And keep up with Sue Ellen's (currently closed due to COVID) at sueellensdallas.com 

Want to help us make the show? You can now donate to us through Paypal! Just go the https://www.southernqueeries.com/podcast and click the donate button. We’d be grateful for anything you give, and you’ll receive a private thanks from us. 

Make sure you keep up with us at southernqueeries.com for additional show notes and a behind the scenes look at this episode and how we make the podcast. You can also keep up with us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by searching Southern Queeries. To keep up with India, go to indiabastien.com, and to keep up with Aubree go to aubreecalvin.com

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