The Bisexual Agenda

We can put up a hell of a fight, and we can care for each other in that fight… 

Welcome back to the fabulous scorpio queen Jane Claire Bradley whose debut novel will be coming out this week! Dear Neighbour celebrates chosen family, the ever necessary battle against austerity, and empathy between neighbours.

We also pull some majorrrr major arcana cards and talk about the beauty of pole dancing! What a treat!

"Five strangers. Four weeks. One letter that will change everything…

Dear Neighbour tells the story of Alice, a single mum living in Leeds, her next-door neighbour Bill, a widower still grieving his wife’s death a decade earlier, and the other residents of their street. It’s a novel about the power of community and found family, and the real definition of home. A love letter to the necessity of resilience, resistance and empathy."

Join Jane for a queer extravaganza of performances on Dear Neighbour's launch date, the 15th of June at Feel Good Club in Manchester! Tickets available.

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Discussed in the episode:

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cubsport.com

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Every Child Is A Born Crafter. The Problem Is How To Remain One Once He Grows Up.

Today the podcast makes a triumphant return to welcome back scorpio queen Maura to discuss the magic of crafting both IRL and in the pixels of Stardew Valley. 

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Thea’s Tarot 

Yoga with Adriene

Justin Guitar

Vinted 

Below are two great YouTube essays about fast fashion:

Mina Le - The Cult of Shien

Broey Deschanel - Why no one wins the fast fashion debate

If you want to make more sustainable choices and shop new, the Good on You Sustainable Fashion Directory and App are really useful!

Music: Premiumwave

Get a vibrator, not a relationship!

Teddybear butch Carl returns with his gorgeous self and gorgeous voice to discuss Shiva Baby (2020).

Listen to Carl's new podcast It's Closing Time!

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TW: Biphobia, whorephobia, discussion of sex work and sugar babies, drugs, sex, suicide mention, outing, queerbait culture, harassment in clubs/bars.

TWs for Shiva Baby (main segment) - eating disorders, biphoia, whorephobia, sex work, claustrophobic atmosphere, sex

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Mentioned

New Tarot Book! - She is Sitting in the Night by Oliver Pickle

Broey Deschanel

Movies:

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya

Kiki’s Delivery Service

Howl’s Moving Castle

Spirited Away

My Neighbour Totoro

The Wind Rises

Ponyo

The Graduate

Under the Skin

Uncut Gems

Fleabag

Bottoms

Heartstopper

Join me and Amelia for a cosy Christmas Eve sleepover where we discuss our favourite festive traditions and read a letter I wrote to my first boyfriend when I was 16 and didn’t know bisexuality existed. 

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CW/TW - Christmas family trauma, therapy, anxiety, mental illness, homophobia, internalised homophobia, confusion around sexuality, smoking, alcohol, weed, biphobia, the struggle of being queer at school, being closeted, sex and dating,

Tarot: Queering the Tarot by Cassandra Snow

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Martha May Whovier you will always be famous!!!

A re-release of the iconic 2020 Christmas episode. We delve into the chaotic gay Christmas classic with my darling sister Emily, scholar of all things Whoville. Christine Baranski if you're out there... I love you. 

CW/TW: bullying, school bullies, body horror (the Grinch eats glass and a plate and a raw onion), mania & manipulative public proposals. 

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The Scorpio Eclipse has given everyone I know an emotional hangover, so let's do some queer processing via tarot. 

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Tarot Deck

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Tarot: Queering the Tarot by Cassandra Snow

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Back again with Frog Queen Amelia to discuss the fracking free drag that is Canada’s Drag Race Season 3!

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Mentions:

Canada’s Drag Race Season 3

Meet the Queens UK Drag Race Season 4

Megamind

Scalarama

Peking Opera Blues 1986

Leeds International Film Festival

Hyde Park Picture House

Culto

Tarot: Queering the Tarot by Cassandra Snow

Moon Diary

Content warnings:

Aziz Ansari being an abuser (no details), Mention of restraining orders as a joke (on drag race), transphobia on drag race, food (at the end of the agenda section).

Are you 62% gay? Or are you BISEXUAL?

The Bisexual Agenda makes a triumphant return, with special guest Emilino.

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CW/TW:

Bullying, drugs, therapy, internalised homophobia non consensual kissing, vomit, coming out, being closeted, food, tattoos and needle phobia.

Mentions:

Heartstopper, Fleabag, Sex Education, Euphoria, Love Island, She’s the Man, Conversations with friends, Normal People, Jellycats, Paddington 2 and The Parent Trap.

Susie (she/her) of Leeds Queer Book Club joins me to talk about space operas, YA romance, actresses who are gay by association, and being scaredy cats/sensitive souls. Scroll down for a list of all the books we talk about!

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Previous bookish episodes include The Bookish Type and Dyke Drama: A Novel

Content Warnings

Main Segment: food and eating, family and relationship structures, parenting, sex, throwing up, and transphobia.

Agenda: alcohol, sober queer spaces, racism, Jessica Jones - abusive relationships & murder.

Mentions:

The Price of Salt (Carol) by Patricia Highsmith

Less by Andrew Sean Greer

Becky Chambers Wayfairers Series

Ursula Le Guin

America is not the Heart by Elaine Castillo

One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston

Love and Other Disasters by Anita Kelly

Honey Girl by Morgan Rogers

Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender

Love Victor & Love Simon

Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales

Britta Lundin

Happy Pisces season! Breaking my usual erratic schedule with a mini solo ep with a tarot reading and some thoughts on the Queer TV I've been watching lately. New episode with Susie from Queer Book Club coming soon!

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Victoria Monét - Nothing Feels Better

Mentions: Sort Of, And Just Like That, Love is Blind, The L Word Generation Q, Work in Progress...

TW/CW: Narcissists, therapy