The Bisexual Agenda

Can you believe we’re still talking about nipple censorship in 2020?

This week we have a juicy bonus episode which is part 2 of my conversation/art rant with Robyn. We’re talking about online censorship, shadow banning, the art industry & feeling out of place in queer spaces.

Tell me your favourite queer photographer:

www.instagram.com/thebisexualagendapod/

Follow Robyn on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/thehappysnappy/?hl=en

Music: PremiumWave

Content Warnings: homophobia, transphobia, & exclusion in queer spaces.

References:

Martine Gutierrez

https://www.instagram.com/martine.tv/?hl=en

Paperwork New York

https://paperworknyc.com

How the Art Market Thrives on Inequality

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/magazine/how-the-art-market-thrives-on-inequality.html

Kiss My Genders Exhibition

https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/130821-kiss-my-genders-2019

David Hockney and the Art of Queer Pleasure

https://www.them.us/story/david-hockney-and-the-art-of-queer-pleasure

Wharf Chambers

https://www.wharfchambers.org

This week my guest is Robyn, angelic Taurus & local queer photographer. We’re talking about her recent projects, queer art, the ethics of nudes & every art gays fave topic - the male gaze.

Look out for the bonus episode!

Content warnings: Creepy male photographers, nude photographs of underage girls, revenge porn, homophobia, porn, sexism, exploitation of women, very brief assault mention & transphobia.

Photographers/Performers Mentioned:

Donna The Domme

https://www.instagram.com/donnathedomme/?hl=en

Maddie Morris

https://www.instagram.com/maddiemorrismusic/?hl=en

Pixie Allure

https://www.instagram.com/pixie_allure/?hl=en

Brokeback Yorkshire

https://www.instagram.com/brokebackyorkshire/?hl=en

Nay

https://www.instagram.com/n_a_y___n_a_y/?hl=en

References:

The Shunga (Japanese Erotica) exhibition I mentioned was at the British Museum, not the Tate Modern:

https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/research_projects/all_current_projects/shunga_japanese_art_1600-1900.aspx

Ways of Seeing by John Berger

Visual Pleasure & Narrative Cinema by Laura Mulvey

Queering the Tarot by Cassandra Snow

Music: PremiumWave

Bonjour Bisexuals!

It's episode 10 🎉🎉🎉 and we're answering your bisexual dilemmas AKA bilemmas even though we are both just as shy, indecisive, and hopelessly romantic as every other queer on the planet.

My guest this week is the delightful, wise, mom-friend extraordinaire Olivia from Episode 2! She's here to bring some much needed Capricorn/future CEO energy to my chaotic good Sagittarius drama.

Send your bilemmas, thoughts and dreams to:

www.instagram.com/thebisexualagendapod/

Find Olivia:

https://www.instagram.com/oliviasnapsthings/

Content Warnings: Talking about being closeted, homophobia, biphobia, and transphobia on dating apps. (Contact me on Instagram if you would like anything added to this list).

Music: PremiumWave

Let’s talk about sex gaybies!

Following on from Episode 8, which was mostly complaints about the state of UK sex education, I thought it would be useful to speak to someone who actually knows what they’re talking about! This week my guest is local dyke and allotment owner Rosie, who works for Yorkshire MESMAC, an LGBT Sexual Health Charity.

Nearly 40 years on from the start of the AIDS crisis in 1981, we discuss HIV awareness, safer sex practices, and how to navigate sexual health screenings as a queer or trans person. In typical Taurus fashion, Rosie has a delightfully wholesome agenda & the tarot segment has a queer makeover!

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Follow Rosie:

https://www.instagram.com/rlellingham/

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HIV Awareness & Misconceptions (3:05)

HIV Prevention (13:15)

Navigating Sexual Health Screenings (28:30)

How & When to Get Tested (39:45)

Tarot Reading(44:00)

Rosie's Agenda (48:10)

Content Warnings: Blood, unsafe sex, Rosie's drink being spiked, bad experiences with health care professionals, homophobia, HIV/AIDS stigma, transphobia, STIs, pregnancy. (Please contact me on Instagram if you want anything added to this list).

Useful Links:

F**Ks Given’s Episode with Kayden Gray

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f-ks-given/id1444176549?i=1000450332580

Information for trans people re NHS screening programmes:

https://www.yoursexualhealthmatters.org.uk/assets/pdfs/Transgender_cross_programme_screening_leaflet_Dec_2018.pdf

LGBT Foundation (Manchester)

https://lgbt.foundation/testing

MetroCharity (South East London)

https://metrocharity.org.uk

NAZ (BAME sexual health charity) (London)

https://naz.org.uk

Trade Sexual Health (Leicester)

http://www.tradesexualhealth.com

LGBT Health & Wellbeing (Scotland)

https://www.lgbthealth.org.uk

SAYiT (LGBT Youth Charity based in Sheffield)

https://sayit.org.uk/about/

Umbrella Health (Birmingham)

https://umbrellahealth.co.uk/our-services/lgbt-services

The Rainbow Project (Northern Ireland)

https://www.rainbow-project.org/pages/category/sexual-health

It’s time we had “The Talk”... While the Netflix show Sex Education is beautiful/queer/amazing, unfortunately, the Sex Ed we received in School was severely lacking (and didn’t include Gillian Anderson in a silk robe).

My beautiful and smart sister Emily is back again to provide a scathing critique of the UK’s education system and how it failed us as young bisexuals. In the second half, we come up with some ideas on how to improve things - please note neither of us are qualified to do this. Also - Fuck Margaret Thatcher, it’s time to promote being gay.

Disclaimer: This episode is from the archives and took weeks to put together due to many technical fuck ups. The first half is actuality part of the first TBA episode! The audio is a bit crackly in certain sections because Skype loves to ruin our lives but please bear with us.

Content Warnings:

Abortion (8 mins)

Rape and sexual assault mention (40 mins)

Revenge Porn (42 mins)

Periods (mainly 47 mins)

Discussions of: STIS and STDs, HIV/AIDS, porn, breast cancer, medical phobias, masturbation, periods, pregnancy, pregnancy scares, teen pregnancies, underage sex, thrush, UTIs, homophobia, transphobia, viagra, body hair, body dysphoria

Instagram:

www.instagram.com/thebisexualagendapod/

Music: PremiumWave

Sources:

https://www.gov.uk/national-curriculum/other-compulsory-subjects

https://www.theschoolrun.com/primary-school-sex-education

https://learning.nspcc.org.uk/media/1682/briefing-summary-dfe-guidance-relationships-education-sex-health-education-england.pdf

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/781150/Draft_guidance_Relationships_Education__Relationships_and_Sex_Education__RSE__and_Health_Education2.pdf?utm_source=SEF+Member+List+2017&utm_campaign=e56efeea3d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_02_25_03_44&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8496801aba-e56efeea3d-321390709&mc_cid=e56efeea3d&mc_eid=d60c0c3bf7

https://www.fpa.org.uk/news/relationships-and-sex-education-what%E2%80%99s-changing

Iconic Virgo power couple Hannah and Cadi are my guests this week! They’re shedding some light on: the best tofu in New York, how to have an open relationship without ruining your life and why being a good ally means more than wearing a rainbow lanyard.

Hannah is the most wholesome cake-baking, knitting, mum friend, cat-mum archivist in Leeds and Cadi is a paediatric doctor who can drive (wow!)

Trigger Warnings: anxiety, fear of dying, fear of getting on a plane, transphobia, people having guns in America, cheating, bad relationships, Cadi talks about a dream she had where she jumped off a building into a pool and someone died, non-monogamy, trans healthcare, people being homophobic and transphobic at work.

Instagram:

www.instagram.com/thebisexualagendapod/

Music: PremiumWave

Tarot: GoldenThread

This week I’m talking to my very accomplished Capricorn friend Clare Fisher, who has published two books (find them at Waterstones and all good bookshops). We’re talking about queer books, dyke drama, desire, hope, and Clare’s Bisexual Agenda!

Follow Clare on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/clarefisherwriter/

Buy her books:

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/297/297012/all-the-good-things/9780241978115.html

https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-the-light-gets-in/clare-fisher/9781910312124

Follow the podcast:

www.instagram.com/thebisexualagendapod/

The Bookish Type:

https://www.instagram.com/thebookishtypeleeds/

Books we mentioned:

How the Light Gets In & All the Good Things Clare Fisher

Virtuoso Yelena Moskovich

Nightwood Djuna Barnes

Starling Days Rowan Hisayo

Call Me by Your Name André Aciman

The Price of Salt (Carol) Patricia Highsmith

Written on the Body and Oranges are not the only fruit Jeanette Winterson

Difficult Women Roxane Gay

Queer Sex Juno Roche

The Argonauts, Bluets, The Red Parts Maggie Nelson

Girl Meets Boy, How to be Both, Free Love and Other Stories Ali Smith

Paul takes the form of a mortal girl Andrea Lawlor

Another Country James Baldwin

The Bi-ble (published by Monstrous Regiment)

Girl, Woman, Other Bernardine Evaristo

Jacqueline Wilson

After Delores Sarah Schulman

Bad Behaviour and Two Girls Fat and Thin Mary Gaitskill

Women Chloe Caldwell

Her Body and Other Parties Carmen Maria Machado

Content and trigger warnings (a lot of the books are quite dark) - pregnancy/birth (not graphic), AIDS crisis, sexual violence and sexual assault, domestic violence, racism, stalking, drug addiction, transitioning and gender reassignment surgery.

Music: PremiumWave

Tarot: GoldenThread

RIP Tumblr 💔💔💔

This episode is what happens when two chaotic bisexuals who have known each other via The Internet for 10+ years hang out IRL. This weeks guest is our favourite internet-famous bisexual vet/music journalist Pip Williams!

We’re covering all bases - What was it like to hug Harry Styles? How many horse girls were secretly queer? What’s your favourite kind of porn? Is there a non-awkward way to explain your sexuality to straight people? What happens when your ex deletes your Tumblr out of spite?

Follow Pip on Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/pipsuxx/

Buy Pip’s Bisexual Pins here:

https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/ThisShopSuxx

Follow the podcast on Instagram:

www.instagram.com/thebisexualagendapod/

Julia Serano Article:

http://juliaserano.blogspot.com/2012/11/bisexuality-and-binaries-revisited.html

Content Warnings: brief mention of revenge porn and nudes online at the start, homophobia, biphobia, transphobia, drinking problems, weed, BPD, depression, anxiety, medication, medical phobias, unhealthy relationships (partners and parents), porn, gender-feelings, brief mention of a car accident right near the end.

Music: Premiumwave

Tarot: GoldenThread

Are crushes fun or do we just love to torture ourselves?🥰(Asking for a friend)

In this episode, I talk to my former crush Carl about the trials and tribulations of crushing and being crushed.

We start with some crush confessions, I ruthlessly drag us both and then Carl lays down the law with his bisexual agenda.

In the spirit of Scorpio season we have a brand new witchy tarot reading segment!🔮

Carl is currently writing a PhD on Neoliberal financialization in 21st century American literature at the University of Leeds and rocks pink corduroy like no one else.

Confess your crushes in the DMs:

www.instagram.com/thebisexualagendapod/

Carl’s Twitter:

https://twitter.com/carlwhite__

Content Warnings: Mentions of biphobia and homophobia

Music: PremiumWave

Tarot: GoldenThread

Mamma Mia, Here We Go Again!

It’s Episode 3 and I’m talking to Luna Morgana about Dancing Queen extraordinaire Cher!

We discuss why sometimes, your queer icon is a 73 year old straight woman in a leotard. Luna continues her J.Lo Deserves An Oscar For Hustlers campaign. Lastly, I grant Luna 3 wishes for her agenda.

Content warnings: We talk about Woody Allen and Johnny Depp and people who have excused their abuse at 37 mins (no gross details).

Mentions of ageism, homophobia, and Scarlett Johansson.

In the spirit of GAY BOPS I’ve created 3 playlists on Spotify to accompany this episode.

You can find them on Spotify here:

Moody Bisexual: https://open.spotify.com/user/112709163/playlist/0q9bvT5BeeF5kUnhQoVwOy?si=Z9vSiep_TRmcwHGxEqYqgw

Pillow Princess Anthems:

https://open.spotify.com/user/112709163/playlist/67pLiuhhSO9rVv0QTiNhbO?si=3V1IFsrUQwe2ssHudI8CKQ

Gay Bops:

https://open.spotify.com/user/112709163/playlist/2wtLH4x9wkuEbqRmNC0ECI?si=_gAyRHvwTEuaCYJMdBSUMQ

Instagram:

www.instagram.com/thebisexualagendapod/

Luna’s Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/luna.le.fey/

Non-Binary Leeds:

https://www.facebook.com/nonbinaryleeds/

Music: PremiumWave