The Queer Truth

Season 2 of The Queer Truth is leading with love, bringing you important conversations about who we are and the future we want to see.

Transcription:

Denise: Back in 2015 my good friend CC suggested that we start a podcast. That seems like a lifetime ago. After almost 100 episodes together, back in 2018, we took a break and focused on other projects. In Vienna, I started Villa Vida, a queer community café – and that still consumes most of my time. Yet there are conversations that I can’t forget and have decided to amplify. I’m back to share the many queer truths that I have had the pleasure to hear.

Aurelia Theodora Mohl @aureelian: Everybody, everybody is queer.

Diana Diamond @thedianadiamond: We just inspire each other.

Animal Bro @animal_bro14: Like community, and this feeling of belonging.

Erik Pekny @zebrakrebs: And I trust that I know who I am.

Matt : My queer truth is love. It all comes from a place of love at the end of the day. And that’s what queer culture, queer identity, queer social, psychological, whatever it is, profile of queerness for me is coming from a place of love. Love, love for yourself, love for others. Love, that for me is my queer truth. I orient myself in this world with love.

Denise: As I restart the queer truth by myself, I am trying to approach this project with love. Love for the participants, love for queer culture, love for our history – and love for our very, very bright futures. I hope that you’ll join me.

In this week’s episode we discuss the buzz on the interwebs concerning the breakup of rappers Cardi B and Offset as well as the piping hot tea that former First Lady Michelle Obama served while in London about her new book “Becoming”. In our second segment we discuss the series of articles published in the Guardian this week that take on racial bias in Britain. As always, we end with the things we’re looking forward to. Listen in!

In this week’s podcast we discuss Thanksgiving traditions, from food to prayer, as well as the campaign led by Ryan Coogler to boycott participation in the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales. In our second segment, CC speaks with Kim Loliya, sex educator and bodyworker, about the importance of pleasure. As always we leave you with the things that we’re excited about it. Listen in!

In this week’s episode, we discuss Oxford University’s lack of response to Stormzy’s scholarship offer for students of an African-Caribbean background; white feminism as exhibited by Rebel Wilson; and yet another Jungle Book remake. In our second segment we talk the barriers that Black women face in  the workplace. And we end with the things we’re looking forward to. Listen in!

In this week’s episode we discuss the messiness that is male rappers personas and lives from T.I. to Diddy, and we dive into the NYT feature on Solange. In our second segment we discuss what happens when racist textbooks are published and the differing responses. We end with the things we’re excited about. Listen in!

We’re back after a long break! Did you miss us? We missed you! In this week’s episode we discuss Season 3 of the brilliant series, Insecure. We also get into the importance of Black History Month – in the UK – and more generally the challenges of the broad and somewhat generic term diversity. In our second segment Denise offers her take on how she experienced the 3rd Annual Black Feminism, Womanism and the Politics of Women of Colour in Europe one-day symposium that took place this year on Saturday, September 29th in Berlin, Germany. And we end with the things we’re looking forward to. Listen in!

In this episode we discuss the brilliance of Samirah Raheem’s clapback against Rev. Jesse Peterson as well as Angela Rye’s willingness to defend Charlamagne Tha God more than he defends his own damn self. In our second segment we talk the inability of the mainstream to give Black women their credit using examples of Pat McGrath Labs, now valued at over US $1 billion, as well as Buki Ade’s fashion line BFYNE. We end with the things that we’re looking forward to. Listen in!

In this week’s episode we talk about the newest challenge circulating the interwebs, #InMyFeelings, and more generally what Black folks love about them. We also get into the cognitive dissonance that is social media vitriol against Black women living their best lives. In our second segment we discuss the TERFs who hijacked Pride in London, and we hear from some folks at UK Black Pride why it is an important event for the diaspora. We end with the things we’re looking forward to. Listen in!

Speaking with Veza is like an uninterrupted stream of consciousness with an artist that is committed to being intuitive as she is analytical. Denise had a chance to speak with her after her performance at the SPIT Vienna Queer Performance Festival.

Veza María Fernández Ramos is a choreographer and performance artist who lives in Vienna. Her work is a constant dialogue between dance, theatre, performance and text creation. She studied English and Spanish Philology in Spain, Scotland and Austria, and dance in various professional training courses, workshops and laboratories in Austria. After three years of teaching in a secondary school, she left her job to dedicate herself fully to her artistic career.

This week we give you a gay wrap up discussing Lakeith Stanfield’s so-called offensive, speak homophobic, ‘freestyle’, 50 cent getting shredded for his Instagram post on Terry Crews as well as Damon Dash demanding his money after loaning Lee Daniels $2mill for an indy film. In our second segment CC is in conversation with some of the Kenyan artists behind the queer exhibition, To Revolutionary Type Love. And we end with the things we’re looking forward to. Listen in!