Queer Lit
By Lena Mattheis
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Queer Lit is a podcast about LGBTQIA+* literature and culture. In each episode, literary studies researcher Lena Mattheis talks to an expert in the field of queer studies. Topics include lesbian literature, inclusive pronouns and language, gay history, trans and non-binary novels, intersectionality and favourite queer films, series or poems.
New episode every other week!
Recent transcripts here: https://lenamattheis.wordpress.com/queer-lit-transcripts/
queerlitpodcast@gmail.com
https://lenamattheis.wordpress.com/queerlit
Twitter and Instagram: @queerlitpodcast
Music by geovanebruny from Pixabay
New episode every other week!
Recent transcripts here: https://lenamattheis.wordpress.com/queer-lit-transcripts/
queerlitpodcast@gmail.com
https://lenamattheis.wordpress.com/queerlit
Twitter and Instagram: @queerlitpodcast
Music by geovanebruny from Pixabay
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“Rainbow Trap” with Kevin Guyan
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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“The Dinner Party” with Cat Fitzpatrick
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May 25, 2026 |
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“What A Girl Wants” with Roxy Bourdillon
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May 12, 2026 |
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“Neopronouns and It Pronouns” with Teagan Bradway (Queer Forms and Pronouns Series)
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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“Pronouns in Two-Spirit Literature” with Jas Morgan (Queer Forms and Pronouns Series)
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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“Mixing Pronouns” with Sue Lanser (Queer Forms and Pronouns Series)
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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“Ambiguous Pronouns” with Susan Stryker (Queer Forms and Pronouns Series)
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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“Singular They” with Laura Paterson (Queer Forms and Pronouns Series)
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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“Queer Food” with Alex Ketchum and Megan Elias
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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“Lean Cat, Savage Cat” with Lauren J. Joseph
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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“Queer Exiles” with Ben Robbins
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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Queer Lit on Amplified
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Festive Special Part 2
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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Festive Special Part 1
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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Queerest thing you did this year?
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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“Ancient Myths and Lesbian Legends” with Mara Gold
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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“The Queer Victorian Gothic” with Brontë Schiltz
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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“Taylor’s Version Pt 2: Showgirls” with Stephanie Burt
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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“Taylor’s Version Pt 1: Gaylors” with Stephanie Burt
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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"No" with Sara Ahmed
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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“Love Lies Bleeding” with Michelle Devereaux
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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“Lighthouse” Queer Space Special with Mairi Oliver
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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“Queer Hong Kong” with Alvin K. Wong
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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“Category is Books” Queer Space Special with Bug and Fin
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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“Transitions” with Ava L. J. Kim
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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“Hungry for Androgyny” LIVE with Leilah Jane King
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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“Spent” with Alison Bechdel
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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“Trans Life and Story-Led Theory” with Perry Zurn
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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ListenQueer Launch Special: "Queer Britain" with Mark King
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May 20, 2025 |
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“Beyond Personhood” with Talia Mae Bettcher
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May 06, 2025 |
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“All She Wrote Books” with Christina Pascucci-Ciampa
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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“Queer AI?” with Daniella Gáti
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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“Sinister Wisdom” with Julie Enszer
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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"Pronouns" with Laura Paterson
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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“Qtopia” with George Savoulis
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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"Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon" with Louise Siddons
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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"Black Trans Feminism" with Marquis Bey
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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“Autotheories” with Alex Brostoff
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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"Cyrano" with Virginia Gay
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Jan 05, 2025 |
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Festive Special Part 2
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Dec 24, 2024 |
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Festive Special Part 1
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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“Clever Girl” with Hannah McGregor
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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“Trans Literature and Science Fiction” with Sabine Sharp
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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“Shadows and Noise” with Amber Jamilla Musser
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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“Gothic Transgressions” with Sarah Faber and Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
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Oct 29, 2024 |
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“Queering Desire” with Róisín Ryan-Flood and Amy Tooth Murphy
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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“Queering French Fairy Tales” with Mélie Boltz Nasr
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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“Lifting Off in Lesvos” with Karen McLeod
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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“Before We Were Trans” with Kit Heyam
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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“The Queer Arab Glossary” with Marwan Kaabour
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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“Bluestockings” with Raquel Espasande
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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“Queer Television and Bad Objects” with Hollis Griffin
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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“Bellies” with Nicola Dinan
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Jul 23, 2024 |
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“Theoryish” with Paola Medina-Gonzalez and Hannah Ayres
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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“Queer Podcasting and Knowledge Production” with Hannah McGregor
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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“Narrating Palestine” with Nora Parr
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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“Lesbian Fashion History” with Eleanor Medhurst
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May 28, 2024 |
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100 Episodes!
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May 21, 2024 |
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“Normporn and Queer Imaginaries” with Karen Tongson
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May 14, 2024 |
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“Trans in Translation” with Alberto Poza
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Apr 30, 2024 |
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“Knight as a Gender” with Mabel Mundy
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Apr 16, 2024 |
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“Gendered Bodies and Narrative Form” with Chiara Pellegrini
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Apr 02, 2024 |
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Humanities under Threat
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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“Feeling Bad” with Hil Malatino
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Mar 05, 2024 |
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“Hijab Butch Blues” with Lamya H.
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Feb 20, 2024 |
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“Nonbinary History and Queer Kinship” with Mo Moulton
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Feb 06, 2024 |
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“The Shape of Sex” with Leah DeVun
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Jan 23, 2024 |
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“Trans Future Fiction” with Kit Schuster
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Jan 09, 2024 |
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The queerest thing you did in 2023: Part Two
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Dec 26, 2023 |
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Yesterqueer's Holigays
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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The queerest thing you did in 2023: Part One
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Dec 12, 2023 |
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Queer Space Special: “Gay’s The Word” with Erica Gillingham
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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“Two-Spirit Kinship” with Kai Minosh Pyle
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Nov 28, 2023 |
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“Second Wave Trans Feminism” with Emily Cousens
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Nov 14, 2023 |
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How queer was your year?
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Nov 09, 2023 |
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Spooky Special: "Trans-fixing Media” with Cáel Keegan
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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VINTAGE Fear Lit: “Queerness and Race in Gothic and Horror” with Maisha Wester
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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“Realness, Loss and Underdogs” with Heather Love
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Oct 17, 2023 |
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“The Coast is Queer” with Sarah Boira and Vedrana Velickovic
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Oct 03, 2023 |
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“Black Feminist Lessons” with Alexis Pauline Gumbs
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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"Queer Ecologies and Mulberries" with Cate Sandilands
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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“Queerness in the USSR” with Rustam Alexander
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Aug 22, 2023 |
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“Queer Second Cities and Serial Bisexuality” with Maria Sulimma
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Aug 08, 2023 |
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“The Queer Middle Ages” with Diane Watt
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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“Out and Wild” with Elizabeth Chakrabarty
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Jul 11, 2023 |
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Revisiting "Lesbian Literature" with Terry Castle
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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“The Common Press” with Alfonzo Sieveking
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Jun 27, 2023 |
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Revisiting "Black Trans Narratives" with LaVelle Ridley
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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"Gay Voice Stereotype" with Fabio Fasoli
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Jun 13, 2023 |
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Revisiting "Trans Now" with Susan Stryker
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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“Queer Lit UK” with Matthew Cornford
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May 30, 2023 |
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"Queer Time" with Elizabeth Freeman
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May 16, 2023 |
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"Feminist Killjoys" with Sara Ahmed
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May 02, 2023 |
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"Trans Materialism" with Kadji Amin
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Apr 18, 2023 |
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“Queer Spaces and D*ke Bars” with Jack Gieseking
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Apr 04, 2023 |
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"Queer Running" with Lindsey Freeman
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Mar 21, 2023 |
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“Sex, Gender and Screen Printing” with Kat Hubbard
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Mar 07, 2023 |
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“Queer Black Disability Liberation” with D’Arcee Charington Neal
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Feb 21, 2023 |
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“Queerness in the Ottoman Empire” with Tuğçe Kayaal
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Feb 07, 2023 |
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“Queers in Sports” with Gabriel Knott-Fayle
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Jan 24, 2023 |
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“Queer Anthropology and History” with Esther Newton
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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Part 2: “How queer was your year?” with Queer Lit 2022
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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“How queer was your year?” with Queer Lit 2022
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Dec 13, 2022 |
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“The Queer Land” with Joshua Whitehead
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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“Queer Wizards and Neurodiversity” with Jes Battis
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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"Older Lesbians" with Jane Traies
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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“Queer Horror” with Lucy Holmes
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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This QUEER LIT Saved My Life! with J.P. Der Boghossian
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Oct 11, 2022 |
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“Medieval Disney Queers” with Amy Louise Morgan
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Sep 27, 2022 |
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“Queer Ecologies and Glitter” with Nicole Seymour
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Sep 20, 2022 |
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"Lesbos and the Sapphic Festival" with Leah Davidson
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Sep 13, 2022 |
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“Queerness and Race in Comics” with andré carrington
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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"Race and Ace in Victor Hugo" with Nemo Martin
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Aug 23, 2022 |
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"Queer Publishing" with Alex DiFrancesco
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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“The Queery” with Stevie-Jo Oliver
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Aug 09, 2022 |
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"Queer Indigenous Literature" with Jas M. Morgan
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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#SaveGentlemanJack with Sarah Wingrove
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Jul 26, 2022 |
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“Two-Spirit Literature” with Lisa Tatonetti
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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"Queering Nothing" Lee Edelman
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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“Black Lesbian Thought” with Briona Simone Jones
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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"Black Queer Freedom" with GerShun Avilez
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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"Trans* Now" with Susan Stryker
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May 24, 2022 |
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“Activists, Artists and Academics” with Katherine O’Donnell
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May 10, 2022 |
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“Butches and Barbers” with Melissa Hidalgo
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May 03, 2022 |
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“Dressing Dykes” with Eleanor Medhurst
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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“Transitions” with Louka Maju Goetzke
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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“Lesbian Ghosts” with Naoise Murphy
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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“Anne Lister Fan Research” with Sarah Wingrove
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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“Female Masculinities and the ‘Gender Wars’” with Finn Mackay
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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“Lesbian Lives: Solidarity” feat. Val McDermid and FELISPEAKS
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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"Queer Kinship" with Teagan Bradway
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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“Queer Data” with Carl Bonner-Thompson (Meet the CTSG)
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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“The East is Queer” with Vedrana Velickovic (Meet the CTSG)
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Feb 22, 2022 |
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"Bears and Fat GBQ Men" with Nick McGlynn (Meet the CTSG)
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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“Non-binary Life” with Meg-John Barker (Meet the CTSG)
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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“Queer Rural Spaces and Asexualities” with Joe Jukes (Meet the CTSG)
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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Meet the CTSG: Trailer
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Jan 31, 2022 |
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"The Butch" with Amy Tooth Murphy
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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"Queer Pets" with Sarah Parker and Hannah Roche
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Jan 11, 2022 |
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"Holigay Special" Part 2
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Dec 26, 2021 |
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"Holigay Special" Part 1
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Dec 14, 2021 |
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“Drag, Panto and Genderfuckery” with Nick Cherryman
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Nov 30, 2021 |
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“Tarot, Femmes and Asian Diasporic Literature” with Xine Yao
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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“Lesbian Literature… by men?” with Terry Castle
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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“Queerness and Race in Gothic and Horror” with Maisha Wester
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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“Trans Childhood” with Jules Gill-Peterson
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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“Queer Cities“ with Davy Knittle
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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"Postcolonial Queerness" with Shamira Meghani
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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“Wildness, Masculinity and Swimming Pools” with Jack Halberstam
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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"Disability and Queerness" with Chris Mounsey
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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"Bisexuality, Identity and Queer Families" with Lizzie Reed
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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“Sappho, Cats and Pubic Hair” with Mara Gold
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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"The Internet and Queer Literature" with Daniella Gáti
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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"Queer Narratives" with Sue Lanser
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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"Queer Screens" with Olu Jenzen
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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"Black Trans Narratives" with LaVelle Ridley
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May 25, 2021 |
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"Queer Muslims" with Alberto Fernández Carbajal
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May 18, 2021 |
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"Lesbian* Modernists" with Diana Souhami
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May 04, 2021 |
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"Pronouns" with Ashley Thornton
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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"Queer Kings and Trans Histories" with Kit Heyam
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Apr 07, 2021 |
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Queer Lit Trailer
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Apr 01, 2021 |