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Episode 12: Houdoyle Story: Spirit Photography Gone Wild!
CW: Death Two acquaintances turned friends… to enemies! What else does one expect from a relationship rife with living dinosaurs and dead mothers being summoned back from the world beyond!? The gang discusses why the father of eccentric detective Sherlock, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, had a falling out with famed escape artist Harry Houdini. What…
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Episode 11: Why Won’t You Take My Blood?!
CW: AIDS, Homophobia, Transphobia, Death, Blood, Eugenics Karen, M, and Remy talk about the homophobic policies for blood donations. Why won’t blood drives let gay men donate? Is there science there or fear of our precious rainbow blood? Is it valid or should they just shut up and take the blood already? This is a paper…
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Episode 10: Clown Eggs: Nothing More Beautiful than Clown Birth
CW: Clowns, Scary Clowns Remy, M, and Karen discuss the difficulties of clownbirth, and also what do eggs have to do with it? Jokes aside, we discuss a bit of clown history— where did they come from? Where are they now? How are they dealing with a world that has decided to dislike and fear…
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Episode 9: And They Were Roommates: Queercoded Sherlock
CW: Homophobia, Gunshot Wounds Just men being friends. Join M, Remy, and Karen for part 2 of our discussion of Sherlock Holmes and the queercoding Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wove into his stories. We’ve got a spicy (for the Victorians) scene to read and plenty of evidence that Sherlock and Watson were much more than…
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Episode 8: The Lying Detective: Queerbaiting in BBC’s Sherlock
CW: Homophobia, JK Rowling In this episode, Remy, M, and Karen talk about the difference between queercoding and queerbaiting and how both are used before diving into an in an in-depth look at queerbaiting in the BBC’s Sherlock series. In this part one of two Sherlock episodes, we’ll explore what rewrites of the beloved detective…
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Episode 7: Drag Balls: The History of Queens & Gentle-divas
CW: Human Excrement (brief), Transphobia, Homophobia, Racism Drag Balls is not a euphemism… or maybe it is? Drag is for everyone and goes back way longer than we were aware of. Join Karen & M as Remy leads them through the rich and fabulous history of drag, cross-dressing, and the career of film maker John…
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Episode 6: Lilly Law and Lavender Menace
CW: Police Violence, Homophobia Happy Pride Month everyone! Today we discuss the language of Polari and its use in the UK before the decriminalization of homosexuality, as well as discuss queer flower symbolism used to communicate in subtle or not-so-subtle ways. This episode features a small sample of audio from Putting on the Dish by…
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Episode 5: Rainbow Party? More Like Rainfaux Party!
CW: Suicide, Sex, Child Endangerment This week we talk about a history of humans making and following trends off the internet starting in the 1700s and moving through time back to now. Then we explore the concept of internet trend urban legends: trends that were rumored to happen but never did. A link to the…
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Episode 4: I Can’t Believe You’ve Done This: Internet Trends
CW: Bees, Hospitalization/Personal Injury The crew want to know: what was the first internet trend? Not memes, but challenges. We talk about things like the Cinnamon Challenge, or the Sprite Challenge, or eating crackers really fast and being bad at them! Plus some weirder things you might not have heard of. We challenge you to…
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Episode 3: Mischievous Maggots
CW: Insects, Consuming Insects, Infection, Food Talk We discusses the matter of culinary maggots, the pros and cons of consuming the wiggly rice, and how the little fly babies, both eating them and other uses, could help to sustain our future.