S4 Ep 4: Making an LGBTQ Family with Robin Hopkins and Jaimie Kelton

Meet Robin and Jaimie. They’re lesbian moms (NOT MARRIED TO EACH OTHER) who set out to find LGBTQ parenting stories and ended up starting a podcast—and, now, writing a book: If These Ovaries Could Talk: The Things We’ve Learned About Making an LGBTQ Family. It’s a great read based on a great show. It’s also an important one because stories about how LGBTQ folks become parents are as diverse as each letter of the acronym, yet rarely do they get the airtime they deserve.

Get ready to laugh and learn with the women behind If These Ovaries Could Talk! (Music by Ava Luna and Loyalty Freak Music)

Stuff We Talked About on This Episode

• If These Ovaries Could Talk podcast

• If These Ovaries Could Talk book

S2 Ep 4: Trans Dudes With Lady Cancer

What do you do when you and your chosen family member are diagnosed with cancer within days of each other? If you’re Brooks Nelson and Yee Won Chong, you eat a lot of pie—and then you make a movie. As two transmasculine people who were treated for cancers often (and incorrectly) associated only with cisgender women, Brooks and Yee Won are using their story to educate and to inspire change. Hear how their documentary, Trans Dudes With Lady Cancer, is busting myths, opening minds, and challenging medical establishments across the country to embrace trans-inclusive healthcare. (Music by Ava Luna, Loyalty Freak Music, Make My Love Your Home, Katrina Stone, Clepsydrae, Monako, and Borrtex.)

Stuff We Talked About on This Episode

• Trans Dudes With Lady Cancer

• ‘Chosen Families’ Gain Legal Recognition in Sick-leave Laws

• Beyond the Gender Binary (Yee Won's TED Talk)

S2. Ep.9: The T Is Usually Silent with Hazel Edwards

I've wanted to interview Hazel Edwards ever since I started Feminist Hotdog. At the tender age of 22, she's the interim director of the Bryson Institute, the education and training department for Philadelphia's Attic Youth Center. Pushed out of a school that refused to affirm her gender, she now advocates for trans youth and educates service providers. Listen and get your education on intersectional feminism and being an ally to trans and nonbinary people. Her story will make your liberationist heart sing! (Music by Ava Luna and Loyalty Freak Music.)

Stuff We Talked About on This Episode:

• Attic Youth Center

• Hazel Edwards

S2. Ep.5: The Art of Living with Lizzie Ehrenhalt

It's the 1890s. You're a wealthy white woman in love with another wealthy white woman. What do you do? My guest Lizzie Ehrenhalt has the answers in this week's episode! We dive into a chapter from LGBTQ history and explore questions of how to engage our predecessors when we know they held problematic views. We also learn about a modern musician who is making space for queer South Asian people, efforts to raise trans and nonbinary visibility through stock photography, and give two women largely erased by history their time in the spotlight. (Music by Ava Luna and Loyalty Freak Music.)

Stuff We Talked About on This Episode

• Precious and Adored: The Love Letters of Rose Cleveland and Evangeline Simpson Whipple, 1890–1918, co-edited by Lizzie Ehrenhalt and Tilly Laskey

• MNopedia

• The Good Ancestor podcast

• The Gender Spectrum Collection by Broadly

• "Too Late" by Loial

• Pandita Ramabai Saraswati

• Renee Vivien

• Wild at Heart by Suzanne Rodriguez
  

S1. Ep. 9: Let's Have a Kiki

In this episode, we learn about the world of artist and writer Christine Sloan Stoddard—a world inhabited by fictional quails, badly blown glass and sparkly clay vulvas among other oddities and delights. We also talk about pushing past disappointment, applaud a new YouTube series for LGBTQ youth, and learn about the woman behind the Bechdel Test. (Music by Ava Luna and Loyalty Freak Music.)