Isnt It Queer

Stacy and Jonny discuss Southern Illinois University Carbondale's recent ranking in the CampusPride.org college and university index for LGBTQ-supportive campuses. We also continue to solicit financial support for our hosting radio station, WDBX. If you value this podcast, please consider making a donation at http://www.gofundme.com/cset1c or http://www.wdbx.org/. Help us keep WDBX on the air.

Stacy and Jonny interview Matt Limb, a graduate student in the School of Art and Design at SIU, who interned for the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art in NYC this past summer. If you are a fan of this podcast, please support our radio station host, WDBX. This community radio station is in dire need of funds and may have to close its doors, likely ending shows (and podcasts) like "Isn't It Queer." If you are able and willing, please consider helping the station out either at the station website (http://www.wdbx.org/) or at this GoFundMe account: http://www.gofundme.com/cset1c

In this episode, Jonny welcomes new co-host, Stacy Calvert, and interviews local HIV educator and activist, Steven St. Julian.

Nora Klein joins Jonny to process through several LGBTQ news stories, particularly local and national stories about trans* identity. The head of the show included the song "Ring of Keys" from the cast album of the musical "Fun Home"; our broadcast license doesn't allow us to include the song in the podcast. Also, apologies for the sound quality of the podcast that gets particularly dicey toward the end; we are working on a better sound capture technology for the podcast.

Jonny welcomes Saxon Metzger to the show for a discussion of pansexuality. PLEASE NOTE: In the show, a meeting date is incorrectly announced for the planning of Carbondale's 2014 Pride Picnic. The date for that planning meeting is MONDAY. July 28th at 5:30 PM at the Church of the Good Shepherd.

Jonny is joined by his partner, Craig, to discuss Marriage Equality in Illinois and their experience converting their 2012 civil union into a stat-recognized marriage. General update of the push for marriage equality across the US is also discussed.

Jonny chats with Kathy Ward, local proprietor of La Colina Linda organic farm and bed and breakfast.

Stacey Calvert joins Julie and Jonny to discuss upcoming Pride events in the month of June, including a discussion of the origins of Pride and personal experiences with Pride events.

Jonny and Julie are joined by Liz to discuss the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival's "womyn born womyn" policy and the politics of exclusive spaces based on gender and/or sexuality. We apologize for the slight hiss in the recording; we are still working to optimize studio recordings of our broadcast.

Elizabeth Kovach and Becky Potter join Jonny and Julie in the studio to discuss a recent grassroots protest movement in Marion IL challenging anti-Marriage Equality billboards on the corner of Rts. 13 and 148. We also debrief last Saturday's (4/12) Carbondale AIDS Walk and share a speech delivered there by local HIV/AIDS activist, Steven St. Julian.

Our discussion and sharing of queer spoken word poets around North America. You can find a full set of links to videos of these performances at: http://isntitqueerwdbx.blogspot.com/2014/01/links-to-queer-spoken-word-poets-we.html

We are back! The podcast has been on a forced hiatus as our radio station brings online a new studio. The new studio has increased capabilities, but easily recording output is not one of them. The sound quality on this podcast is not as good as we hope for future episodes, but it is listenable. In this episode, Jonny interviews Craig Gingrich-Philbrook about The Advocate's selection of Pope Francis as Person of the Year. We also unpack this controversial decision via some queer theory from the recently departed José Esteban Muñoz.

Jonny and Julie cover a variety of news items pulled from the "Isn't It Queer" Flipboard magazine. This resource allows us to pull together news items from various sources into one digital "magazine." You can subscribe to the magazine here: https://flipboard.com/section/isn%27t-it-queer-bHXj3f

In this episode, we celebrate the passage of SB10 in the Illinois Legislature, putting Illinois firmly on track to be the 15th state that recognizes marriage equality. We also discuss the status of ENDA as it moves out of the Senate. Finally, we discuss disturbing news about where HRC gets some of its largest donations.

Our coverage of the October 22 Marriage Equality Rally and March on Springfield, including a 25 minute montage of rally speeches recorded at the event.

Julie interviews local author, Larry Franklin. Franklin's work investigates a particularly horrific hate crime in Southern Illinois from 1988 as well as issues of memory, sexual abuse, and PTSD.

Interview with Nichole Nicholson, who is involved with a double bill of two shows associated with LGBTQ History Month on the SIU Campus.

Continued coverage of LGBTQ History Month at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. This week, we interview two memoir authors: SIU Theatre alum Dennis Milam Bensie (most recent book: "One Gay American") and queer activist Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore (most recent book: "The End of San Francisco").

Originally aired on 10/2/2013, in this week's episode we interview performance artist Tim Miller about performance work he is both doing and directing on the SIU campus this week. Tim also discusses marriage equality and other aspects of queer politics in the US today.

In this podcast we debrief the 5th Annual Carbondale LGBTQ Pride Picnic, with two compilations of voices at Pride responding to the event and speculating about future directions for LGBTQ activism in Southern Illinois. This episode originally aired on WDBX 91.1 FM on 9/25/2013.