Do Care Podcast

Amanda Madden is a local filmmaker and queer community builder based out of Salt Lake City. Check out upcoming workshops and queer collaborations on their website. Conscious Content Consumption for this episode includes:@AriaVelz / @CriticalLesbian - Lesbian Film Reviewer Lilith’s Brood series by Octavia ButlerAlso mentioned:Freyja’s cat-pulled chariot Artist Sol

Misty Murphy, an avid climber and the vice president of Southern Utah Climbing Alliance(SUCA) discusses the work that SUCA does to keep climbing areas safe and protected, as well as a bit about climbing and climbing culture. Check out SUCA on their website here and on Instagram @SUCA, and Misty on her website and @misty_murphy_realtor on Insta.Conscious Content Consumption for this

Dr. Christy Glass, a thoughtful professor of Sociology at Utah State University, discusses workplace justice - how race and gender play a role in who is "the boss" and what makes a workplace (and state) habitable.Conscious Content Consumption for this episode includes:Enter Ghost, a 2023 novel by Isabella HammadConsumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change,

Nan Seymour is a local poet and founder of the River Writing Collective who will be holding the third Great Salt Lake Vigil in 2024. She is spunky, beautifully full of emotion, and inspiring. We talk about how you can participate in the 2024 Utah Legislative session, grieving Great Salt Lake, and how we can connect with each other to make an impact.@nan_seymour@riverwritingcollecti

Aimee Van Tatenhove, a Pelicanologist, talks about pelicans and other migratory birds that visit Great Salt Lake and how their populations are managing in the face of drought, as well as the lake and art and fullhearted stewardship. Aimee is a grad student at Utah State University researching American white pelicans. See her website at www.avantatenhove.com and on Instagram @aimeev

Jeff Paris discusses Meanwhile Park - a small, urban backyard in Salt Lake City, Utah that hosts community gatherings including art, theatre, and just plain fun. We discuss the inspiration for Meanwhile Park, past and future events including plays, theatre in general, and how you can get involved. Follow on Insta @meanwhileparkConscious Content Consumption for this episode includes

Madazon Can-Can is an inspiring, refreshigly sex positive burlesquer, puppeteer, clown, drag performer and instructor. They join us to passionately discusses using performing arts for social change in Utah. Follow at insta @madazon_can_can. Also see their website at https://linktr.ee/MadazonCanCan.Conscious Content Consumption for this episode includes: @safe.slut - a sex posi

Dr. Chris Babits, an interdisciplinary scholar with specializations in the histories of the modern United States, lived religion, gender and sexuality, and psychology, talks about our homosexuality and conversion therapy history in the US. Specifically, we talk about Cured, an award-winning documentary about the fight to remove homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manu

Dr. Fazilat Soukhakian, Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Design, discusses her Queer in Utah photography project and cross-culture hiding of vulnerable groups. See the Queer in Utah project along with Fazilat’s Defiance project displayed at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art or online at the FotoEvidence Metaverse Gallery, and the description here. See Dr. Soukha

For Post:  There are fireflies in Utah? Nevada? Montana? YES. The fantastic Christy Bills, the Entomology & Malacology Collections Manager at the Natural History Museum of Utah, joined us on the pod to talk about not just fireflies, but how cool all insects are, what insects are, and inspire you to think of them not as scary or gross, but cool and mysterious. Also, all the