Queer View Mirror

Dec 03 2024 104 ep. 37 mins 97
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A queer and trans talk show. The intro and outro theme is Soft Illusion and was generously provided by Andras. https://andras.bandcamp.com/track/soft-illusion

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Commissioner for LGBTIQA+ Communities and Justice Q

Dec 03 2024 43 mins  
Joe Ball chats about his new role as LGBTIQA+ Commissioner, then founding lawyer of Justice Q, Kavitha Sivasamy, discusses the newly-launched specialist legal service for the LGBTIQA+ community in the south-east region.

Indie Porn; Revolution, Regulation, and Resistance and EDGING

Nov 26 2024 36 mins  
Socio-legal researcher and author Dr Zahra Stardust chats about the new book Indie Porn: Revolution, Regulation, and Resistance. In the second half of the show, Lead Artist and Director of APHIDS, Lara Thoms, discusses the new performance work EDGING which explores intersections of popular culture, border control and queerness.

Cruel Britannia: After Frankenstein and Spinning Around: The Kylie Playlist

Nov 19 2024 36 mins  
Host Sam Elkin and writer Jonathan Butler are joined by critically-acclaimed writer and performer Kristen Smyth to talk about her new play Cruel Brittania: After Frankenstein, a transgender reimagingng of the original Frankenstein, set in the 1980's: Margeret Thatcher's Britain. Then they speak to Angela Savage, the editor of Spinning Around: The Kylie Playlist. Angela is an award-

Cross-dressing in family photo albums and The Modern Guide to Sex

Nov 12 2024 32 mins  
Recipients of the State Library of Queensland's Rainbow Research Fellowship, Dr Marion Stell and Professor Celmara Pocock join Queer View Mirror to talk about how they discovered the phenomena of cross-dressing in family photo albums. Their project, Queering the Lens: Cross-Dressing in Family Photograph Albums, shines light on how we embrace and capture queer culture within all fac

Rainbow Migrants & Reveling in Gender for Trans Month

Oct 29 2024 23 mins  
The Queer View Crew first have a chat with sociologist Dr Lukasz Krzyzowski from Edith Cowan University about the Rainbow Migrants Living Lab, also known as RaMiLab, which is a new initiative that aims to improve the lives of LGBTQIA+ migrants in Australia through research, professional development and community engagement. They then welcome CEO of Transgender Victoria, Dr Son Vivi

Sapphic Stories & Shit Shows

Oct 15 2024 27 mins  
The Queer View crew chat with author and screenwriter, Mira Robertson, to discuss her recently published sapphic coming-of-age story Grace and Marigold which draws on her own experiences at the height of the English counter culture movement in the 1970s. They then talk with AlxGoslow and Dokta Mayhem, the artists behind Queer Shit Show; a combination of live music, spoken turd, shi

Queer Literary Siblings

Sep 10 2024 33 mins  
Sam and Gemma chat to literary siblings, Liz and Andrew Sutherland, on poetry, polyamorous fantasy, Overland literary journal, and the Emerging Writers' Festival.

LGBTQIA+ Stories on the Page: Willow Maclay, Caden Gardner & Michael Earp

Sep 03 2024 41 mins  
Sam Elkin is running the show solo in this episode of Queer View Mirror. He first has a chat with North American editors and authors Willow Catelyn Maclay and Caden Mark Gardner to discuss their new book Corpses, Fools and Monsters - The History and Future of Transness in Cinema which explores the radical history of trans representation in cinema and the political possibilities of

Love, Money, Sex, Death, Tickle, Giggle

Aug 27 2024 31 mins  
Sam and Gemma first welcome public theorist and writer McKenzie Wark to discuss her autofictional memoir Love and Money, Sex and Death which reimagines her past through a new perspective after coming out as trans at 56 years old. They also talk with Professor Paula Gerba of Monash Faculty of Law about the landmark ruling in the Australian Federal Court case of Tickle v Giggle.

Celebrating "Slutdom" & A Language of Limbs

Aug 13 2024 32 mins  
Sam has another bookish episode with two literary guests lined up. He first has a chat with kinky, queer, mother, grandmother, sexologist, and author of recently released Slutdom, Hilary Caldwell, whose doctorate Women Who Buy Sex in Australia was the first study in the world exploring women buying sexual services. Sam then talks with award winning author, artist, and screenwriter,