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Cheap Seats
by JOY 94.9
The best of global poetry slams, panel discussions, stand-up comedy, lectures and conferences
Episodes
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Mighty real tribute to Sylvester
Sylvester by Michael Zagaris via Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 Join Dene and Sam in the Cheap Seats for one last time as we travel to San Francisco for a spoken-word tribute to Sylvester, the Queen of Disco. Sylvester was an early founder of the black, cross-dressing…
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Transgender in Cleveland
‘Downtown Cleveland Ohio’ Image by Chris Gent via Creative Commons Join Dene in the Cheap Seats in Cleveland, Ohio for a panel discussion on transgender identity and rights. Hosted by The City Club of Cleveland, the panel is moderated by Pulitzer Prize winning columnist Connie Shultz. The panel...
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Queer poetry
Image by Dennis Hill via Creative Commons Dene is back in the Cheap Seats for a night of queer poetry. Brought to us by Button Poetry, the performers explore autobiographical themes of love and attraction and stories of gender and misgendering. There is light and shade, some laughs and some…
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In conversation with Armistead Maupin
Armistead Maupin and husband Christopher Turner. Image by Angela George via Creative Commons Join Dene in the Cheap Seats at the San Francisco Public Library for a conversation with Armistead Maupin. KM Soehnlein interviews Armistead Maupin about “Tales of the City” which, for almost four…
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Human rights in Asia and the Middle East
Image by Andres Musta via Creative Commons Join Dene in the Cheap Seats for a human rights panel discussion that explores the ideological struggle between autocracy and democracy in Asia and the Middle East. The discussion is hosted by Human Rights First and examines the experience in Saudi…
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Poetry slam, thank you ma’am!
Sam Rush Dene is back in the Cheap Seats for the National Poetry Slam 2015 in Oakland California. Presented by Button Poetry, the event features: Melissa Lozada-Olivia – Like Totally Whatever Olivia Fantini – On Standardized Testing Pages Matam – On Learning America’s English Patrick Roche – The...
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Poetry Slam sampler
Image by Very Quiet via Creative Commons Join Dene in the Cheap Seats in Oakland California at the 26th Annual National Poetry Slam, a competition event where poets performance original work to a live audience. Presented by Button Poetry, the event features: Akeemjamal Rollins – In response...
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Gender Failure
Dene is back in the Cheap Seats for a performance by Canadian trans artists Ivan Coyote and Rae Spoon, performing their show “Gender Failure”. The performance explores and exposes the pair’s failed attempts at fitting into the gender binary — and ultimately how the gender binary doesn’t add up.…
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No curry, no rice
Image by Calgary Reviews via Creative Commons Join Dene in the Cheap Seats as we listen to ‘No Curry, No Rice’, a panel discussion that looks at sexual appetites, ethnic stereotypes, and racism in our LGBTIQ communities. It explores the question of the boundary between personal preference and...
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Poet novelist Eileen Myles
Image of Eileen Myles by David Shankbone via Creative Commons Join Dene in the Cheap Seats for American poet and writer Eileen Myles reading her poetry to a live audience at the Chicago Humanities Festival. Eileen has produced more than twenty volumes of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, plays and...
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Sexual Orientation on YouTube
Ingrid Nilsen at VidCon 2015 Image by Genevieve Collins via Creative Commons. Join Dene in the Cheap Seats for a panel discussion about sexual orientation on YouTube. We are in Anaheim California for VidCon 2015, an annual conference for people who love online video. The panel explores themes…
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Poetry by Sam Sax & Joy Young
Sam Sax Joy Young Dene is back in the Cheap Seats for a night of poetry. We feature the poetry of LGBT performance poets Sam Sax and Joy Young from Button Poetry in the United States. The post Poetry by Sam Sax & Joy Young appeared first on Cheap Seats.
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LGBT Representation in Sports Media
Lori Lindsey, United States Women’s National Soccer Team Join Dene in the Cheap Seats as we travel to the United States for a panel discussion on the state and representation of LGBT people and issues in Sports and Popular Media. The panel was part of a conference hosted in late 2013 by the...
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Building LGBT Alliances in India
‘Bengaluru Pride’ by Vinayak Das via Creative Commons Join Dene as we travel to Mumbai for front row seats at a panel discussion on building LGBT alliances in India. We are at the Second Indian LGBT Youth Leadership Summit presented in 2015 by MINGLE, the Mission for Indian Gay & Lesbian...
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Queenie Bon Bon presents ‘Power Up’
Queenie Bon Bon Dene is back in the Cheap Seats, this time at a spoken-word performance by Queenie Bon Bon as part of the 2015 Melbourne Fringe Festival. In “Power Up”, Queenie talks from her true-lived experience as a sex worker and professional stripper, exploring the mundane and the absurd.…
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LGBT Rights in Kenya
Eric Gitari Join Dene in the Cheap Seats as we listen to human rights lawyer and activist Eric Gitari speak about LGBT rights in Kenya. Eric is co-founder of the National Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission. His work focuses on immigration law, refugees and asylum seekers, public litigation,...
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Murder in the WAC
Dene is back in the Cheap Seats and back in time at Pat Bond’s one-woman show ‘Murder in the WAC‘. Recorded in 1982, it is a funny, tragic tale of lesbians purged from the US Army after the Second World War. Women’s Army Corp members, 1943 The post Murder in the WAC appeared first on Cheap Seats.
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Poetry Slam: NSW Finals
Image by Very Quiet via Creative Commons Join Dene in the Cheap Seats for the NSW 2014 state finals in the lead up to the Australian Poetry Slam – the largest spoken-word program in the Southern hemisphere. The poets perform with passion about topics and autobiographical themes close to their...
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Poetry Slam: Women of the World Finals 2015
Image by Paul Hudson via Creative Commons Join Dene in the Cheap Seats for the 2015 Women of the World Poetry Slam Finals. Held in early 2015 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, we hear women performing poetry with passion and covering themes including feminism, empowerment, race, gender – and even...
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The homosexual in 1958 society
Image by Joe Haupt via Creative Commons Join Dene in the Cheap Seats we as go back in time to 1958 to listen to what is believed to be the first ever radio broadcast to openly discuss homosexuality in the United States. The compare is Elsa Knight Thompson and the panellists are: Hal Call, the...
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Are we over the rainbow? Part 2
Image by Ben Ostrowsky via Creative Commons Join Dene in the Cheap Seats for part two of a two-part panel discussion presented by the Australian Equality Party that asks the question ‘Are we over the rainbow?” The panel for the lively discussion held in July 2015 in Melbourne includes: Tim…
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Are we over the rainbow? Part 1
Image by Garry Knight via Creative Commons Join Dene in the Cheap Seats for part one of a two-part panel discussion presented by the Australian Equality Party that asks the question ‘Are we over the rainbow?” The panel for the lively discussion held in July 2015 in Melbourne includes: Tim Wilson,...
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Rainbow Jews: Now & Then, Part 2
Image by hollyanne via Creative Commons Dene is back in the Cheap Seats for part two of panel discussion from Rainbow Jews, the United Kingdom’s first ever LGBT history project. It is part two of an ‘intergenerational’ conversation with eight Jewish people sharing stories about their Lesbian…
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Rainbow Jews: Now & Then, Part 1
Image by Tamara Craiu via Creative Commons Join Dene in the Cheap Seats for a panel discussion from Rainbow Jews, the United Kingdom’s first ever LGBT history project. It is part one of a two-part ‘intergenerational’ conversation with eight Jewish people sharing stories about their Lesbian, Gay,...
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LGBT Rights in Cuba, Russia, Latvia & Serbia
Join Dene in the Cheap Seats for a panel discussion on LGBT rights in Cuba, Russia, Latvia Serbia. The panel is part of the Human Rights Summit hosted by Human Rights First in 2013 and features: Ileana Ros-Lehtinen – U.S. Representative for Florida’s 27th congressional district Jonathan Capehart…
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LGBTQ on YouTube, with Tyler Oakley
Tyler Oakley Summer in the City is the UK’s largest YouTube convention. Each year it brings together YouTube creators and fans in a celebration of online video and the community that surrounds it. In this podcast, we are in the Cheap Seats for a panel discussion from the 2014 event about LGBTQ...
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