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Queers at the End of the World
by Nat & Nina
Queers at the End of the World is nerdy queer and trans folks prepping for the apocalypse the only way we know how: by talking about books, games, shows, movies and comics. Join us twice a month as we dig up all those queers they buried and consensually sic em on the patriarchy. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/queerworlds/support
Episodes
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Enjoy Yourself, It's Later Than You Think: You Cannot Save Here with Tonee Mae Moll
Tonee Mae Moll joins Nino (and Nat!) to talk about You Cannot Save Here, her gorgeous 2023 book out now from the Washington Writers Publishing House. We cover teaching in and learning from the end times, polyamory as apocalypse preparedness, video games as canon, and wading into the lyric…
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The Ghosts Come Back And They Do Things: The Feminist Killjoy Handbook with Sara Ahmed
Sara Ahmed talks with Nino about her new book, The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way, out now from Seal Press. Ahmed is an independent queer feminist scholar of color whose work is concerned with how power is experienced and challenged in everyday life and...
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Capital T Truth: World War Z, and Speculative Oral History with Kae Bara Kratcha
Nino discusses a 2006 postapocalyptic artifact from the US's "war on terror"--World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie Wars, and talks with oral historian and librarian Kae Bara Kratcha about what it means to be a speculative oral historian, and why oral history is such a meaningful tool for...
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Erotics of Revolution: Everything for Everyone with M.E. O'Brien and Eman Abdelhadi
M.E. O'Brien and Eman Abdelhadi talk with Nino about Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052-2072, their novel of oral histories that document a speculative near future of world-wide luxury communism. "Everybody in the book is queer or trans," as M.E. puts it. We…
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We Always Save the Day
Nino and Nat talk about Steven Universe! Created by Rebecca Sugar for Cartoon Network, Garnet, Amethyst, and Pearl (and Steven!) have gotten us and many of our friends and compatriots through this very apocalypse. In this episode, we cover the show’s queer ethics of education, family making, and...
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QatEotW Presents: History of the New World with Adam Garnet Jones
On this QatEotW Presents we talk to Adam Garnet Jones about his short story History of the New World, from Love After the End, an Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction, edited by Joshua Whitehead, and out from Arsenal Pulp Press in 2020. Learn more about Adam and his work at...
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This New Version of Your Life
Franny Choi joins us on Queers at the End of the World to talk about her upcoming book, The World Keeps Ending, and The World Goes On, full of magnificent poems on apocalypse, grief, and branching paths at the scale of the planet and the personal. Join us for a conversation with one of the…
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Whatever it Takes
Nat and Nina get into Earthlings, Sayaka Murata’s novel about aliens, dissociation, hedgehogs, trauma, violence and cannibalism in our very own dystopia. Published in Japan in 2018 and translated to English by Ginny Tapley Takemori in 2020, Earthlings is like a lot of great queer art in that it’s...
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Touch Each Other’s Cards
Game designer Naomi Clark joins us to talk about Consentacle, her two-player card game about consent and pleasure across very different bodies. We talk about making games in a pandemic, desire in dystopia, two-player dynamics, and the joys of flirting over your hand. Find Consentacle here:...
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Palpitating Tentacular Desire
Nat and Nino discuss Xenogenesis—Octavia Butler’s three-book series about alien invasion, human resistance and survival, alien-human family-making, tentacle sex, colonization, third genders, and so much more. Our conversation focuses on consent and compromise, and we’re joined in the first half…
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Will Our Bodies Know What to Do?
Nat and Nino interview Sarah Stockholm, the National Network Strategic Campaigns Director for Showing Up for Racial Justice (aka SURJ). In the Spring of 2020, as the pandemic spread in US prisons, Sarah organized white folks to support prison abolition in a campaign that got folks committed by...
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Martian Space Potatoes
We’re covering The Martian! Both the book AND the movie, in which NASA scientist Mark Watney gets left for dead on the red planet and the only billionaires who can save him are the collective coffers of the US and China because Elon blew his monthly allowance trying to buy Twitter :( Y’all! We…
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Refusing Erasure by Algorithm
Poet Lillian-Yvonne Bertram talks with Nat and Nino about using code to write poems, the simple pleasures of button pushing, going slow to go fast, unsupervised AI on the internet, and how to stop the machine apocalypse (hint: unplug em). This episode begins with a reading of "A New Sermon on the...
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Reload Me!
The Matrix came out in 1999 and captured the fears and hopes of a world newly enmeshed in the (world-wide) web. In this episode, Nat and Nino discuss the recently expanded quatrology and talk about the Matrix as an artifact of 90s idealism, a trans movie, a movie about human frailty via mechs and...
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Season 2 Trailer
Season Two of Queers at the End of the World is coming up this winter! Listen here for a teeny little preview of where we plan to go next. Music for the trailer comes from the generous hearts at free music archive, and is Siddhartha Corsus, “Oh Radiant One” from Love Is Alive. We accessed it at:...
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Nothing's Ever Over, Nothing's Ever Perfect
In our FINAL SEASON ONE EPISODE (!!) Nat and Nina are joined by Ellie Yanigasawa, Delesslin "Roo" George Warren, TreaAndrea Russworm, and Austen Osworth in the second half of our live play of Dream Askew. It's post-collapse mayhem, relationship talks and glowing mushroom bacchanals with a little...
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Idle Dreaming
Nat, Nina, Roo, Ellie, TreaAndrea, and Austen meet in the internet to imagine utopian queer post-collapse society via Avery Alder's tabletop storytelling RPG of queer strife amid the collapse, Dream Askew. Craters, trash heaps, full moon party rituals, polyamory shenanigans, and exploding...
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Utopia Lies at the Horizon
Nat and Nina interview Avery Alder, who designs queer table top roleplaying games of monstrosity, love and community—like the acclaimed Monsterhearts 2 and the post-apocalyptic game The Quiet Year. Avery's game Dream Askew, is designed to help folks imagine what queer community looks like in a...
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Survival is Insufficient
In this episode, we start out talking about Station 11, the 2014 novel by Emily St. John Mandel, and end up talking about Covid, grief, and the transition into a new phase of the pandemic. Nat and Nina are joined by novelist and friend of the show A.E. Osworth in the first half of this episode as...
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May Update
Just a little old 45-second hello from Nina and Nat and an update on our May hiatus, plus what to expect in June!
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QatEotW Presents: Queer Indie Games
In this Queers at the End of the World Presents, Nat takes us through some recommendations of video games with much to say about queer identity, utopia, dystopia, and the ever popular abandoned mall. These games include Diaries of a Spaceport Janitor, Kind Words, Ooblets, and Boyfriend Dungeon…
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Keeper of the Seeds
Nat and Nina talk to DeLesslin George-Warren (aka Roo) about food sovereignty, indigi-queer language revitalization and why the heck the Keeper of the Seeds in Mad Max: Fury Road is carrying around a Basil start in a skull. Roo is an artist, researcher, and educator from Catawba Indian Nation…
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Assless Chaps in the End Times
Mad Max: Fury Road came out in 2015 and was hailed by critics as a post-apocalyptic action masterpiece. Nat and Nina revisit the film, discussing the leather-clad, snake-grabbing, dudefully alone Mad Max, and the queer possibilities and pitfalls in this mystifying and chaotic movie franchise set…
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QatEotW Presents: We Want It All with Holly Raymond
In this Queers at the End of the World Presents, poet Holly Raymond joins us to read from her work in We Want it All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, published by Nightboat Books in 2020. We get to nerd out about poetry, goblins, slicing cold cuts at Wawa and fan translations of Final...
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Queer Mycology
Mycologist Patty Kaishian and writer/educator Hasmik Djoulakian join Nina and Nat to talk about mushrooms as metaphors and creatures, non binary fungi, and the queer discipline of mycology. We talk the New Moon Mycology Summit, and the naming of the biological world. During the episode, Hasmik...
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Free Air in the Fungal Jungle
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind—Hayao Miyazaki's classic environmental epic—is the topic this time around, and Nat and Nina are joined by Ellie Yanigasawa, the artist behind the Queers at the End of the World logo! We discuss the 1984 Nausicaä film as well as the seven volume manga, uncovering...
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QatEotW Presents: Indigenous Dystopias
Welcome to the Apocalibrary! In this Queers at the End of the World Presents, Nina takes us through some recommendations of exciting dystopian fiction that's either authored by queer, trans or two spirit indigenous authors, or includes queer, trans, and two spirit representation. A full book list...
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Delete Your Monsters
Nat and Nina discuss Moon of the Crusted Snow, a 2018 novel set in a far northern Anishinaabe community just after an apocalypse. This time we get to talk with the author, Waubgeshig Rice himself, about monsters, masculinity, and surviving beyond apocalypse. To support folks fighting that Wendigo...
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Unbecoming / Becoming / Unbecoming
Poet, librarian and educator, Alison Rollins talks with Nat and Nina about survival of many kinds, including wilderness time travel, archives, and letting the birds come to you. Find Alison's book Library of Small Catastrophes with Copper Canyon Press, and find another great interview with Alison...
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QatEotW Presents: Queer Camping with Juniper Lewis
Our first QatEotW Presents! Join us for a snippet of our interview on queer camps and the history of camping with Juniper Lewis, then check out their article: Queer Camping, Then and Now. For more on camping and whiteness, Juniper recommends Black Faces, White Spaces by Carolyn Finney. Also!…
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Boys in the Woods Part II
Real Boys go in the real woods and things get real weird. Nat and Nina discuss the nonfiction book Into the Wild, toxic masculinity, the siege at the Capitol, and the ascension of Britney Spears. Oh and now you can support us on Patreon and Anchor! Patreon:...
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Boys in the Woods Part I
Hatchet and My Side of the Mountain are two classics of YA survivalist fiction. Nat and Nina talk about freedom, masculinity, and the gamification of survival in the context of the post-apocalyptic landscape of colonized America. While you're listening today, check out the NDN Collective,...
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Utopia is a Vision of Unmet Desires
Professor TreaAndrea Russworm talks to Nat and Nina about dystopian games, utopian visions, and whether The Last of Us Two lives up to our queer communal dreams. Spoiler (the first of many): it does not.
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Bad Dads in Straight Time
The Last of Us changed the apocalypse playbook with its gay main character and won the hearts of a thousand queer gamers. In part one of our second episode, Nat and Nina consider whether everything else about this game is as straight as a shiv made from a broken protractor and a roll of lace tape.
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Define Future
Nat and Nina interview queer disaster prep expert Kalaya’an Mendoza about community, consent, fearing the worst and planning for the world we want to create.
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Parable and Preppers
Nat and Nina discuss Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower, Y2K Prepping, and our own histories with apocalypse. What does it take to be a shaper of change?
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Queers at the End of the World is nerdy queer and trans folks prepping for the apocalypse the only way we know how: by talking about books, games, shows, movies and comics. Join us twice a month as we dig up all those queers they buried and consensually sic em on the patriarchy. Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/queerworlds/support
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Nat & Nina
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