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Queerstories
by Queerstories
Join some of Australia's best storytellers for an evening of queerstories; reflections on lives well lived and battles fought, pride, prejudice, love and humour. The LGBTQI community has been sharing stories for centuries, creating our own histories, disrupting and reinventing conventional ideas about narrative, family, love and community. There’s more to being queer than coming out and marriage. Listen to an unexpected tale or two from a diverse line up of stars and strangers, hosted by Maeve Marsden Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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347 Joshua Whitehead - Shoot, Shovel, Shut-Up
Joshua shares a poetic narrative about being Indigenous and queer in Canada. Joshua Whitehead is an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary and he is the author of Making Love with the Land, full-metal indigiqueer and Jonny Appleseed all of which have received a litany of accolades and...
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346 Leanne Yong - Failing at Failing
Leanne shares her greatest failures for your entertainment and edification, and as a terribly public method of therapy, one might suppose. Leanne Yong started her career as an IT business analyst and is now an escape room creator who has designed internationally recognised games with her partner...
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345 Sophie Cunningham - Getting Old is A Real Trip
Approaching 60, and reckoning with family histories, physical stuff, and the world at large, Sophie makes a list. Sophie Cunningham is the author of nine books, including the novel This Devastating Fever and the essay collection City of Trees. She is also a teacher, mentor, climate change…
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344 Daniel Lavery - Dangers, Toils and Snare Drums
Daniel recounts the meaningful form of lying. Daniel Lavery is the cofounder of The Toast, served as Slate's Dear Prudence from 2016–2021, and the author of Something That May Shock and Discredit You. He performed this story at Sydney Writers Festival. Queerstories an award-winning LGBTQI+...
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343 Bernie Hobbs - Ghostly Encounters
Bernie shares her experiences with the supernatural. Best known as a judge from The New Inventors and her many years with ABC Science, Bernie Hobbs is an award-winning science writer and broadcaster. She performed this story at the World Science Festival in Brisbane. Queerstories an award-winning...
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342 Alison Wright - There and Back Again
Alison is plagued by indecision when choosing between two seemingly perfect job opportunities in Germany. Dr Alison Wright is a Scientist at Griffith University working in the Office for Research. Her research specialised in Spinal Cord Injury stem cell treatments, and chemical tissue clearing...
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341 Joni Sytsma - Rocket Proctology
Joni attempts to launch a rocket while discreetly transitioning; or she attempts to discreetly transition while launching a rocket. Dr Joni Sytsma is an aerospace engineer who began her career at the United States Air Force Research Laboratory before moving to Australia to join the Hypersonic...
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340 Dr Jesse Hooley - Transgender Activism: Past and Present
Jesse reflects on the way her activism has shifted over the years, and the people who were fundamental to her work and life. Dr Jesse Hooley is a 78er and was part of the Transgender Liberation Coalition in the 90s – a story she’ll be sharing with you tonight. Jesse went on to an academic career,...
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339 Malaika Mfalme - Handsome
Malaika rides the rollercoaster of grief and new beginnings. Malaika Mfalme {Angel King} is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, and event producer creating on Gadigal Land. Malaika is here to create a safe space focused on healing with a powerful message of kindness, acceptance and reflection...
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338 C.Moore Hardy - Life is Short
C.Moore shares snapshots of her life. Along with an outstanding career as a queer social documentary photographer & exhibiting artist and curator, C.Moore Hardy was also a Director of PRIDE, (lesbian & gay community centre) in the 1980s. She was born in Darlinghurst and trained at National Art...
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337 Lisa Salmon - The G.O.D. Gang
Lisa visits the Australian Queer Archives and is transported back to a different time in her life, shifting the way she thinks about her present. Lisa Salmon is a queer artist and writer from Naarm/Melbourne who debuted as a writer and publisher in 1989 when she and her then partner launched...
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336 Natali Caro - A Golden Thimble
Natali recalls a long-awaited visit to Chile that unknowingly set the scene for a life-changing moment. Natali Caro is a queer Colombian/ Chilean comedian, actor, drag king, writer and producer. They’re the founder of queer comedy cabaret GAG and PoC comedy lineup show Thanks For Having Me…
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335 Damien Webb - Blak Lady Moses
Damien shares a story of his ancestors, connecting it to his present, to crossing oceans and preserving stories. Damien Webb is a proud member of the Palawa Diaspora, originally from Lutruwita (Tasmania). He has worked in state libraries for over 13 years, and he is currently Manager of the...
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334 Ian Roberts - Mate
Ian recalls a treasured moment with his former coach, and reflects on how much things have changed. Ian Roberts started his career as a professional rugby league player in the mid 1980’s, playing for the South Sydney Rabbitohs, the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles and the North Queensland Cowboys. He...
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333 Ellia Green - Liberation in the Dark
Ellia was sure they were always destined to be someone and something, they just had to find their way to the truth of it all. Ellia Green is a retired professional rugby sevens player who was a part of the Olympic gold winning team at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Ellia is a national champion for change...
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332 Patrick Abboud - Safe House
After a wild night of partying among fellow closeted friends, Patrick nearly loses the safety he has carefully created for himself. Patrick Abboud is an award winning journalist, documentary director and TV host. He is ambassador for Twenty10 and Wear it Purple advocating for LGBTQIA+ young…
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331 Handsome - I Hope To Remember Paradise
HANDSOME takes us through a series of moments, of community, connection and belonging. HANDSOME is a self-described tomboy pop artist who’s music celebrates the power of expression, creativity and fluidity and creates a space for anyone who longs to feel free. She performed this story at…
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330 Bev Lange - Finding Mardi Gras
Bev shares her Mardi Gras journey Bev Lange volunteered on the Fair Day Committee for Sydney Gay & Lesbian Mardi Gras and then went on to chair Fair Day and the Parade before 5 years on the Board with 3 years as President. Bev also volunteered as a Director on the boards of the Centenary of...
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329 Kerry Bashford - Bloke Can Write
Kerry discovers a fictional version of himself. Kerry Bashford started his queer career as a baby activist, organising rallies at the age of 18 in 1982, before escaping south to the big smoke. After several years of apprenticeship in gay, street and independent presses and countless queer arts...
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328 Shauna Jensen - The Town Of Make Believe
Shauna shares her path to 'The Town of Make Believe'. Shauna Jensen has lived, loved and worked in the music biz for over 50 years. An icon in the LGBTQI+ community, Shauna is also lauded as one of the best singers in Australia. Working for the majority of her career as a backing vocalist, studio...
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327 Erin Heine - Frocks
Amidst an earthquake, Erin is caught looting frocks. Erin ‘Bullet’ Heine is the Program Manager LGBTIQ+ at Sydney Local Health District. Originally from New Zealand, of Māori and European heritage, they are passionate about improving the health and wellbeing of LGBTIQ+ community. They won the Out...
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326 Neville Williams Boney - Platonic Boyfriends
Neville reflects on how each of his platonic boyfriends has helped him grow. Neville Williams Boney is a proud Wiradjuri/Weilwan man from Wagga Wagga. Neville is a 2018 Graduate of NAISDA Dance College. He is currently an independent, interdisciplinary artist living on Dharug Lands. Neville…
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325 Brooke Scobie - The Break Up Queen
How many breakups does it take to break someone? When western culture runs on the power of the romantic couple, it took losing a best friend to prove to Breakup Queen Brooke that she wasn't made entirely of stone and ice. Brooke Scobie is a queer Goorie woman, single mum, poetry and prose writer,...
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324 C S Pacat - The Tram Conductor
CS has always been told they got their knack for storytelling from their family, oral histories passed down, told over and over. But are there more to those stories than meets the eye? CS Pacat is the author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller, Dark Rise; the Captive Prince trilogy…
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323 Yves Rees - The Apparatus of Hiking
Yves shares their passion for hiking Yves Rees is a historian at La Trobe University, co-host of the Archive Fever podcast and author of All About Yves: Notes from a Transition. They are also co-editor of Nothing to Hide: Voices of Trans and Gender Diverse Australia. Rees was awarded the 2020...
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322 Omar Sakr - Poems Part II
Omar shares his poems. Omar Sakr is the author of two acclaimed poetry collections, These Wild Houses and The Lost Arabs, which won the 2020 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry. His debut novel, Son of Sin, is out now. Queerstories an award-winning LGBTQI+ storytelling project directed by...
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321 Krystal De Napoli - The Ocean Above
Krystal reflects on stargazing with her mum Krystal De Napoli is a Kamilaroi author and astrophysicist devoted to the advocacy of Indigenous knowledges and equity in STEM. She is the co-author of Astronomy: Sky Country, published in 2022, which explores the wondrous interconnected world of...
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320 Dylan Mooney - Still Thriving
Dylan reflects on the steps he took to make it as a professional artist. Dylan Mooney is a proud Yuwi, Torres Strait and South Sea Islander man from Mackay in North Queensland working across painting, printmaking, digital illustration and drawing. Legally blind, the digital medium’s backlit…
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319 Kevin Yow Yeh - The Safari
Kevin shares one of the most exceptional experiences of his life. Kevin Yow Yeh is a Wakka Wakka and South Sea Islander man and current Higher Degree Research student and Sessional Academic at the Queensland University of Technology. Kevin is a Director at the Institute for Collaborative Race...
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318 Lara Thoms - The Party
Lara is tasked with producing a party at a funeral home for work, but life ends up complicating the process. Lara Thoms is interested in socially engaged, site-specific and participatory possibilities in contemporary art and performance. She works as an artist in Field Theory and is a co-director...
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317 Ivy Hawke - Gamers, The Most Oppressed Minority
Ivy explains how Townsville turned her into the joke making abomination she is today. Inspired by both her father and Shaun Micallef, Ivy Hawke completed a law degree then went straight to Brisbane to become a comedian. Her comedic style is a mix of chaotic ramblings, punch lines about lessons…
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316 Benjamin Law - So, You're A Homosexual
Benjamin wrestles with a recent gay trauma, and finds a way to process it and plan for the future. Benjamin Law is an Australian writer, broadcaster and absolute icon. He’s written books, TV shows, plays, he hosts Stop Everything on ABC Radio National, he writes for Good Weekend, he’s hosted...
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315 Shanaya Donovan - Eyebrow Propoganda
Shanaya reflects on her year 7 speech assignment. Shanaya Donovan is 18 and a proud Darug, Dhungutti and Gumbayngirr woman from Western Sydney. A lover of music and art, and believer in knowledge and truth. She’s staunch and aiming to change it up through breaking down social and cultural…
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314 Keith Quayle - The Wounded Healer
Keith writes a letter to someone who needs to hear it. Keith Quayle is a Malyangapa and Barkindji gay man, who was raised on Dharug country. His lived experience of the NSW correctional system informs the advocacy work he carries out on behalf of trans and gender diverse people in detention. He...
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313 Gary Lonesborough - The Path to Sydney
Gary remembers the events that led him from the small country town where he grew up to the big city. GaryLonesborough is an award-winning Yuin writer, who grew up on the Far South Coastof NSW as part of a large and proud Aboriginal family. His debut YA novel,THEBOY FROM THE MISH, was published in...
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312 Zac Roberts - Karen
Zac learns an important life lesson: never travel with your ex. Zac Roberts is a Yuin man currently living on Wallamattagal land, Dharug country. He’s a historian, currently struggling through a PhD about the relationships between Indigenous and Jewish people in Australia since 1788. Zac has...
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311 Jinny-Jane Smith - Jumping the Fence
Jinny-Jane realises there's something that makes her different from her loved ones, and she finds a way to tell them. Jinny-Jane Smith is a proud Wiradjuri/ Walbunja woman of the Yuin nation. Jinny identifies as a lesbian woman, mother and aunty to many. She is a dedicated advocate, giving her…
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310 Chris Southcote - Oh, to be in the Netball Team
A coming of age tale, from junior school to a Catholic high school via more than a few netball courts. Following a very, very long corporate career, Chris Southcote burst onto the comedy scene in 2020. He has since bagged gigs throughout Australia; he was a grand finalist in Sydney’s Comedy on…
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309 Aurelia St Clair - Playboy Bunnies and First Jobs
Aurelia tells a tale about working minimum wage in dimly lit stores, fashion internships and meeting Dennis Rodman at the Playboy Lounge. Aurelia St Clair is a comedian, writer, podcaster and dog mother who now calls Melbourne home. You can listen to another of Aurelia’s stories on the lockdown...
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308 Kirsty Webeck - Otway Panther
Kirsty has an encounter with the Otway Panther...or does she? Kirsty Webeck is back with another tale, this one performed at Brisbane Comedy Festival in 2022. If you don’t know who Kirsty is, I’m not sure where you’ve been. She’s a national treasure. Queerstories an award-winning LGBTQI+...
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306 Jude Perl - Aim Low, Score Low
Jude resists her impulse to tell a sad a sad and traumatic story, instead finding happiness in the most unlikely of rubbish places: school. Jude Perl has been performing music and comedy for nearly a decade, touring, recording and winning 3 Green Room Awards for Best Original Songs, a Green Room...
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305 Thomas Parer - The Year of Realising Things
An innocuous message kick-starts the second ‘Year of Realising Things’ (as Kylie Jenner would put it) for Thomas - filled with realisations that allowed him to stop worrying and love his brain. Thomas Parer is a creative producer, DJ, ex-lawyer and bon vivant living in Meanjin, probably best…
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304 Steven Oliver - Slut
Steven has so many slutty stories to tell - but somehow he whittles it down to three... Steven Oliver is a descendant of the Kuku-Yalanji, Waanyi, Gangalidda, Woppaburra, Bundjalung and Biripi peoples. He has worked with numerous theatre companies, festivals and arts organisations across…
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303 Christian Hull - Gag Reflex
En route to Melbourne Comedy Festival, Christian has a memorable encounter at the covid clinic. Christian Hull is a comedian and creator who has accumulated over 600 million views on his videos and gained a loyal following of over 2 million on social media. Here’s hoping every single one of those...
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302 Nadine Chemali - Gay Soundtrack
Nadine shares a collection of tales from a queer life. Nadine Chemali is a writer, researcher and social worker. She is dedicated to creating and nurturing communities, facilitating discussions on identity, sexuality, displacement and representation, discourse she feels was missing from her own...
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301 Jeremy Lloyd Santos - Grow Up
Jeremy's parents keep asking him, “Jerms! What do you want to be when you grow up?” Now in his twenties, he chronicles the way his answers change over time. Jeremy Lloyd Santos is a first generation Filipino Australian Movement artist and Writer who’s intersections of Dance, Spoken Word &…
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300 Fahad Ali - To My Mother
Fahad remembers what it took for his mother to finally meet one of his boyfriends. Fahad Ali is a molecular biologist, science educator, and writer. He is a member of the Palestinian diaspora, a co-founder of the Queer Solidarity Film Festival and the Muslims for Marriage Equality campaign group,...
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299 Gloria Demillo - Dear Elyan
Gloria pens a letter to their baby nephew and in doing so ponders what it means to be their Tita, or Tito, or simply Gloria. Gloria Demillo (they/them) is a poet, researcher and multidisciplinary creative. Their most notable contributions include the Harana Poetry Tour for the Art Gallery of New...
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298 Laura Hart - The Dog, The Rockstar and the Beach
A sleepy beachside town is the unlikely setting for Laura's wildly unlikely, memorable meetcute. Laura Hart is a drag king, comedian & improviser who has been performing for yonks. They are the founder and host of popular drag show The Kings & Drag King Bingo, and have toured around Australia and...
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297 Eda Gunaydin - Cultural Ambassador
Eda's always considered herself a cultural ambassador for being gay, but a night out during Mardi Gras isn't quite the promotional tour she'd hoped for. Eda Gunaydin is a Turkish-Australian writer and researcher interested in class, race and diaspora. You can find her essays and creative...
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Join some of Australia's best storytellers for an evening of queerstories; reflections on lives well lived and battles fought, pride, prejudice, love and humour. The LGBTQI community has been sharing stories for centuries, creating our own histories, disrupting and reinventing conventional ideas about narrative, family, love and community. There’s more to being queer than coming out and marriage. Listen to an unexpected tale or two from a diverse line up of stars and strangers, hosted by Maeve Marsden
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