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Strangers in a Straight Land
by Kyle Shanebeck
Poetry by Kyle Shanebeck. I am a queer Poet and Wildlife Biologist; born and raised in a conservative christian community in California. My poetry explores the topics of gender, loss, family, and perceptions of the self. Particularly in reference to rejection from my community, surviving conversion therapy, and coming to accept my gender and sexual identity.
Episodes
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Episode 7: The Blinding Light
In this episode we exploring seeing. But specifcally the newness of experience, being in a place you have never been. Being unable to structure the sensory information you are collecting, learning to order the world of your perception. I read a passage from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, a book by…
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Episode 6- I Remember
**content warning** abuse, homophobia, homophobic language. In this episode I perform a spoken word piece I wrote that builds upon my experiences I spoke about in previous episodes. Particularly focused on the difficulty of compound trauma in the development of queer people's lives.
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Episode 5- Those Who Cannot Hear Them
*Content Warning* suicide, homophobia, religion. On this episode of Strangers in a Straight Land, we explore the intersection between both sexual and gender identity for many queer people and how that complicates our self acceptance and coming out experience, especially to families who do not...
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Poem- The Funeral
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Episode 4- Give Me the Light
Death is a common image in poetry, likely due to our inability to know what happens after we are gone. Here we explore three poems about Death, and discuss how we view it as a people.
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Poem- Ode on Melancholy (John Keats)
Poem by John Keats, Ode on Melancholy explores sadness and its place in our lives.
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Episode 3- The Temple of Delight
In this episode I explore John Keat's poem "Ode on Melancholy" as we explore sadness' place in our lives. For many people who don't have to struggle with mental health problems on the regular, 2020-2021 has been a difficult time; so here I share some wisdom from John Keats and my own journey.
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Poem: Interim (Edna St. Vincent Millay)
Interim by Edna St. Vincent Millay, from her book "Renascence and Other Poems"
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Poem: Investigation
Poem by Kyle Shanebeck, from episode 2.
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Poem: Blue Neighborhood
Poem by Kyle Shanebeck, from episode 2
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Episode 2: Blue Neighborhood
Trigger Warning: Abuse, suicide, conversion therapy. In this episode I explore a three part Poem called "Blue Neighborhood" inspired by the pop artist Troye Sivan's album of the same name. Feeling like a stranger in your own community, wearing a mask to fulfill their expectations, despair that we...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Poetry by Kyle Shanebeck. I am a queer Poet and Wildlife Biologist; born and raised in a conservative christian community in California. My poetry explores the topics of gender, loss, family, and perceptions of the self. Particularly in reference to rejection from my community, surviving conversion therapy, and coming to accept my gender and sexual identity.
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Kyle Shanebeck
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Poetry by Kyle Shanebeck. I am a queer Poet and Wildlife Biologist; born and raised in a conservative christian community in California. My poetry explores the topics of gender, loss, family, and perceptions of the self. Particularly in reference to rejection from my community, surviving conversion...
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