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The Bitching Hour
by Mia & Maggie
Welcome to The Bitching Hour, a weekly dose of witchy commentary on the good, the bad, and the gay (mostly the gay) from Mia and Maggie. We’re here to talk about the queer things we love and the queer things we don’t love, from books to bad lesbian Netflix movies to breakups and everything in between. So come listen to us talk about literally whatever we want!
Episodes
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Episode 19. Catcalling & Street Harassment
Hey kitty girl... this episode is about a super rare thing that people hardly experience anymore, so we're a little worried it might not resonate. LMAO just kidding it's about being harassed on the street/in public, so definitely be prepared that this ep is a little intense. We share our funniest...
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Episode 18. Looking Hot in the Heat
Listen, it's like six billion percent humidity outside and we are NOT feeling cute, so we thought we'd chat about times that we have! This episode is all about how we manage to feel hot when it's literally hot as f*ck outside -- that means dressing for work, finding a bathing suit, drawing...
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Episode 17. Grooming
Hit the showers, ladies... this week's ep is all about grooming and personal hygiene! Continuing with our mini-series about bodies, we're talking hair, makeup, perfume, and special edition bath bombs. The Bitching Hour is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at...
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Episode 16. Sports!
Welcome back, witches! Season 2 is upon us, and we're going right in for a mini-series on bodies. To kick us off (get it?) this episode talks all about women, gender, and sports. Let's dig into that long, beautiful history of dykes in professional athletics and explore some of our own feelings...
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Episode 15. Gay Marriage
It's our final Pride episode, and we're sending you off with a proposal! This week, we're talking all about gay marriage -- what it means to us as queer people, the importance it has legally and logistically in LGBTQ+ lives, the role it has played in mainstream gay organizing, and the way it has...
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Episode 14. Queer Futures
This week we have a lot of feelings (wow, something new and different for us) about growing up and growing old - we’re talking queer futures. When we were younger, we never could have imagined what gay young adulthood would look like, so what is it going to look like to become real adults? In our...
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Episode 13. Self Care
In honor of Pride Month, we’re only using rainbow bath bombs. JK, we both like showers better anyways. This week, we’re talking self care, that pesky buzzword that we totally need but can’t always define. Join us to discuss self-soothing, doing chores, being luxurious, using gay spaces as self...
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Episode 12. Pride
Happy Gay-lidays! It’s PRIDE Month, and we’re feeling AMAZING but also maybe … shameful? We’re kicking off June with a deep dive into our feelings about parades, party culture, capitalism, cops, straight allyship, cisnormativity, and queer spaces. So dust off your TD Bank free rainbow plastic...
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Episode 11. Hot Takes
We missed you so much last week! To make up for our absence, we’re coming at you with not just one Main Brew, but many, many little topics. Gender reveal parties? Yep. Straight women at gay bars? Yeah, we go there. RuPaul’s Drag Race? Obvi. Tune in for some hot takes and some cold, hard truth.…
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Episode 10.5. SIKE
Just a little snack in case you get hungry while we're off the air this week. The Bitching Hour is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show notes and every episode at https://thebitchinghour.org/
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Episode 10. Gay Books
For our 10th episode, we’re paying homage to a childhood fave, Reading Rainbow! Except literally, you know, like ‘rainbow’ in the homosexual way. We’re talking queer books - yes, that means young adult fiction, Giovanni's Room, Our Lord and Savior Alison Bechdel, etc. What lesbian pulp are YOU...
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Episode 9. Queer Healthcare
This week you’re in for a real treat… we performed open-heart surgery, and you get to listen to it! LOL nope, but we did talk about being both aspiring healthcare professionals and queer patients. How will our knowledge of receiving care as queer people influence our future practice? Is it ever...
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Episode 8. Self-Documentation
It’s going down in the DMs. Not really. This week we made a gay pilgrimage back to Western Mass to interview our twitter genius friend, Rochelle! We spoke with her about her twitter, learned about Finstas (are we getting old?), and the ways we edit ourselves on the internet. Tune in to hear us…
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Episode 7. Chosen Family
Who’s in YOUR MySpace Top 8? This week, we’re going in on chosen families. We’re discussing blood, marriage, wine, and glitter* as we think about why chosen families may be necessary, how they form, and how they provide for each other. It’s true, not all members of our chosen families are queer,...
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Episode 6. Butch & Femme
Hard Femme, Soft Butch, Futch over easy. On this week’s episode we’re discussing Butch & Femme. Have we lost sight of the historical context of these identifiers? How have they changed? How is Butch more than a haircut but also… often seen as a god damn haircut? On this episode we slip into...
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Episode 5. Bisexuality (feat. Elise Guillen)
Oh honey, we need to let you know that you’re really just promiscuous and it’s probably just a phase! This week we welcome artist and 3D-illustrator Elise Guillen onto the show to discuss language, labels, and stereotypes pertaining to bisexuality. When do we use the words ‘bisexual’ and ‘queer,’...
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Episode 4. Lights, Camera, GAY Action
If you thought we’d tire of talking about gay movies… you were wrong. This week we’re talking about our favorite queer flicks. We’re here to discuss our least favorite tropes, consider how much we’re willing to put up with to see queer love, and ask the hard-hitting questions: where is the camp…
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Episode 3. Inter-Generational Queer Relationships
Carol, Call Me By Your Name, Harold & Maude -- what’s the deal with queer intergenerational love in movies? This episode’s Witch’s Brew is all about age differences in queer relationships-- is there always an inherent power dynamic? How do age and experience differ in this context? Is there a way...
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Episode 2. Queer in College
It’s time for those undergrad skeletons to come out of the closet. This week we spoke about being queer in college. We shoutout to our alma mater and talk shit about AALLLLL our exes. Just kidding! But what the hell is a BDOC? And why does white heteropatriarchy reiterate itself in queer spaces?...
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Episode 1. Ghosting
Have you ever been ghosted? Have you ever ghosted someone? Is ghosting ever okay-- or necessary? This week’s witch’s brew is about the ultimate use of the silent treatment. Maggie and Mia investigate the ghoster & ghostee inside all of us. The Bitching Hour is made with Jetpack Podcast. Full show...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to The Bitching Hour, a weekly dose of witchy commentary on the good, the bad, and the gay (mostly the gay) from Mia and Maggie. We’re here to talk about the queer things we love and the queer things we don’t love, from books to bad lesbian Netflix movies to breakups and everything in between. So come listen to us talk about literally whatever we want!
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