Today's episode is on Italian-British sculptor Fiore de Henriquez, whose art reflected her own complicated relationship with gender and sex as an intersex person. Join us to hear about Fiore distracting Nazis with crepes, seducing everyone around her whether she meant to or not, refounding a town, and ruminating on the gendered nature of clay.
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1:19:50
Interview with George Savoulis from Qtopia
Today we're bringing you a little bonus episode to tide you over until March! We're chatting with George Savoulis, the curatorial director of Qtopia, Sydney's centre for queer history and culture. Join us to hear about queer shoes, the complexities of sharing queer history in an old police station, and why you should visit Sydney!
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26:45
I Saw The TV Glow
Today's episode is on Jane Schoenbrun's breakout 2024 horror film - I Saw The TV Glow.
Join us for a discussion that is alternately haunting and deeply silly, featuring playground parachutes, TV-based queer awakenings and Alice's love of soup.
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[Image: A cropped poster for the movie I Saw The TV Glow, featuring our protagonist Owen sitting down, facing away from the camera staring into the pink static glow of an old TV set]
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1:04:54
Nadine Hwang
Today's episode is on the Spanish-Chinese pilot, diplomat, and concentration camp survivor Nadine Hwang. Join us to learn about Parisian lesbians, the skills of the ultimate modern women, and Nadine's war-time romance with her life-partner Nelly Mousset-Vos.
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[Image: Black-and-white photo of Nadine Hwang amongst refugees arriving in Malmö, Sweden, April 1945. Still from the documentary Nelly & Nadine]
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1:00:37
Megillus
Today we're talking about Megillus, a trans-masculine character in the 2nd-century text Dialogues of the Courtesans. Tune in for three separate queer characters, the complexities of discussing transness in the ancient world, and a whole host of mythological examples of ways to be queer.
If you want to listen to the episode on Roman women for some background, you can check it out here.
If you want to read the dialogue we're discussing, you can find it here.
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[Image: text in Greek from the Dialogues of the Courtesans, centering on the name 'Megillus'.
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