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Kendra and Amanda are just a couple of queer folx from the midwest who aim to spread the word on queer-centric literature and creators by using a book club format. Each episode we read a book written by a queer author or featuring a queer character(s) and discuss the book with a guest. Generally the guests are actors, musicians, or other entertainers from the queer community or one of our allies. Help us spread the word on the wonderful world of queer literature.
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This is our last new episode of 2021 and we're going out with a BANG! In our first erotica we spoke to author Liz Asch about her new collection of mostly queer erotica short stories in Your Salt On My Lips. Liz is an artist, an author, and an acupuncturist and we had such a great conversation with her. You don't want to miss this one!<book summary>Playful, explorative, taboo-smashing, and delectably liberating, Your Salt on My Lips is a mostly-queer collection of literary e...
This week we're posting the crossover episode that we did with our friends, Sarah and Persis, over at Girl on Girl Podcast. If you haven't subscribed to their podcast yet, what on earth are you waiting for!? We talked to Sarah and Persis this week about several queer books that were adapted into movies. We also chatted about a whole lot that has nothing to do with those movies. We always have so much fun talking to these tw...
This is a special episode because we chat with friend and super-human person, Sam Brinton of The Trevor Project (to name only one thing they are involved with) as well as Dr. Jessie Freyermuth (spouse of 1/2 of the pod). We all read and chatted about the book Tomorrow Will Be Different by Sarah McBride. This book was unexpectedly sad but overwhelmingly awesome. Sarah McBride is changing our country for the better with her work in the US Government. <book summa...
This week we chat with fresh young author Upasa Borah about their book Thick and Thin, their fan fiction, and about how they came to be a writer and a poet. They are so talented at only 21 years old, we truly think they are going to do great things. The audio quality is a bit subpar this episode but we promise it will be worth it.(book summary)In Raumah, a city where wealth and familial ties rule all, the four Kings walk a path seemingly paved in gold. Duante, the protector. Stron...
The wait is finally over. This is part two of our episode with D2 from Start the Wave, and in the second half we get a bit more introspective in how this book affected us personally. We always have a great time talking to D2, no matter the subject. After you've finished this book please join us in checking out the Start the Wave pride resource list, as it is filled with many important and incredible books. We are slowly making our way through all of them. Also fo...
This week is part one of another super sized episode! Kendra and Amanda brought back D2 from Start the Wave to read and discuss the novel Sissy: A Coming of Gender Story by Jacob Tobia. This book is on the Start the Wave resource list so we talk more about that resource list, the purpose and the content you'll find there, as well as the first book we read but didn't record an episode about. <Summary>Sissy: A Coming of Gender Story by Jacob TobiaAs a young child in Nort...
This episode we have a returning guest, wonderful queer musician, Emy Taliana! We're coming together to discuss Untamed by queer author Glennon Doyle. <Book Summary> For many years, Glennon Doyle denied her discontent. Then, while speaking at a conference, she looked at a woman across the room and fell instantly in love. Three words flooded her mind: There. She. Is. At first, Glennon assumed these words came to her from on high but soon she realised they h...
If you haven't checked out the book The Salinian, stop and go read it now! This was one novella that we could NOT put down and leaves you wanting MORE! If you listen closely you will hear some exciting sequel novel news, not to mention all of the fantastic book to film exclusive info!
In this episode Kendra and Amanda speak with author and poet Betsy Bonner about her memoir The Book of Atlantis Black: The Search For A Sister Gone Missing, along with special guest Leah Jackson, ex-girlfriend of Atlantis Black.<book summary>For Grace Bonner, the bond of sisterhood is an exquisite, painful thing. In The Book of Atlantis Black, Bonner unravels the mystery of her sister and what happened in the final months before her disappearance, alleged overdose, and death.With access...
We explore the journey of childhood trauma, sexuality, and spirituality with author, yogi and meditation teacher Johnson Chong. Book Summary: Follow his journey through the pangs of youth, to growing self-awareness and life-changing lessons in India and abroad. This is a courageous story of shifting old attachments of self-rejection and shame into a new paradigm of peace and unconditional love. It is about embracing our emotional fumbles and self-deprecating tendencies as oppo...
Kendra and Amanda talk to author David Rabadi about his memoir How I Lost My Mind and Found Myself. David is the first gay Jordanian to come out in Yonkers.<Book Summary>The sentence for being gay and Arab is death-even when the punishment is self-inflicted. Living a closeted life in a Middle-Eastern culture is brutal-and potentially deadly. Add to the mix mental illness and your odds of survival drop to near zero. How I Lost My Mind and Found Myself is the true story of how one m...
Dress Codes for Small Towns by Courtney StevensWe thoroughly enjoyed reading this book and discussing it with D2 from Start the Wave!Have a listen as we discuss the book, coming of age as queer folks and the wonderful organization Start the Wave!
In this episode Kendra and Amanda talk with queer author Catie Disabato about her new book, U Up? They also chat about her first book, The Ghost Network, her writing and creative process, Los Angeles, and ghosts. U Up? - book summary - Eve has a carefully curated online life, works occasionally, and texts constantly with her best friend, Ezra. Basically, she is an archetypal L.A. millennial. She has also been carrying on a year-long conversation with her deceased friend Miggy over...
This episode we discuss the book Boy Erased: A Memoir by Gerard Conley, with our outstanding guest, the musician Adaline. This episode comes with a trigger warning as it discusses religious trauma and conversion therapy. The son of a Baptist pastor and deeply embedded in church life in small town Arkansas, as a young man Garrard Conley was terrified and conflicted about his sexuality. When Garrard was a nineteen-year-old college student, he was outed to his parents, and was ...
We are joined by Nicole and Lauren from Coming Out Podcast! If you haven't heard them then you should definitely check them out (after you listen to this episode, of course)!We discuss the teenage coming of age book Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Saenz!Enjoy!
In this episode we talk to queer author Tina Kakadelis about her dog, the Gilmore Girls, Bruce Springsteen, One Direction, and Dolly Parton. Oh, and her YA queer novel series, The Carly Allen Trilogy. Specifically we talk about the first book in the series, Burn Before Reading. It is a YA novel about heart break, young queer love, deciding which college to attend, and trying to survive until graduation. Tina is an incredible young author and we most definitely recommen...
If you've listened to this podcast before then you've probably heard us mention Fried Green Tomatoes at LEAST once!Well we are finally getting to discuss it with the incredibly wonderful, incredibly talented musician Emy Taliana!
In this SUPERSIZED episode Kendra and Amanda talk to queer actor Mandahla Rose about the book Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera. In this amazing young adult novel, nineteen-year-old Juliet Palante writes a you-changed-my-life letter to her favorite feminist author and is granted a summer internship at the author's home in Portland, OR. Leaving her loving Puerto Rican family in the Bronx is difficult, but Juliet also welcomes the chance to enter a new environment: her mother has been...
The lovely Harvey Guillen discusses the book Under the Rainbow by Celia Laskey. This one hits close to home, since it takes place in a (fictional) town in Kansas, where Amanda and Kendra live!Trigger warning: there is violence against lgbtq+ in the book, though it is not discussed in depth in the episode.
In this episode we discuss the book Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (Mariner Books) with the Leigh Holmes Foster and Ellie Brigida of the Lez Hang Out Podcast. Trigger warning for suicide as the book does discuss this topic so we talk a bit about it. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lez-hang-out-a-lesbian-podcast/id1296938673
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