Cheers & Queers

Are they cute or are they just lightskin? Isake and Queen talk about colorism, pop culture things that have brought us Black joy. Please follow us on Instagram and Twitter @CheersNQueers, and support our Patreon.

Isake talks with Jennifer Eden about kink, sex education, and centering self-pleasure in the midst of a continued global disaster. Please follow us on Instagram and Twitter @CheersNQueers, and support our Patreon.

Kirya and Isake talk with Jewel about party spaces, survival-centered transformative justice practices, and what it means to be crafting the way forward with practice, grace, and twerking. Please follow us on Instagram and Twitter @CheersNQueers, and support our Patreon.

We are back with a mini-episode to begin Season 3! Kirya and Isake talk about the apocalypse, dry January, and give you some important show updates. Please follow us on Instagram and Twitter @CheersNQueers, and support our Patreon.

Isake and Kirya giggle a lot with our guest, storyteller, and musician Be Steadwell. We talk about her new album, Succulent, what is getting us through in the midst of a wild world, and what we are imagining things could be.

The first of our Star Trek mini-series! We talk through Enterprise and discuss if it’s really as bad as everyone says it is. (Spoiler alert, it’s the worst thing to ever happen to space, but listen anyway for a Black queer analysis of why it’s so terrible!)Please fill out our listener survey and check out our Patreon!

Isake and Kirya drink different things and meander through their lives in the time of the ‘Rona. BONUS: Now you can give us your money!(Please take a few moments to fill out our listener survey, the link is in the show notes below)

Another throwback episode! We (extensively) cover Vulcans at First Contact, consider the work Black femmes do for everyone, look for queer history from 1619 to 2019, misandry, and chat with Angelique Roche about the journey to freelance, content creation, and being a professional nerd.

A blerdy review of our trek fandom with Cleopatra From the Bronx. Recorded live at Respect: Women’s Podcast Festival hosted by the Black Tribbles in at Amalgam Comics in Philly, August 24, 2019.

A smol aperitif to get you ready! We chat about co-habitating, marriage, plant witchery, and what the show is doing next. Follow us at CheersNQueers, Isake @is_she_okay on Twitter and IG & Kirya @kiryatraber (twitter) @kiryat (IG).

Isake and Kirya get witchy. Kirya gives Isake her first ever Tarot reading, and they talk about rituals, both magic and otherwise, for the Black femme with special guest model and artist Lorelei Black @blacklorelei7 (IG). Follow Isake @is_she_okay on Twitter and IG & Kirya @kiryatraber (twitter) @kiryat (IG).

Isake and Kirya have an unfiltered conversation about cultivating spaces for black queerness to thrive with, Jarvis Green, the Founder & Producing Artistic Director of Jag Productions, a Black theatre company in Upper Valley Vermont. We touch on friendships, family, and the presence and absence of queer narratives in our history and our lives.

We’re back for Season 2! We celebrate a year of making shows with a fight of rum cocktails, and updates on our lives and the world.

Our very first live show! We talk about the origins of Cheers & Queers, share what we find erotic, celebrate the birthday of the indomitable Audre Lorde with scholar and best aunt ever, Alexis Pauline Gumbs and the NYC based organizing center, The Audre Lorde Project, then play a drinking game with erotic Star Trek fan fic. Grab a drink and join us!

**HEAR YE, HEAR YE! THIS EPISODE IS FULL OF SPOILERS!**We chat with Tony Ray, of Everybody Loves Tony Ray, about ALL OF OUR FEELINGS, good, bad, and complex. But in the end, we all agree: WAKANDA FOREVER.

On this episode we chat about our favorite love relationships in fandom, how to pick a bubbly wine, and what might come after the revolution (aka how to get yo money right when money doesn’t exist anymore).AND we hear from listeners and past guests who share their practical, visionary, and heartfelt thoughts on economics, capitalism, and blackanomics (or something like that).

On this episode we chat about hooking up at Hogwarts, warm dranks, handling the holidays, street harassment, gender, flirting, the failure of She’s Gotta Have It, representation, and all the ways to Femme with artist Sal Muñoz.We also want you to give us your thoughts on economics, capitalism, and blackanomics (or something like that). Send your one minute or less voice memo to us at CheersNQueers@gmail.com

On this episode, we chat about queers and non-monogamy, spoons, our homies on the left coast, relationships, and a different kind of love with Ericka Hart and Ebony Donnely over some fancy rosé!Show NotesDrinkingPinot de Sud Côtes-de-thongue roséMusicIntro: Sage by Be SteadwellAdditional Music Restore by Abel ShifferaHands by BoomscatConga House by Abel ShifferaSatisfied from HamiltonOutro: Hey by BoomscatThe TeamHosted by Isake Smith and Kirya TraberProduced by Isake Smith, Kirya Traber, Lance John, and Jassel HernndezEdited by Jassel HernandezLinks to:The Spoon Theory. (http://bit.ly/2l2T4pQ)9 Things Monogamists Can Learn From Polyamory. (http://bit.ly/2l0xWjX)9 Things Polyamorists Can Learn From Monogamy. (http://bit.ly/2kYCkja)The Giant Pool of Money. (http://bit.ly/2l0DBGz)Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized Podcast. (http://apple.co/2l18Jpm) Ericka Hart: (http://www.ihartericka.com/#home)

SummaryOn this episode chat with the legendary Khane of Camera Ready Kutz and the legendary Queer dance party SWEAT!, talk about Queer Aesthetics, review blerDCon 2017, give a toast with some Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey!Show NotesDrinkingJack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey: https://www.jackdaniels.com/en-us/whiskey/tennessee-honeyMusicIntro: Sage by Be SteadwellAdditional Music Restore by Abel ShifferaThoughtful by Abel ShifferaConga House by Abel ShifferaOutro: Back That Ass Up by JuvenileThe TeamHosted by Isake Smith and Kirya TraberProduced by Gifted SoundsEdited by Jassel HernandezLinks to:Khane’s LGBTQIA Barbershop GoFundMe -https://www.gofundme.com/lgbtqiabarbershopCamera Ready Kutz, Inc. -www.CameraReadyKutz.com

On this episode, we introduce the show, preview some future segments, give a toast to Pride month, and try a new drink!