Not What You Think – Season 3
Description
Not What You Think covers the important stuff that doesn’t fit in the news cycle. You know: that low key stuff that isn’t on our radar.
The small, important stuff.
This third season we’re covering what happens when you get older, two-hundred and twenty thousand motorcycle couriers in one city and a golden age of comics. Later on, we’ll be explaining how you make a newspaper for children, talking about intimate partner violence in the LGBTIQ community and catching you up on gastropods. None of these are likely to be stories you’ve heard before.
Listen 10:30 am Saturdays, starting February 13th on 94.5fm. Or on this page.
You can hear each episode a day early here or on our podcast — yes, just like that Serial thing. Subscribe with Tunes or subscribe with Android (just click) search inside your favourite podcast app for “Not What You Think”, or give your app this here web address: http://945fm.myradio.click/public/api/feed/138
Don’t like podcasts? We’ve got all the episodes so far here to listen to, down the page.
You can also find out about pirates, queer sex ethics, bacteria computers and more in our Season 1 and Season 2 archives. Want to shoot us an idea for an episode? Email Zacha or Samira: we’d love to know.
301: Growing Older as a Lesbian
Have you ever thought about what the world is like as you get older? It can be hard: even harder if you’re a woman. And harder still if you’re gay. Or transgender. If you don’t fit in.
Teresa Savage has spent her life not fitting in. And being awesome for it. She runs the website 55 Uppity, which is a site ”about what older dykes and queers and lezzos wear and think and believe.”
She fills us in.
Links from this episode:
Find more cool, older lesbians at 55 Uppity.
The Australian Silver Rainbow Project and the Rainbow Tick help make sure retirement is an LGBTI safe place.
302: Motoboys and Motogirls (Antoni Abad)
São Paolo has a traffic problem. But while the cars stand still, motoboys (and motogirls) ride up the “corridor of death” between gridlock. Over two hundred thousand of them. It’s an incredibly dangerous job.
Spanish artist, Antoni Abad gave the motoboys a voice at megafone.net in the early days of the mobile internet and will tell you all about them, from the favela to the app economy.
He knows his motoboys.
Links from this episode:
The motoboy section of Megafone.net is still running, the better part of a decade later. If you’re Sydney-based, you might want to check out his Sydney project Blind.wiki. If you’re blind or vision impaired, you might also want to contribute. You can also check out a few of megafone.net’s other channels.
Read the New York Times’ article on Motoboys from 2004. Dated, but still good.
You can also check out Rinaldo’s mini-documentary about life as a motoboy. (It’s ok: there are subtitles.)
Antoni was in Sydney for Art and About as a guest of the Sydney Cervantes institute.
303: Making It Big and Making It Small in Comics (Matt Huynh)
It seems a bit like comic books are everywhere these days: dominating our screens from Iron Man to Jessica Jones. But this isn’t the first time that there’s been a comic book boom. And it’s not always as easy to ride that wave as an artist as it might seem.
Comic artist Matt Huynh has had a lot of success at this comic-making thing, both in Australia and the States. He’s joined by fellow artist Marcelo Baez, who witnessed the 90s comics craziness first hand.
Links from this episode:
So much of Matt’s art is on his site; but you’ll need to check out SBS to read the Boat.
Marcelo’s work over at his site, too. And there’s Diabla artwork to see.
Frank Miller wrote and drew things like the Dark Knight Returns, 300, Sin City and Daredevil. The Daredevil story Born Again was one of the comics Matt recommends getting started reading with. The other comic he recommended was Marjane Satrapi’s Chicken with Plums, which is first date approved by his girlfriend.
Some of the Australian comics mentioned in the episode were Cyberswine, Da ‘n Dill, Hairbutt the Hippo, Squadro
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