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Queer Collective Podcast
The Queer Collective Podcast is a bi-weekly queer podcast that takes a deep-dive into every subgroup of the LGBTQ2S+ community. Co-hosts Emily and Karbon, the dynamic duo navigating their own relationships and gender identities, invite guests to provide detailed perspectives on a specific topic. Whether you're interested in bisexuality, queer sex-ed, compulsory heterosexuality, or any facet of LGBTQ+ life, we cover it all with a unique blend of casual conversation and deep journalism.
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- Relationships chart
- #138
- Episodes
- 158
- Releases
- Every two weeks
- Typical length
- 1 hr 20 min
- On air since
- 2020
- Latest episode
- 5 days ago
Episodes
158 episodes, newest first
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1 hr 6 min
Why Is Horror the Gayest Genre?
Episode 158
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Why do queer people love horror so much? Lesbian vampires, forbidden desire, two men making a baby… this genre has some explaining to do.
Cinema researcher Tamar Hanstke joins us to unpack queer horror, from 'Frankenstein' and 'The Vampire Lovers' to 'Jennifer’s Body' and 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show'. We’re talking LGBTQ+ representation, queer subtext, camp, and the suspiciously thin line between a monster and a gay icon.
How did a genre that made us the monsters become our comfort watch? Grab your emotional support horror movie. We’re getting into it.
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Email: queer.collective.to@gmail.com00:00 Why Do Queer People Love Horror?
01:09 Halloween Is Gay Christmas
03:53 Why We See Ourselves in the Monster
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12:48 Frankenstein: Two Men Making a Baby
19:09 Trans Rage & Reclaiming Frankenstein
24:16 Mary Shelley’s Very Queer Letters
28:42 James Whale: Horror’s Gay Godfather
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35:57 Carmilla: Lesbian Vampires & the Male Gaze
46:34 Vampire Bites Are Never Just Bites
50:30 What Is Camp? A Love of Bad Taste
55:21 Rocky Horror & Jennifer’s Body: Queer Cult Classics
57:28 Freaky: A Body Swap with Trans Subtext
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1 hr 16 min
Where Have All The Masc Lesbians Gone?
Episode 157
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Butch lesbians were once punished for being too visible. Now the internet claims they’re disappearing. So what happened?
We’re investigating the so-called “masc shortage” with lesbian studies professor Dr. Tori Smith and masc lesbian coach Raia Carey. Are masc lesbians actually disappearing, or are dating expectations, changing identities, and decades of lesbian erasure shaping who gets seen? From butch and stud history to transmasculine identities, lesbophobia, and the lack of masculine lesbian representation in mainstream media, we’re unpacking why this dating complaint goes WAY deeper than you’d expect.
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Email: queer.collective.to@gmail.com0:00 Where Did All the Masc Lesbians Go?
0:47 What Does It Mean to Be Butch, Stud, Transmasculine & Masc?
6:46 Reclaiming “Dyke”: Empowering or Painful?
10:29 Are We Actually in a Masc Shortage?
11:51 What Kind of Masc Are You Actually Looking For?
13:35 The “Butch Flight” Panic: Why Trans Men Got Blamed
23:29 Are Transmasc People Welcome in Lesbian Spaces?
28:23 The Visible Lesbian: Creation & Criminalization of the Butch
30:13 When Dressing Butch Could Get You Arrested
32:55 The Shared History of Lesbians and Trans People
39:10 Why Patriarchy Fears Masculine Lesbians
42:14 How Lesbophobia Still Shows Up Today
53:27 Code-Switching for Safety as a Black Masc Lesbian
1:00:56 The Paradox of Butch Invisibility
1:03:36 Why TV Keeps Softening Butch Lesbians
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1 hr 8 min
Can You Stay Friends With an Ex Without Getting Hurt?
Episode 156
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After six years together, living together, building a business and opening our relationship, we broke up… and somehow stayed friends. Two years later, we’re finally unpacking what that actually took. With psychotherapist Jennifer Hanson, we get into why queer people keep their exes so close, when friendship is worth fighting for, when it keeps you stuck, jealousy, new partners, no-contact, boundaries, and the messy process of learning to love someone differently.
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Email: queer.collective.to@gmail.com00:00 We Dated for 6 Years… Now We’re Friends
01:44 Why Queer People Stay Friends With Their Exes
05:00 Should You Actually Stay Friends With Your Ex?
08:59 When Is an Ex Worth Keeping in Your Life?
11:45 When You Should NEVER Stay Friends With an Ex
12:10 What If Your Ex Doesn’t Want to Be Friends?
18:18 How Do You Actually Become Friends With an Ex?
19:57 The Boundaries You Need After a Breakup
23:58 Why Am I Jealous If I Don’t Want Them Back?
29:00 Are Non-Monogamous People Better at Breakups?
38:11 Sharing Friends When Your Ex Starts Dating Again
48:17 Do You Need No Contact After a Breakup?
52:30 How We Broke Up While Still Living Together
55:05 The Problem With Hoping You’ll Get Back Together
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1 hr 6 min
Trans People Were Sacred?
Episode 155
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Why do trans and gender-nonconforming people keep showing up suspiciously close to gods, prophecy and ancient religion? With trans historian Sophie Edwards, we follow a wildly gay historical trail through the ancient mediterranean to ask why people crossing gender boundaries were so often imagined as closer to the divine.
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Email: queer.collective.to@gmail.com0:00 Why Were Trans People So Close to the Divine?
1:00 Can We Call Ancient People Trans?
2:22 The Enarees: Trans Diviners Trusted by Kings
8:30 Why Was Gender-Crossing Linked to Prophecy?
11:50 The Galli: Rome’s Trans Feminine Priestesses
16:20 Ancient Gender-Affirming Care & the Day of Blood
23:15 How Did Ancient Rome Treat the Galli?
28:49 Where Did the Galli Go?
30:40 The Trans Saints of Early Christianity
31:55 Saint Pelagius: The Trans Saint & Former Sex Worker
42:42 Saint Marinos: Exiled Rather Than Out Himself
51:06 Is Transness Connected to the Divine?
54:15 Tiresias: Gender-Crossing, Gods & Prophecy
59:03 The Mystery of the Bearded Venus
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1 hr 20 min
Extreme Skinny Is Back… and It’s Terrifying
Episode 154
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Thin is back. Ozempic bodies, heroin chic nostalgia, shrinking celebrities, and suddenly the body positivity era feels like a fever dream. We’re revisiting one of our favourite conversations with artist and body liberation advocate Jennarie to unpack what fatphobia actually does to us, why thin privilege is so invisible, and how diet culture keeps turning our insecurity into profit. Because you can’t heal your relationship with your body while still being terrified of looking fat.
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Email: queer.collective.to@gmail.com0:00 Thin Is Back, and That Should Scare Us
1:09 Body Liberation Is Bigger Than Body Positivity
4:03 Growing Up Terrified of Being Fat
12:14 Why Fat People Aren’t Allowed to Be Desirable
20:32 Ads
23:17 Who Decided Thin = Attractive?
27:49 When Doctors Blame Everything on Your Weight
36:31 Why “Just Go to the Gym” Is Bullshit
44:25 What Fat Allyship Actually Looks Like
49:12 Ads
51:37 Why Plus-Size Shopping Is a Different Reality
60:15 Why Are We So Afraid of Looking Fat?
64:09 “You Don’t Look Fat” Isn’t a Compliment
67:14 The Fatphobia You Don’t Know You Have
72:30 Ozempic, Heroin Chic & Why Thin Is Back
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1 hr 8 min
Dating Wasn’t Built for Neurodivergent People
Episode 153
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Your crush takes three hours to text back, and suddenly your brain has written, directed and cancelled the entire relationship. We’re unpacking queer neurodivergent dating, sex and intimacy with psychotherapist Frankie Talon Rose: rejection sensitivity, limerence, masking, sensory overload, autistic flirting, kink, consent and the ADHD brain thinking about laundry mid-hookup. From AuDHD dating chaos to shutdowns in long-term relationships, this is a practical, spicy guide to building love around the brain you actually have, not the neurotypical fantasy you were handed. Direct communication has never been hotter.
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Email: queer.collective.to@gmail.com00:00 Why Queer People Are More Likely to Be Autistic
02:26 Autism Self-Diagnosis vs. Formal Diagnosis
04:52 How Autism–Trans Research Gets Weaponized
06:24 What Is AuDHD? Autism + ADHD Explained
12:00 Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria in Dating
19:59 Limerence, Hyperfixation & Obsessive Crushes
26:31 Autistic Flirting & the Double Empathy Problem
32:21 Sensory Overload on First Dates
37:41 Masking and Unmasking in Relationships
41:53 Autistic Meltdowns: How Partners Can Help
46:11 ADHD, Hypersexuality & Sexual Impulsivity
50:00 Why ADHD Brains Get Distracted During Sex
55:12 Autism, Kink & Sensory Needs in Bed
59:52 AAC and Nonverbal Consent During Sex
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1 hr 45 min
The Struggle of Being Aromantic in a Love-Obsessed World
Episode 152
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We’re unpacking aromanticism. What if the person everyone calls cold, avoidant, or emotionally unavailable simply doesn’t experience romantic attraction? We’re tracing the misunderstood world of aromanticism; From the rise of the aro label and the pressure of amatonormativity to the myths that confuse aromantic people with trauma, autism, asexuality, or commitment issues. We’re also asking the gay little question society hates most: can intimacy, partnership, and sex exist without romance?
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Email: queer.collective.to@gmail.com00:00 Aromantic or Emotionally Unavailable?
01:26 What Does Aromantic Mean?
05:54 Sex Without Romance
13:30 What Falling in Love Feels Like
19:20 Am I Aromantic?
35:05 Aromantic vs. Asexual
39:17 The Aromantic Spectrum
47:28 What Is Amatonormativity?
51:34 Marriage Before Romantic Love
57:44 Aromantic People in History
1:06:15 How Aromanticism Got Its Name
1:14:26 Does “Love Is Love” Exclude Aros?
1:20:52 Aromantic Myths
1:35:15 Allo-Aro or Fuckboy?
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1 hr 39 min
Lesbians and Bisexual Women Don’t Trust Each Other
Episode 151
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We’re dragging lesbian-bisexual relationship drama out of the group chat and onto the mic. From “she’ll leave me for a man” panic to bisexual erasure, biphobia, anxious attachment, queer gatekeeping, and the cursed phrase “basically a lesbian now,” we’re unpacking the insecurities sapphic couples whisper about but rarely say out loud. It’s messy, tender, deeply researched, and yes, someone is probably getting lovingly read.
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Email: queer.collective.to@gmail.com00:00 The Man She Might Leave You For
01:02 Lesbian Insecurities, Unfiltered
05:08 It’s Not Really About Him
10:04 The First Sapphic Relationship Panic
15:32 What Am I Not Providing?
21:11 The Straight-Life Fantasy
24:48 The “Good Bisexual” Trap
31:06 Were You Really Left For A Man?
35:25 Are Lesbians Centering Men?
40:31 Bisexuality As The “Deviant Other”
46:35 A Listener Challenges The Narrative
1:00:47 When Queerness Becomes Political
1:12:58 Bisexual Insecurities Come Out
1:20:00 The Pressure To Identify As Lesbian
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1 hr 33 min
Why No One Believes Bisexuals
Episode 150
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Bisexuality has been gaslit for literally thousands of years. We’re tracing the chaotic, horny, surprisingly academic history of bisexuality. From ancient queer goddesses and emperors building cities for their boyfriends, to Freud being confidently incorrect (again), 1970s sapphic beef, and the Bisexual Manifesto. It’s funny, messy, dramatic, and weirdly validating. Turns out bisexuals weren’t confused. History was just very committed to pretending they weren’t there.
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Email: queer.collective.to@gmail.com00:00 The Bisexuality Smear Campaign
01:26 Before Bisexuality Existed
08:11 The Emperor and His Boyfriend
14:52 The African Queen With Wives
21:04 When Bisexuality Was Invented
30:56 The Degenerate Brain Theory
35:26 Alfred Kinsey Changes Everything
42:47 The Scale Everyone Knows
49:24 The Biphobia Wars Begin
01:02:18 Political Lesbianism
01:10:36 Why Bisexual Women Were Targeted
01:17:28 Bisexuals Fight Back
01:23:13 The Bisexual Manifesto
01:28:42 The Woman Who Built Pride
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1 hr 43 min
Why No One Can Tell You’re Gay
Episode 149
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From hanky codes, Polari, earrings, camp, gay voice, and all the tiny clues queer people have used to find each other in public; We’re unpacking why queer visibility has always existed somewhere between safety and recognition, and why so many femmes, nonbinary people, and straight-passing queers still feel painfully unclockable today. From secret codes to modern aesthetics, this episode asks what it means to look queer, be read correctly, and finally feel seen.
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Email: queer.collective.to@gmail.com00:00 Why Can’t Anyone Tell?
01:06 Secret Symbols of Queerness
08:12 Queer Codes and Survival
12:14 Polari: Secret Queer Language
16:55 When Queer Slang Gets Stolen
21:11 Lingo, Safety, and Community
27:19 Why Signaling Still Matters
31:08 Performing Non-Binary “Correctly”
39:34 Queerness and the Inner Child
46:42 Authenticity vs. Misgendering
48:05 Femme Visibility and Recognition
49:33 What Camp Really Means
01:00:06 When Signaling Feels Performative
01:10:30 Building Your Queer Avatar
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1 hr 36 min
The Adult Industry’s Queerest Secret
Episode 148
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The adult entertainment industry has a very dirty little secret: some of its most profitable fantasies are queer, but the people behind them often aren’t. We’re diving into the strange, censored, and scandalously political history of trans and sapphic adult media; from ancient lesbian imagery and underground screenings to the feminist s*x wars, On Our Backs, and trans creators reclaiming the lens. Maggie MacDonald, and Val Webber, we follow the money, the gaze, and the fantasies we inherited to ask one deliciously uncomfortable question: who gets rich when queer desire becomes a product?
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Email: queer.collective.to@gmail.com0:00 Queer Prn, Straight Profit
2:09 Trans Prn Meets Capitalism
5:09 Algorithms Shape Queer Desire
15:27 Lesbian Prn’s Short History
17:30 Who Defines Lesbian Prn?
19:51 Performance vs. Authenticity
25:41 Gay Prn Came First
31:07 Women Locked Out of Prn History
43:29 The Feminist Sex Wars
47:06 On Our Backs
1:00:49 Is Prn Feminist?
1:08:15 The Centerfold Debate
1:09:32 Straight-Made, Queer-Watched
1:21:31 The Internet Changed Everything
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1 hr 27 min
Society Hates Difficult Women. Queer People Worship Them
Episode 147
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A diva isn’t born, she’s labeled. And usually right when she stops behaving. We’re unpacking how a word that once meant goddess became shorthand for “too much,” and why powerful, sexual, opinionated women keep getting recast as problems instead of icons. From 1800s opera stages to anti-Nazi spies, civil rights legends, and the queer community that turned them into coded symbols of survival and rebellion. Because maybe being a diva isn’t the insult we were taught, it’s the whole point.
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02:19 The origin of the term Diva
08:40 Theatrical stars
13:16 Dancing divas
23:09 Bisexual icons
29:00 Bad rep in hollywood
38:09 Are you a friend of Dorothy?
46:16 The difficult woman
51:52 The civil rights Movement
1:02:01 Rejection of the diva
1:04:32 Celebrities as imperfect characters
1:17:24 The obsession with Cher
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1 hr 42 min
Are Trans Brains Different? The Science Says…
Episode 146
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Being trans isn’t a trend… but the world sure panicked like it was.
We’re diving into the science behind the transgender brain, the rise of the “social contagion” theory, and the messy history of sexology that started it all. Let's break down what research actually shows about gender identity and biology (and what it doesn’t), why this question is more dangerous than it seems, and how the answers could be used to both validate and weaponize trans existence. This one gets uncomfortable. Fast.Join Our Patreon: https://patreon.com/QueerCollective?utm_medium=unknown&utm_source=join_link&utm_campaign=creatorshare_creator&utm_content=copyLink
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Email: queer.collective.to@gmail.com00:00 Intro 02:55 What's causing the trans boom? 10:49 The social contagion is real 19:38 The bioessentialism problem 28:22 Pros of trans brain science 38:21 Polymorphism makes you trans? 51:00 Maybe you're born with it 58:08 Sociology of transness 1:03:43 Inside the trans brain 1:13:33 How do hormones change your brain? 1:31:32 Would you choose it? 1:38:31 Does science undermine the experience?
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1 hr 3 min
Most People Are Dating on Autopilot
Episode 145
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You think your dating choices are yours… but there's invisible rules shaping your sex, love, and identity. However, there is a disruption that queer, kinky, and non-monogamous people are leading, exposing amatonormativity, and the fantasy of desire that isn’t actually yours. To break down how to unlearn, rebuild, and finally choose yourself, we put Feeld’s new Reflections tool to the test; because self-discovery shouldn’t feel like homework. The script stopped working. Now what?
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Email: queer.collective.to@gmail.com00:00 intro
00:54 Do we make our own choices?
07:44 The bedroom crossover
16:54 Subliminal beliefs we hold
25:50 social rewards and punishments
34:01 ananormativity
29:44 grow out if it
44:49 compulsory heteronormativity
46:43 can't name it can't claim it
50:31 finding your true desires
53:11 scary things that won't kill you
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1 hr 14 min
Why the Church Makes People Kinky
Episode 144
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The Church might be one of the gayest institutions in history and no one’s talking about it. We’re diving into the hidden queer and kinky world inside religious life. From lesbian nuns to closeted clergy, and how centuries of repression shaped it all. Connecting history, theory, and lived experience to ask: does religion suppress desire, or secretly create it? Because once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
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Email: queer.collective.to@gmail.com00:00 Intro
00:59 Growin up with gay clergy?
06:00 Deep in it
11:45 All priests are gay
17:19 The nuns are gay too
21:25 All falling apart
33:08 The shame is too strong
40:53 What religion teaches us about sexuality
48:40 Saying goodbye to Jesus
53:19 Kink will save us
1:00:34 Morality is in question
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1 hr 20 min
Men Are Losing Women (And They Don't Know Why)
Episode 143
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Vox crowned 2025 the year of decentering men. But lesbians were doing it first. We’re unpacking whether “man-hating” is a dead-end, a coping mechanism, or a misread of a much older feminist strategy, with Olivia (aka Olisunvia).
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Email: queer.collective.to@gmail.com00:00 Intro
01:00 Man-hating vs de-centering
05:39 Choice vs radical feminism
11:27 the real hate for men
24:13 Second wave feminism
34:15 The feminist manifesto
48:07 Ideal vs reasonable change
57:29 What's in our best interest?
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1 hr 37 min
The Identity Even Progressive Spaces Get Wrong
Episode 142
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Studs aren’t a vibe, they’re a lineage. We’re unpacking the history, politics, and lived reality of Black masculine lesbians at the crossroads of race, gender, and desire. From the swagger and softness, Harlem Renaissance sapphics, stud vs butch, AGs, Stud4Stud discourse, toxic masculinity, and why Black masculinity plays by different rules. Joined by Elisabeth Clarke, Nadine Wiltshire, and Kiké, we dig into stereotypes, erasure, dating myths, and the radical tenderness at the core of stud identity.
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Email: queer.collective.to@gmail.com00:00 What is a stud?
05:00 The toxic expectations
12:11 Recreating masculinity
19:12 It's because you're black
24:31 Stud on stud clash
35:03 Who can be a stud?
1:03:04 Know your stud history
1:16:04 Black vs white lesbian division
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51 min
The Gender Mystery Historians Still Can’t Explain
Episode 141
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The feral, gender-defiant life of a Canadian WWI veteran who ditched a wealthy upbringing, lived alone in the woods, enlisted three times, fought on the Serbian front as a man, got captured as a prisoner of war, fell in love in a prison camp, and spent decades confusing barbers and bureaucrats alike. We’re queering the Great War, unpacking gender outlaw survival, and asking the spicy question: early non-binary icon or radical dissident woman?
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Email: queer.collective.to@gmail.com00:00 Intro
01:19 Our hero's early life
07:27 The radical of it all
13:52 What was it like for women in 1900s?
21:00 How did a woman get into war?
27:54 Enlisting as a man
36:37 First love interest (as a man?)
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1 hr 25 min
Stone Top And Pillow Princess: The Lesbian S*x Dynamic People Don’t Understand
Episode 140
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Stone butch lesbians. Pillow princesses. An erotic dynamic that fits like a deviant little puzzle and has been wildly misunderstood ever since. Syd and Addy give us all the details from their own personal experiences, tackle myths and misconceptions, and get radically honest about desire, boundaries, and sexual alignment.
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Email: queer.collective.to@gmail.com00:00 intro
00:49 what's a stone top?
07:41 what's a pillow princess?
13:33 can straight girls be a pillow princess?
20:59 myths and misconceptions
25:33 when it's used as an insult
30:35 are they asexual?
34:40 exploring outside the dynamic
42:34 melt the stone?
49:04 finding a partner
51:13 stone butch history
1:01:05 stone butch blues
1:08:22 pillow princess history
1:10:41 all about dating
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1 hr 33 min
The History and Secrets of How Lesbians Have S*x
Episode 139
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We’re cracking open the secret, censored, and wildly creative history of lesbian sex. We’re digging through ancient poems, forbidden medical texts, barroom gossip, queer zines, and the techniques they definitely didn’t teach in sex ed. Tracing sapphic desire from Sappho’s bedroom to modern queer culture and exposing just how inventive lesbians have always been.
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Email: queer.collective.to@gmail.com00:00 intro
01:05 Why is lesbian research scarce?
06:25 do men have higher libido
21:05 ancient greece lesbians
27:24 ancient india lesbians
29:46 medieval lesbos
37:36 is using a dildo phallocentric?
41:21 sexy reddit strap stories
45:42 the arabs had the right idea
48:58 the "itch"
54:04 early modern lesbos
1:02:03 lesbian nuns
1:09:41 modern lesbians
1:12:32 birth of the leather dyke
1:20:49 bdsm kinky lesbians
1:23:11 prison dykes
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