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Queer Collective Podcast

Health & Fitness, Relationships, Sexuality, Society & Culture

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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#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

  1. 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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    00:00 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
    59:58 Why Horror Is Our Comfort Watch

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    1 hr 6 min
  2. 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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    0:00 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
    1:06:28 The Fight for Butch Representation

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    1 hr 16 min
  3. 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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    00:00 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
    57:13 Should You EVER Hook Up With an Ex?

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    1 hr 8 min
  4. 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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    0:00 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
    1:04:37 We Have Always Existed

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    1 hr 6 min
  5. 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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    0:00 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
    75:19 How Do We Actually Find Fat Joy?

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    1 hr 20 min
  6. 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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    00:00 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
    1:03:37 Neurodivergent Shame, Sex & Self-Acceptance

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    1 hr 8 min
  7. 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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    00:00 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?
    1:42:14 Why Aromantics Aren’t Taken Seriously

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    1 hr 45 min
  8. 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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    00:00 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
    1:28:32 Sapphic Red Flags Game

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    1 hr 39 min
  9. 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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    00:00 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
    01:34:37 The Real Bisexual Legacy

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    1 hr 33 min
  10. 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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    00:00 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
    01:26:25 Haircuts, Mustaches, and Signals

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    1 hr 43 min
  11. 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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    0:00 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
    1:24:31 Did Lesbians Help Trans Prn Begin?

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    1 hr 36 min
  12. 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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    00:00 intro
    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
    1:21:48 Gender neutral diva

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    1 hr 27 min
  13. 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.

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    00:00 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 42 min
  14. Most People Are Dating on Autopilot

    Episode 145

    Show notes

    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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    00:00 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
    57:39 are you happy?

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    1 hr 3 min
  15. 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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    00:00 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
    1:08:02 Religion is Kink in cosplay

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    1 hr 14 min
  16. 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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    00:00 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?
    1:07:39 Are women healthier without men?

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    1 hr 20 min
  17. 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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    00:00 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
    1:31:21 What can femmes do better?

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    1 hr 37 min
  18. 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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    00:00 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?)
    43:43 Actually non-binary?

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    51 min
  19. 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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    00:00 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
    1:18:31 is it viewed as negative?

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    1 hr 25 min
  20. 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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    00:00 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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    1 hr 33 min