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Queer View Mirror – 14 May 2025

For our IDAHOBIT week episode, we speak with Simon Ruth, the CEO of Thorne Harbour Health and Matilda Alexander from the Queensland LGBTI Legal Service.

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Queer View Mirror – 7 May 2025

Rafael Gerster & Jen Johnson from Living Positive Victoria (LPV) and Dr Jill Blee, author of Champagne at Three.

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Queer View Mirror - 9 April 2025

Tiger Salmon, the creator of Australia’s first lesbian erotic zine, joins the show to talk about recreating her iconic images with a new generation for the Wicked Reboot exhibition at Unassigned Gallery. We…

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Queer View Mirror - 12 February 2025

ALOK returns to Australia and Queer View Mirror to discuss their new comedy show Hairy Situation and Rae White tells us all about their new children's book All the Colours of the Rainbow…

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That's A Wrap!

Although the podcast format of Queer View Mirror has now wrapped, this show continues to be broadcast on Triple R. You can now listen to new episodes on Triple R’s FM On Demand…

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Commissioner for LGBTIQA+ Communities and Justice Q

Joe Ball chats about his new role as LGBTIQA+ Commissioner, then founding lawyer of Justice Q, Kavitha Sivasamy, discusses the newly-launched specialist legal service for the LGBTIQA+ community in the south-east region.

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Indie Porn; Revolution, Regulation, and Resistance and EDGING

Socio-legal researcher and author Dr Zahra Stardust chats about the new book Indie Porn: Revolution, Regulation, and Resistance.

In the second half of the show, Lead Artist and Director of APHIDS, Lara…

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Cruel Britannia: After Frankenstein and Spinning Around: The Kylie Playlist

Host Sam Elkin and writer Jonathan Butler are joined by critically-acclaimed writer and performer Kristen Smyth to talk about her new play Cruel Brittania: After Frankenstein, a transgender reimagingng of the original…

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Cross-dressing in family photo albums and The Modern Guide to Sex

Recipients of the State Library of Queensland's Rainbow Research Fellowship, Dr Marion Stell and Professor Celmara Pocock join Queer View Mirror to talk about how they discovered the phenomena of cross-dressing in family…

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Rainbow Migrants & Reveling in Gender for Trans Month

The Queer View Crew first have a chat with sociologist Dr Lukasz Krzyzowski from Edith Cowan University about the Rainbow Migrants Living Lab, also known as RaMiLab, which is a new initiative…

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Sapphic Stories & Shit Shows

The Queer View crew chat with author and screenwriter, Mira Robertson, to discuss her recently published sapphic coming-of-age story Grace and Marigold which draws on her own experiences at the height of the…

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Brat, Books, and More Books

The QVM team chat about Hamish's 'brat summer', and then talk to Lebanese-Palestinian writer, editor, and educator Hasib Hourani about his new book rock flight which explores a personal and historical narrative of…

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Queer Literary Siblings

Sam and Gemma chat to literary siblings, Liz and Andrew Sutherland, on poetry, polyamorous fantasy, Overland literary journal, and the Emerging Writers' Festival.

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LGBTQIA+ Stories on the Page: Willow Maclay, Caden Gardner & Michael Earp

Sam Elkin is running the show solo in this episode of Queer View Mirror. He first has a chat with North American editors and authors Willow Catelyn Maclay and Caden Mark Gardner to…

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Love, Money, Sex, Death, Tickle, Giggle

Sam and Gemma first welcome public theorist and writer McKenzie Wark to discuss her autofictional memoir Love and Money, Sex and Death which reimagines her past through a new perspective after coming out…

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Celebrating "Slutdom" & A Language of Limbs

Sam has another bookish episode with two literary guests lined up.

He first has a chat with kinky, queer, mother, grandmother, sexologist, and author of recently released Slutdom, Hilary Caldwell, whose doctorate…

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Tessa Morris-Suzuki on Monte Punshon & Tasty Raid's 30th Anniversary

Sam Elkin is back for Queer View Mirror with a jam-packed guest line up. Author and professor at ANU, Tessa Morris-Suzuki, discusses her recently published book, A Secretive Century: Monte Punshon’s Australia which…

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Queer Admin and Advocacy

Guest host Kirby Fary has a chat with queer Naarm-based artist and writer Georgia Mill about her recently published article Queer admin: When our stories don’t fit on forms, featured in Archer…

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Tempo di Femme

Guest host Kirby Fary fills in for the Queer View Crew and has a chat with queer advocate, producer, educator, and owner of the queer rave Unicorns, Adele (delsi cat) Moleta, about…

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Literature and Lactose

Sam and Hamish talk with Jax Brown who is running TGD Book Club, a book club for trans and gender-diverse people at Thorne Harbour Health, and author Marcel Liement about their trans…

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Surviving Persecution: Stacey Stokes & David Owen Kelly

Sam and Hamish first have a chat with Stacey Stokes, contributor to the 2022 anthology of trans and gender-diverse writing Nothing to Hide to discuss her experiences of incarceration as a trans woman…

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Plastic and Trash

Sam and Hamish are first joined by Aotearoa based, Ngāti Maniapoto/Ngāpuhi poet, publisher, editor, and teacher, Stacey Teague, to discuss her new collection of poems Plastic. They then have a chat with Robert…

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Queer Politics & Anthologies

Continuing into Pride Month, Sam, Hamish and Gemma get together to chat with Leigh Boucher (he/him) one of the authors of the book "Personal Politics: Sexuality, Gender, and the Remaking of Citizenship in…

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Younger Readers & Younger Stories

Sam, Gemma, and Hamish make their triumphant return for the begining of Pride Month and speak to two authors in this episode dedicated to younger readers and younger stories. They first have a…

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Computers are Binary... Human's Aren't

Guest host Kirby Fary fills in for another episode of Queer View Mirror, they have a chat with writer and digital rights activist Sam Floreani about automated gender recognition software (AGR) in response…

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Immortalising Queer Stories in Art

Guest host Kirby Fary returns for another episode of Queer View Mirror. They first welcome arts educator and multidisciplinary artist Luciano to discuss community arts initiative Queer-ways: From Archive to Artwork which will…

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The Rights of Queer Protesters & Nevo Zisin on IDAHOBIT and Nabka Day

Kirby Fary fills in for the usual Queer View crew and has a chat with Sophie L'Estrange from Melbourne Activist Legal Support (MALS) to discuss the rights of protesters with a focus on…

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Queer Lived Experiences into Art

Sam and Gemma first have a chat with co-creators of Homo Pentecostus, proud Wurundjeri man Joel Bray and Armenian-Greek actor Peter Paltos, about the intimate exploration of secret queer identitie within the…

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All Things Queer in Comedy

Gemma has two hilarious guests lined up in another comedic edition of Queer View Mirror. She first has a chat with Rhys Nicholson about their sold out Melbourne International Comedy Festival show Huge…

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Functional Bottom and The Pyramid of Needs

Sam welcomes "artiste, journalist, sex worker and hot f#%king mess", Jessi Ryan to the show to chat about their debut show Functional Bottom currently showing as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival…

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All Things Come-Dyke Festival

Sam embraces "lesbian comedian energy" and welcomes a range of guests to Queer View Mirror. He first has a chat with writer, performer, and fourth most well known lesbian Hannah from Tasmania, Hannah…

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"The Gay Gay Gay Poetry Episode"

Sam and Hamish have two literary guests lined up in this self proclaimed "Gay Gay Gay Poetry Edition" of Queer View Mirror. They first welcome to the show queer poet, researcher, and lectureer…

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Ruby Slippers & Reuben Kaye

The Queer View Crew welcome "Busy Bisexual Burlesque Baddie" and guest curator at the NGV, Ruby Slippers, to discuss the upcoming Bowery Ball. Gemma then has a chat with australian comedian, singer, and…

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Comfort and Contortion

Gemma, Hamish, and Sam are joined by co-owner of Sapphic Flicks, Merryn Trescott, to have a chat about a new campaign for local transgender and non-binary binder company Transform Transwear. The Queer View…

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Being Brave Beyond Binaries & Begonias in Ballarat

Sam, Gemma, and Hamish welcome two guests onto the show this episode. The crew first chat with chief executive officer at Transgender Victoria Dr Son Vivienne about their new book Queering Safe Spaces:…

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Queers in Space! and Dr David Gould's Survivors and Thrivers

The Queer View crew have an astronomical line up of guests this week.

First, Sam welcomes gender queer and autistic creator Spencer M.F Rodrick to talk about their writing about being normal in…

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Midsumma Festival: Kathryn Yates and SYCCO

Hamish and Gemma have a chat with award winning queer director Kathryn Yates about her theatre performce, ALTAR, featuring as part of Midsumma. They also welcome First Nations artist, writer, producer, and bakery-enthusiast…

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Trans Powerlifting, Overflow and Queer Connections in Port Philip

Join Sam Elkin and Hamish McLachlan with Yugambeh writer, editor and researcher Arlie Azzili to chat about his contribution to new book The Long Lede Anthology exploring the trans perspective of Powerlifting. Also…

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Queer poets Scott-Patrick Mitchell and Gavin Yuan Gao

The team chat to Scott-Patrick Mitchell, a talented queer non-binary poet on his new poetry book Clean, a book about the power of addiction and the power of coming clean. Gavin…

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Drag: A British History with Dr Jacob Bloomfield

In this epsode Sam Elkin and Gemma Cafarella talk to Dr Jacob Bloomfield about their book Drag: A British History. Stay tuned to know about the British History of the sustained popularity and…

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