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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Sam and Gemma welcome transgender American historian, professor, filmmaker, theorist, and author Susan Stryker to the show to talk about her career so far and what she has in store for the future.
Queer View Mirror welcomes a range of queer and gender-diverse literary editors and contributors in this episode. Sam has a chat with Kate Hall and Timothy Christopher Ryan of Q-Lit as well as…
The Queer View Mirror crew have a literary raunch-fest in store; Welcoming non-binary writer Mx. Sly to talk about their memoir of transformation and self-discovery Transland: Consent, Kink, and Pleasure. The team…
The Queer View Mirror crew invite director of Rebel Queers: Ukraine’s Queer Resistance, Angelika Ustymenko to discuss their documentary short following the experiences of queer Ukrainians during wartime. The team also have…
The Queer View crew are joined to the show by Cat Fitzpatrick, author of The Call Out: A Novel in Rhyme, and discuss the importance of queer representation, trans literature, independant book…
Sam and Hamish have a set of literary guests join them on the show. They have a chat with Brisbane writer James Tolcher about his debut memoir Poof exploring the young gay experience…
Gemma and Sam have a chat with Benjamin Hegarty, author of The Made Up State: Technology, Trans Femininity, and Citizenship in Indonesia. They also are joined by trans-masc performer, Oliver Ayres, to…
The team have a large line up of guests on the show; Sam has a chat with Michael Earp and Alison Evans about the newly released queer fairytale anthology Everything Under the Moon…
The Queer View Mirror crew have a chat with Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Macquarie University, Dr Geraldine Fela, about the upcoming public talk: Talking About Listening: Oral Histories exploring HIV nursing during the…
Sam and Hamish are joined by author Noah Riseman and trans activist Julie Peters to talk about Transgender Australia: A History since 1910, a book exploring the lives, impacts history of the…
Hamish and Sam have a chat with Craig Seligman about his newly released book Who Does That Bitch Think She Is? Doris Fish and the Rise of Drag capturing the life and legacy…
Sam and Hamish have a chat with AP Pobjoy the director of Unerased, an online series following nine transgender students on the verge of graduating who document their lives with their phones…
Hamish and Sam have a chat with queer poet Jarad Bruinstroop about his debut poetry collection Reliefs; the crew also talk with Professor Ben Campkin who will be launching his book Queer…
Hamish and Sam hold down the fort in this Radiothon special; Convince Janet and Mark Cafarella to subscribe Benny the cat and the crew talk with trans, non-binary and disabled writer and broadcaster…
Rowan Heath joins Hamish and Sam to discuss their short story, 'The Mannequin', which was the winner of the 2023 Australian Book Review Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. There were a total of…
The team speak to Shaneel Lal about their memoir "One Of Them", being the Young New Zealander of the year and successfully lobbying the New Zealand govt. to outlaw conversion therapy.
The team speak to Tess Devèze about their agender and LGBTQIA+ inclusive Melbourne based somatic sexology and sexuality occupational therapy. Gemma and Sam also speak with Vuk Lungulov-Klotz and Alexander Stegmaier, writer-director and…
Author Steph Lentz joins hosts Gemma and Hamish to talk about her memoir In/Out, her experience of 'falling into love and out of the church' after being publicly sacked as a teacher at…
Social worker Erin Riley joins Gemma and Hamish to talk about their new book A Real Piece of Work, a collection of essays about "family, heartbreak, humanity, justice and swimming, and the messy…
Author Kerry Taylor joins hosts Sam, Claire and Hamish to discuss her debut novel, ‘Mr Smith to You’, based on the true story of transgender Australian jockey Bill Smith. Together they discuss how…
Naarm-based author and journalist Paul Dalgarno drops by the studio to talk about his new book ‘Prudish Nation’ and Australia’s complex relationship with sexuality and gender. Alongside hosts Gemma and Hamish, they discuss…
LGBTIQA+ equality advocate and academic Rodney Croome joins hosts Sam, Gemma, and Hamish to talk about his campaign in establishing an LGBTQIA+ representative to sit as part of the Australian Human Rights Commission…
Hosts Hamish, Gemma, and Chloe discuss the recent media coverage of controversial naarm-based academic Holly Lawford Smith’s anti-trans campaign. Later, they are joined by Gomeroi-descendent and drag performer Dorreen Manganini. Together they talk…
Sam, Gemma and Hamish are firstly joined by Billy-Ray Belcourt, a writer from the Driftpile Cree Nation. They discuss his new novel, A Minor Chorus, which draws from his own identity as…
In a ‘Melbourne Writers Festival’ special-episode, Mununjali-writer Ellen van Neerven joins the program to discuss her new book ‘Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity’ and the experience of sport as a queer individual. After…
LGBTIQA+ sport researcher Dr. Ryan Storr from Swinburne University joins the program to discuss the recent landmark decision from Basketball Australia to ban transgender athlete Lexi Rodgers from participating in their women’s competition…
Hamish and Sam are joined by Jackie Turner, director of the ‘Trans Justice Project’. Together they discuss the emerging anti-trans rhetoric in the Australian legislature and how we can battle transphobia on social…
