Queer Collective Podcast

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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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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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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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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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

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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

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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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