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Queers is a podcast about politics and culture with Simon Copland and Benjamin Riley. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The End of Queers
At least, for now. Benjamin and Simon reflect on four years of discussion about queer politics and culture, wondering what’s changed, what we’ve learn...
We present: Sinister Sissies
Buckle up Sodomites! Sinister Sissies is your gateway to gay true crime, homoerotic horror and all things man-on-man and macabre!
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Conflict Is Not Abuse
Benjamin took the opportunity of a recent beachside holiday to do some light reading with Sarah Schulman’s book Conflict Is Not Abuse, which Simon rea...
Free Speech
The Israel Folau sacking, campaigns to block far right activists from entering into Australia, the high court decision to uphold the sacking of the pu...
Interview: Jarryd Bartle
Simon interviews writer, lecturer and consultant Jarryd Bartle across a range of topics relating to sexual and criminal deviancy, queer and otherwise....
Sexless Queers
In the second part of our two-part discussion critiquing the role of sex in queer communities and politics, Benjamin and Simon get to the heart of the...
Interview: Jaya Keaney
Benjamin interviews writer and research Jaya Keaney about her work examining concepts of race in the stories of queer families who conceive kids using...
Let’s Not Talk About Sex, Baby
We talk about sex a lot on the podcast, but what about people who don’t feel so comfortable about it? In the first episode of a two-part discussion ch...
The End of Queer Press
With the announcement that Australia’s longest-running queer publication has effectively closed its doors, Benjamin and Simon reflect on the value of...
Winter is Problematic
Just what the world needs—another Game of Thrones take! But after sharing their thoughts on the end of this TV juggernaut, Benjamin and Simon dig into...
Interview: Sally Goldner
Simon interviews community advocate and educator Sally Goldner, discussing Sally’s advocacy for bisexual and trans folk, diversity education inside an...
Foxhole Fantasy
In the jumbo-sized Anzac Day episode you didn’t know you wanted, Benjamin and Simon ask why it’s okay to commemorate war in some ways but not others,...
The Good Queer Body
A chat about body image and gay men quickly spins out into a discussion of queer bodies more generally, as Benjamin and Simon ask: what does it mean t...
Interview: Brendan Maclean
Benjamin interviews singer-songwriter Brendan Maclean about his new album And the Boyfriends, digging into the evolution of his music, what it means f...
Episode 55: Filthy Queers
Why isn’t sex a bigger part of public discourse around queerness? Looking at a classic essay about the revolutionary potential of gay sex, Benjamin an...
Episode 54: No Really, What Can You Do
Benjamin and Simon have another crack at figuring out what individuals can do in the face of structural problems, and while the conversation stays on...
Interview: Gay Alcorn
Simon interviews journalist Gay Alcorn, discussing recent articles she wrote about violence against women. In her analysis, Gay asks the question: is...
Episode 53: What Can You Do
Benjamin and Simon sit down intending to record an episode about what individuals can do in the face of structural problems like homophobia, but an...
Episode 52: Surf the Web, with Queers
Benjamin and Simon hit the world wide web to talk social media. It comes up a lot on the podcast, but what does social media mean for queer politics i...
Interview: Kapul Champions
On a trip to Port Moresby, Benjamin interviews an advocate with Papua New Guinea’s only queer community organisation, Kapul Champions, to discuss the...
Episode 51: Pop Queers
Benjamin and Simon close out 2018 with a look back at its pop culture—what they liked, what they didn’t, and some of their most significant queer to...
Episode 50: Queers at Fifty
Queers has made it to 50 episodes! Looking back at almost three years of podcasting, Benjamin and Simon reflect on what the show has meant to them, th...
Interview: Annie Kelly
While traveling in the United Kingdom Simon interviewed the PhD student Annie Kelly. Annie is studying at the University of East Anglia, researching t...
Episode 49: Queers Educates the Stupid Masses
Diving back into the thorny issue of consent, Benjamin and Simon turn this time to the concept of ‘enthusiastic consent’, and wonder whether it really...
Episode 48: Story Time
Benjamin and Simon finally get around to watching Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette, and it sparks a discussion about the role of stories in queer activism. Can...
Interview: Jax Jacki Brown
Benjamin interviews disability and LGBTIQ activist Jax Jacki Brown about the intersections between queer and disability activism. Their discussion tou...
Episode 47: A Guide to Belonging
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Episode 46: Civil Queer, Respectable Queer
What starts out as an in-depth look at the explosive reunion episode of Ru Paul’s Drag Race Season 10 leads Benjamin and Simon into a discussion of re...
Interview: Jordan Raskopoulos
Simon sits down with comedian Jordan Raskopoulos about coming out as trans in a very public way, what it means to be a comedian who cares about being...
Episode 45: Problems with Privilege
A question about the relative privilege of gay men within queer communities turns into a debate about the value of analysing privilege through an iden...
Episode 44: Full Equality
An article about the idea of “full equality” for LGBTIQ people gets Simon and Benjamin wondering what the idea even means, particularly once most of o...
Interview: Scott Williams
After a debate in the media over the ethics of gay parenting, Benjamin interviews gay dad and rainbow families advocate Scott Williams about the polit...
Extra: Rising Minds
Earlier this year, Benjamin was asked to present a lecture on ‘The Future of Sex and Sexuality’ as part of Rising Minds, a lecture series that hosts s...
Episode 43: Acronyms, in Theory and Practice
The queer acronym (LGBTIQA+, etc.) seems to be getting longer with each passing year, but who gets to be a part of it? Benjamin and Simon start out wo...
Episode 42: A Politics of Consent
The #MeToo movement against sexual assault has dominated global headlines over the past six months, but what does it mean for queer communities? Looki...
Interview: Janet Rice
At the Better Together conference in Melbourne in January, Simon interviewed Senator Janet Rice, the Australian Greens' LGBTIQ spokesperson, about the...
Episode 41: Sex Panic
As Australian politics is embroiled in a good old-fashioned sex scandal, Benjamin and Simon dig through the muck to ask: why do we care so much about...
Episode 40: Don’t You Know Who I Am
We usually think of stereotypes as wholly negative things, but when it comes to queers, what are the consequences of rejecting them? Simon and Benjami...
Live: Better Together 2018
It's the first ever Queers live episode! Recorded at the Better Together 2018 conference in Melbourne, Simon and Benjamin were joined by researcher Ha...
Episode 39: Another Queer in Review
2017 is almost at an end, which means it's about a year since we did out last 'Queer in Review' episode! At the end of a year dominated by—what else—m...