Hello queers!

This is Kirya, she/her femme if you’re nasty

I’ve missed y’all! It’s been too long

…I’m back in your ears because I made something really special that I want to share with you. For those of you who loved Cheers & Queers for our Black Femme realness, our occasional witchy remarks, and our commitment to center things Black & femme… I think you’re going to really enjoy this limited series that I made in collaboration with the Dance Theater company, Sydnie L Mosley Dances. Spotlight in PURPLE - The Podcast. There are currently three episodes in season 2 that I wrote, hosted, produced, and edited MYSELF (with some support from a couple of amazing friends and colleagues who responded to my late-night texts and DMs with nothing but love)... I’m honestly really proud of this work, and so…

I’m dropping the first episode here in this feed. If you like it, please go over the Spotlight in Purple show, subscribe, and share with others. It would mean the world to me!

Thank you!!!

Former C&Q Co-host, Kirya, share’s a new podcast she’s been working on.

Spotlight in PURPLE -The Podcast shines a light on themes and questions in the creative work of the Dance Theatre Company, Sydnie L. Mosley Dances. In Episode 1, Building the Altar: The Creation of PURPLE by SLMD, we learn about the history of how SLMDances became a collective, the values that guide the work, and how those values show up inside their newest work, PURPLE: A Ritual in Nine Spells.

SIP - The Podcast was Hosted, Edited & Produced by Kirya Traber

Executive Production by SLMDances

Assistant Production by Ziiomi Law

Show Notes

Links to:

• Follow us on Twitter @CheersNQueers
• Follow us on Instagram @CheersNQueers
• Here is our Patreon if you want to give us your money
• Learn more about Queen
• Ms. Vixen Magazine
  • Website
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
• Listen to Tea with Queen and J
• Uncle Nearest
• Why use a copper cup for a mule
• Slay TV

Drinking

Black Ass Kentucky Mule

• 2 oz Uncle Nearest Whiskey
• Ginger beer to top
• ½ oz fresh squeezed lime juice
• Ice
• Mint garnish

Add whiskey and lime juice into an ice-filled glass (or a copper mug!), and stir together to combine and chill. Add ginger beer to taste. Garnish with mint.

Music

• 
  Intro: Sage by Be Steadwell
• Interstitial music by Abel Shiffera
• Outro: Hey by Boomscat

The Team

• Hosted, produced, and engineered by Isake Smith
• Edited by Lance John
• Social media by Jaylen Elise Colvin Taylor

Show Notes

Links to:

• Follow us on Twitter @CheersNQueers
• Follow us on Instagram @CheersNQueers
• Here is our Patreon if you want to give us your money
• Learn more about Jennifer Eden - Jennifer’s IG
• Get into all the things Jennifer Eden does
• The Heaux Hive

Drinking

My Slice of Haven

• 2 oz. RumHaven
• 3 oz. Club Soda
• Squeeze of Lime

Add ingredients into an ice-filled tall glass, and stir together to combine and chill. Garnish with lime.

Music

• Intro: Sage by Be Steadwell
• Interstitial music by Abel Shiffera
• Outro: Hey by Boomscat

The Team

• Hosted, produced, and engineered by Isake Smith
• Edited by Lance John

Show Notes

Links to:

• Follow us on Twitter @CheersNQueers
• Follow us on Instagram @CheersNQueers
• Here is our Patreon if you want to give us your money
• Learn more about Jewel Cadet - Jewel’s IG, A Ratchet Realm
• Big zaddy energy: Carmine Black is an amazing dance instructor who will break your brain and help you free your spirit
• Rabbit freezable cocktail maker is what Isake uses for frozen drinks
• Support Luv Story Bar!!!
• Get into all the things Jennifer Eden does
• Support the amazingly talented DJ Muse

Drinking

Kentucky Margarita

• 2 oz. Bourbon/Whiskey
• 1 oz. Lime Juice
• 1 oz. Agave Syrup
• Optional: Mint, Lime, or Salt for garnish

Just mix the liquid ingredients, pour over ice, and garnish if you fancy 🎩.. Also an option to make a slush drink by pouring over crushed ice.

Music

• Intro: Sage by Be Steadwell
• Interstitial music by Abel Shiffera
• Outro: Hey by Boomscat

The Team

• Hosted, produced, and engineered by Isake Smith and Kirya Traber
• Edited by Lance John

Show Notes

Links to:

• Follow us on Twitter @CheersNQueers
• Follow us on Instagram @CheersNQueers
• Here is our Patreon if you want to give us your money
• My Therapy Cards from an amazing Black femme
• Dry January has benefits and drawbacks (if you missed it, maybe consider Sober October).

Drinking

Winter Cranberry Spritz

• Ingredients:
  • 2 ounces rosemary simple syrup
  • 4 ounces cranberry juice unsweetened
  • soda water or other carbonated water
  • ice
• Instructions
  • Combine simple syrup and juice in a glass with ice and stir. Top with soda water

Paper Plane

• Ingredients
  • 1 part bourbon
  • 1 part amoro
  • lemon
  • seltzer
• Instructions
  • Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker/glass, stir, add ice, top with seltzer

Imaginary Airplane

• Ingredients
  • 1 part bourbon
  • 1 part amoro
  • 1 part Aperol
  • Lemon
• Instructions
  • Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker/glass, stir, add ice

Music

• 
  Intro: Sage by Be Steadwell
• Interstitial music by Abel Shiffera
• Outro: Hey by Boomscat

The Team

• Hosted, produced, and engineered by Isake Smith and Kirya Traber
• Edited by Lance John

Show Notes

Links to:

• Follow us on Twitter @CheersNQueers
• Follow us on Instagram @CheersNQueers
• Here is our Patreon if you want to give us your money.
• Here is Be’s Pateron if you want to give her money!
• That’s one thicc cat...
• Chani Nicholas book, You Were Born For This
• Be’s cover of Pony
• Thirst Trap video!
• #BlackBirdersWeek
• ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Imagines a World Free of Whiteness
• SM Rodriguez
• Angela Davis’ book: Are Prisons Obsolete?
• Recent article by Mariame Kaba: Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish Police
• How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
• Sydnie L. Mosley​

Drinking

Virgin Paloma

• Ingredients:
  • 1.5 oz lime juice
  • 1 oz grapefruit juice
  • 1 oz agave syrup or honey
  • Healthy pinch of sea salt
  • Soda water
• Instructions
  • Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake with ice. Strain over ice into a glass and top with soda.

Music

• All the music in this episode is by Be Steadwell

The Team

• Hosted, produced, and engineered by Isake Smith and Kirya Traber
• Edited by Lance John

Show Notes

Links to:

• Patreon
• Listener survey
• Follow us on twitter @CheersNQueers
• Isake @is_she_okay on Twitter and IG & Kirya @kiryatraber (twitter) @kiryat (IG)

Drinking

• Alien Sex on the Beach
  • A sweet to semi-sweet pink champagne
  • 1.5oz your favorite whiskey
  • Muddled citrus (Kirya’s version)

OR

• 1.5 oz of Pimms and a splash of passion fruit juice (Isake’s version)

Music

• 
  All sounds from Enterprise!

The Team

• Hosted, produced, and engineered by Isake Smith and Kirya Traber
• Edited by Lance John

Show Notes

Links to:

• Patreon
• Listener survey
• Sugaring Brooklyn
• American Theatre Opinion Piece on co-parenting with an ex.
• New York Times Cooking
• Isake’s health coach: Geek Girl Strong
• COVID and cats
• COVID and animals
• Don’t mix cleaning agents!
• Apartment Therapy tips & tricks
• Follow us on twitter @CheersNQueers
• Isake @is_she_okay on Twitter and IG & Kirya @kiryatraber (twitter) @kiryat (IG)

Drinking

• Isake: “Bourbon bees knees”: 1/2 oz honey (use the honey crystals from the bottom of the jar, if you got it!), 1/2 oz hot water, 2.5 oz bourbon, juice of half a lemon, and a sprig of thyme if you fancy. Put in a shaker with a large rock, shake and serve.
• Kirya's "go to" cocktail "The Seven Day Work Week": 1 part Bourbon, 1 part seltzer, ginger beer to taste, cocktail bitters to taste, stir with ice.

Music

• 
  Intro: Sage by Be Steadwell
• Additional Music
  • Satisfied, from the Original Cast recording of Hamilton
  • Magic School Bus theme song, by Little Richard
• Boomscat
• Abel

The Team

• Hosted, produced, and engineered by Isake Smith and Kirya Traber
• Edited by Lance John