Épisodes

  • 2025-02-26 - Turning the Knob

    2025-02-26 - Turning the Knob
    Feb 26 2025
    Jonny interviews Jordan Badgette about her upcoming performance, "Gender Knobs," an exploration of transgender experience with sound technology. Jordan's performance celebrates queer joy, and in the back half of the show Jonny and Heather lean into the queer joy of stories of resistance and pushback to the Trump Administration. Is the tide finally turning? Maybe. Maybe not. But we take joy in the myriad stories of challenges to the authoritarian turn.
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    59 min
  • 2025-02-19 - Queer+ Choir

    2025-02-19 - Queer+ Choir
    Feb 19 2025
    Jonny sits down to interview Scott Johnson the director of Tesserae, Carbondale's premier Queer+ Choir. They discuss the origin, makeup, funding, and upcoming first concert of the project. In the back half of the show, Heather joins Jonny to discuss some particular Carbondale and Southern Illinois protests and pushback against the autocratice and phobic uprising, providing just a few highlights of this past week's attrocities.
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    58 min
  • 2025-02-12 - Acting Up

    2025-02-12 - Acting Up
    Feb 12 2025
    Jonny welcomes Heather back with a brief discussion of the Superb Owl, which neither of them watched. They then turn to a brief chronicle of the anti-LGBTQ moves and rhetoric in the government and beyond this past week. In the back half of the show, they share two examples of the consequenses of this political climate before moving on to recommendations for acting up and pushing back, some of them literally from ACT UP.
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    58 min
  • 2025-02-05 - DEI Distractions

    2025-02-05 - DEI Distractions
    Feb 5 2025
    Jonny and Craig discuss DEI. They start with a focus on the local, plugging artistic work in Carbondale with the upcoming Kleinau Theatre production of "Epiphanies," an adaptation of Flash Fiction by local writer, Epiphany Ferrell. They then turn to recent attacks by the Trump Administration on DEI and what that might mean for the university where they teach (SIU). They then discuss the Grammies and what this past weekend's music awards might teach us about the value of DEI. In the back half of the show, they examine the Trump Administration's high level placement of gay and lesbian conservatives in positions of significance. They discuss how this participates in a concerted effort to pare the Q and T off of LGBTQ, and why they are not having it.
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    58 min
  • 2025-01-29 - Making (Bad!) Excuses

    2025-01-29 - Making (Bad!) Excuses
    Jan 29 2025
    Jonny and Heather check in with each other after a rough first week of Trump Administration 2.0. They then explore how right wing pundits and trolls make really convoluted excuses to support their president, pairing the controversy over Elon Musk's "Roman" gesture and outrage over Bishop Budde's blessing at the Washington Cathedral. In the back half of the show, they discuss the conflict of policy mandates with agency restructuring and dismantling, resulting in inefficiency and higher governmental costs. All of this posed against a backdrop where already the Trump administration claims inflation is not a focus of their agenda and its going to "take a while" for food and other cont-of-living prices to come down.
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    58 min
  • 2025-01-22 - Miss Thing's Decrees

    2025-01-22 - Miss Thing's Decrees
    Jan 22 2025
    Jonny and Heather take a look at some of the anticipated executive orders of the incoming Trump administration, especially those targetting trans people. They contrast this with some of Biden's initial executive orders and other efforts of his administration to support LGBTQ folks. They then look at evidence in Congress and elsewhere that Trump's base is showing some serious cracks and divides. In the back half of the show, the discuss Tik Tok and the hypocrisy of Trump claiming to be its savior. They examine the difficulties in current social media with organizing activism while also singing the praises of the People's March and the need to stay focus and stay active.
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    58 min
  • 2025-01-15 Queer Climates, Hot & Cold

    2025-01-15 Queer Climates, Hot & Cold
    Jan 15 2025
    Jonny and Craig dig out from under snow and ice to share some contemplatioms on cultural, political, and environmental climates. In the front half of the show, they unpack their experience of the recent great ice storm that paralyzed Southern Illinois. They follow this with the hot times, politicially and environmentally, in LA right now. They turn to the death of Anita Bryant and why some might embrace a climate of celebration given her history. In the back half of the show, they discuss the shifting climate for LGBTQ folks on the Meta platforms, particularly Facebook, and what we can and can't do about it.
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    59 min
  • 2025-01-01 - IIQ's 2024 in Review

    2025-01-01 - IIQ's 2024 in Review
    Jan 1 2025
    Jonny compiles a montage show of interviews, stories, and topics from 2024, painting a picture of what the year lin LGBTQ concerns, particularly in Southern Illinois, sounded like.It is a sampling, incomplete to be sure, but illustrative of 2024 nonetheless.
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    59 min