Today on Queering the Air we talk about sex and disability, as well as investigating what it means to be accessible and how the queer community can be a place for people of all different bodies and abilities. We speak with Greg – from the Melbourne disability activist group Crips and co-founder of the popular [...]
Mum’s The Word — call-out
Mum’s The Word is a radio doco that unpacks why when women come out, mum’s often flip out. In conversation with mums and daughters who’ve been there, MTW asks just why this issue effects so many & whether it has to be this way. So if you’ve a coming-out story to share, contact 3CR lover [...]
No Pride in a Police State
“Out of the bars and into the streets, join us!” chanted a crowd of close to 2000 as they marched along Oxford Street towards Kings Cross in Sydney’s first Mardi Gras, the night of June 24 1978. Harassed by police throughout the parade, the march ended with a ferocious attack by police in Kings Cross [...]
Queering The Air – 12 Feb 2012 – Valentines Day
This week on Queering The Air our theme was Valentines Day. We interview some friends about what Valentines Day means to them. Is it just a consumerist couple-fetishising waste of time and money? Or is can it be fun and relevant to queer lives? We suggest some ways to do Valentines Day on a budget, and how to have fun on Valentines Day when you’re single.
For copyright reasons we edited out the music and spoken word poems we’d featured, but you can check out those four clips on youtube..
- Tatu’d from Brighton made an anon love song dedication to Ada C
- “Peppermint” a track from queer US band Lovers
- “Dear Ex-Lover” a spoken word poem by Jasmine Mans
- “Unsteady Things” a second spoken-word poem by Alix Olsen
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