Lemuria: The Strangest Place to Never Exist with Author Justin McHenry
Justin McHenry, author of the forthcoming book Lemuria: A True Story of a Fake Place, tells me an expansive tale of an alleged long lost continent first written about in early scientific works, then h...
18 Sep 202356min
The Killer Crossdresser with Horror Analysts BJ and Harmony Colangelo
To unpack the movie trope of the Murderous Man in a Dress, prolific horror film analysts and writers BJ and Harmony Colangelo discuss with me all the complicated trans and drag “representation” in mov...
11 Sep 20231h 15min
EARLY DRAG QUEENS (part two)
For part two of our series, we are starting in the anti-gay moral panic of the 50s and 60s to see how the drag scene continued to transform underground, with female impressionists dazzling the starlet...
4 Sep 20231h 1min
EARLY DRAG QUEENS (part one)
This series will cover the moral panics and cultural crazes that have long followed the controversial art form once called "female impersonation." For part one of our two part series, we'll start back...
28 Aug 202355min
Context Clues: Long Live the Queens
Our upcoming series, Early Drag Queens, will cover the surprising relationship between "female impersonation" and American masculinity in the time before the gay and transgender civil rights movements...
21 Aug 202351min
Love in the Time of Leprosy with Advocate José Ramirez, Jr.
As the social media and the news got word of the new cases of leprosy found in Florida, a slew of misinformation and stigmatization followed. José P. Ramirez Jr. is the author of the memoir Squint: My...
14 Aug 202359min
Blame It on Barbie with Entertainment Journalist BJ Colangelo
BJ Colangelo is an editor at Slash Film and the writer of “The Only Guide To Barbie Lore You Will Ever Need,” a comprehensive look at the cultural movement of America's pinkest lady. On this episode, ...
24 Juli 20231h 24min
Furby's Revenge with "Unspookable" Podcast
This is a collaborative look at the panics around Furby with the podcast Unspookable, a show much like ours that takes a more kid-friendly approach to understanding urban legends. In honor of the retu...
17 Juli 202350min
