Friends,
I’m proud to say that my podcast really, actually, truly supports LGBTQ+ people. Not in some abstract sense that reduces us to representation or even community, but in real ways:

In the ways we express and experience ourselves individually through culture, art, sex, scientific inquiry, philosophy, and spirituality.

In how we work on what happens when two or more of us come together and to meet in the political sphere and what rights, what sense of kinship, should be secured for each of us.

In how we connect to everyone – in spirit and its external expressions of environment and economy.

I have always hated that when so-called marginalized people are actually asked to speak, we are asked to speak about how we are marginalized, or about how we have overcome marginalization.

What about everything else about us? What about the depths of wisdom, love, truth, and creativity we have to offer?

This week, instead of posting a new episode, I thought I’d point you to some of the many episodes featuring LGBTQ+ guests.*

These are writers, performers, activists, and more. Some of these episodes are no longer available on Spotify because they’ve aged off the platform, but they’re all here for you and you can listen to them on soundcloud or via the links below.
(Please note: most of the YouTube links DO NOT WORK anymore. I’m removing all YouTube content slowly.)

Happy Pride. For real.

AEWCH 199: ROBERT PHOENIX  or The Pennsylvania Dutch Healing Tradition – 9/16/22 – christian healing, healing vs placebo, how to get people to open up to traditional healing

AEWCH 197: HUW LEMMEY & BEN MILLER of the BAD GAYS PODCAST or Don’t Be A Good Gay – 8/30/22 on what being a radical queer looks like, the diversion of gay spectacle, moving forward as LGBT people while considering the past

AEWCH 190: BRYAN WASHINGTON or Fiction After Process – 6/17/22 – why does everyone ask writers process questions? what writers have to offer in conversation beyond identity and process

AEWCH 179: DEAN SPADE or How To Live With Spirituality And Organizing (At The Same Time) – 2/9/22 – how leftism and spirituality clash and what to do about it, patience in your activist spaces, the dead as allies

AEWCH 164: PHILLIP HOARE or Inhabiting Animals, Becoming Water – 9/22/21 – what does it mean to connect to the natural world? what lessons does the ocean have for us?

AEWCH 161: JEB HAVENS or Love in Friendship, Love in Relationship – 8/24/21 – the different kids of love with my best friend who used to be my boyfriend and what those loves feel like

AEWCH 151: UNA MULLALLY or What If All The Bad Stuff Is Going Away? – 5/19/21 – the offerings of the pandemic, what utopia could be and how we could get there

AEWCH 149: CARMEN MARIA MACHADO on Desire And Storytelling – 4/20/21 – violence and desire and accountability in our stories, longing and horror

AEWCH 131: DEAN SPADE or Mutual Aid Now! – 11/10/20 – why we need to help each other instead of rely on charity or governments, what anarchism can do to help

AEWCH 130: OEIN DeBHAIRDUIN or The Living Stories and Medicine of Irish Travellers – 11/2/20 – indigenous people of Ireland, the way stories tell themselves through us, the connection to the living world of Ireland

AEWCH 128: DAN GRETTON or Murder by Policy – 10/13/20 – the “desk killers” who kill by signing sheets of paper, the pathway to fascism, how we become complicit in genocide

AEWCH 124: TY MITCHELL or Performing Sex When We Can’t Touch – 9/16/20 – running your own business doing adult work, how the pandemic touched intimacy what’s next for adult work

AEWCH 106: SOPHIE LEWIS or Families, Quarantines, and Witches – 4/14/20 – why value matters as much as political economy, why Sylvia Fedirici is bunk, revolutionizing the family

AEWCH 88: JOHNNY HAZZARD or A Portrait Of The (Porn) Artist As A Young Man – 10/29/19 – what it was like for us to work together in THAT way, a picture of the era of sexuality and culture

AEWCH 87: UNA MULLALLY or Destroying Neoliberalism From The Ground Up – 10/23/19 – why we need to remake everything, the spiritual currents in Ireland and the world

AEWCH 81: PADRAIG Ó TUAMA or The Loneliness Of God – 8/20/19 – why God needs us to forgive Him, theology and poetry, a gentle longing for each other

AEWCH 74: ANDREA LAWLOR or Queer Non-Binary Sex Revolution Now! – 6/18/19 – everything good in our lives came from queerness and punk rock, trans “moments” vs trans identity

AEWCH 73: D.A. POWELL or The Queer Esoteric Power of Poetry – 6/11/19 – poetry as a space between sexualities, desire and words, plus D.A. reads some great poems

AEWCH 63: PANTI BLISS or How To Resist When Gay & Drag Go Mainstream – 3/19/19 – drag as mainstream (well, it WAS back then, LOL), growing up in a small town in Ireland

AEWCH 60: PATTY SCHEMEL or Punk, Addiction, And Drums – 2/19/19 – Hole, Nirvana, danger in music

AEWCH 57: MATTILDA BERNSTEIN SYCAMORE or The State of Queer 2019 – 1/22/19 – why queers shouldn’t want trans people in the military, nostalgia, PrEP

AEWCH 44: Kelly Link & JORDY ROSENBERG or A Vampire Is A Theory – 10/9/18 – horror tropes as theoretical propositions, the tactic of disassociation, mystery and the supernatural

AEWCH 39: RABIH ALAMEDDINE or Literature, Reckoning, and the Morality of Memory – 8/21/18 – when the political fails, J.M. Coetzee trying to be sweet to the gays for a sec

AEWCH 37: DREW DROEGE or Gay Hexes and Loud Noises – 7/31/18 – the problem of gay marriage, surviving the AIDS era, humor as resistance

AEWCH 35: JAMES ADOMIAN or How Were You Radicalized? – 7/11/18 – Pride, politics, Putin, and also I laugh my ass off in the episode

AEWCH 32: SCOTT THOMPSON or Reclaiming the Lisp – 6/12/18 – The Kids in the Hall, queer presence in the mainstream, spiritual disruption

AEWCH 20: DAVID SHORTER or Being In The Giant Snake Place – 2/9/18 – anthropology, time and space, indigenous dancing

XO
CH

*I’ll return to the regular episode schedule next week with a special episode on my own spiritual life. But guess what? Every episode I do features a gay person, so, it’s always on, friends!