It Is Complicated

Social Media is complicated - and trolling can be fun! The way we use social media is different when you are non-heteronormative - we use social media to connect to people we don’t know and have neve…

Value is complicated - How do we value ourselves and each other in an imperfect world that all too often undervalues us? We talk about how to value our time, each other, our differences and our simil…

Gaming is complicated -  How do we understand stories within games? Skyrim might be the only game according to one of us - that doesn’t prevent us talking about the ideas that make games work and how…

Building Community is complicated -  How we form networks differs in “queer’ world from straight world. Common experiences help us bond deeply and quickly, and yet those can also be temporary. How do…

Getting it out is complicated -  Why it’s important to have a rant buddy. We sometimes need spaces to vent, to get those things off our chest. To talk about what is worrying us, and processing it out…

Production is complicated -  is it better to be paid or be heard. We talk about producing events, as a pair with over 35 years of production experience between us - we talk about the best ways we’ve …

Representation is complicated - Good Representation is wonderful when we locate it. There is a lot going on at the moment - we wanted to bring a happier viewpoint, and talk about our favorite ways of…

Class is complicated - Honorifics are the way it can show up. What it means as a non-binary person to rub up against the service industry. Do impromptu lessons on gender help? How can we disrupt the …

Art is complicated - Censorship and that narrative is made more complex by queers - how does talking about queer lived experience blur this boundary? Josephine and Dr J talk with Suzanne Shifflett, p…

Disability is complicated - Access is simple. If you focus on accessibility where do we end up? If we change how we see disability, how does this impact on how we can focus on access.

What new techno…

Neurodiversity is complicated - brains are complex? If we start with “A” where do you end up? What does it mean when you’re asked to mask your anxiety/autism? 

How we think and process the world is d…

Privilege is complicated - based on a tweet by @ExteriorWorld - "are you a pornhub category or are you privileged?" - we examine what is privilege, it’s nuances, the intersections. 

We queers know ho…

Trans Normativity is complicated - Is there a "normal" narrative about how to be trans? How does this narrative impact on how we view the notions of Trans and Non-Binary? Is there a "normal" narrativ…

Mental Health is complicated - we go deep into mental health - why being trans and non-binary complicates discourses around Mental Health. We share a conversation around our different mental health j…

This time we talk about how arguments are structured? Why are we always asked to debate? How can we engage in the discourse in a way that is healthy for us? Can we use the conversation to educate peo…

Reading is complicated and so is passing - what does it mean to be read as one gender? How does this change around safety? What value judgments are made about our lives because of these?

How does non…

Employment is complicated - How does being trans or non-binary play out in the job market (hint one of us is unemployed, the other has been through two years of therapy for PTSD from workplace trauma…

Voices are complicated - what does our voice say about us? How do we build a relationship with our voice? How do our voices change how we are read?

When do we recognise our voice is ours? How has past…

Coming out is complicated - when should you come out? About what? Why do you have to? Are we required to be “out”?

What does it mean to have to come out multiple times a day? How many times do you nee…

Age is complicated - how age works - and doesn’t work - when you’re outside of the “normal” pathways for your age.

Why is it so hard to guess someone’s age when they are queer? Does this work for or …