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Olly Alexander, Pabllo Vittar and Drag Race royalty Peppermint are among the queer voices contributing to a new LGBT+ book. Entitled We Can Do Better Than This, it will feature 35 prominent LGBT+ voices who will share their stories and visions for the future. The book, which is now available to pre-order here hopes to be a “passionate call to action, a practical roadmap for the future and an important manifesto for how every person can start to do better”. It will also create a guide to understanding the crucial issues facing LGBT+ people today as the book highlights the UK to USA and Russia to Bangladesh and beyond. ....
British journalist and author Shon Faye. (Paul Samuel White) “I always joke that I feel like my job is to be somewhat of a Trojan horse,” the author and journalist Shon Faye says over Zoom. We’re here to talk about new podcast Call Me Mother, an LGBT+ history series presented by Shon in which she speaks to queer elders about their lives. At first glance, Call Me Mother is a peaceful eight-part offering of gentle 20 minute chunks of LGBT+ history; a show you might come across on Radio 4 while dozing after Sunday lunch. Dreamlike audio aesthetics and interviews with notable gay pioneers like Lord Michael Cashman reinforce this impression. ....
Still Processing The New York Times’ excellent pop-culture podcast has returned for a new season, and it’s unsurprisingly as sharp and nuanced as ever. Hosts Wesley Morris and Jenna Wortham have an excellent rapport, and they tackle a broad range of issues within pop culture, proving to any nay-sayers that even the most bottom-of-the-barrel entertainment, like Top 40 music or reality TV, is not necessarily mindless, and can, in fact, tell us a lot about the development of society and how we live today. Previous episodes have tackled issues such as portrayals of masculinity and mental illness in films such as ....