Queer View Mirror

Romance meets footy in After the Siren, the debut novel from Darcy Green. Then Cal Robinson-Taylor and actor Finn McGrath drop by to talk about their play, The Last Sunday in June.

Discussions with LGBTIQA+ adviser at Yarra City Council Renee Thomson and Griffin Youngs, star trombonist in Opera Australia’s Hadestown.

Pride Month events at Willy Lit Fest, MQFF, and the Planetarium plus J.M. Tolcher on his steamy new book, Sublimate .

Gender euphoria through games & glam rock! Phoebe Toups Dugas from Monash University talks trans joy in video games then we speak with star of Hedwig and the Angry Inch Adam Noviello.

For our IDAHOBIT week episode, we speak with Simon Ruth, the CEO of Thorne Harbour Health and Matilda Alexander from the Queensland LGBTI Legal Service.

Rafael Gerster & Jen Johnson from Living Positive Victoria (LPV) and Dr Jill Blee, author of Champagne at Three.

Tiger Salmon, the creator of Australia’s first lesbian erotic zine, joins the show to talk about recreating her iconic images with a new generation for the Wicked Reboot exhibition at Unassigned Gallery. We were also joined by American-Korean author Jinwoo Chong to discuss his sophomore novel I Lead It Up to You, and what it reveals about family, sexuality and sushi.

ALOK returns to Australia and Queer View Mirror to discuss their new comedy show Hairy Situation and Rae White tells us all about their new children's book All the Colours of the Rainbow, a gentle look at gender diversity. 

Although the podcast format of Queer View Mirror has now wrapped, this show continues to be broadcast on Triple R. You can now listen to new episodes on Triple R’s FM On Demand service at rrr.org.au/explore/programs/queer-view-mirror . Thanks for listening!

Joe Ball chats about his new role as LGBTIQA+ Commissioner, then founding lawyer of Justice Q, Kavitha Sivasamy, discusses the newly-launched specialist legal service for the LGBTIQA+ community in the south-east region.

Socio-legal researcher and author Dr Zahra Stardust chats about the new book Indie Porn: Revolution, Regulation, and Resistance . In the second half of the show, Lead Artist and Director of APHIDS, Lara Thoms, discusses the new performance work EDGING which explores intersections of popular culture, border control and queerness.

Host Sam Elkin and writer Jonathan Butler are joined by critically-acclaimed writer and performer Kristen Smyth to talk about her new play Cruel Brittania: After Frankenstein , a transgender reimagingng of the original Frankenstein, set in the 1980's: Margeret Thatcher's Britain. Then they speak to Angela Savage, the editor of Spinning Around: The Kylie Playlist. Angela is an award-winning writer,...

Recipients of the State Library of Queensland's Rainbow Research Fellowship, Dr Marion Stell and Professor Celmara Pocock join Queer View Mirror to talk about how they discovered the phenomena of cross-dressing in family photo albums. Their project, Queering the Lens: Cross-Dressing in Family Photograph Albums , shines light on how we embrace and capture queer culture within all facets of our soci...

The Queer View Crew first have a chat with sociologist Dr Lukasz Krzyzowski from Edith Cowan University about the Rainbow Migrants Living Lab , also known as RaMiLab, which is a new initiative that aims to improve the lives of LGBTQIA+ migrants in Australia through research, professional development and community engagement. They then welcome CEO of Transgender Victoria, Dr Son Vivienne, to discus...

The Queer View crew chat with author and screenwriter, Mira Robertson, to discuss her recently published sapphic coming-of-age story Grace and Marigold which draws on her own experiences at the height of the English counter culture movement in the 1970s. They then talk with AlxGoslow and Dokta Mayhem, the artists behind Queer Shit Show ; a combination of live music, spoken turd, shit tarot, dance,...

The QVM team chat about Hamish's 'brat summer', and then talk to Lebanese-Palestinian writer, editor, and educator Hasib Hourani about his new book rock flight which explores a personal and historical narrative of the violent occupation of Palestine. They then chat with long-time friend of the show, writer, historian, and podcaster, Yves Rees, about their new book Travelling to Tomorrow: The moder...

Sam and Gemma chat to literary siblings, Liz and Andrew Sutherland, on poetry, polyamorous fantasy, Overland literary journal, and the Emerging Writers' Festival.

Sam Elkin is running the show solo in this episode of Queer View Mirror. He first has a chat with North American editors and authors Willow Catelyn Maclay and Caden Mark Gardner to discuss their new book Corpses, Fools and Monsters - The History and Future of Transness in Cinema which explores the radical history of trans representation in cinema and the political possibilities of its future. He i...

Sam and Gemma first welcome public theorist and writer McKenzie Wark to discuss her autofictional memoir Love and Money, Sex and Death which reimagines her past through a new perspective after coming out as trans at 56 years old. They also talk with Professor Paula Gerba of Monash Faculty of Law about the landmark ruling in the Australian Federal Court case of Tickle v Giggle .

Sam has another bookish episode with two literary guests lined up. He first has a chat with kinky, queer, mother, grandmother, sexologist, and author of recently released Slutdom , Hilary Caldwell, whose doctorate Women Who Buy Sex in Australia was the first study in the world exploring women buying sexual services. Sam then talks with award winning author, artist, and screenwriter, Dylin Hardcast...

Sam Elkin is back for Queer View Mirror with a jam-packed guest line up. Author and professor at ANU, Tessa Morris-Suzuki, discusses her recently published book, A Secretive Century: Monte Punshon’s Australia which explores late nineteenth and twentieth century queer experiences through "the world's oldest lesbian". Then, he's joined in the studios by Gavin Campbell, Gerard O’Connor, and Jono Fran...

Guest host Kirby Fary has a chat with queer Naarm-based artist and writer Georgia Mill about her recently published article Queer admin: When our stories don’t fit on forms , featured in Archer Magazine.

Guest host Kirby Fary fills in for the Queer View Crew and has a chat with queer advocate, producer, educator, and owner of the queer rave Unicorns , Adele (delsi cat) Moleta, about their return to film with her short documentary Femme premiering at the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. Kirby also talks with composer and artistic director of contemporary classical group Ensemble Mania , Dominic...

Sam and Hamish talk with Jax Brown who is running TGD Book Club , a book club for trans and gender-diverse people at Thorne Harbour Health, and author Marcel Liement about their trans dark fantasy novel Doom Bringer. They then welcome podcaster for Queer View Mirror, Paige Dunstone, as well as Eva, Rosie, and Alannah of Naarm based punk band Hot Milk Machine to discuss their involvement as young p...

Sam and Hamish first have a chat with Stacey Stokes, contributor to the 2022 anthology of trans and gender-diverse writing Nothing to Hide to discuss her experiences of incarceration as a trans woman and her law reform activity. They then talk with Newcastle based author David Owen Kelly about his newly published fusion of memoir and alternative history Hope City which explores queer experiences a...