Queer View Mirror

Sam and Hamish are first joined by Aotearoa based, Ngāti Maniapoto/Ngāpuhi poet, publisher, editor, and teacher, Stacey Teague, to discuss her new collection of poems Plastic. They then have a chat with Robert Tait, known under the pen name of John Roberts and author of Mardi Gras: The Novel , about his recently published novel Oxford Street Trash ; He is also a member of the OutStanding Committee...

Continuing into Pride Month, Sam, Hamish and Gemma get together to chat with Leigh Boucher (he/him) one of the authors of the book "Personal Politics: Sexuality, Gender, and the Remaking of Citizenship in Australia." Later, they speak with Orlando Silver (he/they), editor of "I Write the Body: Queer & Trans Kink, Desire, and Defiance".

Sam, Gemma, and Hamish make their triumphant return for the begining of Pride Month and speak to two authors in this episode dedicated to younger readers and younger stories. They first have a chat with Auckland based writer, lawyer, and winner of Survivor New-Zealand Avi Duckor-Jones about his recntly released queer coming-of-age novel Max . The Queer View crew then talk to adult and young-adult...

Guest host Kirby Fary fills in for another episode of Queer View Mirror, they have a chat with writer and digital rights activist Sam Floreani about automated gender recognition software (AGR) in response to Sam's piece Computers are Binary, But Human's Aren't - why automated recognition is high-tech gender essentialist fantasy .

Guest host Kirby Fary returns for another episode of Queer View Mirror. They first welcome arts educator and multidisciplinary artist Luciano to discuss community arts initiative Queer-ways: From Archive to Artwork which will be featuring in Melbourne Design Week. Kirby then chats with Marlo W about his celebration of older transgender and generdiverse people in their new photographic book Foregro...

Kirby Fary fills in for the usual Queer View crew and has a chat with Sophie L'Estrange from Melbourne Activist Legal Support (MALS) to discuss the rights of protesters with a focus on trans, genderdiverse, and queer activists. They then talk with storyteller and educator Nevo Zisin to discuss their works, upcoming IDAHOBIT talks, and Nakba Day.

Sam and Gemma first have a chat with co-creators of Homo Pentecostus , proud Wurundjeri man Joel Bray and Armenian-Greek actor Peter Paltos, about the intimate exploration of secret queer identitie within the confines of a 1990s Pentecostal Church premiering at Malthouse Theatre. They then talk with drag provocateur, drag queer, and glam-drogynous Peppy Smears about their creative culmination of o...

Gemma has two hilarious guests lined up in another comedic edition of Queer View Mirror. She first has a chat with Rhys Nicholson about their sold out Melbourne International Comedy Festival show Huge Big Party Congratulations . Gemma then talks with "Sydney’s laziest drag queen" Brendan Hancock about his cabaret comedy show Fuck Around And Find Out If It’s Any Good also showing at the Melbourne I...

Sam welcomes "artiste, journalist, sex worker and hot f#%king mess", Jessi Ryan to the show to chat about their debut show Functional Bottom currently showing as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Sam then talks with transgender secondary English teacher Ernest Price about his darkly funny debut novel about transphobia and family dysfunction, The Pyramid of Needs .

Sam embraces "lesbian comedian energy" and welcomes a range of guests to Queer View Mirror. He first has a chat with writer, performer, and fourth most well known lesbian Hannah from Tasmania, Hannah Malarski, about comedy show Big Dyke Energy returning to Melbourne as part of the International Comedy Festival. Sam also welcomes Tuck Shop Ladies to the studio to talk about their new show A Day In...

Sam and Hamish have two literary guests lined up in this self proclaimed "Gay Gay Gay Poetry Edition" of Queer View Mirror. They first welcome to the show queer poet, researcher, and lectureer in creative writing, Dr Willo Drummond, to discuss her recently published book of poetry Moon Wrasse . The Queer View crew then has a chat with editor, writer, poet, and collage artist, Alex Creece, about he...

The Queer View Crew welcome "Busy Bisexual Burlesque Baddie" and guest curator at the NGV, Ruby Slippers, to discuss the upcoming Bowery Ball. Gemma then has a chat with australian comedian, singer, and writer Reuben Kaye to chat about his show featuring in the Melbourne International Comedy Festival Apocalipstik .

Gemma, Hamish, and Sam are joined by co-owner of Sapphic Flicks, Merryn Trescott, to have a chat about a new campaign for local transgender and non-binary binder company Transform Transwear. The Queer View Crew also talk to Tim Rutty about local queer circus act Gravity Dolls and upcoming show, Future Proof , presented by Darebin Arts Speakeasy.

Sam, Gemma, and Hamish welcome two guests onto the show this episode. The crew first chat with chief executive officer at Transgender Victoria Dr Son Vivienne about their new book Queering Safe Spaces: Being Brave Beyond Binaries. They then talk with Naarm based artist Scotty So to discuss his new exhibition The Queen of Begonias and Hai Kot Tou both currently at the Art Gallery of Ballarat.

The Queer View crew have an astronomical line up of guests this week. First, Sam welcomes gender queer and autistic creator Spencer M.F Rodrick to talk about their writing about being normal in space but weird on earth which has recently won the inaugural Pearl Prize. They are also joined by Dr David Gould to discuss his book Survivors and Thrivers - Male Homosexual Lives in Postwar Australia whic...

Hamish and Gemma have a chat with award winning queer director Kathryn Yates about her theatre performce, ALTAR, featuring as part of Midsumma. They also welcome First Nations artist, writer, producer, and bakery-enthusiast SYCCO to discuss her new single and their upcoming headliner at Victoria's Pride Street Party.

Join Sam Elkin and Hamish McLachlan with Yugambeh writer, editor and researcher Arlie Azzili to chat about his contribution to new book The Long Lede Anthology exploring the trans perspective of Powerlifting. Also joining Sam and Hamish is Dino Dimitriadis, the director of new play Overflow playing at Arts Centre Melbourne; and Historian and author Graham Willett chats about the Australian Queer A...

Join Kirby Fary in their last time filling in for the team on Queer View Mirror for the summer as they play back some audio from a lecture at The National Library of Australia given by Sam Wallman, a prolific comics journalist and political cartoonist based in Naarm. In this lecture, Sam talks about his research into the Pink and Green Bans, the former being strikes conducted to protect and preser...

The team chat to Scott-Patrick Mitchell , a talented queer non-binary poet on his new poetry book Clean , a book about the power of addiction and the power of coming clean. Gavin Yuan Gao is a genderqueer, billingual immigrant poet who grew up in Beijing and Brisbane, who won the Prime Minister's Literary Award for their collection, At the Altar of Touch. The team also speak to Italian-Australian...

In this epsode Sam Elkin and Gemma Cafarella talk to Dr Jacob Bloomfield about their book Drag: A British History. Stay tuned to know about the British History of the sustained popularity and changing forms of male drag performance in modern Britain and mouch more!

Sam and Gemma welcome transgender American historian, professor, filmmaker, theorist, and author Susan Stryker to the show to talk about her career so far and what she has in store for the future.

Queer View Mirror welcomes a range of queer and gender-diverse literary editors and contributors in this episode. Sam has a chat with Kate Hall and Timothy Christopher Ryan of Q-Lit as well as contributors Martin John Lee and Coral Reeve about the upcoming anthology Out-Side: Queer Stories and Art from Regional Victoria releasing as part of Midsumma's Regional Activations. He also talks with edito...

The Queer View Mirror crew have a literary raunch-fest in store; Welcoming non-binary writer Mx. Sly to talk about their memoir of transformation and self-discovery Transland: Consent, Kink, and Pleasure . The team also have a chat with historian, social media "hit", and PhD candidate Esmé Louise James, to discuss her new book Kinky History which brings a contemporary lense to historical sex scand...

The Queer View Mirror crew invite director of Rebel Queers: Ukraine’s Queer Resistance , Angelika Ustymenko to discuss their documentary short following the experiences of queer Ukrainians during wartime. The team also have a chat with Rhys Nicholson about their new book Dish: Spiels, scoops, emotional outbursts and the occasional recipe .

The Queer View crew are joined to the show by Cat Fitzpatrick, author of The Call Out: A Novel in Rhyme , and discuss the importance of queer representation, trans literature, independant book stores, and much more!