The Queer Futures Now Podcast

In Episode 4 of 7 , hosts Lynn Johnson and Allison Kenny discuss intersectionality as a way of better understanding the complex issues our LGBTQ+ young people face. Intersectionality A framework for understanding how various social and political identities—such as race, gender, class, and sexuality—overlap and intersect, creating unique, compounded experiences of discrimination or privilege Lynn a...

In Episode 3 of 7 , hosts Lynn Johnson and Allison Kenny listen to and reflect on “The Magic We Create”, the theme song from Queer Futures Now: An Alien Play , written by Jessie Lane and performed by Jessie and Noe Field-Perkins. The chorus of the song was inspired by a quote from an interview in which an LGBTQ+ youth said: “To love us is everything. It’s so simple. It’s not that hard.” Lynn and A...

In Episode 2 of 7, hosts Lynn Johnson and Allison Kenny reflect on what they learned from 25 LGBTQ+ youth across New Mexico whose stories inspired Queer Futures Now: An Alien Play and this podcast. Together, they explore how concepts and language around gender and sexuality has evolved across generations , why today’s youth claim their identities with nuance and fluidity, and what adults can learn...

In this 1st episode of 7, meet your hosts Allison Kenny and Lynn Johnson , co-founders of High Desert Playback , an Albuquerque-based company that makes theater for social change in New Mexico and beyond. We introduce you to Queer Futures Now: An Alien Play , our original play written from the real life stories of 25 queer and trans youth from across New Mexico. Their stories revealed to us what g...

Are we willing to do what it takes to protect queer and trans youth and fight for their queer futures…NOW? In the Spring of 2024, Health Equity Alliance of LGBTQ+ New Mexicans (HEAL Plus NM) and High Desert Playback outreached to LGBTQ+ youth ages 16-24 throughout rural and urban areas of New Mexico to hear their stories and learn what they wished their parents and caregivers knew about their expe...