Dark Habits

Episode 11: Notable Queer Gemini - Lou Sullivan

Megan and Ryen are back to serve more hot takes on the witchy, the woo and the weird. Just in time for Pride month, they meet up to discuss the life and times of Lou Sullivan: the transmasc trailblazer who fought for gay trans men to be able to access gender affirming care during a time when trans people were expected to perform cis het normativity in order to be given the treatment they were seeking. Tragically, he was also the first trans man to be diagnosed with AIDS. Also in this episode, Megan and Ryen discuss the trauma of growing up queer kids during the height of the AIDS crisis. CW: medicalized transphobia, AIDS-related death/dying Check out Dark Habits across the web! ⁠⁠website⁠⁠ [https://www.darkhabits.net/] ⁠⁠pixelfed⁠⁠ [https://pixelfed.social/darkhabits] ⁠⁠mastodon⁠⁠ [https://mastodon.social/@darkhabits] ⁠⁠instagram [https://www.instagram.com/darkhabitsmag/] Sources: Beardsley, Ally (Host), Thomas, Babette (Host). 2025, August 25. Lou Sullivan and the Pink Butt Book (w/Zach Ozma & Ellis Martin). In Gender Spiral with Ally Beardsley and Babette Thomas. https://www.genderspiralpod.com/ [https://www.genderspiralpod.com/] GLBT Historical Society. “Primary Source Set: Lou Sullivan”. Glbthistory.org. Retrieved April 17, 2026. Johnson, William. “Desire and Discovery in 1970s San Francisco”. Lambdaliteraryreview.org. Retrieved April 17, 2026. Rohrer, Megan. “Man-i-fest: FTM Mentorship in San Francisco from 1976-2009”. OutHistory.org. Retrieved April 16, 2026. Stryker, Susan. “The Difficult Decades.” in Transgender History. Berkeley, CA: Seal Press, 2008. Stryker, Susan (2017). Transgender History (Revised ed.). BasicBooks. pp. 143-149. Sullivan, Lou. Diary. 1966. As quoted in “FTM Newsletter”, Summer 2007, edited by Susan Stryker. Archived from the original on November 4, 2015. Sullivan, Lou. Martin, Ellis (editor). Ozma, Zach (editor) (2019). We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan 1961 – 1991. Nightboat Books.

Episode 10: The Wheel of Fortune - Tarot Card of the Year: 2026

Megan tells Shannon all about the tarot card of 2026: The Wheel of Fortune. Learn how to make the most of this year's tarot card, and calculate what your very own tarot birth card is! Check out Dark Habits across the web! ⁠website⁠ [https://www.darkhabits.net/] ⁠pixelfed⁠ [https://pixelfed.social/darkhabits] ⁠mastodon⁠ [https://mastodon.social/@darkhabits] ⁠instagram [https://www.instagram.com/darkhabitsmag/] Sources: Chen, Aria. “Zodiac and Tarot: What Does ‘The Wheel Of Fortune’ Really Mean?” GTHC. 16.8.2025. Available at https://gthic.com/ [https://gthic.com/] Cynova, Melissa. Kitchen Table Tarot. Woodbury, MN USA. Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd. 2017. Miro, Shaheen. Reed, Theresa. Tarot For Troubled Times. Newbury, MA USA. Weiser Books. 2019. Pamita, Madame. Madame Pamita’s Magical Tarot: Using the Cards to Make Your Dreams Come True. Newbury, MA USA. Weiser Books. 2018. Pollack, Rachel. Seventy-Eight Degrees of Wisdom: A Book of Tarot. London, England. Thorsons. 1997. Snow, Cassandra. Queering The Tarot. Newbury, MA USA. Weiser Books. 2019. Tea, Michelle. Modern Tarot: Connecting with Your Higher Self Through the Wisdom of the Cards. New York, NY USA. HarperCollins. 2017.

Episode 9: Introducing Shannon to the Dark Habits Coven

I'm finally back with a new episode after a long pause due to some personal setbacks and dealing with grief. In this first episode of 2026, I am joined by best friend since high school, Shannon. Enjoy getting back into the swing of things with our shared enthusiasm for witchin' weirdin' and wooin'. Check out Dark Habits across the web! website [https://www.darkhabits.net/] pixelfed [https://pixelfed.social/darkhabits] mastodon [https://mastodon.social/@darkhabits] instagram [https://www.instagram.com/darkhabitsmag/]

Episode 8: Notable Queer Leo - Radclyffe Hall

While Dark Habits' notable-queer-people-with-star-signs is rather behind, this episode comes just in time for Spooky Season! Megan is once again joined by Thomas from their other podcast about queer history, These Old Queers, to talk about lesbian literary pioneer, paranormal investigator and (disappointingly) fascist sympathizer - Radclyffe Hall. Sources: Matsuo, Alex. Women of the Paranormal Volume 1: A Brief History. Independently published. 10 June 2023. Anderson, Hephzibah. “The Well of Loneliness: The book that could corrupt a nation.” www.bbc.com [http://www.bbc.com/]. 22 November 2022.https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20221121-the-well-of-loneliness-the-most-corrosive-book-ever [https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20221121-the-well-of-loneliness-the-most-corrosive-book-ever] Goodreads. “Radclyffe Hall”. www.goodreads.com [http://www.goodreads.com/].https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/74248.Radclyffe_Hall [https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/74248.Radclyffe_Hall] The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. “Radclyffe Hall.” www.britannica.com [http://www.britannica.com/]. 8 August 2025, 2025.https://www.britannica.com/biography/Radclyffe-Hall [https://www.britannica.com/biography/Radclyffe-Hall] The National Archives. “The Story of Radclyffe Hall.” www.beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk [http://www.beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/].https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-collection/stories/radclyffe-hall/ [https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-collection/stories/radclyffe-hall/]

Episode 7: Notable Queer Cancer - Panama Al Brown

Megan is joined by Thomas from their other podcast about queer history, These Old Queers, to talk about the life and times of queer Panamanian boxer, Panama Al Brown. Sources: Corpus, Jose. Black Ink. Iowa City, Iowa. Win By Ko Publications. 1 August 2016. El Tecolote Staff. “Black, Gay and Undocumented: The story of boxing’s first Latino Champion.” El Tecolote. 11 March 2021. https://eltecolote.org/content/en/black-gay-and-undocumented-the-story-of-boxings-first-latino-champion/ [https://eltecolote.org/content/en/black-gay-and-undocumented-the-story-of-boxings-first-latino-champion/] Frantzen, Allen. “The Gay Boxer in History: Al Panama Brown.” allenfrantzen.substack.com. 7 April 2023. https://allenfrantzen.substack.com/p/the-gay-boxer-in-history-al-panama [https://allenfrantzen.substack.com/p/the-gay-boxer-in-history-al-panama] Spellbound Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/