Episode 24 - The Panic Playbook: Fear, blackmail, and the Lavender Scare

Episode 26 - A Word We Don't Have

In 1886, a Zuni lhamana named We'wha shook hands with President Grover Cleveland, performed a sacred solstice ceremony on the National Mall, and charmed Washington society for six months — and not one person in that city had the vocabulary to understand who they were actually meeting. Dany and Claire explore the life of the most famous lhamana in history, the Zuni philosophy of balance and gender, and what it means that our culture still struggles to hold identities that other cultures have honored for centuries.

Episode 25 - The Complete History of Trans Olympians

BREAKING NEWS: The IOC has restricted transgender athletes from future competition, citing a longstanding crisis of fairness. To explore how deep this crisis goes, we explore an exhaustive list of all openly transgender Olympians.

Episode 24 - The Panic Playbook: Fear, blackmail, and the Lavender Scare

Dany and Claire spend some time in the Washington D.C. of the 1950s and take a long, hard look at the Cold War’s other social panic: The Lavender Scare.

Episode 23 - 404: Straight Not Found

It's the 90's, baby! And the queer community is evolving thanks to a little thing called "The Internet." Join Dany and Claire in a corner internet cafe as they learn all about the (queer) history of the internet and why the modern queer community wouldn't exist without it.

Episode 22 - (Gender)Fucking Peasant Revolts

It’s festival season in Medieval Europe, and for the first episode of season 2, Dany and Claire take a moment to see how queerness and class struggle are inherently linked. Because history shows that when hierarchies get restrictive, gender gets weird.