Are they cute or are they just lightskin? Isake and Queen talk about colorism, pop culture things that have brought us Black joy. Please follow us on Instagram and Twitter @CheersNQueers, and support our Patreon.
Isake and Kirya giggle a lot with our guest, storyteller, and musician Be Steadwell. We talk about her new album, Succulent, what is getting us through in the midst of a wild world, and what we are imagining things could be.
The first of our Star Trek mini-series! We talk through Enterprise and discuss if it’s really as bad as everyone says it is. (Spoiler alert, it’s the worst thing to ever happen to space, but listen anyway for a Black queer analysis of why it’s so terrible!) Please fill out our listener survey and check out our Patreon!
Isake and Kirya drink different things and meander through their lives in the time of the ‘Rona. BONUS: Now you can give us your money!(Please take a few moments to fill out our listener survey, the link is in the show notes below)
Another throwback episode! We (extensively) cover Vulcans at First Contact, consider the work Black femmes do for everyone, look for queer history from 1619 to 2019, misandry, and chat with Angelique Roche about the journey to freelance, content creation, and being a professional nerd.
A blerdy review of our trek fandom with Cleopatra From the Bronx. Recorded live at Respect: Women’s Podcast Festival hosted by the Black Tribbles in at Amalgam Comics in Philly, August 24, 2019.
A smol aperitif to get you ready! We chat about co-habitating, marriage, plant witchery, and what the show is doing next. Follow us at CheersNQueers, Isake @is_she_okay on Twitter and IG & Kirya @kiryatraber (twitter) @kiryat (IG).
Isake and Kirya get witchy. Kirya gives Isake her first ever Tarot reading, and they talk about rituals, both magic and otherwise, for the Black femme with special guest model and artist Lorelei Black @blacklorelei7 (IG). Follow Isake @is_she_okay on Twitter and IG & Kirya @kiryatraber (twitter) @kiryat (IG).
Show Notes
Links to:
Folks to follow: Black Cuse Pride @BlackCusePride, Inner Hoe Uprising: @InnerHoeUprisin, QueerWOC Podcast @QueerWOCpod, Tea with Queen & J: @TeawithQJ , Adrienne Maree Brown @adriennemaree, Ev’yan Whitney: @evyanwhitney
Light Magic for Dark Times: 100 Spells, Rituals, and Practices for Dark Times, by Lisa Marie Basile (Full pdf)
Modern Tarot: Connecting with Your Higher Self through the Wisdom of the Cards by Michelle Tea (available for purchase on Amazon)
Drinking
A Bittersweet Queer aka Isake’s Gin Lemon Drop (large batch drink):
ice cubes (as needed to fill your pitcher halfway)
14 ounce your favorite dry gin
14 ounce dry vermouth
2-3 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice
long thin strips of lemon peel (as needed for garnish)
Sugar cubes
Directions: Fill pitcher halfway with ice, add liquid ingredients, stir. Place sugar cube in cocktail glass, pour, leaving ice in pitcher. Garnish with lemon peel.
Music
Intro: Sage by Be Steadwell
Additional Music
Hands by Boomscat
Satisfied from the Hamilton Broadway Soundtrack
All other interstitial music by Abel Shifferaw
Outro: Hey by Boomscat
The Team
Hosted by Isake Smith and Kirya Traber
Produced by Isake Smith, Kirya Traber
Engineered by Lance John
Edited by Jassel Hernandez
Isake and Kirya have an unfiltered conversation about cultivating spaces for black queerness to thrive with, Jarvis Green, the Founder & Producing Artistic Director of Jag Productions, a Black theatre company in Upper Valley Vermont. We touch on friendships, family, and the presence and absence of queer narratives in our history and our lives.
Show Notes
Drinking
Old Vermont (this recipe makes one drink)
5 ounces gin
½ ounce Grade B pure maple syrup (Maple syrup from Vermont, of you can get it!)
¼ ounce freshly squeezed lemon juice
¼ ounce freshly squeezed orange juice
2 dashes bitters
Ice
Orange rind
Combine all liquid ingredients into a shaker, add ice, and shake vigorously. Strain into a chilled martini glass, twist orange rind, and place on surface of drink. Enjoy!
Music
Intro: Sage by Be Steadwell
Additional Music
Hands by Boomscat
Satisfied from the Hamilton Broadway Soundtrack
All other interstitial music by Abel Shifferaw
Outro: Hey by Boomscat
The Team
Hosted by Isake Smith and Kirya Traber
Produced by Isake Smith, Kirya Traber
Engineered by Lance John
Edited by Jassel Hernandez
We’re back for Season 2! We celebrate a year of making shows with a fight of rum cocktails, and updates on our lives and the world.
Our very first live show! We talk about the origins of Cheers & Queers, share what we find erotic, celebrate the birthday of the indomitable Audre Lorde with scholar and best aunt ever, Alexis Pauline Gumbs and the NYC based organizing center, The Audre Lorde Project, then play a drinking game with erotic Star Trek fan fic. Grab a drink and join us!
**HEAR YE, HEAR YE! THIS EPISODE IS FULL OF SPOILERS!**
We chat with Tony Ray, of Everybody Loves Tony Ray, about ALL OF OUR FEELINGS, good, bad, and complex. But in the end, we all agree: WAKANDA FOREVER.
On this episode we chat about our favorite love relationships in fandom, how to pick a bubbly wine, and what might come after the revolution (aka how to get yo money right when money doesn’t exist anymore).
AND we hear from listeners and past guests who share their practical, visionary, and heartfelt thoughts on economics, capitalism, and blackanomics (or something like that).
On this episode we chat about hooking up at Hogwarts, warm dranks, handling the holidays, street harassment, gender, flirting, the failure of She’s Gotta Have It, representation, and all the ways to Femme with artist Sal Muñoz.
On this episode we chat about queers and non-monogamy, spoons, our homies on the left coast, relationships, and a different kind of love with Ericka Hart and Ebony Donnely over some fancy rosé!
On this episode chat with the legendary Khane of Camera Ready Kutz and the legendary Queer dance party SWEAT!, talk about Queer Aesthetics, review blerDCon 2017, give a toast with some Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey!
