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Waffle Colored Knee-Grows ft. Queen

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.


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

Show Notes

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Drinking

Black Ass Kentucky Mule

  • 2 oz Uncle Nearest Whiskey

  • Ginger beer to top

  • ½ oz fresh squeezed lime juice

  • Ice

  • Mint garnish

Add whiskey and lime juice into an ice-filled glass (or a copper mug!), and stir together to combine and chill. Add ginger beer to taste. Garnish with mint. 

Music

The Team

  • Hosted, produced, and engineered by Isake Smith

  • Edited by Lance John

  • Social media by Jaylen Elise Colvin Taylor

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Cheers & Queers S3 Ep 01 - Radical Ratchet Joy with Jewel Cadet

Kirya and Isake talk with Jewel about party spaces, survival centered transformative justice practices, and what it means to be crafting the way forward with practice, grace, and twerking. Please follow us on Instagram and Twitter @CheersNQueers, and support our Patreon.


Kirya and Isake talk with Jewel about party spaces, survival centered transformative justice practices, and what it means to be crafting the way forward with practice, grace, and twerking. Please follow us on Instagram and Twitter @CheersNQueers, and support our Patreon

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Drinking

Kentucky Margarita

  • 2 oz. Bourbon/Whiskey

  • 1 oz. Lime Juice

  • 1 oz. Agave Syrup

  • Optional: Mint, Lime, or Salt for garnish

Just mix the liquid ingredients, pour over ice, and garnish if you fancy 🎩.. Also an option to make a slush drink by pouring over crushed ice. 

Music

The Team

  • Hosted, produced, and engineered by Isake Smith and Kirya Traber

  • Edited by Lance John

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Cheers & Queers S1 Minisode 01 - A shot! Twentytwentywon

We are back with a mini-episode to begin Season 3! Kirya and Isake talk about the apocalypse, dry January, and give you some important show updates. Please follow us on Instagram and Twitter @CheersNQueers, and support our Patreon.


We are back with a mini episode to begin Season 3! Kirya and Isake talk about the apocalypse, dry January, and give you some important show updates. Please follow us on Instagram and Twitter @CheersNQueers, and support our Patreon

Show Notes

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Drinking

Winter Cranberry Spritz

  • Ingredients:

    • 2 ounces rosemary simple syrup

    • 4 ounces cranberry juice unsweetened

    • soda water or other carbonated water

    • ice

  • Instructions

    • Combine simple syrup and juice in a glass with ice and stir. Top with soda water

Paper Plane

  • Ingredients

    • 1 part bourbon

    • 1 part amoro 

    • lemon

    • seltzer 

  • Instructions

    • Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker/glass, stir, add ice, top with seltzer

Imaginary Airplane

  • Ingredients

    • 1 part bourbon

    • 1 part amoro 

    • 1 part Aperol

    • Lemon

  • Instructions

    • Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker/glass, stir, add ice

Music

The Team

  • Hosted, produced, and engineered by Isake Smith and Kirya Traber

  • Edited by Lance John

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Cheers & Queers S2 Ep 06 -Existential Authenticity ft. Be Steadwell

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.


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. 

Show Notes

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Drinking

Virgin Paloma

  • Ingredients:

    • 1.5 oz lime juice

    • 1 oz grapefruit juice

    • 1 oz agave syrup or honey

    • Healthy pinch of sea salt

    • Soda water

  • Instructions

    • Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake with ice. Strain over ice into a glass and top with soda.

Music

The Team

  • Hosted, produced, and engineered by Isake Smith and Kirya Traber

  • Edited by Lance John

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#OnFleet: Enterprise

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!


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!

Show Notes

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Drinking

  • Alien Sex on the Beach

    • A sweet to semi sweet pink champagne 

    • 1.5oz your favorite whiskey 

    • Muddled citrus (Kirya’s version) 

OR

    • 1.5 oz of Pimms and a splash of passion fruit juice (Isake’s version)

Music

  • All sounds from Enterprise! 

The Team

  • Hosted, produced, and engineered by Isake Smith and Kirya Traber

  • Edited by Lance John

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Cheers and Queers S2 Ep 05 - A Quarantine Chronicle

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)


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) 

Show Notes

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Drinking

  • Isake: “Bourbon bees knees”: 1/2 oz honey (use the honey crystals from the bottom of the jar, if you got it!), 1/2 oz hot water, 2.5 oz bourbon, juice of half a lemon, and a sprig of thyme if you fancy. Put in a shaker with a large rock, shake and serve. 

  • Kirya's "go to" cocktail "The Seven Day Work Week": 1 part Bourbon, 1 part seltzer, ginger beer to taste, cocktail bitters to taste, stir with ice. 

Music

  • Intro: Sage by Be Steadwell

  • Additional Music 

    • Satisfied, from the Original Cast recording of Hamilton

    • Magic School Bus theme song, by Little Richard

  • Boomscat

  • Abel

The Team

  • Hosted, produced, and engineered by Isake Smith and Kirya Traber

  • Edited by Lance John

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Cheers and Queers S2 Ep 04 - Don't Try Me ft. Angélique Roché

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.


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. 

Finding folks: 

Angelique Roche’s Instagram and Twitter

The Radical Geeks- April Reign and the Gluten Free Pineapple Pizza Debacle

Marvel’s Voices

Geeksplain

The Blerdgurl

Links: 

400 Years of Inequality

1619 

Ghana marks 400 years since American slave trade

Descarte mind body dualism

Bed-Vyne

Dry January

Lenord Nemoy’s Sunny 

Carolyn Malichai

Adam Ellis

Paying quarterly taxes

Black women with BA annd white people with high school diplomas

Ace Comic Con

How to Survive the End of the World

Citrus Spritzer

Equal parts Blood orange San Pellegrino and lemon lime sparkling water, pour over ice, stir and enjoy.

Honey Vodka Tonic

2 oz. Honey vodka 

8 oz. Citrus Pellegrino

Splash of fresh lime juice

Ice

  • Pour vodka over ice into tall glass, add Pellegrino and lime juice. Stir and enjoy.

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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 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. 

Show Notes

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Drinking

Cardassian Sunrise 

-2 oz Blood Orange Grand Reserve Rosé

-1 oz Rowhouse Spirits: Drowned Devil Rum (the old demon)

-3 oz Grapefruit juice 

-2 oz KeVita Lemon Cayenne

-coconut water* 

*Optional

Combine spirits, grapefruit, and KeVita. Add ice, stir, and top with coconut water to taste. 

Music

The Team

  • Hosted by Isake Smith and Kirya Traber

  • Produced by Isake Smith, Kirya Traber

  • Engineered by Lance John

  • Edited by Jassel Hernandez

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Cheers & Queers - Wet Your Appetite...

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).


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).

Show Notes

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Drinking

The Live In Lover

  • 3 ounces silver/blanco tequila (We like Casamigos!)

  • 2 ounces Campari OR Aperol

  • 1 ounce seltzer

  • 1 chunk watermelon

Pour into glass over ice, stir, serve. 

Music

  • Intro: Sage by Be Steadwell

  • Additional Music 

    • Hands by Boomscat

    • All other interstitial music by Abel Shiffera

  • 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

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Cheers & Queers S2 Ep 03 - Black Femme Magic IRL


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

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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

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Cheers & Queers S2 Ep 2 - I Need a Space to Thrive


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

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Cheers and Queers S2 Ep 1 - A Lot of Rum & Feelings

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.

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.

Show Notes

Links to:

  • Housing

  • Chronic Illness

  • Relationships

Drinking

  • Rum & Coke

  • Dark & Stormy

  • Mojito :

  • 7 to 8 mint leaves,

  • ½ lime cut into 4 to 5 wedges,

  • 1 ½ tablespoons of honey simple syrup (or to taste, if you like things a little sweeter),

  • 2oz rum,

  • ½ cup of club soda.

  • Muddle half the lime wedges and mint (use the back of a spoon in a large cup if you don’t have a muddler).

  • Add another lime wedge and the honey syrup to the mix and muddle more.

  • In a different glass, add ice, rum, and club soda.

  • Strain muddled liquid into the glass.

  • Garnish with leftover mint and lime

  • Rum & Lemonade :

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

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Cheers & Queers Episode 5 - LIVE!

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!


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!

Show Notes

Links to:

  • Implicitly, by jaylee_g and sundara, from The Caffeinated Neurotic https://jaylee-g.dreamwidth.org/54798.html

 

Drinking

  • At Starr Bar NYC! http://starrbar.com/

  • The Kaeperknick: “Jameson Caskmate, Pedicularis-infused Jameson, Amaro Nonio, Honey, Lemon. Take a knee and enjoy.”

 

Music

  • Intro: Sage by Be Steadwell

  • Additional Music

    • Hands by Boomscat

    • Satisfied from the Hamilton Broadway Soundtrack

    • All other interstitial music by Abel Shiffera

  • 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

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Cheers & Queers Bonus Episode - All Black Panther Everything

**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.


**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.

Show Notes

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Drinking

Recipe for Killmonger’s Blood of the Colonizer

  • 0.3 liter unflavored vodka

  • 0.6 liter red wine (Merlot if you like dry, port or shiraz if you like sweet)

  • 2 dried poblano peppers (or your favorite dried pepper)

  • 2 inches of ginger

  • ¼ teaspoon of cinnamon (optional)

 

Crumble the peppers, peel and shred the ginger, place in the bottle. Pour vodka and wine over spices, seal, and store in a dark cool place to steep for 1 month. After the month, strain through a cheesecloth. You can serve at room temperature, OR add the cinnamon, let settle for another 2 weeks, and then serve at room temperature.

Music

  • ‘Satisfied’ from the Hamilton Broadway Soundtrack

The Team

  • Hosted by Isake Smith and Kirya Traber

  • Produced by Isake Smith, Kirya Traber

  • Engineered by Lance John

  • Edited by Jassel Hernandez

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Cheers & Queers Episode 4 - Capitalism & Queers

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 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).

Show Notes

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Drinking

  • La Peña de España 2015

Music

  • Intro: Sage by Be Steadwell

  • Additional Music

    • Hands by Boomscat

    • Satisfied from the Hamilton Broadway Soundtrack

    • All other interstitial music by Abel Shiffera

  • 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

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Cheers & Queers Episode 3: Femmespiration

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 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.

We also want you to give us your thoughts on economics, capitalism, and blackanomics (or something like that). Send your one minute or less voice memo to us at CheersNQueers@gmail.com

Show Notes

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Drinking

  • Spiked Apple Cider

Mulled Cider:

1 orange

1 lemon

8 cups of your favorite cider

1 tablespoon whole allspice berries or 1 teaspoon ground

2 teaspoons roughly chopped crystallized or fresh ginger

1 1/2 teaspoons whole black peppercorns

1 1/2 teaspoons cardamom pods or 1/2 teaspoon ground

1 whole cinnamon stick

5 whole cloves

1 bay leaf

1 star anise

Sugar or honey, to taste

Rum, whiskey, or brandy

 

Peel orange and apple. Place half the orange peels and all of the spices into a mulling ball or cheesecloth. Pour cider over gathered spices, and heat on low in crock pot for 4 to 5 hours. Add sweetener to taste. Add 2 to 3 ounces of spirits into the serving cup, and pour cider over it. Makes 8 cups.   

Music

  • Intro: Sage by Be Steadwell

  • Additional Music

    • Restore by Abel Shiffera

    • Hands by Boomscat

    • Conga House by Abel Shiffera

    • Satisfied from Hamilton

  • Outro: Hey by Boomscat

The Team

  • Hosted by Isake Smith and Kirya Traber

  • Produced by Isake Smith, Kirya Traber, Lance John, and Jassel Hernndez

  • Edited by Jassel Hernandez

 

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Cheers & Queers Episode 2: Hood-Based Epistemology

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 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!

Show Notes

Drinking

  • Pinot de Sud Côtes-de-thongue rosé

Music

  • Intro: Sage by Be Steadwell

  • Additional Music

    • Restore by Abel Shiffera

    • Hands by Boomscat

    • Conga House by Abel Shiffera

    • Satisfied from Hamilton

  • Outro: Hey by Boomscat

The Team

  • Hosted by Isake Smith and Kirya Traber

  • Produced by Isake Smith, Kirya Traber, Lance John, and Jassel Hernndez

  • Edited by Jassel Hernandez

Links to:

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