Cheers & Queers - Wet Your Appetite...

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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

Links to:

• History of Aperitif

• James Bond Drinks

• Our Venmos: @IsakeKhadija @kirya-traber

• The Hard Questions: 100 Essential Questions to Ask Before You Say "I Do"

• Thee Stallion

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

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

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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

• Jag Productions
  

• Revisiting Spike Lee’s Perplexing ‘She Hate Me’ on Its 11th Anniversary

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

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.

Show Notes

Links to:

• Housing

• A Dream Foreclosed: Black America and the Fight for a Place to Call Home

• Unequal Lending Keeps Redlining Alive in Philadelphia’s Gentrifying Neighborhoods.

• City Caught Trying to Grab Senior Citizen Brownstone

• Chronic Illness

• “So much time spent in bed: Gloria Anzaldua, chronic illness, Coatlicue and disability,” by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

• Relationships

• ‘The Ethical Slut’: Inside America’s Growing Acceptance of Polyamory

• What’s the Difference Between Polyamory & an Open Relationship?

• 9 Strategies for Non-Oppressive Polyamory

• Tensions of subjectivity: The instability of queer polyamorous identity and community

• Follow Poly.Land on twitter: @PolydotLand

Drinking

• Cocktail flight with Mount Gay Barbados Rum

• Rum & Coke

• 2oz rum & 6oz “Fentimans Curiosity Cola”

• Pour over ice

• Dark & Stormy

• 2oz rum

• 6oz “Brooklyn Crafted Classic Ginger Ale”

• a squeeze of fresh lime

• and a dash of bitters of your choosing (we used Urban Moonshine Original which is on the bitter side of bitters. You may want something sweeter!)

• Shake and pour over ice.

• 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 :

• 6oz “Belvoir Elderflower Lemonade”

• 2oz rum

• Pour over ice

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

Cheers & Queers Episode 5 - LIVE!

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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

Cheers & Queers Bonus Episode - All Black Panther Everything

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**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

Links to:

• Tickets to Universal FanCon (don’t forget to use promo code GiftedSounds for 10% off): http://bit.ly/2C0HC17

• Modern Wakandan font by Kaptured Kaios - FontSpace

  • http://www.fontspace.com/kaptured-kaios/modern-wakandan

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

• Intro: Sage by Be Steadwell

• Additional Music

• ‘Satisfied’ from the Hamilton Broadway Soundtrack

• Redemption Interlude & Paramedic- Kendrick Lamar + SOB + RBE from the Black Panther Soundtrack

The Team

• Hosted by Isake Smith and Kirya Traber

• Produced by Isake Smith, Kirya Traber

• Engineered by Lance John

• Edited by Jassel Hernandez

Cheers & Queers Episode 4 - Capitalism & Queers

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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

Links to:

• Tickets to our Live Show: http://bit.ly/2nq8kL2

• Tickets to Universal FanCon (don’t forget to use promo code GiftedSounds for 10% off): http://bit.ly/2C0HC17

• Articles that define some of the terms we threw around

  • http://bit.ly/2nKaNAY

  • http://bit.ly/2FRRgFA

  • http://bit.ly/2E6yLk9

• UPDATE: Khane of Camera Ready Kutz now has opened a shop in brooklyn! http://bit.ly/2E9w7WX

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

Cheers & Queers Episode 3: Femmespiration

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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

Links to:

• The Spoon Theory. (http://bit.ly/2l2T4pQ)

• The Femme Project: (https://www.facebook.com/thefemmeproject/) & (https://www.instagram.com/the.femme.project/)

• Sal Munoz Artist Page: (http://salmunoz.com/femme)

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

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!

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:

• The Spoon Theory. (http://bit.ly/2l2T4pQ)

• 9 Things Monogamists Can Learn From Polyamory. (http://bit.ly/2l0xWjX)

  • 9 Things Polyamorists Can Learn From Monogamy. (http://bit.ly/2kYCkja)

• The Giant Pool of Money. (http://bit.ly/2l0DBGz)

• Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized Podcast. (http://apple.co/2l18Jpm)

• Ericka Hart: (http://www.ihartericka.com/#home)

Cheers & Queers Episode 1: Something About Taste and Feel

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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!

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Show Notes

Drinking

• Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey: https://www.jackdaniels.com/en-us/whiskey/tennessee-honey

Music

• Intro: Sage by Be Steadwell

• Additional Music

  • Restore by Abel Shiffera

  • Thoughtful by Abel Shiffera

  • Conga House by Abel Shiffera

• Outro: Back That Ass Up by Juvenile

The Team

• Hosted by Isake Smith and Kirya Traber

• Produced by Gifted Sounds

• Edited by Jassel Hernandez

Links to:

Khane’s LGBTQIA Barbershop GoFundMe -

https://www.gofundme.com/lgbtqiabarbershop

Camera Ready Kutz, Inc. -

www.CameraReadyKutz.com