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 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)