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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

Links to:

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

Links to:

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

Links to:

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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