#OnFleet: Enterprise

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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

Links to:

• Patreon

• Listener survey

• Follow us on twitter @CheersNQueers 

• Isake @is_she_okay on Twitter and IG & Kirya @kiryatraber (twitter) @kiryat (IG)

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

Cheers and Queers - Black Queers #OnFleet

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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. 

Show Notes

Links to:

• Respect Women’s Podcast Festival

• Amalgam Comics & Coffeehouse

• The Black Tribbles

• Airbnb Scam (stay woke fam!)

• Our Venmos: @IsakeKhadija @kirya-traber

• Follow us on twitter @CheersNQueers 

• Isake @is_she_okay on Twitter and IG & Kirya @kiryatraber (twitter) @kiryat (IG).

• Follow Cleopatra at @cleopatrafromthebronx on IG & Twitter

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

• Intro: Sage by Be Steadwell

• Additional Music 

  • hip hoprap beat(star trek sample) by  adam d

• Outro: Discovery Theme by Jeff Russo

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