Sagittarian Matters

Episode 291 QUEER ULTIMATUM s2 with Karen Tongson, Poulomi Saha, and Greta LaFleur

We are over the moon to present you with this crossover episode with Nicole's other podcast, The Gaymazing Race.

TGR returns with 3 special bonus episodes on season 2 of THE ULTIMATUM: QUEER LOVE. Karen and Nicole gather queer experts, friends of the pod and Ultimatum enthusiasts to join them in astute, if also sometimes raw and raunchy assessments of the couplings, uncouplings and potential throuplings of Netflix's messiest queer dating show. This week: Greta La Fleur and Poulomi Saha join us to introduce all the couples, haircuts, trial spouses and more leading up to "The Choice."

Episode 290 ALISON BECHDEL

Alison Bechdel returns to the podcast to talk about drawing goats, making a living as a lesbian and her new book SPENT!

 

Alison Bechdel is a Virgo friend to the show and  the author of the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, and the graphic memoirs Fun Home, Art you My Mother and The Secret to Superhuman Strength. She joined me in the Sagittarian Matters Social Distancing Studios to talk about her newest book, SPENT- a comic novel.

 

Alison is hitting the road with her new book Spent later this month. Look her up and go see her in Portland, Seattle, San Francisco AND MORE!

 

You can listen to my 2016 and 2018 Sagittarian Matters interviews with Alison on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts.

 

 

Episode 289 TRAITORS finale & reunion recap with Beaux Lyles-Lamotte

We are over the moon to welcome back birthday twin to the show BEAUX LYLES-LAMOTTE to discuss the finale, reunion, and episode 10 of TRAITORS. 

Plus, Nicole's most recent and bizarre travel innovation. 

 

Beaux Lyles-Lamotte is an honored sagittarius and the witch behind Magic Hour Candles. They love reality t.v. and have been offering their Housewife insights all season as we've recapped The Traitors US, Season 3. 

You can find Beaux at magichourcandles.com

Listen to the end of the show for a special offer code for listeners to get 15% off their order at magichourcandles.com. 

If you want to  access the entire SEASONS of Love is Blind and Traitors recaps,  plus see exclusive videos, bonus episodes,  listen to everything early and frankly support my work and read HUNDREDS of pages of unpublished diary comics, 

Please go to patreon.com/nicolejgeorges and become an honorary sagittarian or above TODAY!

And if you join at a higher level, I’ll say your name on the podcast. Producer Ponyo will too

Episode 288 LOVE IS BLIND finale & reunion recap with Dr. Joan Lubin

Wedding bells are ringing and longboards are rolling as we recap the FINALE and REUNION of Love is Blind with friend to the show, Dr. Joan Lubin. 

Joan joined me in the Sagittarian Matters Social Distancing Studios to recap the finale and reunion  of a show that feels like a self-styled lobotomy, Love Is Blind, season 8.

 

Dr. Joan Lubin is a major reality dating competition show enthusiast, and Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature at Durham University.

Episode 287- LOVE IS BLIND recap with Dr. Joan Lubin

We are over the moon to welcome reality dating show enthusiast Dr. Joan Lubin to the Sagittarian Matters Social Distancing Studios to recap episodes 1-3 of Love Is Blind, season 8. 

Join us, won't you, as we discuss attachment styles, straight men, and how Nicole would fare on this very show (spoiler: she'd do GREAT).

Find recaps of the rest of this season of Love Is Blind, plus bonus videos, Traitors, and early access episodes on Patreon! Patreon.com/nicolejgeorges

Thank you for your support.

 

Dr. Joan Lubin is a major reality dating competition show enthusiast, and Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature at Durham University. 

 

 

 

 

Episode 286- TRAITORS recap with Beaux Lyles Lamotte

We are over the moon to welcome Honored Sagittarius Beaux Lyles Lamotte back to the show to give a full breakdown on the reality star-studded cast of Traitors UK, and to recap episode one.

I get a crash course in Scandoval, The Housewives, Gabby the gay Bachelorette, Carolyn from Survivor (Courtney Love as professional wrestler?) and all the contestants who entered Alan Cumming's castle this season.

We also discuss my DeeDee Ramone haircut of yore, seeing Jillian Michaels from the Biggest Loser on a dating app, breakups over Skype, AND MORE. 

 

You can find videos and more Traitors recaps at patreon.com/nicolejgeorges

 

You can find Beaux at magichourcandles.com

 

DEAN SPADE! Advice on Love, boundaries, liberation and MORE.

We were over the moon to welcome Dean Spade to the Social Distancing Studios to give advice to listeners in honor of his book, Love In A Fucked Up World (available now).

Dean and I gave advice to listeners on love, despair, dating, distance,  liberation, boundaries and MORE.

 

Dean Spade has been working to build queer and trans liberation based in racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He is a professor at the Seattle University School of Law, and the author of the books Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis and the Next, and Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law

 

You can get his new book, Love In A F*cked Up World NOW through Bluestockings, or your preferred independent bookstore. 

 

Sagittarian Matters is hosted & produced by Nicole J. Georges, with assistance from Ponyo Georges. Our Executive Producer is Chris Sutton, and our editor is Shanna Polley.

You an support the podcast by joining Patreon as an Honorary Sagittarius, Ponyo's Friend Club Member or above. Patreon.com/nicolejgeorges

Thank you for your support. 

 

 

Episode 284- SOLOMON J. BRAGER : Advice, ice cream, graphic history & memoir, academia, and MORE

Ep 284: Solomon J. Brager!  

We are over the moon to welcome graphic novelist Solomon Brager to the podcast to discuss their new book, Heavyweight, AND complain about ice cream, talk graphic memoir, history, confronting zi**ism, and give advice on friends, leaving academia, tortoise food and MORE.

 

Solomon J.  Brager is a writer, teacher, and artist. They are currently a Jerome Hill Artists Fellow, a member of the Pinko magazine editorial collective and the director of community engagement at Jewish Currents magazine.

Sol joined me from their home in New York to discuss their new book, Heavyweight- a family story of holocaust, empire, and memory.

 

Like the show? Become an Honorary Sagittarian at patreon.com/nicolejgeorges . 

Need advice? Call 971-361-9998 and leave a message! 

 

Time stamps:

Beginning: The bummers of avocado food politics

3:40 Talking Heavyweight: getting fired for being anti-zionist

7:10 Less-effective political strategies

9:35 "You need to train your body out of being afraid of people who disagree with you. That's not a feeling you can trust." 

9:50 The family history behind the book

13:05 Graphic Novel process: Hand-lettering, traditional vs. digital drawing & more

20 Choices between what parts of the story were visual vs text

28:24 The joy of filling in backgrounds with black paint

29- book cover talk

ADVICE:

34:16 - How do I talk to my zi**ist friends about what’s going on?

38:25- Should I leave academia? Is there life after academia? Is it even possible?

FOOD: 

43:35 Bemoaning the changes at Van Leeuwen ice cream

47:55 Advice: How do I differentiate the tortoise’s food from my own? 

Bonus cucumber recipe

 

 

Episode 283- MICHELLE TEA & KATY DAVIDSON! Acaì bowls, advice on writing, boundaries, tattoos and MORE

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We are over the moon to have MICHELLE TEA back in the Sagittarian Matters Social Distancing Studio in honor of her new anthology, SLUTS- the inaugural book of Dopamine Press. Michelle Tea joined us to give  listeners advice on writing, boundaries, people pleasing, tattoo remorse, and more! 

But first, in an Unsolicited Vegan Food Review, Katy Davidson tries Acai for the first time and is very surprised. 

 

Go learn more about Sluts and all upcoming books and events at dopaminepress.org. 

Go listen & buy Katy's new album, Human Futures, here. 

 

You can listen episodes early and support Sagittarian Matters by becoming an Honorary Sagittarius on Patreon. Patreon.com/nicolejgeorges

This week on Patreon, we have a bonus video episode with Michelle Tea, where Nicole recounts the Perfect Wife docu-series, we talk shrimping, prudishness, and more. 

 

Today's episode produced and hosted by Nicole J. Georges, with Executive Produced by Chris Sutton, with editor Shanna Polley, field producer Ponyo Georges, and intern Gigi Peloso. 

 

Episode 282- CHRIS VARGAS! Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects, Golden Girls Live, and snorkeling misadventures

 

We are over the moon to welcome Capricorn CHRIS VARGAS back to the show to discuss his new book, Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects.

But first! We do some live reporting from a Golden Girls show in Hollywood, where Chris & I were treated to room-temperature coke, hateful theater patrons and top notch impersonations.

 

Bonus: Chris discusses a Florida snorkel boat trip

 

Chris Vargas is also a Guggenheim-award winning artist, filmmaker, professor, and the founder of MOTHA, the Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art.

Chris and his collaborators  have just released a giant, beautiful book, Trans Hirstory in 99 objects. A compelling exploration of trans art, activism, and resistance.

 

In this episode we discuss Angela Douglas, Assunta Femia, Pippa Garner, Catholics regendering indigenous people of California, the Tootsie film genre, A Hormonal Fog AND MORE.

 

Get Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects by Chris Vargas, Christina Linden & David Evan Frantz now! Wherever you get your books.