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The podcast of Nicole J. Georges. Advice, interviews, reviews and rants from a queer, feminist, vegan cartoonist,
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Thursday Jul 20, 2023
Thursday Jul 20, 2023
Beth Pickens is the author of the books Your Art Will Save Your Life and Make Your Art No Matter What.
Today's episode was guest edited & produced by our theme song composer, Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs. Thank you Carolyn!
You can find Beth & join her homework club RIGHT NOW at bethpickens.com .
You can find Dopamine Press, Beth Pickens, and Nicole all on on instagram RIGHT NOW! https://www.instagram.com/dopaminebooksla/
Tuesday Jun 20, 2023
Tuesday Jun 20, 2023
We are over the moon to welcome Capricorn dream LIL MISS HOT MESS to the podcast to discuss her book If You’re a Drag Queen and You Know It, Drag Story Hour, queer drag pedagogy, standing up to fascists and MORE.
AND
Aquarius friend to the show MICHELLE TEA joins us to talk about the recent anti-queer violence at the Glendale School Board meeting, and how to show up, resist, and keep your queer joy.
Also- Nicole discusses the latest drama from her "friendly" tortoise Facebook group.
Lil Miss Hot Mess is the author of the children's books If You’re a Drag Queen and You Know It (Running Press Kids, 2022) and The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish (2020) and serves on the board of Drag Story Hour. She has also appeared on world-class stages like SFMOMA, Stanford University, and Saturday Night Live, was a founding organizer of the #MyNameIs campaign that challenged Facebook’s “real names” policy, and has published essays in The Guardian, Wired, and Salon. When not twirling, Lil Miss Hot Mess is a university professor.
Michelle Tea is the author of over a dozen books, including Knocking myself up, Valencia, Against Memoir, and Black Wave.
She is also the co-creator of Sister Spit and Drag Queen Story Hour.
Michelle joined me from a literary festival’s wellness center in Denver Colorado to discuss the recent attack on the Glendale school board by the proud boys, and how to be an ally and spark queer joy in the face of it.
Please enjoy my talk with Michelle Tea
Sunday Jun 11, 2023
Sunday Jun 11, 2023
Today on a Super Special Pride Edition Crossover Episode, noted Virgo Karen Tongson of the Gaymazing Race & Waiting to X-hale joins me to talk about THE ULTIMATUM- QUEER LOVE. Stay tuned.
Karen Tongson is the author of Normporn: Television and the Spectacle of Normalcy (forthcoming 2023), Why Karen Carpenter Matters (2019), and Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries (2011). Her current book-in-progress is titled, Empty Orchestra: Karaoke, Queer Performance, Queer Theory (Duke University Press). She received Lambda Literary’s Jeanne Córdova Award for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction for her body of writing in 2019. Tongson currently chairs the department of gender and sexuality studies at USC, where she’s Professor of GSS, English and American studies & ethnicity.
Her writing and cultural commentary have recently appeared in Slate, NPR, The Los Angeles Review of Books, PBS NewsHour, The Los Angeles Times, The AV Club, Entertainment Weekly, and KCRW’s Good Food among other venues. Tongson is co-editor of the award-winning book series, Postmillennial Pop with Henry Jenkins at NYU Press, and co-hosts two podcasts: the GenX-themed Waiting to X-Hale with Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh, and The Gaymazing Race (a queer podcast about The Amazing Race) with Nicole J. Georges.
Today’s episode brought to you by Jaime Raybin, Khale McHurst, and Zella Minor-House !
If you would like to support sagittarian matters, especially producer Chris sutton, please send $5 $40000 via paypal to hornetleg@gmail.com or Hellbooks on Venmo.
Thank you for your support and we look forward to saying your name on the podcast. Producer Ponyo looks forward to it too.
Monday Apr 24, 2023
Monday Apr 24, 2023
We are over the moon to welcome EILEEN MYLES back to the program.
We talk about Meditation, the concept of home, Making money as an artist, films, tea bags, coparenting, girlfriends ex girlfriend, tolerating the intolerable, activist groups, self-care, ambition and creativity.
Plus, Nicole gives an Unsolicited Whole Foods music review, hardcore music revisit & introduces HERMES THE TORTOISE!
Eileen Myles is a Sagittarius, a poet, a novelist, a performer and an art journalist.
Their more than twenty books include Cool for You, I Must Be Living Twice, Chelsea Girls, afterglow, and MORE. Eileen has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and was recently elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters.
Eileen joined me from their home in Marfa, Texas to talk about their new book of poetry, A Working Life.
“With intelligence, heart, and singular vision, a “Working Life” shows Eileen Myles working at a thrilling new pitch of their poetic and philosophical powers.”
They ALSO have a giant, beautiful, important new anthology, Pathetic Literature.
Go get both!
Sunday Apr 09, 2023
Sunday Apr 09, 2023
Morgan is a frequent contributor to Sagittarian Matters. She is the former purveyor of Dovetail Bakery, and loves dry crunchy foods more than any earthling could understand.
Beth Pickens is the author of the books Your Art Will Save Your Life and Make Your Art No Matter What.
Beth is an arts consultant, a CAPRICORN, and an esteemed friend to the show.
You can join her homework club RIGHT NOW at bethpickens.com .
Foods we discuss this episode:
Golden beet poke
Bon Devil ganache
Bam Milk
Snak Club Tajine Gummy Bears
Flaxmeal!
Chocolate covered chickpeas
MEAL TRAIL ADVICE: Veggie Galette, Pho, Mix-n-match Por Que No (Portland)
The zen of Grocery Outlet
Maciel’s plant based butcher (LA)
Ranchside Cafe Ethiopian menu (LA)
Fermenter Koji (Portland) Beet Reuben
Hot Tongue Pizza (LA) - two tongues up.
Baked Feta recipe from
Vegan Cheese by Jules Aron
Food Fight peanut butter cup shake (Portland)
THERMOS
Kitchen Mouse bakery soup
Milk frother
Maca Powder drink
Sip Cart Almond butter maca date smoothie
Monday Mar 20, 2023
Monday Mar 20, 2023
Today on a very special episode of Sagittarian Matters,
We are talking about the connections between TERFs & fascism! Plus the word dyke. With Professor Greta La Fleur.
Greta LaFleur is an Associate Professor of American Studies at Yale University, and the author or editor of three books and three journal special issues., including the new issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly,
“Trans Exclusionary Feminisms and the Global New Right”, which was co-edited by with Serena Bassi.
You can get this special issue right now from dukeupress.edu.
At the top of the show, Nicole discusses a local chipmunk, her upcoming diary comic collection, and reading March 24 at Heavy Manners Library in LA.
Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
Wednesday Mar 08, 2023
WILL BETKE BRUNSWICK! Vegan food, Grief, Comics, Advice, and MORE. Plus- unsolicited vegan food review from Morgan!
Today on Sagittarian Matters!
We give advice on grief, moving, comics and more- Plus the premiere of Vegan I Don’t Think so Honey. With my special guest, graphic memoirist, WILL BETKE BRUNSWICK! Stay tuned.
Unsolicited Vegan Food Review with MORGAN!
Four Sigmatic vegan coconut creamer
PLUS: The world premiere of Vegan I Don't Think So Honey, a DIRECT ode/ripoff to Las Culturistas segment of the same name, which I highly recommend.
Will Betke-Brunswick is a cartoonist and graduate of the California College of the Arts MFA in Comics program. Will’s debut graphic memoir, A PROS AND CONS LIST FOR STRONG FEELINGS, is available from Tin House! You can find Will’s comics anywhere you buy books, or follow them on instagram @Transboycomics
Monday Feb 27, 2023
Monday Feb 27, 2023
We are over the moon to welcome back noted TRIPLE CAPRICORN Jessica Lanyadoo!
We talk about covid protocol & different information, and answer advice questions on friend's transphobic choices, joining a new community as a queer person, the Christ Year, and MORE.
Tune in.
Also! Nicole mentions the campaign to stop a development from paving over the Verdugo mountain lion's home. Sign the petition & find out more here: nocanyonhills.org @nocanyonhills on ig.
Jessica Lanyadoo is an internationally respected Astrologer and Psychic Medium who has been in private practice with clients all over the world since 1995. You may recognize her from her special guest appearance on Relative Fiction.
Jessica is a triple capricorn, she has a wonderful podcast called Ghost of a Podcast, and
Her wonderful book, Astrology for Real Relationships, which is available RIGHT NOW!!!
Find it at lovelanyadoo.com, or anywhere books are sold.
@jessica_lanyadoo on instagram
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
Wednesday Feb 08, 2023
We are over the moon to welcome esteemed Capricorn BETH PICKENS back to the show to answer your advice questions, AND to talk about the word Dyke and Nicole’s stories career as a sandwich artist.
Tune in
Monday Jan 23, 2023
Monday Jan 23, 2023
Bran Taylor (Magic Hour Astrology) visited Babyland in 2018 & joined us to discuss watching a cabbage give birth, and the nefarious beginnings of the Cabbage Patch Kids. Dawn Riddle & Screaming Females visited Babyland in 2022, and sent us some updates.
TUNE IN