Queer Collective Podcast

Why do trans and gender-nonconforming people keep showing up suspiciously close to gods, prophecy and ancient religion? With trans historian Sophie Edwards, we follow a wildly gay historical trail through the ancient mediterranean to ask why people crossing gender boundaries were so often imagined as closer to the divine.

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0:00 Why Were Trans People So Close to the Divine?

1:00 Can We Call Ancient People Trans?

2:22 The Enarees: Trans Diviners Trusted by Kings

8:30 Why Was Gender-Crossing Linked to Prophecy?

11:50 The Galli: Rome’s Trans Feminine Priestesses

16:20 Ancient Gender-Affirming Care & the Day of Blood

23:15 How Did Ancient Rome Treat the Galli?

28:49 Where Did the Galli Go?

30:40 The Trans Saints of Early Christianity

31:55 Saint Pelagius: The Trans Saint & Former Sex Worker

42:42 Saint Marinos: Exiled Rather Than Out Himself

51:06 Is Transness Connected to the Divine?

54:15 Tiresias: Gender-Crossing, Gods & Prophecy

59:03 The Mystery of the Bearded Venus

1:04:37 We Have Always Existed

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Thin is back. Ozempic bodies, heroin chic nostalgia, shrinking celebrities, and suddenly the body positivity era feels like a fever dream. We’re revisiting one of our favourite conversations with artist and body liberation advocate Jennarie to unpack what fatphobia actually does to us, why thin privilege is so invisible, and how diet culture keeps turning our insecurity into profit. Because you can’t heal your relationship with your body while still being terrified of looking fat.

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0:00 Thin Is Back, and That Should Scare Us

1:09 Body Liberation Is Bigger Than Body Positivity

4:03 Growing Up Terrified of Being Fat

12:14 Why Fat People Aren’t Allowed to Be Desirable

20:32 Ads

23:17 Who Decided Thin = Attractive?

27:49 When Doctors Blame Everything on Your Weight

36:31 Why “Just Go to the Gym” Is Bullshit

44:25 What Fat Allyship Actually Looks Like

49:12 Ads

51:37 Why Plus-Size Shopping Is a Different Reality

60:15 Why Are We So Afraid of Looking Fat?

64:09 “You Don’t Look Fat” Isn’t a Compliment

67:14 The Fatphobia You Don’t Know You Have

72:30 Ozempic, Heroin Chic & Why Thin Is Back

75:19 How Do We Actually Find Fat Joy?

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Your crush takes three hours to text back, and suddenly your brain has written, directed and cancelled the entire relationship. We’re unpacking queer neurodivergent dating, sex and intimacy with psychotherapist Frankie Talon Rose: rejection sensitivity, limerence, masking, sensory overload, autistic flirting, kink, consent and the ADHD brain thinking about laundry mid-hookup. From AuDHD dating chaos to shutdowns in long-term relationships, this is a practical, spicy guide to building love around the brain you actually have, not the neurotypical fantasy you were handed. Direct communication has never been hotter.

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00:00 Why Queer People Are More Likely to Be Autistic

02:26 Autism Self-Diagnosis vs. Formal Diagnosis

04:52 How Autism–Trans Research Gets Weaponized

06:24 What Is AuDHD? Autism + ADHD Explained

12:00 Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria in Dating

19:59 Limerence, Hyperfixation & Obsessive Crushes

26:31 Autistic Flirting & the Double Empathy Problem

32:21 Sensory Overload on First Dates

37:41 Masking and Unmasking in Relationships

41:53 Autistic Meltdowns: How Partners Can Help

46:11 ADHD, Hypersexuality & Sexual Impulsivity

50:00 Why ADHD Brains Get Distracted During Sex

55:12 Autism, Kink & Sensory Needs in Bed

59:52 AAC and Nonverbal Consent During Sex

1:03:37 Neurodivergent Shame, Sex & Self-Acceptance

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We’re unpacking aromanticism. What if the person everyone calls cold, avoidant, or emotionally unavailable simply doesn’t experience romantic attraction? We’re tracing the misunderstood world of aromanticism; From the rise of the aro label and the pressure of amatonormativity to the myths that confuse aromantic people with trauma, autism, asexuality, or commitment issues. We’re also asking the gay little question society hates most: can intimacy, partnership, and sex exist without romance?

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00:00 Aromantic or Emotionally Unavailable?

01:26 What Does Aromantic Mean?

05:54 Sex Without Romance

13:30 What Falling in Love Feels Like

19:20 Am I Aromantic?

35:05 Aromantic vs. Asexual

39:17 The Aromantic Spectrum

47:28 What Is Amatonormativity?

51:34 Marriage Before Romantic Love

57:44 Aromantic People in History

1:06:15 How Aromanticism Got Its Name

1:14:26 Does “Love Is Love” Exclude Aros?

1:20:52 Aromantic Myths

1:35:15 Allo-Aro or Fuckboy?

1:42:14 Why Aromantics Aren’t Taken Seriously

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We’re dragging lesbian-bisexual relationship drama out of the group chat and onto the mic. From “she’ll leave me for a man” panic to bisexual erasure, biphobia, anxious attachment, queer gatekeeping, and the cursed phrase “basically a lesbian now,” we’re unpacking the insecurities sapphic couples whisper about but rarely say out loud. It’s messy, tender, deeply researched, and yes, someone is probably getting lovingly read.

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00:00 The Man She Might Leave You For

01:02 Lesbian Insecurities, Unfiltered

05:08 It’s Not Really About Him

10:04 The First Sapphic Relationship Panic

15:32 What Am I Not Providing?

21:11 The Straight-Life Fantasy

24:48 The “Good Bisexual” Trap

31:06 Were You Really Left For A Man?

35:25 Are Lesbians Centering Men?

40:31 Bisexuality As The “Deviant Other”

46:35 A Listener Challenges The Narrative

1:00:47 When Queerness Becomes Political

1:12:58 Bisexual Insecurities Come Out

1:20:00 The Pressure To Identify As Lesbian

1:28:32 Sapphic Red Flags Game

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