The Screw is back from its accidental Christmas vacation! This final chapter in the Screw’s investigation into masculinities, Felicia Rose and ALove talk to poet Blake Morrisson, Lynwood Mcleod a.k.a. Shirley U. Jest, and Kamryn Jerrel of Tranos &The Lived Experience about their collective experience of masculinity. Each guest comes from a unique background and arrived at their conclusions in their own ways. The team discusses the source of gender, how children are policed to perform adults’ gender expectations and whether or not it’s sexy. Catch up on all the NQO happenings at NewQueerOrder.com and follow the Screw on Twitter and Instagram
This week, Felicia Rose and ALove dig deep into how masculinity has intersected with their sex lives. They discuss how social pressures to perform masculinity affect everybody from sissy tops, to the larger of two sapphic women, to straight women who never think to perform masculinity. Even in our most intimate interactions, we are not free from the influences of masculinity. Next week, the Screw will collect a grip of perspectives to get all the angles on this. If you want to contribute to the roundtable, leave comments and questions for your hosts on Twitter and Instagram where you can follow to find out what topics the Screw is going to explore and how you might contribute.
In our second pass on masculinities, Felicia Rose and ALove discuss a couple sources that think masculinity is a construct but don't seem to know how. Between the authors' attempts to describe masculinity, your hosts discuss the limits of objective catagories, how much masculinity needs to be taught and pit licking. December 1 is Felicia Rose's birthday! Make sure to intensify your celebration of the People's Tramp by participating in World AIDS Day by contributing to funds and research that reign in HIV and by buying some spank material from the Screw's favorite dumpster.
This week, the Screw begins with a tribute to those killed at Club Q last weekend. It’s difficult but important. If you want to help the parts of the community impacted by this attack, check out Colorado Public Radio’s list of potential resources. When the episode lightens up, Felicia Rose and ALove discuss acceptable and deviant gender performance for masculinity. There are as many rules and regulations governing masculinity as there are masculine individuals, and your hosts embark on a journey to find what is most valuable about masculinity and what barriers have been constructed between men and masc people and their truest self-expressions. This is a deep and nebulous topic, so leave comments and questions for your hosts on Twitter and Instagram. Where you can follow to find out what topics the Screw is going to explore and how you might contribute.
This week, producer Bee Jordan visits the front side of the podcast to fill in some uncovered media. Felicia Rose and ALove ask them questions about their favorite queer sex scene of all time, where to look for representation and whether its worth it to demand representation in the first place. This episode features some more niche media recommendations, so this is a list of some more obscure examples: Hardcoded Sunstone and others Caper at the Castro Catch up on all the NQO happenings at NewQueerOrder.com and follow the Screw on Twitter and Instagram
On this deep dive, Felicia Rose and ALove uncover representation they mostly haven’t ever heard of. They run through a list of media that portrays queer characters for audiences of all ages and demographics, including some shows with the mysterious “Y-7” rating and Aaron reviews “Boys” in a way that listeners of earlier episodes would have predicted, Catch up on all the NQO happenings at NewQueerOrder.com and follow the Screw on Twitter and Instagram
This week on the Screw, Felicia Rose and ALove debunk their ideas from last week. They catch up with the role queer represention plays in the lives of younger people and try to identify growth since their adolecenses and the shortcomings in media for younger people. Felicia talks about her attempts to pray the gay away and ALove rants about how bottom is not a personality. Catch up on all the NQO happenings at NewQueerOrder.com and follow the Screw on Twitter and Instagram
The Screw is back to talk about where queers can see themselves. In this preliminary episode, Felicia Rose and ALove talk about their best understanding of modern queer representation and compare it to what they saw in their youths. They consider how much representation used to be on premium cable and now how much of it is “too mainstream” to reach people where they’re at. Catch up on all the NQO happenings at NewQueerOrder.com and follow the Screw on Twitter and Instagram
In the finale of our four-week dive into health education for queer youth, Felicia Rose and ALove talk to a real educator, Haley Laidlaw. They’re a queer educator- former classroom teacher and current secondary school counselor, as well as the spouse of producer Bee- and they share their expertise to answer all the questions your hosts have come up with in the past month. They explain how and whether the standards from last week actually get applied and talk about how students really interact with the adults who are expected to foster them into healthy adults who know how to choose what’s best for them. If you appreciate Haley’s perspective, follow their art Instagram @MxesArt to get more of it. And write into the Screw on Twitter and Instagram if you have questions about what you’ve already heard or requests about what you want to hear in the future.
This time, Felicia Rose and ALove did some legwork and obtained some of the materials teachers in Denver Public Schools use to teach health classes. They read through the sex ed sections and compare the guidlines and handouts to the rough research they did last week, and make some pleasant discoveries. Colorado is one of the few states that have to teach actual facts, and our hosts head the bill that made that law and another that built from the bare minimum. Ms. Rose does some teacher roleplay and we formulate some questions to ask real, actual educators next week. Catch up on all the NQO happenings at NewQueerOrder.com and follow the Screw on Twitter and Instagram