Queer Lit
Episodes
“Pronouns in Two-Spirit Literature” with Jas Morgan (Queer Forms and Pronouns Series)
14 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The fantastic Jas Morgan is back for a conversation about pronouns in Two-Spirit literature! We think about how kinship is reflected in language, what...
“Mixing Pronouns” with Sue Lanser (Queer Forms and Pronouns Series)
31 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Come along for a deep dive into mixed pronouns in queer, trans and nonbinary narratives with none other than Sue Lanser, your favourite narratologist’...
“Ambiguous Pronouns” with Susan Stryker (Queer Forms and Pronouns Series)
17 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It was an incredible honour to have THE Susan Stryker join me for a chat about ambiguous pronouns, trans literature and linguistic creativity. Susan’...
“Singular They” with Laura Paterson (Queer Forms and Pronouns Series)
03 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to a miniseries about gender nonconformity pronouns in literature! In this episode, the amazing linguist Laura Paterson asks me many clever qu...
“Queer Food” with Alex Ketchum and Megan Elias
17 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
What is queer food, you ask? Let’s find out! Alex Ketchum and Megan Elias tell me all about the connections between gender and food, cooking and sex...
“Lean Cat, Savage Cat” with Lauren J. Joseph
03 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The incredible author Lauren J. Joseph joins me to talk about her new book Lean Cat, Savage Cat – out on 26 February 2026. Lauren talks about the ge...
“Queer Exiles” with Ben Robbins
20 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
From Christopher Isherwood to Djuna Barnes, some of the most prolific queer writers of the 20th century wrote in exile. Ben Robbins joins me to explai...
Queer Lit on Amplified
06 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Time for a cross-over! I had the absolute pleasure on being invited to join the Amplified network and appear on their superb podcast. Here is our epis...
Festive Special Part 2
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is the queerest thing you did this year? Listen to the festive special to find out how queer our guests and listeners made 2025!References:Liz Br...
Festive Special Part 1
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What is the queerest thing you did this year? Listen to the festive special to find out how queer our guests and listeners made 2025! References: H...
Queerest thing you did this year?
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Share the queerest thing you did this year by 6 December to be featured on the end-of-year special and for the chance to win a special gift (if you ar...
“Ancient Myths and Lesbian Legends” with Mara Gold
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Medusa, Medea, Artemis… we’ve all heard their stories before but what do they sound like when not told by (or centred on) men? Mara Gold, the sapp...
“The Queer Victorian Gothic” with Brontë Schiltz
28 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you ready to descend into the weird world of queer Gothic writing, spooky sexology, and gay ghouls? Brontë Schiltz is an expert on all of these a...
“Taylor’s Version Pt 2: Showgirls” with Stephanie Burt
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you ready to become a showgirl? Poet, scholar, and Swifty extraordinaire Stephanie Burt joins me to talk about Taylor Swift’s musical genius, qu...
“Taylor’s Version Pt 1: Gaylors” with Stephanie Burt
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you ready to become a showgirl? Poet, scholar, and Swifty extraordinaire Stephanie Burt joins me to talk about Taylor Swift’s musical genius, qu...
"No" with Sara Ahmed
23 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Our favourite feminist killjoy is back! Sara Ahmed joins me to talk about her brand-new book No Is Not A Lonely Utterance: The Art and Activism of Com...
“Love Lies Bleeding” with Michelle Devereaux
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
How many times have you watched the sweaty lesbian fever dream that is Love Lies Bleeding? As you might be able to guess from this episode, Michelle D...
“Lighthouse” Queer Space Special with Mairi Oliver
26 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you can’t find me, I’m probably still browsing shelves of queer joy at Lighthouse, Edinburgh’s superb radical bookshop. The delightful owner ...
“Queer Hong Kong” with Alvin K. Wong
12 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What makes Hong Kong queer? Alvin K. Wong joins me to speak about how queer and decolonial thought can help us better understand Hong Kong and its rel...
“Category is Books” Queer Space Special with Bug and Fin
29 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You know I love a queer bookshop and this Glaswegian dream of a queer space is absolutely delightful. Bug and Fin started Category is Books in 2018 to...
“Transitions” with Ava L. J. Kim
15 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What do transitions have to do with the nation state? More than you think! Ava Kim joins me to speak about how conceptions of gender are deeply (and p...
“Hungry for Androgyny” LIVE with Leilah Jane King
01 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Coming to you live from the Spoken Word stage at Out and Wild, the UK’s biggest festival for lesbian, bi, trans and queer women and those who are no...
“Spent” with Alison Bechdel
17 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Come along on this deep dive into Alison Bechdel’s new autofictional comic novel Spent, that will give you everything from Edward Gorey Easter eggs ...
“Trans Life and Story-Led Theory” with Perry Zurn
03 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The beauty of trans life is that it flourishes in unexpected spaces. This fortnight’s guest Perry Zurn has written a beautiful book about how trans ...
ListenQueer Launch Special: "Queer Britain" with Mark King
20 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Please listen to this super special episode to meet Mark King from Queer Britain and also to hear all about the upcoming sold-out launch of ListenQuee...
“Beyond Personhood” with Talia Mae Bettcher
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Talia Bettcher, the amazing philosopher who gave us canonical essays like “Trapped in the Wrong Theory” and “Evil Deceivers and Make-Believ...
“All She Wrote Books” with Christina Pascucci-Ciampa
21 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to a brand-new queer space special! Come along to visit All She Wrote Books, a fabulous queer feminist bookshop, located in Somerville, MA, an...
“Queer AI?” with Daniella Gáti
08 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What does AI have to do with queerness? And how could the use of machine learning affect our lives and our rights as LGBTQIA+ people? Daniella Gáti s...
“Sinister Wisdom” with Julie Enszer
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet Julie Enszer, editor of Sinister Wisdom, dyke poetry superstar, and protector of the lesbian archives. Julie and I speak about shared queer cultu...
"Pronouns" with Laura Paterson
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Whether you share them, prefer them or avoid them – pronouns are everywhere. As Laura Paterson, a linguist who specialises in pronouns, tells us, th...
“Qtopia” with George Savoulis
04 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Would you like to hear about a 100-year-old public Art nouveau toilet turned queer art gallery? Or about the police station that went from a site of p...
"Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon" with Louise Siddons
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Join me and Louise Siddons, professor of visual politics par excellence, to learn about Laura Gilpin, the lesbian photographer who spent 30 years crea...
"Black Trans Feminism" with Marquis Bey
04 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Do we perhaps deserve the impossible? This is only one of the many beautiful questions Marquis Bey asks in this poem of an episode. Marquis is an exqu...
“Autotheories” with Alex Brostoff
21 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You’ve read Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts but have you heard of the scholar who puts the auto in theories? Meet Alex Brostoff, my new favourite au...
"Cyrano" with Virginia Gay
05 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Are you in the mood for queer joy and lots of panache? Come, come, listen to this episode about Virginia Gay’s Cyrano, an excitingly fun, gender-twi...
Festive Special Part 2
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In part two of our festive end-of-year special, you will hear about queer families and mourning, gay novels and book festivals, cargo pants and Vaseli...
Festive Special Part 1
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In part one of our festive end-of-year special, you will hear about queer weddings and Madonna, intersex dinosaurs and PhDs, crafting and queer cultur...
“Clever Girl” with Hannah McGregor
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Fierce femme dinosaurs, intersex embodiment, Laura Dern – it’s surprisingly easy to read Jurassic Park as a feminist celebration of monstrous quee...
“Trans Literature and Science Fiction” with Sabine Sharp
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Have you thought to yourself recently: How come trans literature is having such a moment right now? Then this episode is for you. Sabine Sharp, editor...
“Shadows and Noise” with Amber Jamilla Musser
12 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How does your embodiment affect your perception and thus your writing? This is one of many questions Amber Jamilla Musser tackles in her most recent m...
“Gothic Transgressions” with Sarah Faber and Kerstin-Anja Münderlein
29 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Have you heard of the wholesome queer Gothic? This is the cool new term that might just explain why so many of us were obsessed with monsters, witches...
“Queering Desire” with Róisín Ryan-Flood and Amy Tooth Murphy
15 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Femme theory, bisexual butches, racy footnotes – the brand-new edited collection Queering Desire has it all. The brilliant editors, Róisín Ryan-Fl...
“Queering French Fairy Tales” with Mélie Boltz Nasr
01 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Get ready, queer language enthusiasts and trans literature francophiles! In another spontaneous recording from Lesvos, Mélie Boltz Nasr aka May tells...
“Lifting Off in Lesvos” with Karen McLeod
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Guess who I ran into on the beautiful island of Lesvos: Karen McLeod, author of the amazing memoir Lifting Off. Karen sat down with me at Ohana Saloon...
“Before We Were Trans” with Kit Heyam
17 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kit Heyam’s amazing history of gender nonconformity across the globe is a dazzling journey into the intricacies of trans history and if it’s not y...
“The Queer Arab Glossary” with Marwan Kaabour
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Graphic designer Marwan Kaabour has created a stunning book that is so much more than your average glossary. Join me and Marwan to talk about what mak...
“Bluestockings” with Raquel Espasande
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Let’s go on a field trip! New York City is an amazing city for book shopping and LGBTQIA2S+ activism. Bluestockings Cooperative offers both. This am...
“Queer Television and Bad Objects” with Hollis Griffin
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Queer television is clearly having a moment and I got to learn more about this from my new favourite LGBTQ TV expert: Hollis Griffin. From the problem...
“Bellies” with Nicola Dinan
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If I hadn’t already been a massive fan of Nicola Dinan, I would have become one after this! I was beyond excited to get to speak to Nicola at Surrey...
“Theoryish” with Paola Medina-Gonzalez and Hannah Ayres
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Meet your new favourite theory podcast! Theoryish is a brilliant audio journey that may just meet all your academic needs. Paola and Hannah are an ama...
“Queer Podcasting and Knowledge Production” with Hannah McGregor
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Combine the age-old art of conversation with easy access to digital dissemination and you get: podcasting! Hannah McGregor is THE expert on scholarly ...
“Narrating Palestine” with Nora Parr
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Narratives can help us make sense of trauma – but what if these trauma narratives do not fit into preconceived structures of storytelling? Nora Parr...
“Lesbian Fashion History” with Eleanor Medhurst
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know that lesbians sporting sportswear is a queer tradition dating back centuries? Or that 1910s Japanese lesbians liked to don a yukata to se...
100 Episodes!
21 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Can you believe this is our 100th episode? Listen now to hear about some listeners’ favourite episodes, about future plans for the podcast and about...
“Normporn and Queer Imaginaries” with Karen Tongson
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What could be more soothing than escaping your beautiful but complex queer life by watching a bunch of straight people remodel their suburban home in ...
“Trans in Translation” with Alberto Poza
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Have you read the iconic Taiwanese novel The Membranes by Chi Ta-Wei? If so, in which language? Alberto has crafted the fabulous Spanish translation o...
“Knight as a Gender” with Mabel Mundy
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you could pick a gender, any gender, which one would that be, and why would it 1000% be knight? In this special minisode, I get to answer that ques...
“Gendered Bodies and Narrative Form” with Chiara Pellegrini
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How does a queer, trans or intersex body take shape in a narrative? Dr Chiara Pellegrini is here to help us better understand how narrative form, poin...
Humanities under Threat
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
https://surrey-ucu.org.uk/category/news/https://www.instagram.com/supportsurreysll/?hl=enhttps://www.change.org/p/support-our-surrey-campaign?This is ...
“Feeling Bad” with Hil Malatino
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Despite the title, this episode contains a generous amount of laughter, because it is just that enjoyable to talk to Hil Malatino, brilliant author of...
“Hijab Butch Blues” with Lamya H.
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How often do you get to chat with the author of your major literary obsession and learn something about queer storytelling at the same time? I cannot ...
“Nonbinary History and Queer Kinship” with Mo Moulton
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode is all about both/and: both trans and queer history, both kinship and relationships, both the past and the present. Mo Moulton, our illus...
“The Shape of Sex” with Leah DeVun
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nonbinary Jesus. Did that get your attention? If so, this episode is for you. Historian extraordinaire Leah DeVun joins me to talk about the pre-moder...
“Trans Future Fiction” with Kit Schuster
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How can we imagine a trans future? Kit Schuster joins me to talk about how transgression in fiction can help us think new futures. We speak about tran...
The queerest thing you did in 2023: Part Two
26 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The queerest thing you did in 2023: Part TwoAre you ready for 2024? I absolutely am not but to prepare for another queer year, I listen to more of you...
Yesterqueer's Holigays
19 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We're revisiting a holigay chat from two years ago, talking to a wonderful friend about how hard the festive season can be for queer and trans people....
The queerest thing you did in 2023: Part One
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s here! It’s here! The Queer Lit end-of-year special has arrived and it comes in two parts. One you’ll get now and the other we’ll save for...
Queer Space Special: “Gay’s The Word” with Erica Gillingham
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This extraordinary queer space special makes all my dreams come true: I get to hang out with Erica Gillingham in the basement of Gay’s The Word! Sit...
“Two-Spirit Kinship” with Kai Minosh Pyle
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What can you do when the language for who you are doesn’t exist yet? Kai Minosh Pyle’s answer: write gorgeous poetry about it! In this episode, Ka...
“Second Wave Trans Feminism” with Emily Cousens
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You may think that second wave feminism and trans activism are mutually exclusive but guess what: there is actually a whole lot of diversity in second...
How queer was your year?
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you would like to be a part of the Queer Lit winter tradition, let me know about the queerest thing you did this year and/or any queer winter/holid...
Spooky Special: "Trans-fixing Media” with Cáel Keegan
31 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We’re so done with scary trans villains and monsters – or are we? Cáel Keegan explains why we might be able to learn lessons about trans liberati...
VINTAGE Fear Lit: “Queerness and Race in Gothic and Horror” with Maisha Wester
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get the garlic, sprinkle the holy water, but please, leave the antiqueer racism out of my Gothic romance! Dr Maisha Wester (Sheffield/Indiana Universi...
“Realness, Loss and Underdogs” with Heather Love
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It’s time to be real. In this episode with queer studies luminary Heather Love, it’s all about what you find, what you feel, what you knooooow(-ah...
“The Coast is Queer” with Sarah Boira and Vedrana Velickovic
03 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Have you asked yourself lately: What could I do to make my October really super extra queer? Sarah Boira and Vedrana Velickovic have THE festival for ...
“Black Feminist Lessons” with Alexis Pauline Gumbs
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This episode takes us deep, deep into the queer ocean. Alexis Pauline Gumbs submerges us in Black feminist thought, takes us on a deep dive into queer...
"Queer Ecologies and Mulberries" with Cate Sandilands
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Did you know that yew trees can (and do) change sex? And that many trees are nonbinary? Genderqueer greenery is only one of the fascinating (tree) top...
“Queerness in the USSR” with Rustam Alexander
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What did queer life look like in Soviet Russia? Rustam Alexander has written two whole books about gay oppression in Russian history and is here to sh...
“Queer Second Cities and Serial Bisexuality” with Maria Sulimma
08 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A dog walks into a lesbian bar. I am not sure there is a punchline but there is definitely a podcast episode here. Listen to this chat with my lovely ...
“The Queer Middle Ages” with Diane Watt
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We know that queer and trans people have always been around, but how do you go about finding them? Diane Watt is here to show us how it’s done: all ...
“Out and Wild” with Elizabeth Chakrabarty
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Join @DrNChakrabarty and I in the magic teapot at @OutandWildlgbtq to talk about reading in queer spaces, writing about race hate crimes, and communit...
Revisiting "Lesbian Literature" with Terry Castle
04 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this trip to the Queer Lit archives, (the) Prof Terry Castle (Stanford University) joins me to discuss a corpus I don’t usually think about: lesb...
“The Common Press” with Alfonzo Sieveking
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you haven’t been to the Common Press yet, you’re missing out! But not to worry, Alfonzo and I will transport you there. The Common Press is an ...
Revisiting "Black Trans Narratives" with LaVelle Ridley
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In one of the first Queer Lit episodes ever, I got to chat with LaVelle Ridley (University of Michigan) about her doctoral research on black trans lif...
"Gay Voice Stereotype" with Fabio Fasoli
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Do you think you can tell someone is queer by listening to their voice? Dr Fabio Fasoli is here to tell us all about gay voice stereotypes, auditory g...
Revisiting "Trans Now" with Susan Stryker
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hold on to your pussyhats! The incredible Prof Susan Stryker joins me for this whirlwind through trans histories, nows, and futures, in which we talk ...
“Queer Lit UK” with Matthew Cornford
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Seeing double? This here podcast just so happens to share its name with a brilliant LGBTQIA+ bookshop, located in the heart of one of the queer places...
"Queer Time" with Elizabeth Freeman
16 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Queer time flies! Especially when talking to Elizabeth Freeman, who is here, now, to talk about her ground-breaking work on queer temporality, kink, c...
"Feminist Killjoys" with Sara Ahmed
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dreams really do come true! In this episode, I get to chat to the legendary originator of the feminist killjoy herself: Sara Ahmed. We talk about who ...
"Trans Materialism" with Kadji Amin
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
‘Cause we are living in a material world, Kadji Amin is here to talk about trans materialism! Kadji’s work is all about exploring what being trans...
“Queer Spaces and D*ke Bars” with Jack Gieseking
04 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A whole entire episode about thriving queer spaces? I know I’ve been waiting for it. Come follow Jack Gieseking and I down the queerness hole, throu...
"Queer Running" with Lindsey Freeman
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Run, don’t walk! Lindsey Freeman (Simon Fraser University) joins me for a sprint through their most recent book on running. We talk about running wh...
“Sex, Gender and Screen Printing” with Kat Hubbard
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What do inkblots have to do with activism? And where can I do a Master’s in that? The incredible Katherine Hubbard (University of Surrey) is here to...
“Queer Black Disability Liberation” with D’Arcee Charington Neal
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Who is your favourite queer Black character with a disability? Whether you can think of ten or none, this episode is for you. I had the most fun chatt...
“Queerness in the Ottoman Empire” with Tuğçe Kayaal
07 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This fortnight, we’re going east (and back in history) with fabulous historian Tuğçe Kayaal (Furman University). Tuğçe explains how she queers h...
“Queers in Sports” with Gabriel Knott-Fayle
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this dynamic discussion, Dr Gabriel Knott-Fayle (University of Calgary) and I talk about cisgenderism, heteronormativity and masculinity in sports ...
“Queer Anthropology and History” with Esther Newton
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Legend-alarm! We have queer anthropology’s parent on the podcast: Prof Esther Newton joins me to talk about queer spaces, drag shows, lesbian festiv...
Part 2: “How queer was your year?” with Queer Lit 2022
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Be it about Marmite or podcasts, I’ve always believed that more is more, so here is part two of the end-of-year special, where I ask former Queer Li...
“How queer was your year?” with Queer Lit 2022
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Oh, yes, you heard right: It’s a festive end-of-year special! Making resolutions and rules is not very queer, so we are celebrating the year in all ...
“The Queer Land” with Joshua Whitehead
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever thought about how your queer life is connected to the land that you live it on? In this episode, Joshua Whitehead (University of Calgary...