Bedste Holy Soup-podcasts (2024)

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2024-11-06 - Dealing with the Results? 58:41

2d ago58:41

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Jonny and Heather face the challenge of recording a show on a Monday afternoon before it airs on a Wednesday morning in the first week of November....in a very contentious and signficant election year. Acknowledging the challenge of recording before any results or consequences are yet known, they offer some escapes from election anxiety and, perhap…

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2024-10-30 Leaning into the Holidays 58:33

9d ago58:33

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Jonny and Heather discuss the horrors of Halloween--that is, the actual horrors of these last days of the Presidential campaign alongside the queertastic holiday celebrations of Halloween. In the back half of the show, Jonny interviews Sister Texas Hotbox of the SOIL Sisters about their holiday card project, sending holiday greetins to queer and tr…

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2024-10-23 - Dark Enlightenment 58:45

16d ago58:45

58:45

Heather and Jonny kick off the show with a geek-out over good Dr. Who news before moving into the threatened dystopia of a President Vance. They dig into the irony of the anti-LGBTQ senator's gay billionaire patron, delving into the influence ot technolibertarians and a philosophy of Dark Enlightenment. After detailing this bleakness, they check in…

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2024-10-16 - History Making 58:45

23d ago58:45

58:45

Jonny and Heather record the episode on Columb--er, Indigenous People's Day, and have some things to say about the costs of colonialism and the importance of Two Spirit/Q-Spirit. The review some events last week, one a planned pesentation on the queer history of the region and the other a grassroots protest for an anti-trans speaker brought to spea…

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2024-10-09 - Stormy Weather 58:24

1M ago58:24

58:24

Jonny and Heather reunite and check back in on the stormy weather, from Hurricanes to politics and a a whirlwind of lies. In the back half of the show, the review some recent court cases and try to predict from their mostly favorable aoutcomes for trans folks what we might expect from forthcoming Supreme Court decisions on LGBTQ+ issues. The close …

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2024-10-02 - Helene, First Hand 58:50

1M ago58:50

58:50

Jonny details his experiences with Hurricane (Tropical Storm, by the time it got to him) Helene during the 35th Annual Gay Spirit Visions Fall Conference at The Mountain Retreat and Learning Center outside Highlands NC. He tells a story of adaptation and resilience and communities coming together to deal with a crisis. In the back half of the show,…

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2024-09-25 - Courtng Dystopia 58:32

1M ago58:32

58:32

Jonny and Heather lean into their various fandoms and geek out a bit over genre fiction before diving into recent news. The quuer geekdom follows as they discuss 2 LGBTQ+ history making actions by Joe Biden in the last week and the queer alignments of the parties and candidates in the 2024 election. In the back half of the show the briefly check in…

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2024-09-18 - Holy Spectrum 58:02

2M ago58:02

58:02

Jonny turns over the first half of the show to fellow SOIL Sister, Sr. Benedeta Cuna-lingee, and her new podcast dealing with queer spirituality, Holy Spectrum. Episode 1, "Queer Spirituality 101," lays out the plan for the podcast's future episodes and some basic starting assumptions of queer spirituality. In the back half of the show, Jonny and H…

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2024-09-11 - Cold War Fact of Life 58:01

2M ago58:01

58:01

Jonny and Heather have to discuss yet another school shooting with yet again alleged queer overtones. First, it is the war of words between the Vice Presidential candidates over what really is a "fact of life." Second, it is the immediate and false charge that the shooter (and all recent school shooters) is trans. In the back half of the show, Jonn…

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2024-09-04 - Transphobia within the Alphabet Soup 59:01

2M ago59:01

59:01

Jonny is on his own this week, recording the show on Labor Day Monday. In the front half of the show, he details "autogynephilia" as a debunked pseudo-scientific theory still popular among the gender critical and transphobes. It is one of the ways LGB (No T, No Q) folks bracket out trans experience from "gay" experience. He also details its cousin,…

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2024-08-28 - DNC! 57:31

2M ago57:31

57:31

Heather returns, and she and Jonny recap the Democratic National Convention, parsing their feels and the ways the DNC did and didn't represent queer community. In the back half of the show, they continue the political campaign analysis with a dive into Twitter/X and who is and isn't Tweeting (X-crementing?) there these days. They ponder if harsh ri…

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IIQ-2024-08-21 - 19th Amendment Lessons 58:22

3M ago58:22

58:22

Jonny is on their own again this week. They offer a recognition of the 104th anniversary of the radification of the 19th Amendment and uses it to link together several stories about political change. In the back half of the show, he shares a persuasive argument from Anna Marie that transphobia and racism, binary gender and Whiteness are firmly link…

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2024-08-14 - Political Assault on Queers 58:33

3M ago58:33

58:33

Jonny is on his own this week and digs into why this current election season is so rough for LGBTQ+ and particualrly trans people. He shows how the Harris-Walz ticket is being challenged with mischaracterizations of their LGBTQ+ advocacy, but also why such advocacy is a distinguishing element of their candidacy. In the back half of the show, he dig…

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2024-08-07 - Queer Competitions! 58:26

3M ago58:26

58:26

Heather returns to the show to share some her experiences with CoVid as the Country experiences another surge in cases. Jonny and Heather then turn their attention to the Olympics and the social media kerfuffle about women's boxing, particularly continued misogynist gender critical attacks against the elligibility of Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-Ting. I…

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2024-07-31 - The Olympics of Weird! 58:22

3M ago58:22

58:22

Jonny is joined again this week by Craig as Heather still struggles to get a negative test with CoVid. They discuss the Olympics and particularly the opening ceremony and the (misplaced) Christian outrage at its content. They also discuss the status of LGBTQ Olympians as the contest continues. In the back half of the show they turn to the Democrati…

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2024-07-24 - Political Drama (Queens!) 58:42

4M ago58:42

58:42

Jonny is joined by his husband, Craig, to discuss the slew of recent political dramas at the national level. They use their perspective as scholars of Performance Studies (and queer theory and popular culture and...) to review the Republican National Convention, the selection of J.D. Vance as the GOP Vice President candidate, and the elevation of K…

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2024-07-17 - Joe Hassert, A Queer Carbondale Alum in Las Vegas! 59:22

4M ago59:22

59:22

Jonny interviews Dr. Joe Hassert who was a resident of Carbondale from 2000 to 2012 and was remarkably active in making community art projects happen here. Joe now lives in Las Vegas where he is a professor of Communication Studies at the College of Southern Nevada. He is the current president of the queer faculty and staff advocacy group there and…

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2024-07-10 The Intersectionality Project: Education 58:13

4M ago58:13

58:13

Jonny yields the microphone (mostly) to SIU's The Intersectuionality Project and the Black and Queer Roundtable for a discussion of the importance of education and the educational disparities that face Black, Brown, and queer youth. Daniel, Janine, and Mendez pull from their own experience and recent research to drive a lively and informative discu…

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2024-07-03 - Post-Pride Empathy 58:49

4M ago58:49

58:49

Jonny and Heather process their desire for a month of hibernation following a very active Pride Month. They then turn their attention to recent developments in presidential politics and connections between agism and homophobia/transphobia. Also, maybe why presidential immunity isn't such a good thing. In the back half of the show, they review a SCO…

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2024-06-26 - Queen Jesus! 58:11

5M ago58:11

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Jonny interviews Jo Clifford, playwright and performer of "The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven," being presented at The Church of the Good Shepherd in Carbondale in the coming week (June 29 and July 2). They discuss the topic of the play, which considers,"What would happen if Jesus did come back to earth in the present day as a trans wom…

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2024-06-19 - Mae West's "The Drag" 58:07

5M ago58:07

58:07

Jonny and Heather interview Shay Miller, the director of Mae West's "The Drag," a Stage Company performance coming up for the last two weekends of Pride Month. A 1931 play by queer icon Mae West adapted by Darrin J. Pufall Purdy and Minerva Jayne, "The Drag" has many resonances with current attempts to ban drag performance. While focusing on the pl…

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2024-06-12 - SI PrideFest! 58:34

5M ago58:34

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Jonny interviews Carrie Vine of Rainbow Cafe and the Southern Illinois Pride Collective about the incredibly full weekend of SI PrideFest activities in Carbondale this coming weekend (June 15). In the back half of the show, he and Heather discuss some recent "historical moments" impacting the LGBTQ community.…

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2024-06-05 - Pride in Justice Served 58:50

5M ago58:50

58:50

Jonny and Heather update on some upcoming Pride events in Carbondale and respond to some in the community's disdain for Pride Month. They then turn to the Trump's "hush money" court case and the jury's verdict of guilty on all 34 counts. They link this to other court cases, Congressional hearings, and current events where attention to actual eviden…

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507: Unlocking Business Succession: The Power of ESOPs with Keith Butcher 24:48

5M ago24:48

24:48

In an interview with Jason Hartman, Keith Butcher, founder of Butcher Joseph, discusses business succession and Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs). With many business owners approaching retirement, ESOPs offer a tax-efficient way to transition ownership to employees. This model enhances employee retention and loyalty, providing long-term retire…

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2024-05-29 - Pride in Southern Illinois 58:10

5M ago58:10

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After a brief digression on the challenges of travel on aging queer bodies, Jonny and Heather review the slew of Pride activities coming up in Southern Illinois in June. In the back half of the show, th discuss "rules" for those non-queer folks resistant to Pride festivities and some of the various people or practices banned from Pride. They conclu…

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2024-05-22 - Black & Queer Roundtable! 59:04

6M ago59:04

59:04

Jonny sits down with Janine Armstrong and Daniel Killins, both members of the Southern Illinois University Registered Student Organization (RSO), The Intersectionality Project (TIP), to discuss the Black and Queer Roundtable. They discuss very personal experiences of intersectional identities and articulate why identiy affirming organizations that …

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2024-05-15 It's Storytelling and Queer World Making, Momma! 58:13

6M ago58:13

58:13

Jonny and Heather remember their mothers through sharing stories. They also celebrate new episodes of Doctor Who. Then they lean into how both of these sets of stories reveal something about the centrality of story telling and world making to queer and trans advocacy. They end with descriptions of two upcoming events in Southern Illinois that featu…

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2024-05-08 - Stormy Weather 58:03

6M ago58:03

58:03

Jonny and Heather weave together a whole lotta stories around the theme of the seasonal return of storms. Primary attention is given to the return of trans bans in bathrooms and a forgotten/erased history of trans folks as the UK celebrates its first Trans+ History Week. Along the way, we blow by Stormy Daniels, Elon Musk and JK Rowling, a shortene…

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2024-05-01 - Political Patience, The Long Game 58:20

6M ago58:20

58:20

Jonny and Heather discuss some good legislative and judicial news for LGBTQ+ folks, including Biden EOs that explicitly include LGBTQ+ folks in Title IX and the Affordable Care Act. We also look at a good decision on trans health coverage from the fourth district court of appeals and great news about Maine becoming a transgender and reproductive he…

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2024-04-24 - Queer Ecology! 58:35

7M ago58:35

58:35

Jonny, on his own this week, reflects on Earth Day and the queer leadership behind the All Species Puppet Parade as an entry into a broader consideration of Queer Ecology. Queer and trans folks, as it turns out, have a lot to offer to environmental advocacy and policy.Af Isnt It Queer

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2024-04-17 Taxes Make Us Think About Money 58:46

7M ago58:46

58:46

Jonny and Heather, in the wake of Tax Day, discuss a variety of current events including the start of the Trump trial in New York, Arizona's new/old abortion law from the 19th Century, and the latest excuses from JK Rowling. In the back half of the show they discuss the difference in how the major Presidential campaigns are appealing to LGBTQ+ vote…

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2024-04-10 - Eclipse Recap 58:07

7M ago58:07

58:07

Jonny and Heather recover from the spiritual and scientific celebration of a total eclipse of the sun. They share their experiences of it as well as the Trans Easter Service Heather helped create at the Carbondale Unitarian Fellowship, They go off on the hypocrisy of conservative so-called "Christians" who use theur alleged faith to justify hate, d…

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2024-04-03 - Lift Up Your Voice!!! 58:24

7M ago58:24

58:24

Jonny talks with Morgan Robertson of the Gender Affirming Voice Clinic at the SIU Clinical Center about transgender vocal therapy. They also recap the Rainbow Cafe's Transgender Resource fair this last weekend and weigh in on the the Rightwing outrage over the Biden acknowledgement of both TDOV and Easter happening on the same day. If you are inter…

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2024-03-27 TDOV Good and Bad 58:29

8M ago58:29

58:29

Jonny and Heather pair the good news with the bad news while setting up announcements of various observations of Trans Day of Visibility in Southern Illinois. There is much in the day and in the news to celebrate while also keeping our eyes on the ways it is hard out here for the LGBTQ+ community.Af Isnt It Queer

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2024-03-20 - Ways To Say Goodbye 59:04

8M ago59:04

59:04

Jonny interviews Craig Gingrich-Philbrook about his upcoming show, "Ways To Say Goodbye" in the Marion Kleinau Theatre. This is queer autobiographical performance art exploring some of the root causes of Craig's struggle with Functional Neurological Disorder.Af Isnt It Queer

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2024-03-13 - LGBTQ Town Hall 58:46

8M ago58:46

58:46

Jonny recaps last week's LGBTQ Town Hall sponsored by Equality Illinois and Rainbow Cafe and held in the Carbondale Civic Center.Af Isnt It Queer

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2024-03-06 - Clare Again! 59:03

8M ago59:03

59:03

Jonny digs into the IIQ archive to revive a 2021 interview with Clare Killman about the word "queer" and "queer liberation." This revisit is in anticipation of now Councilwoman Clare Killman's participation in a Town Hall Meeting later this week. In the back half of the show, Jonny puts Clare's thoughts in dialogue with recent proposed legislation …

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2024-02-28 - (What) Were They Thinking????? 58:09

8M ago58:09

58:09

Jonny and Heather pair up the Alabama Supreme Court decision affecting IVF with the Oklahoma death of Nex Benedict, a victim of bullying brought about by a discrimintatory bathroom law. In both cases, absolutist and extreme moralizing policies were put in place with little thought of the consequences, and the lawmakers are scrambling to justify (or…

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2024-02-21 - Sanctuary and Census 58:31

9M ago58:31

58:31

Jonny and Heather discuss the continued move by states to become sanctuaries for gender affirming care (Maryland is the latest addition) alongside the inclusion of gender and sexuality questions in the latest US Census survey and why it matters. In the back half of the show they discuss what the NYT and other journalistic venues are getting wrong b…

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2024-02-14 - Love is Love is Remembered 58:24

9M ago58:24

58:24

Jonny, alone on Valentines Day, puts several stories in dialogue to ask if things are getting better for the LGBTQ+ community. It's a bit of a mixed verdict, but one thing is clear: as things seem to be doing better for the restof the country, LGBTQ+ are increasingly targetted as the old,familiar wedge issue for political gain. In the back half of …

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2024-02-07 The Problem of Politicizing 58:25

9M ago58:25

58:25

Jonny and Heather queer the Southern Border and the so-called immigration crisis by showing how the politicization of the problem mirrors how gender afirming care has been politicized. They discuss rebuttals to Pamela Paul's recent op ed in the New York Times as well as recent anti-trans policy initiaitices in Iowa and Alberta. In the back half of …

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2024-01-31 TAVA Sues VA 58:01

9M ago58:01

58:01

Jonny and Heather discuss the Trangender American Veterans Association's law suit brought against the Department of Veteran Affairs to get them to respond to a petition to have the VA include surgical gender confirmation therapies in VA insurance coverage of transgender veterans. Heather serves on the board of TAVA and uses her own experience as a …

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2024-01-24 -- They Tryin', But They Can't Keep Us Down! 58:37

10M ago58:37

58:37

Jonny is on his own this week searching for that silver lining to the storm of anti-LGBTQ legislation. H finds it in evidence of a bisexual gene, in increased reportings of gender dysphoria, and increased numbers of folks identifying as LGBTQ+. He also finds it in clear evidence that anti-LGBTQ+ governors Abbot and Desantis are encountering backlas…

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2024-01-17 GSV Is Not a Cult! (Rebroadcast) 58:16

10M ago58:16

58:16

Due to winter weather impacting travel and access to our recording studio, this week we bring you a rebroadcast of Jonny's interview of T. Brown in early October 2023. In the interview they discuss a web site sharing survivor stories of those who got out of a local cult in Carbondale as well as T's first expereice at GSV and how that differs from a…

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2024-01-10 Don't Ban Books 58:17

10M ago58:17

58:17

Jonny and Heather discuss the consequences of book bans and other limitations on representation and sharing inormation. They cover information about the Queer Liberation Library, set up to combat LGBTQ book bans with a digital alternative. They discuss the consequences of bans on teaching Black history as part of a misguided labeling of them "Criti…

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2024-01-03 Looking for Hope, Forward and Back 59:16

10M ago59:16

59:16

Jonny and Heather review recent hopeful developments in pushbacks and hinderences to trans bans and other anti-LGBTQ legislation. They also chronicle the distressing uptick in such legislation in 2023. In the back half of the show, they look forward to the election year of 2024 and speculate about the consequences of such a year on such legislation…

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2023-12-27 Community Voices Year in Review 59:01

11M ago59:01

59:01

Jonny curates a review of 2023 using voices from the community (and beyond) that were interviewed on IIQ in 2023. 24 guests featured.Af Isnt It Queer

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2023-12-20 Blue Canon Christmas 58:17

11M ago58:17

58:17

Jonny and Heather review a host of trans creatives celebrated in song, opera, books and other publications. In the back half of the show, they uses DC Comics' queer versions of popular superheroes to spark a conversation aboud "Canon" and when it does and doesn't apply in fan culture. At the core of the conversation are the ways queer and trans rep…

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2023-12-13 Good Updates 58:36

11M ago58:36

58:36

Jonny and Heather return to some recent stories that have had some elaborations and developments that are, from a certain angle, good news. Stories revisited include: further evidence that the brain drain in red states is causing economic impacts and the Supreme Court refuses to take up the Washington state conversion therapy ban case. In the back …

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506: Navigating the Storm: A CEO's Tale of Business Triumph in Turbulent Times 20:45

11M ago20:45

20:45

Jason interviews Johnny Serpilla, former President of Camping World, about his book, "Life is Hard, but I'll be Okay", and his experiences in leadership and business. Johnny emphasizes the importance of approaching life with one heart and mind, the role of gratitude in leadership, and the impact of personal problems on work. Johnny also discusses t…

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