This week, The Sopris Sun interviews Wes Boyd of Colorado Animal Rescue ahead of the nonprofit's annual Dressed to the K9s gala this Saturday evening at TACAW.By Raleigh Burleigh

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,…

Sopris Sun Staff speak with local delegates Nick Isenberg and Jasmin Ramirez about their experience at the Democratic National Convention.By James Steindler

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…

The Sopris Sun staff talk about the most recent edition of the newspaper with guests from Rock and Roll Academy Aspen.By Amy Hadden Marsh

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…

On this week's episode of Everything Under The Sun, Elk Mountain Ultimate teaches us all about Ultimate frisbee and creating an inclusive culture to support peoples' personal growth all while having fun.By Raleigh Burleigh

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…

On this weeks episode of Everything Under the Sun we hear from Zach Ritchie ahead of his performance at the Black Nugget and Rachel Fulfer stops by to chat about Woodystock.By Raleigh Burleigh

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…

On this week's episode of Everything Under the Sun, we hear from Marry Harris with the Roaring Fork Audubon Society.By Raleigh Burleigh

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…

On this week's episode of Everything Under the Sun, host James Steindler interviews Carbondale Arts ED, Jamie Abbot ahead of opening day of Mountain Fair!By James Steindler

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…

This week on Everything Under the Sun, guest Mark Burrows, local chocolatier, talks with the Sun about the world economics of the cocoa trade.By Raleigh Burleigh

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…

On this week's episode of Everything Under The Sun, we hear from Aspen Dance Connection about their upcoming performance at TACAW, blending outer and inner worlds, plus other community offerings.By Raleigh Burleigh

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…

On this week's episode of Everything Under the Sun, The Sopris Sun team speaks with a few members of American Legion Post 100 for the Fourth of July.By James Steindler

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…

This week on Everything Under The Sun, Sopris Sun hosts speak with el Sol del Valle Editor Bianca Godina and ad sales rep Margarita Alvarez as the Spanish publication rolls out a new look this week. El Sol's relaunch party this Saturday at 4pm at the Glenwood Springs Library.By James Steindler

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…

This week on Everything Under The Sun, the Carbondale Clay Center drops by with an update and preview of their Art Bound Tour this Saturday.By Raleigh Burleigh

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…

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.…

On this week's episode of Everything Under The Sun, James Steindler speaks with one of The Sopris Sun's youth reporters, Gus Richardson, who was recently accepted to Boston University's prestigious Summer Journalism Academy.By James Steindler

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…

This week on Everything Under the Sun we hear from Adrienne Ackerman, the granddaughter of 98-year-old KDNK DJ Art Ackerman, about her original song featured in "Ezra," a film starring Robert De Niro and Whoopi Goldberg. The Crystal Theatre will premier Ezra this weekend, with live performances by Adrienne on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.…

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…

On this week's episode of Everything Under the Sun, Age-Friendly Carbondale joins our hosts to talk about their assessment of Highway 133 following a survey conducted last year.By Raleigh Burleigh

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 …

This week on Everything Under The Sun, John Bruna invites us to learn more about the Way of Compassion Dharma Center and visiting Tibetan monks.By Raleigh Burleigh

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…

This week on Everything Under The Sun, Carly Bolliger catches us up on all things Aspen Valley Land Trust, including the upcoming pay-what-you-can Springfest party on May 19 at Strang Ranch.By Raleigh Burleigh

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…

On this week's episode of Everything Under the Sun, Rachel Fulfer of Inkswell Press talks about on-site t-shirt printing at Dandelion Day and green innovations in the screen printing industry.By Raleigh Burleigh

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…

On this week's episode of Everything Under the Sun, we hear from town arborist Carl Meinecke who gives us an update on the Emerald Ash Borer as well as details about the upcoming town tree planting.By Raleigh Burleigh

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.By Isnt It Queer

On this week's episode of Everything Under the Sun, we preview the Heat Under Our Feet event hosted by CLEER on April 24, explaining how the Third Street Center could harness geothermal energy to create a net-zero district encompassing the library, Bridges High School and surrounding townhomes.

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…

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…

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…

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.By Isnt It Queer

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.By Isnt It Queer

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

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 …

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…

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…

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 …