Best Josephine Baird Podcasts (2024)

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Pressure is complicated 57:55

3M ago57:55

57:55

This episode comes with a content warning - it is dark! Some of the darker places ended up on the cutting room floor, and it is still dark. Be safe when you listen to this. An apology to Brianna Ghey and her family. Dr J managed to mispronounce their surname all the way through. We picked this up in the final edit. In this episode we tackle the lev…

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Queer Voices - Samantha Béart - Performing is complicated 1:21:38

7M ago1:21:38

1:21:38

In the fifth in our Queer Voices series we talk with Samantha Béart, actor, currently known for playing Karlach in Baldur’s Gate 3. We talked about how games and performances and performing in and for games, allowed us to explore, examine and find ourselves. We get into the ways games have allowed us to understand the world and ourselves, the joy o…

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Queer Voices - Laura Kate Dale - Is joy complicated? 49:51

8M ago49:51

49:51

In the fourth in our Queer Voices series we talk with Laura Kate Dale, games journalist, author, and accessibility consultant. We started on how some of our narratives are routed in negativity, and how that can be turned into talking about Joy and Euphoria, small or large. This leads into us talking about how the little things can fight back agains…

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Queer Voices - Rosie Garland - Routine is complicated 1:10:13

9M ago1:10:13

1:10:13

In the third in our Queer Voices series we talk with novelist, poet and performer Rosie Garland. We set off talking about what we all have on (and sadly some of the opportunities to see Rosie are now in the past due to our slowness to release this due to 2023). We talk about performing and writing. We move onto what feeds us, the activities that we…

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Complicated more than usual 44:04

11M ago44:04

44:04

This is a special episode where we have Dr J on the Mind the Product podcast - https://www.mindtheproduct.com/business-analysts-in-product-dr-j-harrison/ Dr J also talks about 2023 and why they haven’t had a chance to watch any Keanu Reeves recenlty We have a transcript for this episode - IIC Special Complicated Complicated Transcript Our Patreon -…

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Safe is complicated 47:22

1y ago47:22

47:22

Released on Trans Day Of Visibility. This episode we talk about the way you can tell if a space is safe, the flags we see, both green and red, how they can co-exist, and that we can spot duplicity and performative actions. We also talk about being here - for each other. That simple notion of being here, as someone to talk to, as someone to step up,…

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Queer Voices - Dr Joe Parslow - Breathing together is complicated 1:01:09

1+ y ago1:01:09

1:01:09

In the second in our Queer Voices series we talk with Dr Joe Parslow - Lecturer in Popular and Queer Performance and Hashtag Doctor Husband Boyfriend Joe - about drag and queer performance, breathing and togetherness - and the complications around making space and getting to breathe in those spaces. The queer notion of breathing together, coming to…

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eNBy City - being on a panel is not a binary 31:50

1+ y ago31:50

31:50

This is a special episode of a panel discussion recorded at eNBy City with Dr J, malakai, Haz and Lilly. We are talking to a room of mostly students. The event focussed on Queer Joy. This is the third part of a three part recording. We have done our best with the recording to clean up the sound during this last part of the panel discussion. This wa…

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eNBy City - being on a panel has multiple parts 28:58

1+ y ago28:58

28:58

This is a special episode of a panel discussion recorded at eNBy City with Dr J, malakai, Haz and Lilly. We are talking to a room of mostly students. The event focussed on Queer Joy. This is the second part of a three part recording. Be aware about half way through we pulled the recording equipment apart - and it means the audio quality drops - I’v…

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eNBy City - being on a panel is complicated 31:07

1+ y ago31:07

31:07

This is a special episode of a panel discussion recorded at eNBy City with Dr J, malakai, Haz and Lilly. The event focussed on Queer Joy. This is the first part of a two (or more) part recording. This was recorded for the Hear & Queer Podcast - https://www.youtube.com/@hearqueer5656 We have a transcript for this episode - IIC Special eNBy City Tran…

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Ambition is complicated 1:05:44

1+ y ago1:05:44

1:05:44

When asked the question “where do you want to be in ten years?” we break down - why? We spend so much time surviving, how do we then look towards a future? Our futures we see are not chrononormative, and we often step outside of the standard expectations. How do we see ambition, and its link to opportunity? Can you be ambitious when you can’t belie…

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Queer Voices - Kate Bornstein - Hope is complicated 51:03

1+ y ago51:03

51:03

In the first in our Queer Voices series we talk with queer legend, writer and performer Kate Bornstein. We set off talking about Hope, flow through ideas of gender expression and authenticity, the nature of being authentic. If Hope and Fear are a binary, or can co-exist in a moment. We enter the realms of superheroes and secret identities, why Batm…

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Having a plan is complicated 34:42

2y ago34:42

34:42

We’re back in a rare in the room together recording - We touch on the last six months for both of us - covid features prominently, as does fatigue and mental health. Talking about plans, having one, and ambition, or appearing not to have some. Why we want to keep doing this podcast and what plans we have into 2025. How does it feel to have a three …

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Hearing it is complicated 36:40

2y ago36:40

36:40

Well 2022 has been a right nightmare already!! This time we talk (in Dr J’s case very excitedly) about the words we need to hear and what it means to hear them. Dr J has four things they always wanted to hear - and by saying them to another person - they get to also hear them for themselves: - I am proud of you - I love you - I think you are an ama…

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Making it is complicated 48:01

2y ago48:01

48:01

This time we celebrate creating 50 podcast episodes - or 51, or 52 depending on how you count. We are excited about this - and there are moments when Dr J is obviously super excited. Josephine maintains some sort of dignity. When we started the podcast we were both locked down in our spaces without structure from our day jobs (Dr J was furloughed, …

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Taking up space is complicated 39:51

2+ y ago39:51

39:51

Being in the room and taking up space is difficult. It takes a lifetime to believe that we should be in *this* room having *this* conversation, having self faith, self belief and humility is a challenge. Saying “I am here” is the hardest thing. It is simply correct that it is this way - I am here is sufficient. It is right that I am included. Lack …

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Performance is complicated 35:25

2+ y ago35:25

35:25

Performance changes your life, it changes how you think about things, it changes how you feel about yourself. This is a favourite theory of Dr J’s, and in our case it is true. We met over performance, we found ourselves and identity through performance, and we find ourselves and our experiences reflected in performance. We tell the tale of workshop…

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Scheduling a podcast is complicated 37:25

3y ago37:25

37:25

This week we cover two topics - Working full time and creating a podcast, and the movie Constantine starring Keanu Reeves. We have gone from a time when we had less restrictions on our time (lockdown, combined with furlough/unemployment was good for podcasting) and we both now have very full on full time jobs, one of us has a partner, and a child t…

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Working from home is complicated 44:10

3y ago44:10

44:10

Based on a listener request for a discussion on working from home in the current culture environment from a perspective that is not a middle class straight white cis man - we touch on the advantages we have as queers that’s made this easier, and what advantages that others within our community might not have. We cover the way work has changed, and …

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Etiquette is complicated 38:57

3y ago38:57

38:57

How did covid change how we do this politeness thing? Is there queer etiquette? What happens when we rub against people’s expectations when we state our boundaries? Is our queer etiquette a reaction to the hypocrisy of the middle-class “polite”? How can we be respectful, equitable, and inclusive? What is the height of “good manners”? Is making peop…

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Allies are complicated 38:21

3y ago38:21

38:21

Recorded during Pride Month, when everything has a rainbow slapped on it, what is allyship? When is it performative? What is the context that Allyship can happen within? When does the allyship have an investment? When is it solidarity? When will people stand between their LGBTQ+ employees and harm? How can we tell the difference? Is there a macro l…

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Being upbeat is complicated 38:11

3y ago38:11

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Being upbeat is complicated - when is the smiling face a mask? In the face of a continuing pandemic and life doing it’s worst, we discuss being upbeat, having humour about the situation. How do we engage in a non-cynical way when we have this rolling anger underneath it all? Is our humour and positivity good for us, and for those around us? Should …

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Lockdown easing is complicated 30:44

3y ago30:44

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Lockdown easing is complicated - what is this normal we will return to? One of us has had a second vaccine and can stop shielding - and now we can think about what this means for us and how this is impacting on our mental health. It is more complicated than you’d first think - when we talk about “returning to normal” what does that mean when “norma…

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Imposter Syndrome is complicated 38:41

3y ago38:41

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Imposter Syndrome is complicated - if I had cis white straight man confidence I would.. We talk about the impact of imposter syndrome on queers. The extra layers that we deal with at times - when you’ve been told by a culture that you’re not good enough, that you’re somewhat suspect - how do we start to enter more normative spaces? We give examples…

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Being visible is complicated 32:58

3y ago32:58

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Being visible is complicated - Positive visibility matters. For Trans Day of Visibility we decided to do an episode on why we are visible. Dr J celebrates a ten year anniversary of being out publicly as non-binary in their workspaces. What it means to be visible in spaces where we are celebrated and how that impacts on us, and people who see us. Wh…

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Why we need Queer Spaces 31:11

3y ago31:11

31:11

Why we need Queer Spaces - Special Episode for the Queer House Party Radio Show. You can see it here: https://foundation.fm/show/the-friday-takeover Talking about how we met and how queer spaces were involved in that - why queer spaces are needed and what they provide to queers that other spaces don’t - tldr; it’s being in a space where we are not …

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Gaining our voice is complicated 34:50

3y ago34:50

34:50

Gaining our voice is complicated - So is making ourselves heard. This week we have a guest - Michelle Belcher - https://www.michellebelcher.tv/ and we three talk about voices, gaining our voices and giving voice to our thoughts. What does it mean to gain your voice? What decisions do we make to be heard (and seen) as ourselves? How can we prepare o…

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Being Trans is complicated 36:54

3+ y ago36:54

36:54

Being Trans is complicated - especially in times of covid! This week we have a guest - Michelle Belcher - https://www.michellebelcher.tv/ and we three talk about coming out as trans or non-binary, how we found ourselves, how this changes in the midst of covid, and how that reflects on the ways we’ve all come out, as queer, as trans, as non-binary -…

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Getting healthcare is complicated 37:01

3+ y ago37:01

37:01

Getting healthcare is complicated - what script can we use? We talk about getting healthcare/medical interventions and the experiences we have had. We talk about ‘Trans broken arm” (or in one of our cases Trans Broken leg), and while sometimes we think we’ve had privilege - we find out we didn’t. Content Note: We discuss medical procedures and tran…

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Being queer is complicated 30:28

3+ y ago30:28

30:28

Being queer is complicated - are we queer enough? We talk about the notion of queer and the extended ideas that come with queer and when are we “queer enough” - and when can we call ourselves queer? Where does “queer enough” begin? Who gets to decide? Do we recruit? We have a transcript for this episode - IIC Episode 35 Transcript The short film we…

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Being bullied is complicated 34:17

3+ y ago34:17

34:17

Being bullied is complicated - and how others respond is also. This comes with a content note - we discuss bullying and violence. We talk about that phrase “Don’t be a victim” and the status quo warriors who say it to us - and what that means in terms of how bullying works and the complications of our responses - the social scripts we play and thos…

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Lockdown and Covid trauma 40:50

3+ y ago40:50

40:50

Lockdown and Covid trauma - and queer survival is complicated. How queers are surviving the lockdown and the extended trauma of the Covid pandemic. We talk about privilege, and the privilege of being able to shelter - and how we as queers have developed superpowers to survive these long slow trauma events - we are glittery cockroaches who will be t…

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2021 continues 9:06

3+ y ago9:06

9:06

Bonus Episode 2 - 2021 continues - and is 2020 plus one. A special episode, recorded live (so unedited, and one of us is on pain medication), where we cover the last 26 hours or so… and why our “homework” is late. TLDR; Josephine has a broken leg after a fall in the snow This will lead to another episode in the future - “So you’re trans/non-binary …

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Media is complicated 32:33

3+ y ago32:33

32:33

Media is complicated - or maybe not. We talk through the Bechdel test, what it is for and how it works and propose our own version for Trans and Non-Binary representation in film/TV/shows. The Laverne Totah Test: 1) Have a Trans or Non-Binary Character 2) Played by a Trans or Non-Binary actor 3) Whose main narrative purpose is not tragedy It’s simp…

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Introducing ourselves is complicated 32:18

3+ y ago32:18

32:18

Introducing ourselves is complicated - and it can be an emotional journey. We talk through what a change in employment can mean, what being visibly ourselves when we are employed can mean. We cover the notions of visibility and safety, and how this complicates our lives and the decisions we make every day about visibility. How our fear of loss can …

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Being lighthearted is complicated 36:12

3+ y ago36:12

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Being lighthearted complicated - we attempt to do something fun and fail due to complications. We discuss postcolonial readings of popular Christmas songs, Latin for “in the middle of”, we attempt to answer simple random questions, and thanks to events we even had to add a postscript as events and people’s comments overtook our conversation - thank…

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Being ourselves can be complicated 32:22

3+ y ago32:22

32:22

Being ourselves can be complicated - and it is so freeing! In a special episode, we interview the amazing Max Marchewicz (wheeliequeermerbabe on insta) - a BSL interpreter, access consultant, and fellow member of the Queer House Party crew - talking about the joy of being able to be yourself in your workplace, the fun of working online and how that…

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Social Media is complicated 34:08

3+ y ago34:08

34:08

Social Media is complicated - and trolling can be fun! The way we use social media is different when you are non-heteronormative - we use social media to connect to people we don’t know and have never met - more heteronormative people tend to connect to people they do know and have met. Why do we have these differences in how we use social medias? …

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Value is Complicated 38:15

3+ y ago38:15

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Value is complicated - How do we value ourselves and each other in an imperfect world that all too often undervalues us? We talk about how to value our time, each other, our differences and our similarities. We talk about mutually valuing is a wonderful way to exchange what we value in each other. And we also talk about making sure that we are not …

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Gaming is complicated 35:40

3+ y ago35:40

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Gaming is complicated - How do we understand stories within games? Skyrim might be the only game according to one of us - that doesn’t prevent us talking about the ideas that make games work and how that allows us to make sense of our world. Games are more serious as media than we think - they promote discourse and participation. How does modding a…

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Building Community is complicated 35:37

3+ y ago35:37

35:37

Building Community is complicated - How we form networks differs in “queer’ world from straight world. Common experiences help us bond deeply and quickly, and yet those can also be temporary. How does this style work when you try it in the more normative world? How do we subvert the normative ways of networking to locate and bond with queers like o…

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Getting it out is complicated 37:15

3+ y ago37:15

37:15

Getting it out is complicated - Why it’s important to have a rant buddy. We sometimes need spaces to vent, to get those things off our chest. To talk about what is worrying us, and processing it out of our heads. Without that space, and those people, we suffer - trying to hold things and working things through on your own is hard. We cover why the …

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Production is complicated 33:52

3+ y ago33:52

33:52

Production is complicated - is it better to be paid or be heard. We talk about producing events, as a pair with over 35 years of production experience between us - we talk about the best ways we’ve approached production - and tell some tales of when it’s gone wrong. We talk about Queer House Party - becuase it is one of the best examples of what ha…

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Representation is complicated 30:19

3+ y ago30:19

30:19

Representation is complicated - Good Representation is wonderful when we locate it. There is a lot going on at the moment - we wanted to bring a happier viewpoint, and talk about our favorite ways of seeing queers and non-binary and trans people within the media. What it means to see yourself represented in media - in a normalised way - where your …

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Class is complicated 30:24

3+ y ago30:24

30:24

Class is complicated - Honorifics are the way it can show up. What it means as a non-binary person to rub up against the service industry. Do impromptu lessons on gender help? How can we disrupt the power differential and how can we as queers perform class in a way that has respect and safety for all involved. When the Service industry runs to scri…

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Art is complicated 36:14

3+ y ago36:14

36:14

Art is complicated - Censorship and that narrative is made more complex by queers - how does talking about queer lived experience blur this boundary? Josephine and Dr J talk with Suzanne Shifflett, painter and tattoo artist, based in Long Beach, California. We cover the hustle we all face as queer and artists, and how we constantly hustle to surviv…

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Disability is complicated 34:45

3+ y ago34:45

34:45

Disability is complicated - Access is simple. If you focus on accessibility where do we end up? If we change how we see disability, how does this impact on how we can focus on access. What new technologies can we use to make spaces more accessible. We talk about Queer House Party and how we work to improve access - and how a recorded live stream of…

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Neurodiversity is complicated 28:54

3+ y ago28:54

28:54

Neurodiversity is complicated - brains are complex? If we start with “A” where do you end up? What does it mean when you’re asked to mask your anxiety/autism? How we think and process the world is different, and complicated. Building our subjective views of the world. Now with improved accessibility - we have a transcript for this episode Our Patre…

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Privilege is complicated 29:07

3+ y ago29:07

29:07

Privilege is complicated - based on a tweet by @ExteriorWorld - "are you a pornhub category or are you privileged?" - we examine what is privilege, it’s nuances, the intersections. We queers know how to play the Privilege game! How we use and subvert it. Now with improved accessibility - we have a transcript for this episode Our Patreon - https://w…

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Transnormativity is complicated 38:14

4y ago38:14

38:14

Trans Normativity is complicated - Is there a "normal" narrative about how to be trans? How does this narrative impact on how we view the notions of Trans and Non-Binary? Is there a "normal" narrative for being Non-Binary? If this develops what does that mean for our future? Not often talked about, we talk about it here! Here we introduce the topic…

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