It’s time for one of our favourite episodes of the year! Yes, episode 187 is our annual FU to JKR, and as always we’re reading something hella queer. This year the book of honour is The Holiday Trap by Roan Parrish. We spent basically the whole episode gushing about how …
In Episode 177, we’re (finally!) talking about Human Rites, the third book in Juno Dawson’s series, Her Majesty’s Royal Coven. What a ride! We absolutely adore all these characters. Show Notes We’ve covered this whole series (more or less) on the podcast now! It’s been so much fun, but we’re …
Happy Pride! For this year’s Pride episode we read How We End by LM Juniper, which follows a group of seven strangers as they navigate a zombie apocalypse. Show Notes We fell in love with all of these characters and the little family they create for themselves! Don’t worry, the …
In Episode 149, Gen and Jette continue to celebrate Pride Month with Tony Kushner’s award-winning play, Angels in America. We had to cut ourselves off eventually because we could talk about this play forever. Show Notes We went to see this play last December at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre …
In Episode 148, Gen and Jette are kicking off Pride Month with Maia Kobabe’s graphic novel memoir, Gender Queer. Show Notes This graphic novel memoir was such a great entry point for talking about gender and sexuality.Maia Kobabe uses Spivak pronouns, e/em/eir.You can check out Kobabe’s other work in a …
In Episode 145, we’re back with the sequel to Her Majesty’s Royal Coven! This is probably the fastest we’ve ever read the second book in a series, but we simply couldn’t wait. So much happened in this book. Can we have the next one already please? Show Notes Juno Dawson …
In Episode 142, Gen and Jette discuss their latest book club selection, Her Majesty’s Royal Coven by Juno Dawson. Obviously we loved the witchy vibes and the stellar queer rep, but also the end of this book had us screaming. Yes, it ends on a cliffhanger! Show Notes We haven’t …
In Episode 138, Gen and Jette discuss the graphic novel Flung Out of Space by Grace Ellis and Hannah Templer. It reimagines the life of author Patricia Highsmith and the inspiration for her classic lesbian novel The Price of Salt. Show Notes We’ve begun a bit of a tradition of …
In Episode 135, it’s time for our annual FUJK book selection. Once upon a time, before a certain author who wrote a book about a certain boy wizard revealed herself to be a piece of trash, we had begun working out way through the series. Now we choose a queer …
Gen and Jette up their CanCon for Pride this year with Junior High — a middle grade semi-autobiographical graphic novel from Canadian musical duo Tegan and Sara, with the illustrations of Tillie Walden. Show Notes Tegan and Sara’s memoir High School was released in September 2019 and has since been turned into …
