Queers at the End of the World

QatEotW Presents: History of the New World with Adam Garnet Jones

On this QatEotW Presents we talk to Adam Garnet Jones about his short story History of the New World, from Love After the End, an Anthology of Two-Spirit and Indigiqueer Speculative Fiction, edited by Joshua Whitehead, and out from Arsenal Pulp Press in 2020. Learn more about Adam and his work at adamgarnetjones.com. You can also see their gorgeous beadwork by following him on Instagram @adamgarnetjones, and learn more about APTN, the first TV network for and by indigenous people, here.Thanks so much to the Ottawa Writers Festival for permission to use audio from their 2020 book launch for Love After the End. Check out the full event, with readings and a fantastic conversation among three of the collection’s contributors, moderated by Joshua Whitehead, editor of the anthology, and poet and fiction writer, most recently of Making Love with the Land. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This New Version of Your Life

Franny Choi joins us on Queers at the End of the World to talk about her upcoming book, The World Keeps Ending, and The World Goes On, full of magnificent poems on apocalypse, grief, and branching paths at the scale of the planet and the personal. Join us for a conversation with one of the artists we most admire, as we careen from chosen family to apocalyptic histories to snails in drag to femme bots, to poetry as a way of experiencing the futures we want to bring into being.And while you’re listening, preorder your copy of The World Keeps Ending, and The World Goes On, out from Ecco in the fall! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whatever it Takes

Nat and Nina get into Earthlings, Sayaka Murata’s novel about aliens, dissociation, hedgehogs, trauma, violence and cannibalism in our very own dystopia. Published in Japan in 2018 and translated to English by Ginny Tapley Takemori in 2020, Earthlings is like a lot of great queer art in that it’s somehow nauseating and thrilling all at once. It challenges our ideas about healing, chosen family and imagination, and we’re so excited to talk about it. That said, this episode has a big old content warning attached. We talk about sexual assault, child abuse, and other violence throughout the episode.If you need someone to talk to, no matter when you were assaulted (or even if, you don’t have to say), you can contact your local rape crisis center, visit rainn.org, or call the national rape crisis hotline at 1-800-656-4673. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Touch Each Other’s Cards

Game designer Naomi Clark joins us to talk about Consentacle, her two-player card game about consent and pleasure across very different bodies. We talk about making games in a pandemic, desire in dystopia, two-player dynamics, and the joys of flirting over your hand. Find Consentacle here: https://metasynthie.itch.io/consentacle-print-and-play-edition Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Palpitating Tentacular Desire

Nat and Nino discuss Xenogenesis—Octavia Butler’s three-book series about alien invasion, human resistance and survival, alien-human family-making, tentacle sex, colonization, third genders, and so much more. Our conversation focuses on consent and compromise, and we’re joined in the first half of this episode by kink practitioner, performer and astrologer E. Wray, who talks with us about consent in kink and the erotics of power.Some links for this episode:Find E. Wray at ewrayastology.net Listen to Elsa Sjunneson talking about disability in science fictionAnd read Eli Clare on the concept of “cure.”Listen to adrienne maree brown and Toshi Reagon on Octavia’s ParablesAnd join our Patreon for more excellent media recommendations at patreon.com/QueersattheEndoftheWorld Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices