I'm Feeling Queer Today - with Alex Masse & Frankie Gunn

Breaking Down Patriarchy

Amy McPhie Allebest

Education, History, Society & Culture

4.9 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Amy is joined by creators Alex Masse & Frankie Gunn to discuss their podcast, I'm Feeling Queer Today, and explore the critical importance of listening to queer youth, plus Alex and Frankie share guidance for those questioning their identity and for those interested in becoming better allies to the LGBTQIA+ community.

Alex K. Masse is a writer, musician, and communications specialist from what is colonially known as British Columbia. Their work has been seen everywhere from the Scholastic Writing Awards to Autostraddle, as well as in collaboration with Penelope Scott, Vancouver Pride, Simon Fraser University, and more. They’re also a neurodivergent nonbinary lesbian, which greatly affects their process. When not writing, they’re making music, and when not making music, they’re writing. Occasionally, though, they can be seen working on their degree, or cozied up with their cat.

Frankie Gunn is a transmasc interdisciplinary artist, musician and producer, currently working as a gardener in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York. Having not attended a traditional 4 year college, Frankie has acquired an a la carte education, doing everything from hairdressing and sound engineering to farming and agriculture. The thread that ties their work together is a hands on approach and a love of all things beautiful.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Breaking Down Patriarchy. I'm Amy McPhee Allabest. Recently, I met an older woman who follows my
0:08.1	work and is a self-described feminist, and she was very excited to talk with me about feminism.
0:14.4	After a few minutes of chatting about women's empowerment, she said, what do you think of all the
0:19.6	trans issues going on right now? How are you
0:22.4	handling them on the podcast? So I answered, the way I'm handling them on the podcast is by
0:28.9	listening as trans people speak for themselves. I think she was looking for a more controversial
0:35.2	answer, but she said, oh, okay, I guess that makes sense.
0:40.7	We humans do this a lot. Sometimes white people pontificate about people of color without listening
0:47.2	to people of color. Sometimes cisgender men preach their opinions about the nature and needs of women
0:53.6	instead of simply listening to women.
0:57.3	And all too often, cisgender, straight people talk themselves into knots about queer folks
1:03.6	instead of just listening to what queer folks are saying about themselves.
1:08.9	So today I want to introduce you to a project called the Future
1:13.2	Perfect Project. The home page on their website says, quote, while lawmakers are working overtime
1:20.1	to pass laws and propose measures to limit the self-expression of queer youth in schools and communities,
1:26.9	the Future Perfect Project is encouraging
1:29.1	the next generation to speak their truth and sing their songs of tomorrow. Now more than ever,
1:35.5	we need their vision of a better world." So I am so excited to welcome to the podcast today
1:43.3	to contributors to the Future Perfect Project,
1:46.2	Alex Massey and Frankie. Welcome, Alex and Frankie. Thank you for having us. We're super excited to be here.
1:53.1	Yeah, absolutely. This is an awesome opportunity. I appreciate you having us on your show.
1:57.2	Yeah, thank you so much. So I'm wondering if we can start out by having each of you just
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