#PodcastBlackout
History is Gay
Leigh Pfeffer
4.6 • 536 Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2020
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Instead of a new episode this month, History is Gay is participating in #PodcastBlackout. If you are not Black, we hope you take this opportunity and time to read, educate yourself, and donate to organizations and causes dedicated to the fight for Black lives.
The Black-created podcasts mentioned in this episode that you should check out and financially support:
Black, Queer Podcasts:
Black History Podcasts:
- Black History Buff Podcast
- Noire Histoir
- Code Switch
- You can find NPR's Code Switch playlist for Black History here.
Also, 100% proceeds from the new History is Gay coloring book project will be donated to The Okra Project, a collective that seeks to address the global crisis faced by Black Trans people by bringing home-cooked, healthy, and culturally specific meals and resources to Black Trans people wherever they can reach them. You can donate and download the pages at www.historyisgaypodcast.com/coloring-book
Places to Donate:
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, queerlings, Lee here. I hope that you are doing okay and managing in this ever more |
| 0:09.8 | wild time that we are living in that is 2020. I'm here in your podcast catcher today to let you know |
| 0:19.4 | that instead of the regular release of an episode this month, |
| 0:23.0 | History is Gay is participating in hashtag podcast Blackout and taking the time to continue |
| 0:29.0 | educating ourselves and donating to causes in defense of black lives. We encourage all of our |
| 0:34.8 | listeners who are white or non-black people of color to do the same and to continually commit to ensuring that the world knows that Black Lives Matter. |
| 0:46.5 | We wanted to take this opportunity to recommend some amazing shows by Black Queer Creators that we encourage you to listen to, financially support if you can, and spread the word about. |
| 0:56.2 | Instead of listening to our show this month, we encourage you to listen to the voices and stories from black people and hopefully learn some new things. |
| 1:04.1 | Some of our favorite podcasts that are queer and black that we want to recommend, our first one is Category Is, a Black Gay podcast by Justin Bettis and Maurice Smith. |
| 1:16.2 | Join them as they break down current events, black culture, dating, food, politics, and more. |
| 1:21.9 | Through playful banter, heated disagreements, organic dialogue, and a healthy dose of shade, |
| 1:26.7 | this show provokes thought, |
| 1:28.7 | starts conversations, and has fun no matter what the category is. You can also listen to |
| 1:33.9 | Queer Walk, that's Queer W-O-C, join Money and Nikita to Black Queer Troublemakers on this weekly |
| 1:41.7 | insurgent audio syllabus that unites, ignites, and excites |
| 1:45.8 | the queer women of color community. Queer Walk is a space for queer women and folks of color, |
| 1:50.3 | rooted and reimagining healing, organizing, and community. There's also Afro-Queer, a podcast about |
| 1:57.1 | queer Africans, living, loving, surviving, and thriving on the African continent and in |
| 2:01.8 | the diaspora. And finally, we'd like to recommend this QPOC life, which takes a look at the world |
| 2:08.1 | through the lens of a queer person of color. Each conversation is had with the intention of |
| 2:12.6 | understanding how mutual and individual experiences in different marginalized groups can empower us as a larger |
| 2:19.0 | community of whole people. And then the following shows are not explicitly queer, but they are |
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