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Queer Air

Queer Air

By Queer Air

Welcome to Queer Air! Season 1 hosts Carol and Kate are two buds who met during orientation for their graduate degree. Season 2 hosts Challen and Karen are also queer grad students. While they’re different kinds of queer, they’re both fiercely committed to queerifying the library + archives world, in order to make it more equitable and inclusive for everyone. This podcast is a final capstone project needed to obtain their MLIS degree; a thesis of sorts.
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Episode One: An Introduction to Queer Air

Queer Air Apr 29, 2020

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Season 2 Ep 5: Epilogue
Jun 07, 202137:50
Season 2 Ep 4: Alice B. Theatre’s Hidden History

Season 2 Ep 4: Alice B. Theatre’s Hidden History

In episode 4, Karen and Challen book club it up with the script of one of the last plays put on by Alice B. Theatre, a gay and lesbian theater company that operated from 1986-1997. The play is "Hidden History: True Stories from Seattle's Gay and Lesbian Elders," which is indeed based on five oral histories.

For more episodes, check out our website: bit.ly/QueerAir

A heads up that there is mention of suicide and other sensitive content from around minute 48 to 49:30.

The collections we discussed this episode are the Alice B. Theatre records, Tamara Turner papers, and the Stephen R. Blair Papers.
To see photos of the cast of "Hidden History," as well as related ephemera, click here.
To see the photo of the protestors that Challen mentions, click here.

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To support the Duwamish Tribe, check out Real Rent Duwamish and their related resources.

A transcript of this episode can be found here.

May 30, 202101:02:12
Season 2 Ep3: Archiving Queerness with UW MLIS Alum Abbey
May 20, 202142:54
Season 2 Ep 2: Crossdressing & Gay Bars & Snakes, Oh My!

Season 2 Ep 2: Crossdressing & Gay Bars & Snakes, Oh My!

In Episode 2, Challen and Karen explore drag - or rather, female impersonation, as it was known - in the archives! This episode covers the WWI touring show The Pink Stocking and Seattle's various bars and drag queens. 

This episode's collections: the Stephen R Blair papers, the Stephen Blair photograph collection, the Don Paulson and Skippy LaRue Photograph Collection, and the Don Paulson papers.

Click here to view photos of Frank McCormick and the cast of The Pink Stocking.

Want to know more about Seattle's historic gay and lesbian bars? Check out this StoryMap for a virtual walkthrough of several iconic venues!

Curious what legends look like? Here's a digitized photo of Hotcha Hinton, the performer renowned for performing with snakes.

Want to see some female impersonators that put on drag throughout their lives? Check out this link to a collage of Francis Blair... and these links to see a queen named Johnnie in her youth, and as a self-dubbed "old broad."

Check out our website bit.ly/QueerAir as well, where you can find all of these resources and more!

A transcript of this episode can be found here.

May 10, 202101:02:20
Season 2 Ep 1: Interview with Season 1 Hosts Carol & Parker
Apr 05, 202131:18
Season 2: New Season, New Hosts, New Trailer!
Feb 27, 202106:22
Episode Five: Geraldine Cole
May 12, 202043:55
Episode Four: Abbey
May 08, 202059:46
Episode Three: Anne & Anna Part II

Episode Three: Anne & Anna Part II

Welcome to part II of our interview with Anne & Anna from back in February 2020. During this episode, we had the chance to speak with Anne Jenner, the Pacific Northwest Curator at the University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, and Anna Hurwitz, an alum of the iSchool and current employee of the Gates Archive. Both Anne & Anna have previously worked with the KRAB FM Lesbian-Feminist Recordings, and they provide some great insight into the history and importance of this collection. 

Transcripts of the episode will be available soon!

Apr 29, 202032:58
Episode Two: Anne & Anna Part I

Episode Two: Anne & Anna Part I

During this episode, we had the chance to speak with Anne Jenner, the Pacific Northwest Curator at the University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, and Anna Hurwitz, an alum of the iSchool and current employee of the Gates Archive. Both Anne & Anna have previously worked with the KRAB FM Lesbian-Feminist Recordings, and they provide some great insight into the history and importance of this collection. Stay tuned for Part II!


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Episode One: An Introduction to Queer Air
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