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teacupfullofstars · 5 years

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This is my about me:

My Name: Sarah

Nicknames: Kitty, Hextira (Hex), Sammy.

Birthday: November, 17. Age: 24

Signs: Scorpio, Rabbit (Earth Rabbit),

Sexuality (Gender/Relationship preference): Pansexual, Poly, Demisexual, Cis Girl She/Her.

Spirituality: Mixed Pagan/Wiccan

Disorders/Illnesses/Disabilities (What ever you want to call them):

Fibromyalgia

IBS

ADHD

PTSD

Bipolarism

Anxiety

Depression

Autism

Dyslexia/Dyscalculia/Dysgraphia

HoH (Mostly deaf in left ear)

Favorite Shows:

Steven Universe

Expedition Unknown

Ghost Adventures

The Walking Dead

Bob's Burgers

The Great North

Supernatural

Dr. Who

Disney+ MCU shows

Stranger Things

The Mandalorian

The Witcher

Futurama

Game of Thrones & House of the Dragon

Hazbin Hotel

HelluvaBoss

Favorite Movies: (This is going to be a long one lol)

Any MCU films

Beauty and the Beast (1991)

Studio Ghibli films

FNAF 2023

Sucker Punch

Repo! The Genetic Opera

Venom

Shape of Water

Fright Night (2011)

The Star Wars Films

Anastasia

Most Disney movies

Guardians of Ga'Hoole

Grave Encounters 1&2

VHS 1&2

Rocky Horror Picture Show

Godzilla (and Kong) films

Xanadu

Phantom of the Opera

LOTR and Hobbit Movies

Nerdy Prudes Must Die

Favorite Video Games:

Minecraft

Sims 4

FNAF

Cloud Meadow

Outlast 1, 2, and Whistle Blower

Objects Games

Slime Rancher

Portal 1&2 (And Mods)

Sun Haven

Undertale

RE8 Village

Cattails

Stardew Valley

Plants vs Zombies

Lego Star Wars, Indian Johns, Marvel, and Pirates of the Caribbean

Call of Duty Zombies

Pokemon

Crush Crush and Blush Blush

Among Us

Favorite Books:

Hunger Games

LOTR and The Hobbit Books

A Song of Ice and Fire Books

Most anything by Stephen King

Books on Ghosts, Cryptids, Vampires, Occult, Magic, ect.

Goosebumps Books

Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark series

Cirque Du Freak Books

Guardians of Ga'Hoole Books

FNAF novels

Favorite Music:

Owl City/Adam Young

Marianas Trench

Twenty One Pilots

Fall Out Boy

Carly Rae Jepsen

Lady Gaga

Florence + the Machine

Special Interests and Hobbies:

Taylor Swift

Chappell Roan

Japanese Culture

Beauty and The Beast

Ancient Egypt

Toy Collecting

Oceanography

Space

Disney History

Occult/Magic

Vampires/Werewolves/Monsters/Mythical Creatures/Cryptozoology/Aliens

Greek and other “Mythology”

Halloween

Video Games

Movies (Horror/Sy-Fy/Fantasy)

Music

Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals

Art/Painting/Drawing/Sculpting/Jewelry Making/Interior Design/Photography/Digital Art/Crafting

Writing

Travel and Camping

Cooking and Baking

Rock and other collecting hobbies

Gardening

Cosplay/Dress Up

Various Aesthetics and "cores"

Currently working on an early draft fanfic. Hands of God. An AU FNAF Fic about William Afton and A self-insert!OC. Base plot after William makes the odd decision to say a woman's life the two of them find each other strangely drawn to each other. They find themselves living a strange double life together. Living a sweet domestic lifestyle but buried beneath two messed up individuals share many horrible secrets.

This fics development is tagged as Hands of God.

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Dirty stuff is tagged as Smut.

Non sexual nudity is tagged as Nude

Sex Ed is tagged as Educational Smut

Original stuff will be tagged as OG.

I tag Flashing Gifs & Videos also certain Eye Strain

Open to tagging things for mutuals.

Political Matters are tagged as Political

Fundraisers and such ate tagged as Humanitarian

I tag episodes of shows (TV and Podcasts) as spoilers for 1 week after airing. I tag movies as spoilers for 1 month after releasing.

Not welcome if you are racist, sexist, LBGTQ+ including ace/aro phobic, MAP/Pedo, Trump supporter or “far-right”, pro-eating disorder/pro-ana, anti MOGAI, Transmed, TERF/SWERF, Anti-self diagnosis, albeist (towards mentally and physically disabled people including invisible illness) antisemitic, pro zionist, pro war. Or if you are a generally hateful, toxic, judgy person.

NO MINORS I post adult content here.

I'm a self ship/self insert, OC x Canon blog and near all my fanfics are that.

I'm going to lay this out here and say I'm basically pro ship. That doesn't mean I support all ships there are tons out there that disgust me and I'll block on site but with that said I don't believe anyone has the right to censor people's work because you hate a ship. So if you aren't okay with that take, I guess it's see yah!

Honestly I'm not going to fight with trolls over the things I like and reblog. I've been here since 2014 I've had death threats and stalkers over stupid Fandom shit and I don't care if you don't like me or my content.

A collection of user tags I've found.

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treysenglishclass-blog · 5 years

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Annotated Bibliography

1) Cartoon Network. “Reunited with Rebecca Sugar and Ian Jones-Quartey (Vol.3/Ep.5).” The Steven Universe Podcast, Cartoon Network, 20 Sept. 2018.

The podcast discusses an episode of Steven Universe named “Reunited”. In the episode, there is a very important scene where two characters, Ruby and Sapphire, get married. Ruby and Sapphire both use female pronouns. The network had issues with this, and Rebecca discusses the fight she had while trying to get this episode made.

Rebecca talks about the argument she had with the network on whether or not LGBTQ+ content is suitable for children. The Network expressed that since the show would be airing in a G timeslot, this type of content wouldn’t be acceptable. Rebecca was repulsed by the idea that these two characters wouldn’t be acceptable for a G rating when throughout the history of G rated content, a majority of the stories revolved around characters falling in love and living “happily ever after”. That is the exact same thing being represented in her show, and she feels that it’s her character's right as a cartoon couple to be able to experience everything that heteronormative cartoon couples get to. An argument Rebecca makes in the podcast is that by labeling LGBTQ+ content as adult content, you are depriving children of learning about LGBTQ+ people and possibly stifling their own growth. By showing LGBTQ+ content to children it allows them to learn more about themselves and others without the subject feeling taboo. Rebecca also mentions that it's bittersweet getting the wedding approved and hearing the fans’ responses. She is happy that it went through and is proud of the fight she fought, but she feels like there is still so much more work to do. This wedding is a small piece of representation when compared to the last hundred years of heteronormative family-friendly content.

2) et al. “Suicide Etiology in Youth: Differences and Similarities by Sexual and Gender Minority Status.” Children & Youth Services Review, vol. 102, July 2019, pp. 79–90. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2019.03.039.

A study done through twitter concluded that LGBTQ+ people between 14-21 are twice as likely to be at risk of suicide than other people the same age. The survey covered age, race and ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, school enrollment and grade, social connectedness, truancy due to feeling unsafe, school-based and cyberbullying victimization, sadness, suicide ideation and attempt, social media use, and preferences regarding survey mode and recontact. The study found that support at home and school greatly decreased these numbers, but there is still a gap for the places outside of home or school. Because of the stigma of LGBTQ+, it is harder for people of this community to reach out for help, and instead internalize their feelings. While many LGBTQ+ feel more protected in homes and schools where they are accepted, there is no hard evidence for suicide prevention in LGBTQ+ youth. Places of belongingness, such as church and religious youth group involvement, are good places for hetero people to decrease suicide ideology, it has the opposite effect on LGBTQ+ youth. This journal argues that integrated learning, without excluded anyone, on LGBTQ+ people and issues is most beneficial for decreasing LGBTQ+ bullying and suicide ideology. The Journal also argues that with youth suicide in LGBTQ+ people increasing, adults should be calling for action. Since these adults have the power to teach their children, they need to be teaching their children that these people aren’t an issue. The study shows that exposure to LGBTQ+ people helped decrease LGBTQ+ youth suicide rates.

3) Kaiser, Vrai. “Interview: Gravity Falls' Alex Hirsch Talks About Disney's Censors, Pacifica's Parents, and Future Plans.” An Interview With Gravity Falls Creator Alex Hirsch | The Mary Sue, The Mary Sue, 14 July 2017, www.themarysue.com/alex-hirsch-interview/.

Alex Hirsh, the creator of Gravity Falls, is being interviewed. One of the questions asked was about the episode Love God, and Alex’s fight to show a same-sex elderly couple. The episode is about Cupid, and in this particular scene, it shows Cupid using his magic to make people start falling in love. When the storyboard artist first drew up the scene, there was a moment depicting 2 elderly ladies falling in love. Alex knew immediately that Disney wouldn’t allow this to go through, which led him to keep it in the story. Sure enough, the board came back with the note, “The scene of the two old ladies kissing in the diner is not appropriate for our audience. Please revise.” To which Alex responded with a one-word answer: “Why?”

Disney couldn’t come up with a good reason, other than the scene would make homophobic parents angry, and so that they could avoid the headache, asked Alex to just drop the moment. Alex had a discussion with Disney six more times after that; he stated that a small moment like this would make a lot of fans happy and argued that since Disney is such a big company, they should just ignore the homophobic parents; it wouldn’t make a difference in the long run. The censors told him that if he doesn’t revise the storyboard, they will cut the moment themselves.

Alex finally gave in, but this didn’t stop him from representing the LGBTQ+ community later in the show. In the finale, two male police officers declared their love for each other, and Disney censors didn’t bat an eye.

4) Thorfinnsdottir, Dia, and Helle Strandgaard Jensen. “Laugh Away, He Is Gay! Heteronormativity and Children’s Television in Denmark.” JOURNAL OF CHILDREN AND MEDIA, vol. 11, no. 4, 2017, pp. 399–416. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1080/17482798.2017.1312470.

This article is about studying children’s media on Danish public service television. Most of the characters on these shows are heterosexual, and the ones that are non-heterosexual are seen as jokes. This alienates children that aren’t heterosexual or gender variant. In the article, there are interviews with various children’s organizations: Save the Children, LGBT Denmark, The Danish Media Council’s Unit for Children/The National Council for Children (the interviewee is active in both councils), and DR’s Children and Youth Department. When the interviewees were asked about casting light on LGBTQ+ people, they argued that children are extremely vulnerable at a young age, and the children’s age should be considered when exposure to certain material, especially LGBTQ+ representation, is brought before them. They also argued that they were fine with LGBTQ+ characters being represented, but stressed the importance of making sure the content doesn’t get sexual. Each answer was directly related to censoring the sexual part of an LGBTQ+ relationship. These answers show that they think LGBTQ+ people are inherently more adult. They don’t see the innocence of being LGBTQ+, and that its the same as heterosexual people. When the interviewees were asked about bullying, and what they’re doing to help stop homophobic bullying, a majority of them said they weren’t including LGBTQ+ specific bullying in their messages. In Denmark, they don’t necessarily have anything against LGBTQ+ people, but there isn’t anything being done to support these people either. These people claim to be on the children’s side, but they don’t include LGBTQ+ children.

5) van der Toorn, Jojanneke, et al. “In Defense of Tradition: Religiosity, Conservatism, and Opposition to Same-Sex Marriage in North America.” Personality & Social Psychology Bulletin, vol. 43, no. 10, Oct. 2017, pp. 1455–1468. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1177/0146167217718523.

A study was done throughout North America and Canada on homophobia and which groups it was prominently featured in. The study shows that Religious and conservative groups are the main people with homophobic tendencies. Christians use passages from the Bible, such as “not lie with mankind, as with womankind; it is an abomination” (Leviticus 18:22), and state that those who do “shall surely be put to death” (Leviticus 20:13) to support their homophobia. Pope Francis has been more supportive and open-minded to the LGBTQ+ community, but little has been done to support them. Religion tends to have stakes in defining the status quo in America and it supports conservatism. Conservatives, even nonreligious ones, tend to lean toward an ideology that most religions also support. When the study continued, they found that people who do identify as Conservatives and Republicans are against the LGBTQ+ community because they tend to idealize resistance to change and opposition of equality. The study theorizes that resistance to change is more likely a reason than the opposition to equality for conservatives. They conducted 4 studies, and these were the findings:

Study 1: The more religious someone is, the more likely they are to oppose same-sex marriage.

Study 2: The more religious someone is, the more likely they are to protest the LBGT community as a whole.

Study 3: Conservatives tend to be much more homophobic because of the strong similarities that conservative ideals have with Religion.

Study 4a/4b: Because of religion being a big role in North America, those ideals are mainly upheld and considered a societal standard. This influences conservatives to be more resistant to change and oppose equality in order to maintain the status quo.

6) Ryan, Caitlin. “Generating a Revolution in Prevention, Wellness, and Care for LGBT Children and Youth.” Temple Political & Civil Rights Law Review, no. Issue 2, 2013, p. 331. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edshol&AN=edshol.hein.journals.tempcr23.16&site=eds-live.

Caitlyn Ryan has been a social worker for over 40 years, and has helped numerous LGBTQ+ people. In 2007, there was an understanding that LGBTQ+ adolescents talking about their family was too painful and many organizations weren’t pushing for family inclusion in LGBTQ+ lives. There wasn’t a strong connection between LGBTQ+ people and their families. Caitlyn understood how important family can be for LGBTQ+ children's health, mental health, and overall well-being. According to researchers, on average children form an understanding of their gender identity by age three, start realizing their sexuality at age 10, and identify with LGBTQ+ around age 13. Researchers have found that children now are quicker to understand their identity because of widespread access to the information, seeing positive light on LGBTQ+ people in the media, and just knowing other LGBTQ+ people. With children understanding themselves more at a younger age, it creates this gap between LGBTQ+ children and heterosexual caregivers that may not understand. There is a common misconception that sexual orientation is strictly about sex and not felt until late teens or adulthood, when really its about human connection, and simply, who someone loves. Caregivers have admitted to not knowing how to treat their LGBTQ+ children; they’re unsure of the LGBTQ+ community and grow scared and angry when they see the paths their children are going down. Many times caregivers feel there is pressure to choose between their religion and their LGBTQ+ child. These findings led Caitlyn to create the Family Acceptance Project; an organization that aims to teach caregivers about their LGBTQ+ youth, and help these caregivers understand how important their support to their LGBTQ+ youth is.

They conducted a study gauging both LGBTQ+ people and the family’s responses to LGBTQ+ coming out. “We started with in-depth individual interviews ranging from two to four hours each with LGBT youth and key family members who were accepting, ambivalent, and rejecting of their adolescents' LGBT identities. Our research explored family, school and peer experiences, gender expression and related experiences, cultural and religious values and experiences related to the adolescent's sexual orientation and gender identity, the development of their LGBT identity, specific family reactions to their LGBT identity, victimization, social support, and future hopes and dreams.” Their interviews found that children who were rejected are more likely to (1) More than eight times as likely to have attempted suicide; (2) Nearly six times as likely to report high levels of depression; (3) More than three times as likely to use illegal drugs; and (4) More than three times as likely to be at high risk for HIV and 2 sexually transmitted diseases. They also found that families who’ve rejected their children had the ability to change over time, and wished that they had more information on how to accept their children. Caregivers sometimes don’t understand that their behaviors and actions, in an attempt to help their LGBTQ+ children have a “good life” can sometimes be highly problematic, even when motivated by care and concern. Caregivers should avoid attempts that try to change the adolescent's sexual orientation or gender identity, prevent them from having an LGBTQ+ friend, or include heavy religious studying. Also avoid behaviors that are not always thought of as rejection, such as not talking about/discouraging an adolescent from talking about their LGBTQ+ identity, or denying/minimizing an adolescent's LGBTQ+ identity. These reactions are commonly seen in phrases such as, "It's just a phase", “he'll grow out of it", "how could he possibly know?", or "he's just confused.". These actions lead to higher risks for their LGBTQ+ children. Caregivers should instead advocate for their children when others mistreat them because of their LGBTQ+ identity, require respect for them within the family, and help their congregation become more welcoming of LGBTQ+ people in an attempt to keep their children connected with their faith.

Caitlyn teaches caregivers proper ways to support LGBTQ+ children when they come out, by helping them understand how impactful their words, actions, and behaviors are. “Nearly every family in our study has said that "We needed to know this information when our child was little," or. . ."Why didn't the nurse tell me this could happen in our family when I took my baby home from the hospital?’” She reflects on a Chinese dad who was monolingual Mandarin-speaking who said, "’Why doesn't every Chinese newspaper have this information? Why don't they tell us how to help our gay children? We need to know this information before we know who our children will become.’” In short, Caitlyn has been teaching families ways to support LGBTQ+ children when they come out because she understands that support saves lives.

7) Kelso, Tony. “Still Trapped in the U.S. Media’s Closet: Representations of Gender-Variant, Pre-Adolescent Children.” JOURNAL OF HOMOSEXUALITY, vol. 62, no. 8, pp. 1058–1097. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1080/00918369.2015.1021634. Accessed 6 Nov. 2019.

Children need representation young so that they can identify with something. It’s great that we have this representation for adults and teens, but at that point they’re already well into their LGBTQ+ journey. Because sexual orientation first manifests in childhood, there needs to be more role models for LGBTQ+ children. Adults who rarely converse with the LGBTQ+ community need to not base their knowledge of LGBTQ+ people on depictions in the media. Often times in media, the tragic queer trope can be seen. This trope instills the idea that LGBTQ+ people will live sad lives because they’re LGBTQ+, when in reality, they lead sad lives because people don’t support them. Scholars have argued that the lack of representation can lead members of the LGBTQ+ community to feel they’re victims of “symbolic annihilation” and may receive the message that they don’t matter to culture at large.

The article goes on to explain all the different types of media gender-variant children have been portrayed in, and the effects this has had on people. “In advertising, probably the promotional material of late that has drawn the most attention to childhood gender variance was a single image in a J. Crew catalogue featuring a mother (none other than the company's president and creative director, Jenna Lyons) painting the toenails of her young son (Ms. Lyon's own 5-year-old boy) in hot pink, with the caption, "Lucky for me I ended up with a boy whose favorite color is pink. Toenail painting is way more fun in neon." When it ran, it became controversial, evoking considerable online discussion and news coverage, both in print and on the Internet (e.g., Stadtmiller, [170]), and on television (e.g., Cibrowski, [31]). Not surprisingly, comments from both media personalities and the public spanned the range from "Yeah, well, it may be fun and games now, Jenna, but at least put some money aside for psychotherapy for the kid" (Ablow, [ 1]) to "I think the add [sic] is adorable, at least the son and mother are having a great time and she is actually spending time WITH her son" (Jessica, [99]).”

While things have been getting better over the years, there is still a lot to be done in terms of representation, especially for gender-variant representation. Children cannot make this change, which is why it comes to the parents to be the outside force to make this change.

8) “Media Portrayal of LGBT People.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 4 Nov. 2019, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_portrayal_of_LGBT_people#cite_note-3.

This Wikipedia article contains a timeline of LGBTQ+ representation in film, music, and television since the 30s. There was little shown from the ’30s to the ’60s, with most representations used for a joke. When the Stonewall Riots occurred, shout out to Marsha P Johnson, there was a large push in equal treatment and acceptance of LGBTQ+ people. Because of the riots, there was also a large push for LGBTQ+ representation placed on Hollywood. Things started to slowly make progress, but then the AIDS epidemic hit. When the epidemic hit, acknowledgment about the LGBTQ+ community increased, but ultimately the LGBTQ+ community was shown in a negative light. This drove off supporters of LGBTQ+ people. In the ’90s people started to slowly get used to and accept LGBTQ+ people, but it’s still been an uphill battle. It’s getting better and better each year. The article also touches on LGBTQ+ representation in children’s media and goes over a few examples. Such as Legend of Korra, Steven Universe, Adventure Time, and Andi Mack. The examples of LGBTQ+ people in the media are both helpful and hurtful. Representation of LGBTQ+ people can start to create stereotypes, especially when a lot of LGBTQ+ people exist in film and movies as either comic relief or tragic queer motif. There needs to be a debunking of this stereotype, and the way to do that is with more exposure to diverse LGBTQ+ people in tv and movies. The more you learn and are exposed to something, the more understanding you build on the topic.

9) Mares, Marie-Louise, and Emory Woodard. “Positive Effects of Television on Children’s Social Interactions: A Meta-Analysis.” Media Psychology, vol. 7, no. 3, 2005, pp. 301–322. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1207/S1532785XMEP0703_4.

This study sets out to find what the effects of prosocial content in the media has on children. Because of the arguments that “violence on screen can lead to violence off-screen”, researchers wanted to test if the same is true after viewing prosocial content on screen. Through their studies, they found that children learn the most through the preschool to adolescence stage of their lives. In these stages children’s minds are still developing, and each year their comprehension of the world around them grows. The study found that the older the child is, and the more prosocial content they consumed, the more likely the child would behave prosocially. For younger children, around 5 years old, they too may behave prosocially, but they have a harder time grasping the ideas of morality. The study yielding the following findings:

“1. Children exposed to prosocial content have more positive social interactions, show more

altruistic behavior and self-control, and have less stereotyped views of others.

2. The strongest effects of prosocial content were found for measures of altruism.

3. Relying on children’s ability to pick out the moral messages from programs which feature violence or conflict and some prosocial resolution may backfire, leading to more aggression than

merely showing the conflict.

4. Effects of prosocial content are often strongest when viewing is combined with discussion.

5. The effect sizes overall ranged from small to medium.

6. Effects of prosocial content were strongest for pre-school and grade-school children, diminishing in adolescence.

7. Effects are somewhat stronger for girls than for boys.”

“In any event, the conclusion is that television has the potential to foster positive social interactions, reduce aggression, and encourage viewers to be more tolerant and helpful.”

10) The American Psychological Association. “Answers to Your Questions For a Better Understanding of Sexual Orientation & Homosexuality.” American Psychological Association, American Psychological Association, 2008, https://www.apa.org/topics/lgbt/orientation.

The American Psychology Association created a pamphlet to help people understand more about LGBTQ+ people. The pamphlet explains that, people start to become aware of their sexuality during middle childhood and early adolescence, and while there is no scientific consensus as to why people have a certain sexual orientation, people overwhelmingly feel no sense of choice in their identity. Homosexuality is not a mental disorder either. “Despite the persistence of stereotypes that portray lesbian, gay and bisexual people as disturbed, several decades of research and clinical experience have led all mainstream medical and mental health organizations in this country to conclude that these orientations represent normal forms of human experience”. During adolescence, people tend to be the most exploratory with their sexual feelings. When these young people come to their conclusion, it’s important to be supportive no matter what. Support leads to happy, satisfying, and healthy lives. Young people today may face discrimination and bullying, which commonly results in suicide idealization and higher risk activities. It’s important to support your child if bullying does occur. During much of the 20th century, LGBTQ+ people have been largely discriminated against. “Public opinion studies over the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s routinely showed that, among large segments of the public, lesbian, gay and bisexual people were the target of strongly held negative attitudes.” (This may be a big factor for why older generations tend to be more homophobic.) The AIDS pandemic was a large push back in accepting LGBTQ+ people. Discrimination is still alive and happening today, leaving many LGBTQ+ people with major mental health concerns. A good way to combat this discrimination is through awareness. Being openly LGBTQ+ or openly an ally does wonder in creating representation for the community.

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5 LGBTQ Podcasts to Start Listening To

By Grace M.

I’ve always been a verifiably Bad Podcast Listener.

It’s true. I always loved the idea of podcasts, but could never incorporate them into my day-to-day life enough to keep up with any of the hundreds that people were constantly recommending to me. I’d try to put them on while working, but trying to focus on the words on my screen over the ones in my ears wasn’t great for productivity. Podcasts weren’t motivating enough to listen to when I worked out (but, to be fair, very few things are as motivating as a playlist of P!nk’s greatest hits). Any other activity wasn’t a long enough period of time to allow me to finish a full episode, so I’d end up abandoning it 20 minutes in and never returning.

That all changed when I realized my emotional health as the nanny of a young baby relied on daily walks through the neighborhood. He enjoys watching the cars and dogs we spot, and I enjoy the sound of other adults coming through my earbuds. It’s mindless enough so I don’t lose track of the conversation, but it also feels productive, like I’m dedicating time every day to getting outside, moving my body, and learning something new.

With this newly established routine, I’m making my way through a lot of amazing podcasts these days. Here are some of my favorites that center LGBTQ people and stories, all of which are great educational tools for anyone looking to learn more about the LGBTQ community.

1. Queery

Hosted by Cameron Esposito Best enjoyed while: Taking a walk alone when you’re in the mood to laugh but also get a little introspective.

Cameron Esposito is a stand up comic who I’ve long admired for her ability to discuss politics and LGBTQ/women’s rights (both through her stand up and her brilliant Twitter account) in an incredibly accessible, poignant, and hilarious way. Her new podcast Queery brings us intimate and insightful conversations with LGBTQ musicians, activists, and writers. This podcast is great if you, like me, enjoy listening to people’s stories about growing up, coming out, and living and working as an LGBTQ person. Plus, I always finish each episode having drawn new connections within my own experiences, and I have cried while listening to no less than two episodes.

2. Never Before

Hosted by Janet Mock Best enjoyed when: Stuck in traffic

Janet Mock is a writer, activist, and trans icon, and we can now all enjoy her ultra-calming voice (hence the “stuck in traffic” suggestion) as she sits down with actors, activists, and politicians to discuss what has shaped them and what motivates them to continue their work. Janet Mock is an incredibly talented interviewer who is able to cut to the heart of the matter with ease, a skill that was most likely honed to a tee while hosting her own TV show on MSNBC. If you’re new to the concept of intersectionality, this podcast perfectly demonstrates how things like race, gender, and class intersect with each other.

3. Nancy

Hosted by Kathy Tu and Tobin Low Best enjoyed when: Cooking, with or without company (because Kathy and Tobin are everyone’s BFFs).

Kathy Tu and Tobin Low are real-life queer best friends who have teamed up with WNYC to bring you a journalistic listening experience about all the different facets of being LGBTQ today. Every episode has a set theme—some examples include sex ed, coming out to parents, and queer role models—that it then explores through two to three different segments. Fans of This American Life are strongly encouraged to tune in!

4. Gender Reveal

Hosted by Molly Woodstock Best enjoyed when: You’re ready to expand your mind beyond binaries.

This podcast is great because it exemplifies how differently everyone experiences their gender, while putting transgender and non-binary folks’ voices at the forefront. The host, Molly Woodstock, is a non-binary journalist who sits down with a different trans and/or non-binary person each episode to tackle the age-old question: what even is gender?! If you’re struggling to think about gender as anything other than being a boy or girl, this podcast is a fantastic resource to open you up to new possibilities via real life personal experiences.

5. Outspoken Voices

Hosted by: Emily McGranachan Best enjoyed while: You’re worrying about your kid’s future

One of the most common worries we hear from parents after their child comes out is, “What will their future be like? Will I ever be a grandparent?” This podcast from Family Equality Council puts all those worries to bed by discussing a range of topics related to LGBTQ families (adoption laws, donor siblings, and inclusive summer camps being a few), as well as sharing first-person stories from LGBTQ parents and children of LGBTQ parents. Season Two launches this May with all-new episodes!

Even if you yourself are a reluctant podcast listener, I hope something in here has piqued your interest enough to download an episode or two. Podcasts can be incredible resources to learn new things and, in the case of these five podcasts, become a better ally to the LGBTQ community. Be sure to leave the name of your favorite LGBTQ podcast in the comments below!

Happy listening!!

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Grace is the Senior Managing Editor here at My Kid Is Gay and is based in Portland, Oregon. She enjoys Vitamin D (in the form of sunshine, please), podcasts, intersectional feminism, and talking to people about their life goals. Follow her on Twitter @gracemanger

#my kid is gay #podcasts #podcast list #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #lgbtq podcast

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Matt Smith Has Thoughts About House of the Dragon’s Sex Scenes

Screenshot : HBO

For those of you worried about the Colin Farrell -led TV series, The Penguin , don’t be . For those of you worried about HBO’s Strange Adventures TV series, do be. We also have a sweet little teaser for new episodes of Cuphead on Netflix. Forth, spoilers!

Insidious 5 Deadline reports Patrick Wilson will personally direct the fifth film in the Insidious franchise, which will see his character Josh Lambert “head east to drop his son Dalton off at an idyllic, ivy-covered university. However, Dalton’s college dream becomes a nightmare when the repressed demons of his past suddenly return to haunt them both.” Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins, Sinclair Daniel, Peter Dager, and Hiam Abbass are additionally attached to star.

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By Paul Mcnamee

Chasing Cars was the UK's most widely played song of the Noughties. But after global success, Snow Patrol have been quiet for seven years. Frontman Gary Lightbody was drawn into the 'dirt darkness' by drink and depression but now, he tells Paul McNamee, he's found his way home.

Gary Lightbody's moment came two years ago in a gym in Santa Monica. The Snow Patrol frontman has long had a reputation of indulging his appetites. But even he was going at in on a bigger scale, with a fierce, Valhallan vigour. The band's last tour had finished in late 2012.an then: "I started drinking." he says, "with a gusto that a professional boxer might train for a prize fight. It'd be mostly beer, I was quite a happy drunk. There was a hell of a lot of fun. Until it wasn't.

"I'd get to 2am sitting on my own, have a cry, and then a glass of something [stronger], I didn't have any relationships and I wasn't having sex either.I was very hermetic. Around 2015/2016 I was drinking every day and also I was hating it. I regret doing it even though I knew I was doing it out of compulsion" He was hitting the gym in the mornings to sweat it off. Then came the moment.

"I bent down to touch my toes and everything started spinning. It felt like the floor beneath me was moving. I thoughy it was an earthquake. But I kept going on. I phoned a friend who lived around the corner. I was like, 'Are we having an earthquake?' He said "Something's going on here'.

"I had a bunch of CT scans on my head. My whole head was infected - sinus, ears, eyes, everything. I'd been having styes and stuff on my eyes. Stick a teabag on it. This was the week before I was going to France to see Northen Ireland play in their first tournament i 30 years. I siad to the doctor, 'I'm flying to France in five days'. He's like, "No, you're not. If you fly with the air pressure it's feel like daggers ripping into your head'. I was still thinking maybe I'll be alright. I spoke to a friend, Gabrielle, an acupuncturist, an extraordinary human being. She'd been trying to get me to stop drinking for while..." So he stopped. Or at least, he began to stop. And in flooded the dark realities he'd been masking.

In recent weeks, as he's been working around the release of Wildness, Snow Patrol first album in seven years, Lightbody has started to talk for the first time about the mental health problems which have plagued him for year. ("I didn't talk about anything, nobody knew, the band didn't know.") Last year, after 12 months sober, came another key moment.

"Last summer", he says, "I thought I'd be relieved to get the album done. We'd just finished. But I wasn't. I was devasted. I'd opened a place in my psyche and I didn't know how to shut the door. It was like ark of the covenant was opened [from Raider Of The Lost Ark] and there were melting faces left and right and I didn't know how to shut the thing down. So instead of talking to somebody I tried to shut myself out. Let my own face melt. And the band knew something and they flew from London and arrived at the door and I broke down and told them everything.

I have a depressive personality that has no relationship with reality. I could be having the best time on the surface and yet my depression goes 'You're still a cunt. Don't forget that. I'm dragging you down into the inkand the dirt and the darkness'. I could be playing to 15,000 people and three hours later be in a hotel room cruying on the floor. That's happened a bunch of times. The depression and the success have no relation to each other. It's just part of me. I've learned that rather than running from it, which you can never really do - you can have and turn and face it and look it in the eyes and say I'm not afraid of you any more".

And so he went home. Back to Northen Ireland, to North Down where he was brought up. It's the place he was desperate to leave in 1994, whe he ran to Dundee to star university, to start a band , to start years of chipping away with no success. Then he wrote Run and everything changed.

It's easy, given their time away, to forget just how huge Snow Patrol were for a period from the mid to late Noughties, Nobody, really, was bigger. The song Chasing Cars, from fourth album Eyes Open, was picked up for UA his TV show Grey's Anatomy and propelled them to massive fame. Lightbody moved to Santa Monica around 2009. ("Soon as my feet hit the sand in Santa Monica something just hit and I thought, I want to live here") Recently he claimed he'd moved back to Northern Ireland because the band were getting ready to work again and he needed to be near them. But it feels like the truth is little more complicated.

"You're right. There are quite few reasons. My dad isn't well, my mum isn't coping very well and my niece is going to be 11 in July, I've missed most of her life living in LA.

"And I missed home. It's a time in Northern Ireland as well when it feels like we're at a bit of a crossroads again. I felt a bit of a calling back here. Not that I figure I can help in any way, but I certainly won't feel connected if I'm 5,000 miles away I wanted to reconnect". We're meeting in the Crawfordsburn Inn, the picture post card hotel not far from Gary's shorefront home, overlooking Belfast Lough.

It feels timely. We meet on the 20th anniversay of a concert in Belfast's Waterfront Hall, hosted by U2, that helped deliver a huge Yes vote in the referendum for the Good Friday Agreement. In a nation where defiant, No's had been the lingua franca, a Yes was significant. A political statement and a cleansing.

On that day, John Hume and David Trimble were ushered onstage by Bono , a man with a keen eye for a moment, U2 sang Don't Let me Down. Ash were there too, being young and hopefull. Twenty years on, as Lightbody says, Northern Ireland is at a bit of a crossroads. And he's found his way home. The album, Wildness, is worth the wait. If Snow Patrol had touched on themes of running and movement in the past, Wildness has a leitmotif of finally settling; The word 'home' is laced throught several songs. Two tracks in particular illustrate what Snow Patrol can really do - the anthemic reach of the huge, wondroug openning track Life on Earth ( a track that took Gary five years to complete) and the intimancy of What If This Is All The Love You Ever Get?), a piece with just Gary on piano, a heartbreaker written for a friend going through a divorce.

The song Soon marks another significant theme. It deal with Lightbody's father Jack's battle with Alzheimer's . It's a simple builder, full of grace note and sadness. There is a something quietly heroic in it. The video, filmed in Lightbody's apartment, sees him and his fater watching old home movies his dad recorded throught the years. As well as the sadness over what his father is losing, there is an understanding of a farewell to lost youth that the hopefulness of that other country is worth revisiting for both of them. "I love my dad," he says. "I have a lot of respect for him so I wanted to honour him, but at the same time I also have a lot of guilt for being away for most of my adult life. I don't just mean LA, I mean Glasgow, London, or on tour constantly. And there is probably a place in my head where I go when I'm feeling somesick and that is both a place of calm and nostalgia and also a place of guilt and some shame.

"I've felt I've been running away most of the time from myself. So [he pauses]...someof the home references are me feeling disconnected rather than connected...feeling like I'd never really found a home. I never truly felt at home when I was growinh up in Northern Ireland. Then I left and never really felt at home anywhere else. And then I moved back to Northen Ireland and now I do feel at home here, but that has also coincided with me feeling at home inside my own body. Which was the whole problem the whole time. I wasn't comfortable with myself, I didn't like myself. So you have to figure that out before you can feel at home anywhere.

The band's influence and legacy go beyond their own work. They've helped shape the sounds that have become pervasive in post-millennial pop. Lightbody and band member Johnny McDaid have written with, among others, Ed Sheeran, Taylor Swift and One Direction. Snow Patrol took Sheeran on the road in the States in 2011, helping him break through. They remain close. "Between myself and Johnny McDaid, we're written a lot of things for other pop acts, him more than me", he say. "I would say Ed came fully formed from his first album. He'd done the groundwork. All the grafting that you need to do, when you're a young band. He busked his ass off from the age of 15 on the streets of London, sleeping on his mate's couch. He had turned up to gigs and said to promoter, can you give me 15 minutes after the doors open. And promoters say aye. That's how he started. He grafted harder and still does to this day - harder than anyone I know. Sheeran's returning the favour, taking the the band on an American tour autumn.

Refusing to accept Snow Patrol as fountainheads of a sound, Lightbody says they are more like Zelig, "probably bystanders". One got away, though. Mutual friend James Corden introduced Lightbody to Adele.

"It happened to be a birthday of somebody that James and Adele knew...and I sat down with her and she said when are we going to do [a song]. We did two days - Adele, Johnny McDaid and me - the bones of three really amazing fucking songs. But we never got round to finishing it. And then the album came out and obviously we weren't on it."

While his own album has just come out, there is already preassure to get busy on the next. Long time producer, friend and mentor Garret "Jacknife" Lee has been in touch ("he says we need to get cracking on the next one"). For now, ahead of their own arena tour in the winter, Lightbody is learning to cope, listening to podcasts ("StuffyouShouldKnow from HowStuffWorks is my favourite one") and Bon Iver ("I think he's the finest songwriter alive") and working things out.

"Me, now not drinking, I like myself but I'm socially awkward, I'd rather be sitting with bandmates, my family. I'm 41. I know what I want.

And that is?

"Peace I want to make sure that every day of my life I take a moment and realise eveything is calmer. I've learned how to meditate, learned how to do Qigong. Learned a whole load of practices that I do every day. They mitigate the madness. The greatest thing I ever did for my own emotional wellbeing was to talk."

And if we went back 20 years, and said here are the successes, here are the demands it'll make on you mentally, personally, physically - would you have taken it? "I would have taken it for half the successes I can't believe what happened to us. I still can't believe when I look back at it, at everything that is successful that has been good. At everything that is still happening. It is a dream, It's a bloody dream."

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For most of us, our experience with sex education centered primarily around preventing sexually transmitted infections and unwanted pregnancies, with pleasure being mentioned rarely or not at all. In other words, few of us ever learn anything meaningful about how to have good sex. We also don’t typically learn how sex might change with age, or how to deal with common sexual difficulties. Fortunately, the Sex and Psychology podcast is here to give you the sex ed that you definitely didn’t get in school!

For this episode, I interviewed journalist Michael Castleman, who has covered sex research and therapy extensively in his 46-year writing career. He has written more than 2,000 magazine and web articles, answered more than 12,000 sex questions, and published 17 books, which—together—have sold more than 2 million copies. His latest book is titled Sizzling Sex for Life. Michael is a wealth of knowledge about all things sex, and we cover a lot of ground in this episode.

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Sex and Psychology Podcast: How To Level-Up Your Sex Life

Topics we explore include:

What do people at different stages of life (young adults, middle-age adults, and seniors) need to know in order to have better sex?

How do you start productive and healthy conversations about sex with your partner(s)? How do you tell a partner what you really want in bed?

How can sexual enhancers and novelties—sex toys, lubricants, sexy underwear, and more—make our sex lives better?

What do LGBTQ+ folks need to know about better sex? And what can lesbians teach all of us about great sex?

Why do so many seniors explore kink for the first time in older age? How does BDSM help people cope with chronic illnesses?

What is the average penis size, and does penis size really matter?

Is it normal for people in relationships to masturbate?

What are the most common questions and concerns people have about sex?

To learn more about Michael Castleman and his work, check out his website here. Be sure to pick up a copy of his latest book, Sizzling Sex For Life.

Also, see here for the LGBTQ+ safer-sex guide I mentioned in the episode.

To listen to the podcast, stream via the player underneath or subscribe on your favorite podcast platform. Happy listening!

You can also listen to my podcast and stream all episodes on Apple, Spotify, Google, or Amazon. Subscribe to automatically receive new episodes, and please rate and review the podcast!

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With 200+ podcast interviews from people who were failed by their sex education, there have been invaluable insights here that don’t exclusively apply to people with the same sexual health status as majority of our guests are. Some of the most common findings that have come from interviewing people with herpes on the Something Positive for Positive People (SPFPP) podcast include:

STD prevention efforts end at a person receiving a sexually transmitted disease and there is little to no post-diagnosis support offered to the person who tests positive. Oftentimes people express that it took them months, or even years to have found another living soul who can relate to the experiences they’ve had living with an STI. Something that’s so useful should not be so challenging to find. Community fosters space for acceptance, empowerment and education through the real lived experiences of people living with an STI because it often goes against the beliefs instilled in us.

How a person receives their diagnosis (especially if met with stigma from their health care provider) more often than not directly impacts if, when, and how a person discloses their positive status to others. When people are met with stigma at the point of the traumatization of hearing for example, “You have herpes”, any re-triggering event will remind them of that sensation and in many cases, a person will do everything they can to avoid feeling that pain. This looks like not wanting to discuss this with ANYONE, support systems, friends, potential partners. Someone who receives negative judgment will go on to expect negative judgment and for something that they had little to no control over. Health care providers equipped with at minimum,. tools to effectively deliver a diagnosis can prevent non-disclosure as that person goes on to navigate their diagnosis.

Sexual health is mental health, and the pillars of stigma reside dead smack in the center of these topics. Almost all of my interviews with women living with HSV bring up the topic of them having been in an abusive relationship in the various ways described. Abuse being a violation of boundaries or absence of boundaries appears to be a common thread. Cheating partners, emotionally unavailable partners, inconsistent partners, and partners who’ve just flat out lied have raised red flags that went ignored by our podcast guests. These red flags can be identified early, filtering out abusers if we are given the tools to navigate boundaries and manage relationships. The guests didn’t learn about boundaries until AFTER their ended relationship with their abusers. Past sex education omits these basic fundamentals of relating to other humans, setting the stage for boundariless children to become boundariless adults susceptible to not only physical and emotional abuse, but also not valuing themselves enough to say no to things they don’t want, as well as seek out help if needed.

Dating with an STI (sexually transmitted infection) is just like dating. People who receive a herpes diagnosis for instance often immediately point at their diagnosis as the reason they haven’t found what they want. There’s this misconception that no one will want to be with a person who has herpes. While that seems to be the case, it isn’t. People don’t learn this until they challenge this belief for themselves with their own experiences in dating and disclosing. This is often really scary for people until they do it once, then again and again, and it becomes scary to fall back into that place they were with their original beliefs.

Consider this an introduction to deep dives into Something Positive for Positive People podcast episodes, newly shared insights from within our community in more explored details, and really a call to the powers that be for sexual health stigma to shift with the understanding that it is contributing to mental health issues. What I’m actually saying is that This blog, Something Positive FROM Positive People is gonna serve as more in depth social media posts since I’m limited in my ability to talk about sex on social media platforms.

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