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04Jul/25

Bill Hulseman

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July 4, 2025

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 10, Episode 27: Bill Hulseman!

Bill Hulseman shares his essay collection: Six to Carry the Casket and One to Say the Mass. We dive into belonging, birth order trauma, pride parades, identity, pop culture (Madonna & Golden Girls as spiritual!), and reconciling religion with queer health!

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Bill Hulseman is a writer, ritual designer, and former educator whose work explores identity, belonging, and personal agency. His debut book, “six to carry the casket and one to say the mass,” is a collection of deeply personal essays examining the identities we inherit, the traditions we navigate, and the power we have to shape our own narratives. Through reflections on family, Catholicism, and queer identity, Hulseman offers a nuanced exploration of what it means to carve out space for oneself in a world that often seeks to define us.

Aformer middle school principal, teacher, and campus minister, Hulseman holds degrees in religious studies, the comparative study of religion, and education leadership. His time in Catholic schools gave him both a profound appreciation for faith and a firsthand understanding of the tensions between personal identity and institutional tradition. His writing is informed by this background, as well as his deep love for pop culture—where figures like Madonna and “The Golden Girls” helped him see himself long before the world was ready to.

Hulseman now lives in Seattle with his husband, Jonathon, where he continues to write, design rituals, and lead meaningful conversations about identity, faith, and belonging.

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16May/25

John R. Gordon

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May 16, 2025

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 10, Episode 17: John R. Gordon!

John R. Gordon shares his novel: Mother of Serpents. We discuss evil spirits & madness, blending history & myth, and why it’s important to write queer, interracial families!

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John R. Gordon lives in Shepherds Bush, London, England. He is a screenwriter, playwright and the author of nine novels, Black Butterflies and Warriors & Outlaws, both of which have been taught in the USA; Faggamuffin, Colour Scheme, Souljah, Drapetomania and the interracial YA romance Hark. He writes for the world’s first Black gay television show, Patrik-Ian Polk’s Noah’s Arc, for which he received an NAACP Image Award nomination. He is the creator of the Yemi & Femi comic, for adult readers.

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13Dec/24

Dale Corvino

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December 13, 2024

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 9, Episode 48: Dale Corvino!

Dale Corvino returns to share his memoir: Afterlife of a Kept Boy. We discuss the nuance of being a kept boy and how one untangles their emotions and learns to live after that relationship ends. We also touch on using different writing styles to highlight new phases of life, de-stigmatizing sex work, and finding closure.

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Recipient of the 2023 C&R Press Nonfiction Award, and a 2021 Lambda Literary Emerging Fellow, Dale Corvino found his voice at the underground literary salon “Dean Johnson’s Reading for Filth.” In 2018, he won the Gertrude Press Fiction contest, judged by Whiting Award recipient Brontez Purnell. Recent nonfiction includes a profile of Chilean writer Pedro Lemebel for the Gay & Lesbian Review, an essay on queer longing in the digital era for Matt Keegan’s 1996, and a chapter in the Routledge Handbook of Male Sex Work, Culture, and Society. BONDS & BOUNDARIES, his debut short story collection, was released in 2023 from Rebel Satori Press.

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May 3, 2024

It gives us great pleasure to present a Season 9, Episode 17 Interview – Dale Corvino

Dale Corvino joins us to share his book Bonds and Boundaries! We discuss sex work, having beacons on our paths, estrangement, and human connection in this digital age.

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A 2021 Lambda Literary Emerging Fellow in nonfiction, Dale Corvino’s essays have appeared in Salon, the Rumpus, and the Gay & Lesbian Review. Bonds & Boundaries, his debut collection of short stories, was released in 2023 by Rebel Satori Press. His memoir of sex work, Kept Boy in the Afterlife, won the 2023 Nonfiction Prize from C&R Press and will be released in September 2024.

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04Nov/22

Dia de los Muertos

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November 4, 2022

It gives us great pleasure to present Season 7, Episode 44: Dia de los Muertos + Our Review of Queer for Fear!

Join us celebrating the close of horror month when author Michael G. Williams joins our review of Queer for Fear from Shudder, then all three of us share who won our weeks.

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08Oct/21

Rue Sparks

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October 8, 2021

It gives us great pleasure to welcome Rue Sparks as the guest on Season 6, Episode 40 – A Bit of a Weird Genre!

Rue Sparks joins us to share their upcoming novel, The Fable of Wren. We also talk about loss, grief, genre, and the normalcy of non-binary and genderqueer characters.

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A widow, disabled, and a member of the queer community, Rue Sparks traverses the equally harsh and cathartic landscape where trauma and healing align to create stories that burrow into the hearts and minds of their readers. In addition to The Stars Will Guide Us Back, Sparks has authored the novella Daylight Chasers, writes the web serial The Dragon Warden, and will be releasing the contemporary mystery novel The Fable of Wren later in 2021. They live in Noblesville, Indiana in the USA with their sweet senior support dog and still draw and paint when they’re physically able.

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31Jul/20

Ruby Walker

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July 31, 2020

It gives us great pleasure to welcome Ruby Walker as the guest on Episode 279 – Eff-It I’ll Try!

Ruby Walker shares her recent release, Advice I Ignored, which jump-starts a thought provoking conversation about queer youth and mental health issues.

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Ruby Walker is eighteen, and is not depressed anymore. She got pretty tired of saying that, but she wrote and illustrated a book about it, so it’s kind of hard to avoid at this point. Ruby writes for fellow professional over-thinkers and imperfect slobs. She likes to brighten people’s days and bully her friends into respecting themselves more.

Yes– to Ruby’s horror, she’s turned from a local disaster into a mom friend.

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10Jul/20

AJ Fitzwater

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July 10, 2020

It gives us great pleasure to welcome AJ Fitzwater as the guest on Episode 276 – Being Normal Didn’t Work Out For Me!

AJ Fitzwater joins us from the great country of New Zealand. We discuss their current release, No Man’s Land, and the historic research that went into writing this WW2 s Land Girls novel.

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AJ Fitzwater lives between the cracks of Christchurch, New Zealand. Their work focuses on feminist and queer themes, and has appeared in venues of repute such as Clarkesworld, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Shimmer, Giganotosaurus, GlitterShip, and in various anthologies. They are the author of rodent pirate escapades in The Voyages of Cinrak the Dapper, and the WW2 land girls shape-shifter novella No Man’s Land. With a background in radio, AJ lends their voice to podcast narrations, including for the Escape Artists universe. They enjoy maintaining a collection of bow ties. A unicorn disguised in a snappy blazer, they tweet @AJFitzwater.

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