Queering Reality Podcast

Elizabeth Earley

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Queering Reality is a series for exploring and reshaping the world through a queer lens by Elizabeth Earley, a queer writer, scientist, and ex-christian with magical thinking who is also a mom and Board President at Jaded Ibis Press. www.queeringreality.com

FEB 12

Queering Reality with Janice Lee

In this episode, I’m in conversation with Janice Lee — writer, editor, teacher, and a thinker whose work moves through fragmentation, hybridity, and the fertile edges of language. Together, we explore what happens when dominant narratives — about selfhood, success, time, productivity, even language itself — begin to feel insufficient or misleading. We also dive into form as a political choice: silence, gaps, and the unsayable; the tension between language as a limit and language as a portal; and how feminist consciousness can resist the commodification of mindfulness and productivity culture. Ultimately, this conversation asks: If we are always narrating reality, how might we tell stories that make more room for difference, care, and collective liberation? And what are we each still unlearning? I’m so grateful to share this expansive, challenging, and deeply generative conversation with Janice Lee. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.queeringreality.com

35 min
JAN 29

Queering Reality with Michelle Duster

In this episode of Queering Reality, I’m joined by Michelle Duster — author, public historian, and the great-granddaughter of pioneering journalist and anti-lynching activist Ida B. Wells. Our conversation centers on legacy: what it means to inherit a history shaped by resistance, and how we are called to reckon honestly with the past rather than mythologize it. Together, we explore the emotional and political labor of confronting historical erasure, the ways feminism is strengthened by truth-telling, and how remembering our ancestors can be an act of radical activism in the present. Through Michelle’s work and lived experience, this dialogue invites listeners to consider legacy not as something fixed, but as something we actively shape through accountability, courage, and collective action. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.queeringreality.com

32 min
JAN 9

Queering Reality with Ilana Masad

In this episode of Queering Reality, we’re joined by Ilana Masad to talk about her novel Beings, a haunting, genre-bending exploration of identity, memory, and the stories we’re told about ourselves. We dive into how the narrative of UFO abduction parallels experiences of alienation from dominant norms, and how the figure of the “alien” can be read as a powerful metaphor for queer embodiment and existing beyond normative frameworks. We also explore the role of the Archivist, who disrupts traditional historical authority and linear storytelling, opening space for fractured, marginalized, and speculative truths. From queerness and estrangement to archives, power, and possibility, this conversation moves across worlds—both familiar and strange. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.queeringreality.com

49 min
12/26/2025

Queering Reality with Emilly Prado

In this episode I’m joined by writer and artist Emilly Prado to talk about her book Funeral for Flaca. We explore how narrative nonfiction can hold grief, memory, and survival, and how speculative approaches to writing can open space for telling difficult truths that realism alone can’t always contain. Our conversation moves through feminism, embodiment, and the radical possibilities of queering form itself — asking what it means to write toward liberation when reality has already been fractured. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.queeringreality.com

33 min
12/13/2025

Queering Reality with My Mom: Mary Earley

This episode is especially tender for me. I’m sitting down with my mom to talk about her experience reading my latest book — the nonfiction book I was honestly terrified for her to read — and the conversations that unfolded because of it. We talk about fear, honesty, love, and all the things that finally had room to be said. We also talk about the moment she came to my rescue after my near-fatal car accident, and how that care opened the door to a conversation that felt like a gift — unexpected, healing, and rare. Not long after we recorded this, my mom had a series of serious falls and injuries, and I got to drop everything and fly to be with her, to care for her the way she once cared for me. In that way, the story came full circle — quietly, beautifully. This episode is a reminder that tragedy often arrives carrying life’s greatest gifts, and these have a way of queering time, roles, and expectations — if we let them. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.queeringreality.com

38 min
11/22/2025

Queering Reality with Heather Corinna

Today on the podcast, I’m joined by Heather Corinna, author of What Fresh Hell Is This?, for a conversation that reshapes everything we’ve been taught about “the change.” Together, we explore the ways our culture pathologizes this phase of a woman’s life—treating it like a disease, a decline, an ending—when in truth, it can be a profound becoming. Heather reframes this transition as a blossoming, a shift into deeper power, clarity, and pleasure. And yes: for many, a great sex life doesn’t end here; it often begins. This season, so often dismissed by a misogynistic culture, deserves reverence, celebration, and truth. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.queeringreality.com

40 min
10/22/2025

Queering Reality With Britney Thompson & AJ Blount From Ultimatum Queer Love

What is reality — really? Is it something we live, something we create, or something that’s created for us? In this episode, we explore the philosophical layers of Reality—both as a concept and as a constructed experience — with AJ Blount and Britney Thompson, stars of The Ultimatum: Queer Love Edition, Season 2. Together, we dive into the tension between perception and truth, and ask: how much of our reality is shaped by the stories we tell ourselves, and how much by the stories told about us? What happens when our lived experience is mediated through cameras, editing, and audience interpretation? And how does that shape who we believe ourselves to be? This conversation blurs the line between the philosophical and the personal, between the real and the represented — because maybe reality isn’t fixed at all, but a story we keep rewriting in real time. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.queeringreality.com

47 min
10/09/2025

Queering Reality With Sarah Labrie

This beautiful conversation between Elizabeth Earley and Sarah Labrie delves into the intimacy afforded by pain, illness, and vulnerability. Sarah LaBrie is the author of No One Gets to Fall Apart: A Memoir, which was a New York Times Editor’s Pick and Notable Book of 2024. Born in Oakland and raised in Third Ward in Houston, Texas, she lives in Los Angeles where she works as a TV writer. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.queeringreality.com

26 min

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Queering Reality is a series for exploring and reshaping the world through a queer lens by Elizabeth Earley, a queer writer, scientist, and ex-christian with magical thinking who is also a mom and Board President at Jaded Ibis Press. www.queeringreality.com

Creator

Elizabeth Earley
Years Active

2024 - 2026
Episodes

40
Rating

Explicit
Copyright

© Elizabeth Earley
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Queering Reality Podcast