We Did the Reading

We Did the Reading
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The Homo Pomo Podcast where we’re smart about dumb and dumb about smart. 📚🌈

  1. 10/03/2021

    17. Tangerine: Participation Rather Than Observation

    iPhones. This movie has everything: trans women, Christmas carols, donuts, meth, and prisons and your father’s making! What does it mean for a white cis guy to make a film about black trans women and Is it possible to tell others’ stories ethically through collaboration? What’s so appealing about DIY projects? What is the difference between observation and participation? And why is this called Tangerine anyway? Listen to Pia bully Clementine about their (objectively ridiculous) name. Additional Reading: Paris is Burning (duhhhhh) Extra Credit: Follow us at @wedidthereading 📚🌈 Read more of Clementine’s words at @clementinevonradics See more of Pia’s drawings at @pia_marchetti Thanks to Mirin Doja for creating our theme song

    48 min

  2. 09/18/2021

    16. SCUM Manifesto: The Perfect Gay Storm

    We’re talking about our favorite anti-male pump up jam, SCUM Manifesto. This controversial and iconic essay was written by Valerie Solanas, founder and singular member of SCUM (the Society for Cutting Up Men) and failed assassin of pop art darling Andy Warhol. Werk! We dig into this manifesto, break down the perfect gay storm that lead to Andy Warhol’s shooting, and celebrate the performance art of Solanas & Warhol’s relationship. Could this text be contemporary if we replaced the word “men” with “patriarchy?” How much should we consider the artist’s intention when reading a work? What would Valerie Solanas’ twitter look like? Additional Reading: On Liking Women by Andrea Long Chu For Her by Fiona Apple The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again) by Andy Warhol Extra Credit: Follow us at @wedidthereading 📚🌈 Read more of Clementine’s words at @clementinevonradics See more of Pia’s drawings at @pia_marchetti Thanks to Mirin Doja for creating our theme song

    50 min

  3. 08/29/2021

    15. Crisis Zone: The Perverted COVID Narrative We Deserve

    In 2020 while the world was literally falling apart, comic icon Simon Hanselmann stepped up as the hero we needed. Publishing daily to instagram, Hanselmann showed in real time how the cast of his cult classic series Megg and Mogg were coping in the quarantine. In our opinion, it’s the best piece of COVID media ever made, and possibly also the only good piece of COVID media ever made. It won an Eisner award for Chirst’s sake! We talk about the catharsis of media by and for the people, the freedom provided by a cast of Problematic™ characters, and the power of shared niche interests. Pia also gushes extensively over Simon Hanselmann. (Simon if you are free this Thursday, Pia is free on Thursday when she is free.) All hail the Anus King! Additional Reading: Dive into the the Megg and Mogg universe with Megahex or Megg and Mogg in Amsterdam by Simon Hanselmann Fight Club (the book) by known queer weirdo Chuck Palahniuk (trust us, the book is more perverted than you’d think) The beginning of Trailer Park Boys season 6 episode 5 “Halloween 1977” Extra Credit: Follow us at @wedidthereading 📚🌈 Read more of Clementine’s words at @clementinevonradics See more of Pia’s drawings at @pia_marchetti Thanks to Mirin Doja for creating our theme song

    57 min

  4. 08/01/2021

    14. The General Cultural Phenomenon of Sex and the City

    Surprise, bitch! I bet you thought you’d seen the last of me! It’s our first episode back in New York so obviously we drank a bottle of rosé and talked about Sex and the City. And as we recorded this episode, we couldn’t help but wonder if all lesbians are Mirandas by default or if there’s a more nuanced choice for each of us. Extra Credit: Follow us at @wedidthereading 📚🌈 Read more of Clementine’s words at @clementinevonradics See more of Pia’s drawings at @pia_marchett Thanks to Mirin Doja for creating our theme song

    54 min

  5. 05/24/2021

    13. Mommie Dearest: Coping through Camp

    We’re discussing the iconic camp film, Mommie Dearest, starring Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford. It’s our first ever episode in the same room! We discuss camp entertainment as therapy, the behinds the scenes gossip of both the making of Mommie Dearest and the life of Joan Crawford herself. Why are the gays so good at irony? What defines camp? Be honest, how devastating are Joan Crawford’s eyebrows? Joan us for this love letter to a film that truly broke our brains.

    1h 23m

  6. 04/11/2021

    12. Montero (Call Me By Your Name) by Lil Nas X: Hell is Gay Now

    We’re discussing the music video for “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” by Lil Nas X, examining the referential nature of queer art, the influence of memes on pop music, and whether or not one can successfully m********e using a peach. Does Clementine look like Khloé Kardashian if she read queer theory? Who’s the Trish and who’s the Ethan? What is Pia’s favorite horse song? Join us for this dick-positive episode. #topscelebratingbottoms Additional Reading: Cellophane by FKA Twigs Extra Credit: Follow us at @wedidthereading 📚🌈 Read more of Clementine’s words at @clementinevonradics See more of Pia’s drawings at @pia_marchetti Thanks to Mirin Doja for creating our theme song

    1h 21m

  7. 03/24/2021

    11. Please Come Off-Book: Interviewing Kevin Kantor

    We interview Kevin Kantor about their new poetry collection, Please Come Off-Book. Using their personal experience as an actor, Kevin explores gender, family, and art-making (all the good stuff) through the lens of the American theatre tradition. We talk to Kevin about the complicated aftermath of going viral from a traumatic poem, the nuances of being a trans non-binary theatre maker, and why we’re over straight actors playing queer (@ Timothée Chalamet). We also discuss our shared love of the 1954 Filmed Stage Production of Peter Pan Starring Mary Martin. If that unlocked a gay memory for you - call us. Additional Reading: Wound from the Mouth of a Wound by Torrin A. Greathouse 1954 Filmed Stage Production of Peter Pan Starring Mary Martin Extra Credit: Follow us at @wedidthereading 📚🌈 Follow our Kevin at @kevin_kantor and buy Please Come Off Book out now via Button Poetry Read more of Clementine’s words at @clementinevonradics See more of Pia’s drawings at @pia_marchetti Thanks to Mirin Doja for creating our theme song

    1h 18m

  8. 03/01/2021

    10. The Possible Canonic Bisexuality of Taylor Swift feat. Aurelia Grierson

    Our very first guest, long time friend and fellow gay goblin Aurelia Grierson joins us to preach the gospel that Taylor Swift is bisexual. We look at all the bisexual clues presented in T-Swift’s canon, especially on sister records Folklore & Evermore. Is Taylor Swift bisexual? Does it even matter if she writes bisexuality authentically? Why do we as queer people search for and create queer narratives? Where is the line between T-Swift and Talyor? Do we ship trans Severus Snape and Taylor Swift? Does Pia have a shot with Caroline Calloway? All questions posed; some answered. Additional Reading: Is Taylor Swift the World’s Most Powerful Psychic? by Brandon Taylor on The Cut Gay For Play Episode 2 “A Bi-Pride Flag On Acid” (Sayonara Wild Hearts) Norman F*****g Rockwell! by Lana Del Rey (Mom needs a new iPhone case) On Liking Women by Andrea Long Chu in n+1 Extra Credit: Follow us at @wedidthereading Follow our very first guest, Aurelia Grierson The Juvenilia Collective, listen to their podcast That Do It For Ya, and engage with their personal musings at @nonbinarybutler on Twitter or @shesagoodboy on Instagram Read more of Clementine’s words at @clementinevonradics See more of Pia’s drawings at @pia_marchetti Thanks to Mirin Doja for creating our theme song! Listen to more of her music and follow them @mirin_doja

    55 min
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The Homo Pomo Podcast where we’re smart about dumb and dumb about smart. 📚🌈

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  • Creator
    We Did the Reading
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2021
  • Episodes
    18
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    Explicit
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