As we wrap up Pride Month, our podcast discussion turns to queer spaces and queer community on the radio and in podcasting, specifically lesbian broadcasters in Canada. Our guest, Stacey Copeland is a media producer and Ph.D. candidate at Simon Fraser University’s School of Communication in Vancouver, Canada. Stacey has been researching the history of lesbian radio shows, including The Lesbian Show and Dykes on Mics. Community radio played an important role in welcoming gay and lesbian programming, with shows airing on stations like Vancouver Co-op Radio and campus-community radio station CKUT. Bringing the conversation to 2021, we also talk about connections between these early shows and current-day queer podcasts.

Show Notes:

Stacey Copeland‘s website
SpokenWeb podcast
Amplify Podcast Network
Podcast #284 – SpokenWeb and Literary Sound
Podcast #275 – Making Scholarly Podcasts Count
Podcast #297 – Radio Studies and Soundwork with Michele Hilmes
The Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony
FemRadio at CJRU
Vancouver Co-op Radio
Dykes on Mykes on CKUT
Listen to The Lesbian Show on Co-op Radio in The Archives of Lesbian Oral Testimony
Pride FM Toronto
Podcast # 187 – Archiving LGBTQ Radio History
This Way Out
The World Soundscape Project was established by R. Murray Schafer at Simon Fraser University
Hildegard Westerkamp is a composer, radio artist, and sound ecologist
Barry Truax is a composer and acoustic communication researcher
The Heart podcast
Procyon Podcast Network
BC Gay and Lesbian Archives
Queer FM on CITR
Country Queers podcast
Podcast #302 – Feminista Frequencies with Monica De La Torre
KPFA show Lesbe Friends in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Podcast #135 – Resurfacing Women’s Contributions in Podcasting History with Jennifer Hyland Wang
The ArQuives – Canada’s LGBTQ2+ Archives
Mermaid Palace
Warriors Bards ‘n Brews podcast about Xena: Warrior Princess

Image Credit: Graphic for The Lesbian Show in Vancouver Gay Community Centre Newspaper from City of Vancouver Archives AM1675-S1-F1433

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