https://www.spreaker.com/show/cheers-queersenSociety & CultureCopyright Gifted Sounds Networkhttps://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/7e5c76afeeac2319f94028e1494c00b2.jpghttps://www.spreaker.com/show/cheers-queersThu, 08 Dec 2022 05:41:09 +0000Gifted Sounds NetworkGifted Sounds Networkfeeds@spreaker.comA podcast where Black queer femmes Isake Smith and Kirya Traber sit down to chat about any and everything while having a drinkyesepisodichttps://www.spreaker.com/user/giftedsounds/waffle-colored-knee-grows-ft-queene2a73762-29e8-41fd-b9f8-212d56991c41Fri, 30 Apr 2021 18:00:00 +0000Gifted Sounds NetworkAre they cute or are they just lightskin? Isake and Queen talk about colorism, pop culture things that have brought us Black joy. Please follow us on Instagram and Twitter @CheersNQueers, and support our Patreon.5407black,black femme,black girl magic,black love,black queer,cocktails,colorism,femme,kink,magic,pandemic,qtpoc,quarantine,queer,queer love,queer poc,queer woc,self-care,self love,wellnessyesfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/giftedsounds/pleasure-through-the-panty-raid-with-jen1e225eb3-b305-49d9-80f7-eed37c2a4fd3Tue, 30 Mar 2021 15:00:00 +0000Gifted Sounds NetworkIsake talks with Jennifer Eden about kink, sex education, and centering self-pleasure in the midst of a continued global disaster. 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Please follow us on Instagram and Twitter @CheersNQueers, and...4886black,black femme,black girl magic,black love,black queer,cocktails,fandom,femme,magic,music,pandemic,qtpoc,quarantine,queer,queer love,queer poc,queer woc,self-care,self love,wellnesscleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/giftedsounds/a-shot-twentytwentywon339ab21b-63cb-4f5f-89d8-fab594d1d9bbTue, 26 Jan 2021 11:00:00 +0000Gifted Sounds NetworkWe are back with a mini-episode to begin Season 3! Kirya and Isake talk about the apocalypse, dry January, and give you some important show updates. Please follow us on Instagram and Twitter @CheersNQueers, and support our Patreon.1913black,black femme,black girl magic,black love,black queer,cocktails,fandom,femme,magic,music,pandemic,qtpoc,quarantine,queer,queer love,queer poc,queer woc,self-care,self love,wellnesscleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/giftedsounds/existential-authenticityb8cf3037-1ea8-4c11-9656-074ceda88aa4Thu, 06 Aug 2020 11:00:00 +0000Gifted Sounds NetworkIsake and Kirya giggle a lot with our guest, storyteller, and musician Be Steadwell. We talk about her new album, Succulent, what is getting us through in the midst of a wild world, and what we are imagining things could be.4441black,black femme,black girl magic,black love,black queer,cocktails,fandom,femme,magic,music,pandemic,qtpoc,quarantine,queer,queer love,queer poc,queer woc,self-care,succulent,wellnessyesfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/giftedsounds/onfleet-enterprisePlease fill out our listener survey and check out our Patreon!]]>3b69c274-e9f5-429c-ba8d-c6d53af060faMon, 15 Jun 2020 11:00:00 +0000Gifted Sounds NetworkThe first of our Star Trek mini-series! We talk through Enterprise and discuss if it’s really as bad as everyone says it is. (Spoiler alert, it’s the worst thing to ever happen to space, but listen anyway for a Black queer analysis of why it’s so...Please fill out our listener survey and check out our Patreon!]]>3670black,black femme,black girl magic,black queer,cocktails,enterprise,femme,klingon,magic,mirror universe,onfleet,on fleet,qtpoc,quarantine,queer,queer poc,queer woc,star trek,trekkie,vulcancleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/giftedsounds/a-quarantine-chronicle(Please take a few moments to fill out our listener survey, the link is in the show notes below)]]>f48fc32a-471c-43fb-a099-54e08c8b7828Fri, 15 May 2020 11:00:00 +0000Gifted Sounds NetworkIsake and Kirya drink different things and meander through their lives in the time of the ‘Rona. BONUS: Now you can give us your money! (Please take a few moments to fill out our listener survey, the link is in the show notes below)(Please take a few moments to fill out our listener survey, the link is in the show notes below)]]>36611/2 oz hot water,2.5 oz bourbon,and a sprig of thyme if you fa,if you got it!),isake: “bourbon bees knees”: 1,juice of half a lemon,shake and serve.cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/giftedsounds/cheers-and-queers-s2-ep-04-dont-try-me-f5012135dc4aa13a9a284db64:5952b12620099efef1a8286d:5e573f2efe7516041e30c506Sat, 29 Feb 2020 11:00:00 +0000Gifted Sounds NetworkAnother throwback episode! We (extensively) cover Vulcans at First Contact, consider the work Black femmes do for everyone, look for queer history from 1619 to 2019, misandry, and chat with Angelique Roche about the journey to freelance, content...5275cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/giftedsounds/cheers-and-queers-black-queers-onfleet5012135dc4aa13a9a284db64:5952b12620099efef1a8286d:5e37787521662377969b7919Mon, 03 Feb 2020 01:49:05 +0000Gifted Sounds NetworkA blerdy review of our trek fandom with Cleopatra From the Bronx. Recorded live at Respect: Women’s Podcast Festival hosted by the Black Tribbles in at Amalgam Comics in Philly, August 24, 2019.2600onfleetcleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/giftedsounds/cheers-queers-wet-your-appetite5012135dc4aa13a9a284db64:5952b12620099efef1a8286d:5d68b8b46299bf0001e0b931Fri, 30 Aug 2019 10:00:00 +0000Gifted Sounds NetworkA smol aperitif to get you ready! We chat about co-habitating, marriage, plant witchery, and what the show is doing next. Follow us at CheersNQueers, Isake @is_she_okay on Twitter and IG & Kirya @kiryatraber (twitter) @kiryat (IG).1746cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/giftedsounds/cheers-queers-s2-ep-03-black-femme-magic5012135dc4aa13a9a284db64:5952b12620099efef1a8286d:5c7f462f4192026f0db38261Thu, 07 Mar 2019 11:00:00 +0000Gifted Sounds NetworkIsake and Kirya get witchy. Kirya gives Isake her first ever Tarot reading, and they talk about rituals, both magic and otherwise, for the Black femme with special guest model and artist Lorelei Black @blacklorelei7 (IG). Follow Isake @is_she_okay on...4693cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/giftedsounds/cheers-queers-s2-ep-2-i-need-a-space-to-5012135dc4aa13a9a284db64:5952b12620099efef1a8286d:5c0ed164cd8366413d04258eMon, 10 Dec 2018 21:03:00 +0000Gifted Sounds NetworkIsake and Kirya have an unfiltered conversation about cultivating spaces for black queerness to thrive with, Jarvis Green, the Founder & Producing Artistic Director of Jag Productions, a Black theatre company in Upper Valley Vermont. We touch on...5675cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/giftedsounds/cheers-and-queers-ep-6-a-lot-of-rum-feel5012135dc4aa13a9a284db64:5952b12620099efef1a8286d:5bb40a6c71c10b7ebded8367Wed, 03 Oct 2018 10:00:00 +0000Gifted Sounds NetworkWe’re back for Season 2! We celebrate a year of making shows with a fight of rum cocktails, and updates on our lives and the world.3313cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/giftedsounds/cheers-queers-episode-5-live5012135dc4aa13a9a284db64:5952b12620099efef1a8286d:5b033bf9758d46ba38521114Tue, 22 May 2018 10:00:00 +0000Gifted Sounds NetworkOur very first live show! We talk about the origins of Cheers & Queers, share what we find erotic, celebrate the birthday of the indomitable Audre Lorde with scholar and best aunt ever, Alexis Pauline Gumbs and the NYC based organizing center, The...4221yesfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/giftedsounds/cheers-queers-bonus-episode-all-black-paWe chat with Tony Ray, of Everybody Loves Tony Ray, about ALL OF OUR FEELINGS, good, bad, and complex. But in the end, we all agree: WAKANDA FOREVER.]]>5012135dc4aa13a9a284db64:5952b12620099efef1a8286d:5aa83cfcec212dd645513fd2Fri, 16 Mar 2018 10:00:00 +0000Gifted Sounds Network**HEAR YE, HEAR YE! 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AND we hear from listeners and past guests...AND we hear from listeners and past guests who share their practical, visionary, and heartfelt thoughts on economics, capitalism, and blackanomics (or something like that).]]>3669cleanfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/giftedsounds/cheers-queers-episode-3-femmespirationWe also want you to give us your thoughts on economics, capitalism, and blackanomics (or something like that). Send your one minute or less voice memo to us at CheersNQueers@gmail.com]]>5012135dc4aa13a9a284db64:5952b12620099efef1a8286d:5a505d87c830256b6169b73eSat, 06 Jan 2018 11:00:00 +0000Gifted Sounds NetworkOn this episode we chat about hooking up at Hogwarts, warm dranks, handling the holidays, street harassment, gender, flirting, the failure of She’s Gotta Have It, representation, and all the ways to Femme with artist Sal Muñoz. We also want you to...We also want you to give us your thoughts on economics, capitalism, and blackanomics (or something like that). Send your one minute or less voice memo to us at CheersNQueers@gmail.com]]>3844yesfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/giftedsounds/cheers-queers-episode-2-hood-based-epist
Show Notes

Drinking

Pinot de Sud Côtes-de-thongue rosé

Music

Intro: Sage by Be Steadwell
Additional Music
Restore by Abel Shiffera
Hands by Boomscat
Conga House by Abel Shiffera
Satisfied from Hamilton
Outro: Hey by Boomscat

The Team

Hosted by Isake Smith and Kirya Traber
Produced by Isake Smith, Kirya Traber, Lance John, and Jassel Hernndez

Edited by Jassel Hernandez

Links to:

The Spoon Theory. (http://bit.ly/2l2T4pQ)

9 Things Monogamists Can Learn From Polyamory. (http://bit.ly/2l0xWjX)

9 Things Polyamorists Can Learn From Monogamy. (http://bit.ly/2kYCkja)

The Giant Pool of Money. (http://bit.ly/2l0DBGz)

Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized Podcast. (http://apple.co/2l18Jpm)

Ericka Hart: (http://www.ihartericka.com/#home)]]>5012135dc4aa13a9a284db64:5952b12620099efef1a8286d:59e8d0ca9f07f5fdea024c6aSat, 21 Oct 2017 10:00:00 +0000Gifted Sounds NetworkOn this episode, we chat about queers and non-monogamy, spoons, our homies on the left coast, relationships, and a different kind of love with Ericka Hart and Ebony Donnely over some fancy rosé! Show Notes Drinking Pinot de Sud Côtes-de-thongue...
Show Notes

Drinking

Pinot de Sud Côtes-de-thongue rosé

Music

Intro: Sage by Be Steadwell
Additional Music
Restore by Abel Shiffera
Hands by Boomscat
Conga House by Abel Shiffera
Satisfied from Hamilton
Outro: Hey by Boomscat

The Team

Hosted by Isake Smith and Kirya Traber
Produced by Isake Smith, Kirya Traber, Lance John, and Jassel Hernndez

Edited by Jassel Hernandez

Links to:

The Spoon Theory. (http://bit.ly/2l2T4pQ)

9 Things Monogamists Can Learn From Polyamory. (http://bit.ly/2l0xWjX)

9 Things Polyamorists Can Learn From Monogamy. (http://bit.ly/2kYCkja)

The Giant Pool of Money. (http://bit.ly/2l0DBGz)

Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized Podcast. (http://apple.co/2l18Jpm)

Ericka Hart: (http://www.ihartericka.com/#home)]]>4097yesfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/giftedsounds/cheers-queers-episode-1-something-about-On this episode chat with the legendary Khane of Camera Ready Kutz and the legendary Queer dance party SWEAT!, talk about Queer Aesthetics, review blerDCon 2017, give a toast with some Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey!
Show Notes
Drinking
Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey: https://www.jackdaniels.com/en-us/whiskey/tennessee-honey
Music
Intro: Sage by Be Steadwell
Additional Music
Restore by Abel Shiffera
Thoughtful by Abel Shiffera
Conga House by Abel Shiffera
Outro: Back That Ass Up by Juvenile
The Team
Hosted by Isake Smith and Kirya Traber
Produced by Gifted Sounds
Edited by Jassel Hernandez
Links to:
Khane’s LGBTQIA Barbershop GoFundMe -
https://www.gofundme.com/lgbtqiabarbershop

Camera Ready Kutz, Inc. -
www.CameraReadyKutz.com]]>5012135dc4aa13a9a284db64:5952b12620099efef1a8286d:599528c0f7e0abbc21fc0551Thu, 17 Aug 2017 05:25:14 +0000Gifted Sounds NetworkSummary On this episode chat with the legendary Khane of Camera Ready Kutz and the legendary Queer dance party SWEAT!, talk about Queer Aesthetics, review blerDCon 2017, give a toast with some Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey! Show Notes Drinking Jack...On this episode chat with the legendary Khane of Camera Ready Kutz and the legendary Queer dance party SWEAT!, talk about Queer Aesthetics, review blerDCon 2017, give a toast with some Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey!
Show Notes
Drinking
Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Honey: https://www.jackdaniels.com/en-us/whiskey/tennessee-honey
Music
Intro: Sage by Be Steadwell
Additional Music
Restore by Abel Shiffera
Thoughtful by Abel Shiffera
Conga House by Abel Shiffera
Outro: Back That Ass Up by Juvenile
The Team
Hosted by Isake Smith and Kirya Traber
Produced by Gifted Sounds
Edited by Jassel Hernandez
Links to:
Khane’s LGBTQIA Barbershop GoFundMe -
https://www.gofundme.com/lgbtqiabarbershop

Camera Ready Kutz, Inc. -
www.CameraReadyKutz.com]]>4019yesfullhttps://www.spreaker.com/user/giftedsounds/cheers-queers-episode-0-an-introduction5012135dc4aa13a9a284db64:5952b12620099efef1a8286d:59531b35a5790a71229f9b2eWed, 28 Jun 2017 03:39:34 +0000Gifted Sounds NetworkOn this episode, we introduce the show, preview some future segments, give a toast to Pride month, and try a new drink!456cleanfull