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**Audio distortion at beginning** Community contributors came through to give us a jam packed episode! We celebrate writer and director Dee Rees as QueerWOC of the week, Money gives 10 ways to be your own Bae for V day, Nikeeta shares 4 ways to be in solidarity with Palestine at your university, and we reply to a letter about finances in relationships. Where to find us: IG & Twitter - @queerwocpod FB - https://www.facebook.com/QueerWOCpod/ Tumblr - www.QueerWOC.com Listen to us on Soundcloud, Stitcher, Castbox, PocketCasts Contribute to QueerWOC via CashApp: $QueerWOCPod Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/queerwocpod Love us out loud by doing The R’s: Rate, Review, Request, Repost, Retweet, and Reply! Use the hashtag #QueerWOC to talk all things the podcast Send us an email or submit your Curved Chronicles: QueerWOCpod@gmail.com QueerWOC of the Week: 00:06:57 Director, writer, and producer extraordinaire Dee Rees. Here's the Jenna Wortham article on her: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/magazine

Ep 79: Twenty Twin Twinn (Sharpen up, Sanders!) Money and Nikeeta are back with the first episode of 2020! Money helps us re-energize our resolutions. Nikeeta clears up tensions between Bernie and Warren...and even considers voting democrat! We celebrate chef Nikeisah Newton and Meals for Heels. How can you tell if you have a crush? Where to find us: IG & Twitter - @queerwocpod FB - https://www.facebook.com/QueerWOCpod/ Tumblr - www.QueerWOC.com Listen to us on Soundcloud, Stitcher, Castbox, PocketCasts Contribute to QueerWOC via CashApp: $QueerWOCPod Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/queerwocpod Love us out loud by doing The R’s: Rate, Review, Request, Repost, Retweet, and Reply! Use the hashtag #QueerWOC to talk all things the podcast Send us an email or submit your Curved Chronicles: QueerWOCpod@gmail.com QueerWOC of the Week: 00:06:28 Lesbian chef https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2019/12/meet-lesbian-chef-creating-gourmet-meals-delivering-sex-workers/ Community Contributors: 00:12:00 Shoutout to

Ayeee yall 2019 is nearing its end and we couldn't leave yall without another episode of QueerWOC! Money finished her dissertation and honors Dr. Margaret Lawrence for paving the way. Emotional abuse is the mental moment this episode, followed by Nikeeta breaking down conflict. We respond to a letter from a community contributor about labels and being clocked. Nikeeta has a salacious story to end the year. Thank yall for sticking with us and always encouraging us to continue QueerWOC the Podcast!!! See yall in 2020!!! Where to find us: IG & Twitter - @queerwocpod FB - https://www.facebook.com/QueerWOCpod/ Tumblr - www.QueerWOC.com Listen to us on Soundcloud, Stitcher, Castbox, PocketCasts Contribute to QueerWOC via CashApp: $QueerWOCPod Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/queerwocpod Love us out loud by doing The R’s: Rate, Review, Request, Repost, Retweet, and Reply! Use the hashtag #QueerWOC to talk all things the podcast Send us an email or submit your Curved Chronicles: QueerWOCpod@gmail.com Queer

On this episode of #QueerWOC, Money and Nikeeta are back from an unplanned break caused by white supremacist attacks at Syracuse University. We're both fine, but Kent gotta resign! We discuss fiction that inspires us to dream of other worlds, the #NotAgainSU movement and THE General Body, and being asked questions about hygiene on dates... because it wouldn't be Money's dating life without the weird! Where to find us: IG & Twitter - @queerwocpod FB - https://www.facebook.com/QueerWOCpod/ Tumblr - www.QueerWOC.com Listen to us on Soundcloud, Stitcher, Castbox, PocketCasts Contribute to QueerWOC via CashApp: $QueerWOCPod Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/queerwocpod Love us out loud by doing The R’s: Rate, Review, Request, Repost, Retweet, and Reply! Use the hashtag #QueerWOC to talk all things the podcast Send us an email or submit your Curved Chronicles: QueerWOCpod@gmail.com QueerWOC of the Week: 00:05:54 *Robyn Crawford Dr. Edna https://www.thenation.com/article/debt-is-holding-black-americans

Ep 76: Tinder Tomato Date On this episode of #QueerWOC, Money is solo again to talk a Botswana Baddie, 7 rests we need, and a tinder date that cost her a tomato! Where to find us: IG & Twitter - @queerwocpod FB - https://www.facebook.com/QueerWOCpod/ Tumblr - www.QueerWOC.com Listen to us on Soundcloud, Stitcher, Castbox, PocketCasts Contribute to QueerWOC via CashApp: $QueerWOCPod Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/queerwocpod Love us out loud by doing The R’s: Rate, Review, Request, Repost, Retweet, and Reply! Use the hashtag #QueerWOC to talk all things the podcast Send us an email or submit your Curved Chronicles: QueerWOCpod@gmail.com QueerWOC of the Week: 00:07:31 Tshepho Ricki Kgositau is a well known name in the global LGBTQ+ activism community. (Shoutout to AfroQueerPodcast!) Follow her on twitter @RickiKgositau https://soundcloud.com/afroqueerpodcast/how-to-raise-a-woman Community Contributors: 00:12:24 Shoutout to the New Patrons Ayan, New Patron #1, and Mel! Ashley CS hit us on the c

On this episode of #QueerWOC, Money and Nikeeta celebrate 75 episodes of leftist lesbian commentary and mental wellness tidbits! Money shares a tea that can help with depression and cramps. Nikeeta teaches us how to have a good Q&A. We celebrate the living legend Cheryl Dunye as #QueerWOC of the week and talk our pet peeves in the topic segment. Also: Tinder sucks! Where to find us: IG & Twitter - @queerwocpod FB - https://www.facebook.com/QueerWOCpod/ Tumblr - www.QueerWOC.com Listen to us on Soundcloud, Stitcher, Castbox, PocketCasts Contribute to QueerWOC via CashApp: $QueerWOCPod Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/queerwocpod Love us out loud by doing The R’s: Rate, Review, Request, Repost, Retweet, and Reply! Use the hashtag #QueerWOC to talk all things the podcast Send us an email or submit your Curved Chronicles: QueerWOCpod@gmail.com QueerWOC of the Week: 00:08:31 Cheryl Dunye! Historic making, ground-breaking Black Lesbian filmmaker, director, writer, actress. Born in Liberia. Community

On this episode of #QueerWOC, Money talks accountability in hopes of repairing relationships. Nikeeta breaks down the Youth Climate Strike and shouts out some of the radical babies leading the charge. We do a Bag Ladiez inspired topic and reply to a curved chronicle from someone who wants to know if being put on pause is a thing… NO! . Happy Bi Visibility week!!! Happy Latinx Heritage Month! - Check out our homies Lena and Estephanie, the Bag Ladiez Podcast @Bag_Ladiez Where to find us: IG & Twitter - @queerwocpod FB - https://www.facebook.com/QueerWOCpod/ Tumblr - www.QueerWOC.com Listen to us on Soundcloud, Stitcher, Castbox, PocketCasts Contribute to QueerWOC via CashApp: $QueerWOCPod Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/queerwocpod Love us out loud by doing The R’s: Rate, Review, Request, Repost, Retweet, and Reply! Use the hashtag #QueerWOC or #QueerWOCpod to talk all things the podcast Send us an email or submit your Curved Chronicles: QueerWOCpod@gmail.com ANNOUNCEMENTS! Qinfolk Festival i

Ep 73: On this episode of #QueerWOC, Money and Nikeeta amplify and celebrate QueerPOC of the Week, Indya Moore , the Pose phenom and all around baddie, Money gives us insights on how to assess if a friendship needs to end, and if so how to break it off, we recap the SWELL time we had at the first ever QueerWOC Upstate Escape, Nikeeta dives into the 20th Anniversary of March of Washington in 1983 and the ensuing controversies, and we close it out with some curved chronicles! Where to find us: IG & Twitter - @queerwocpod FB - https://www.facebook.com/QueerWOCpod/ Tumblr - www.QueerWOC.com Listen to us on Soundcloud, Stitcher, Castbox, PocketCasts Contribute to QueerWOC via CashApp: $QueerWOCPod Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/queerwocpod Love us out loud by doing The R’s: Rate, Review, Request, Repost, Retweet, and Reply! Use the hashtag #QueerWOC to talk all things the podcast Send us an email or submit your Curved Chronicles: QueerWOCpod@gmail.com QueerPOC of the Week: 00:06:12 Bronx native

On this episode of #QueerWOC, Money and Nikeeta answer community questions about their love and relationship… chill yall, we are BFFL! We celebrate the lesbian mechanic turned model legend that is Jenny Shimizu. Money shares 11 principles of group therapy. Nikeeta helps us read. We talk age gaps in relationships and our personal experience with age and desire. QueerWOC Upstate Escape August 30th-Sep1st Join the Hoes of Inner Hoe Uprising at their Mothly Sex Trivia Event at Luv Story Bar in Brooklyn, NY September 1, 2019 Where to find us: IG & Twitter - @queerwocpod FB - https://www.facebook.com/QueerWOCpod/ Tumblr - www.QueerWOC.com Listen to us on Soundcloud, Stitcher, Castbox, PocketCasts Contribute to QueerWOC via CashApp: $QueerWOCPod Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/queerwocpod Love us out loud by doing The R’s: Rate, Review, Request, Repost, Retweet, and Reply! Use the hashtag #QueerWOC to talk all things the podcast Send us an email or submit your Curved Chronicles: QueerWOCpod@gmail.com

Join Money and Nikeeta in their elation in this Euphoria inspired episode. Money regales us with some side splitting tidbits about #QueerWOC of the week, Nigerian-British comedian, Gina Yashere, she then goes on in the Mental Moment to breakdown just what exactly is bi-polar disorder, Nikeeta is booked, busy, and stress so there’s no word this week, but your fav. dyke duo has an extended and meandering conversation about HBO’s new show Euphoria, and in the curved chronicle Money’s trying to reconnect with a missed connection! QueerWOC Upstate Escape August 30th-Sep1st RSVP by August 8th here: https://bit.ly/2XXagyX Join Queen at her Ms. Vixen IRL event! Bad Bitch Affirmations: Our Bodies workshop. Entry is a donation of your choice: http://www.msvixenmag.com/2019/07/affirming-our-bodies-workshop.html Friday, Aug 16th at Cafe Con Libros in Brooklyn, NY The event starts PROMPTLY at 5:30p! Where to find us: IG & Twitter - @queerwocpod FB - https://www.facebook.com/QueerWOCpod/ Tumblr - www.QueerWOC.com List

On this episode of #QueerWOC Money and Nikeeta weather the heat of the summer to talk mental health reparations for QUILTBANG and the #AmazonStrike. Money lists 5 ways the APA can REALLY apologize for having queerness in the DSM. Nikeeta gives us the labor organizing history of the #PrimeBoycott. We read a curve from a community contributor and Nikeeta has a parking lot curve of her own. QueerWOC Upstate Escape August 30th-Sep1st RSVP by August 8th here: https://bit.ly/2XXagyX Where to find us: IG & Twitter - @queerwocpod FB - https://www.facebook.com/QueerWOCpod/ Tumblr - www.QueerWOC.com Listen to us on Google, soundcloud, stitcher, Apple Podcast App, or castbox Contribute to QueerWOC via CashApp: $QueerWOCPod Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/queerwocpod Love us out loud by doing The R’s: Rate, Review, Request, Repost, Retweet, and Reply! Use the hashtag #QueerWOC to talk all things the podcast Send us an email or submit your Curved Chronicles: QueerWOCpod@gmail.com QueerWOC of the Week: 00:11:0

QueerWOC Upstate Escape August 30th-Sep1st RSVP by August 8th here: https://bit.ly/2XXagyX Where to find us: IG & Twitter - @queerwocpod FB - https://www.facebook.com/QueerWOCpod/ Tumblr - www.QueerWOC.com Listen to us on Google, soundcloud, stitcher, Apple Podcast App, or castbox Contribute to QueerWOC via CashApp: $QueerWOCPod Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/queerwocpod Love us out loud by doing The R’s: Rate, Review, Request, Repost, Retweet, and Reply! Use the hashtag #QueerWOC to talk all things the podcast Send us an email or submit your Curved Chronicles: QueerWOCpod@gmail.com 00:08:01 QueerWOC of the Week Speaker, organizer, and strategist Elle Hearns @soulfreedreams Executive Director, The Marsha P. Johnson Institute in Washington, DC. Her writing has been featured in Huff Post, Ebony, and The NY Times. Learn more about the Marsha P Johnson Institute: https://marshap.org/about-mpji/ 00:16:22 Community Contributors New Patrons: SJ, Donnae, Bag Ladiez, and Ms. Vixen all became new patron

For the last #PRIDE Month minisode, Money and Nikeeta read and discuss listener questions and and curved chronicles and they even throw in their own curved chronicles. Then, Money and Nikeeta were able to chat with the ILLUSTRIOUS and BRILLIANT, Black Feminist Organizer and author Charlene Carruthers. This episode is a fun and insightful bookend to a fabulous 20FINETEEN PRIDE MONTH! Get into episode! Where to find us: IG & Twitter - @queerwocpod FB - https://www.facebook.com/QueerWOCpod/ Tumblr - www.QueerWOC.com Listen to us on Google, soundcloud, stitcher, Apple Podcast App, or castbox Contribute to QueerWOC via CashApp: $QueerWOCPod Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/queerwocpod Love us out loud by doing The R’s: Rate, Review, Request, Repost, Retweet, and Reply! Use the hashtag #QueerWOC to talk all things the podcast T shirts - order a shirt by emailing us the size, color, and design you want Send us an email or submit your Curved Chronicles: QueerWOCpod@gmail.com Thanks to the #QueerWOC communi

Ep 68: Courage is Contagious [w/ Dr Sami Schalk] On this episode of #QueerWOCpod Money and Nikeeta keep the #Pride month energy flowing with an amazing interview with Dr. Sami Schalk (@drSamiSchalk). Money gives tips on creating a care container, Nikeeta talks a new study's findings about Black bisexual women. Dr. Schalk shares the necessity for Black Feminist Disability scholarship, dating as a fat queer poly professor, and why we all need a Queer Guru! Where to find us: IG & Twitter - @queerwocpod FB - https://www.facebook.com/QueerWOCpod/ Tumblr - www.QueerWOC.com Listen to us on Google, soundcloud, stitcher, Apple Podcast App, or castbox Contribute to QueerWOC via CashApp: $QueerWOCPod Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/queerwocpod Love us out loud by doing The R’s: Rate, Review, Request, Repost, Retweet, and Reply! Use the hashtag #QueerWOC to talk all things the podcast Send us an email or submit your Curved Chronicles: QueerWOCpod@gmail.com 00:06:51 QueerWOC of the Week Monica Trinidad http://

Nikeeta and Money pop in for a surprise bonus episode for Pride Month! This episode, we celebrate Stormie DeLarverie - the real life lesbian superhero we never knew about! We also talk Black lesbian and Black Trans women's commitments to one another - historically and today. Money makes good Pancakes and Nikeeta doesnt own a spatula! SEND US YOUR CURVED CHRONICLES Where to find us: IG & Twitter - @queerwocpod FB - https://www.facebook.com/QueerWOCpod/ Tumblr - www.QueerWOC.com Listen to us on Google, soundcloud, stitcher, Apple Podcast App, or castbox Contribute to QueerWOC via CashApp: $QueerWOCPod Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/queerwocpod Love us out loud by doing The R’s: Rate, Review, Request, Repost, Retweet, and Reply! Use the hashtag #QueerWOC to talk all things the podcast Send us an email or submit your Curved Chronicles: QueerWOCpod@gmail.com Revisiting History of Stonewall -Stormie DeLarverie 1920- 2014 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/remembering-storm%C3%A9-the-woman-who-incited-the

Ep 67: We Chose Rebellion HAPPY PRIDE YA’LL!!! On this episode of #QueerWOCpod Money and Nikeeta and are finally reunited! We celebrate Indian sprint star Dutee Chand in the QueerWOC of the Week segment, Money talks about National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network and some crystals to get your Pride month set off right, Nikeeta talks about a historic farmworker rebellion, and both chat it up about a FABULOUS QueerWOC weekend they shared together! Where to find us: IG & Twitter - @queerwocpod FB - https://www.facebook.com/QueerWOCpod/ Tumblr - www.QueerWOC.com Listen to us on Google, soundcloud, stitcher, Apple Podcast App, or castbox Contribute to QueerWOC via CashApp: $QueerWOCPod Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/queerwocpod Love us out loud by doing The R’s: Rate, Review, Request, Repost, Retweet, and Reply! Use the hashtag #QueerWOC to talk all things the podcast Send us an email or submit your Curved Chronicles: QueerWOCpod@gmail.com 00:06:51 QueerWOC of the Week Indian Track and Fie

On this episode of #QueerWOCpod Money returns to her solo podcasting roots to talk #PodinLiveNYC 2019, poetry as a stress relieving knowledge practice, and coochie care. Also, if anybody has any tips on how to find a bae as a therapist, she is all ears! Money will be in Portland for #NCORE Where to find us: IG & Twitter - @queerwocpod FB - https://www.facebook.com/QueerWOCpod/ Tumblr - www.QueerWOC.com Listen to us on Google, soundcloud, stitcher, Apple Podcast App, or castbox Contribute to QueerWOC via CashApp: $QueerWOCPod Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/queerwocpod Love us out loud by doing The R’s: Rate, Review, Request, Repost, Retweet, and Reply! Use the hashtag #QueerWOC to talk all things the podcast Send us an email or submit your Curved Chronicles: QueerWOCpod@gmail.com Book us for Stonewall 50th 00:06:12 QueerWOC of the Week Kenyan actress and musician Samantha Mugatsia This March, she won best actress award at the Fespaco Film Festival, Africa’s biggest film festival This was her fi

On this episode of #QueerWOCpod Money and Nikeeta spill the insurgence of this here progrum onto the campus of Colgate University. Money helps us WSSH away anxiety, Nikeeta reminds us of our power, and we read a letter from a community contributor about navigating fatphobia in lesbian communities. Thanks again to the Center for Women's Studies and Odette for having us! Catch us at the largest Black podcast meetup in the WORLD: #PodinLiveNYC Money will be in Portland for #NCORE Where to find us: IG & Twitter - @queerwocpod FB - https://www.facebook.com/QueerWOCpod/ Tumblr - www.QueerWOC.com Listen to us on Google, soundcloud, stitcher, Apple Podcast App, or castbox Contribute to QueerWOC via CashApp: $QueerWOCPod Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/queerwocpod Love us out loud by doing The R’s: Rate, Review, Request, Repost, Retweet, and Reply! Use the hashtag #QueerWOC to talk all things the podcast T shirts - order a shirt by emailing us the size, color, and design you want Send us an email or submi

On this episode of QueerWOC The Podcast, We celebrate #QueerWOC of the week, activist, writer, and director, Nneka Onuorah @nikes_nae, in light of the passing of young black queer teen #NigelShelby (Ashe), Money gives 5 tips on how we can better support queer youth, Nikeeta offers some thoughts about we can better think, write, and talk about political economy and culture, we answer a listener’s letter about how to deal with changing needs in a relationship, Money is changing how she talks about dating, and Nikeeta chats a bit about how she and her bae maintain their relationship. Listen now, do the R’s, and join the convo using #QueerWOCpod Where to find us: IG & Twitter - @queerwocpod FB - https://www.facebook.com/QueerWOCpod/ Tumblr - www.QueerWOC.com Listen to us on Google, soundcloud, stitcher, Apple Podcast App, or castbox Contribute to QueerWOC via CashApp: $QueerWOCPod Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/queerwocpod Love us out loud by doing The R’s: Rate, Review, Request, Repost, Retweet, and

On this episode of #QueerWOC, Money combats imposter syndrome with a binder, Nikeeta shares statistics on queers in rural areas, and we both talk through the D-word… dyke, its dyke! In the “Curved Chronicles” segment, Nikeeta provides much needed humor to a barbershop curve. Where to find us: IG & Twitter - @queerwocpod FB - https://www.facebook.com/QueerWOCpod/ Tumblr - www.QueerWOC.com Listen to us on Google, soundcloud, stitcher, Apple Podcast App, or castbox Contribute to QueerWOC via CashApp: $QueerWOCPod Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/queerwocpod Love us out loud by doing The R’s: Rate, Review, Request, Repost, Retweet, and Reply! Use the hashtag #QueerWOC to talk all things the podcast T shirts - order a shirt by emailing us the size, color, and design you want Send us an email or submit your Curved Chronicles: QueerWOCpod@gmail.com Book us for Stonewall 50th 00:07:31 QueerWOC of the Week Staceyann Chin is a Black and Asian Jamaican Immigrant lesbian and New York resident. A resident of