Sagittarian Matters

  We are over the moon to welcome Capricorn CHRIS VARGAS back to the show to discuss his new book, Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects. But first! We do some live reporting from a Golden Girls show in Hollywood, where Chris & I were treated to room-temperature coke, hateful theater patrons and top notch impersonations.   Bonus: Chris discusses a Florida snorkel boat trip   Chris Vargas is also a Guggenheim-award winning artist, filmmaker, professor, and the founder of MOTHA, the Museum of Transgender Hirstory and Art. Chris and his collaborators  have just released a giant, beautiful book, Trans Hirstory in 99 objects. A compelling exploration of trans art, activism, and resistance.   In this episode we discuss Angela Douglas, Assunta Femia, Pippa Garner, Catholics regendering indigenous people of California, the Tootsie film genre, A Hormonal Fog AND MORE.   Get Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects by Chris Vargas, Christina Linden & David Evan Frantz now! Wherever you get your books.  

Today on the podcast, we are remembering beloved friend to the show Trina Robbins, who passed away April 10th, 2024 at age 85.    We are rebroadcasting a solo interview from 2016 (before the rotting pumpkin took office), and a live interview Nicole did in 2017 with Trina, Lee Marrs and Mary Wings at Root Division in San Francisco.   Enjoy. 

We are over the moon to have known Sagittarius Cathy de la Cruz join us to discuss a CHICKEN RESCUE on the streets of Brooklyn.  PLUS! Dawn defends her honor, reviews something called Giggles,  Morgan & Dawn review CAROB MOLASSES together, Nicole tries it, and talks about getting NEW GLASSES, and MORE.    Tune in!

Today on Sagittarian matters! We’re over the moon to welcome Morgan back to the show to  talk about Cafix, CELERY, Trader Joes Vegan Fish, TJ's Bird Nest, signs of aging, the smell of trader joes, Alfred Coffee, Outstanding Cheeseballs, Lagusta's cheese powder, Lagusta's turtles, Molasses cookies, Moku mushroom jerky and SO MUCH MORE.    PLUS! An unsolicited food review from Dawn Riddle, with special guest Megan DIneen. 

We are on a summer break & will come back at some point in the fall with an actual season of the show!\ But in the meantime,  We are over the moon today to bring you Tortoise Drama, Diary Comics, Unsolicited Vegan Vacation Food Reviews, Big news, where to find AJLT recaps and MORE.  You can find Nicole's new book here: https://www.phasesevencomics.com/phase8/dogs-breakfast/ Get her 2024 calendar here: nicolejgeorges.com/shop Find an unlocked And Just Like That finale recap bonus episode with Bran Taylor at patreon.com/nicolejgeorges And find Nicole live in person at SPX Small Press Expo, Cartoon Crossroads in Columbus, and Short Run Comics Fest in Seattle.  Featured on today's show,  Roving reporters Dawn, Luca, Morgan & Torrence bring us unsolicited vegan food reviews from Spain, Tucson, & Denver.  Dawn Riddle is a multidisciplinary artist from Portland, Oregon. She is a brilliant painter, weaver, photographer, musician, playwright, videographer and so much more.  Luca J. Davis is a writer, web d

BETH PICKENS: Live Advice on Dating, Revenge, Asking, Volunteering, New project announcements and MORE.    We are over the moon to welcome noted Capricorn BETH PICKENS back to the show to give  Advice on Revenge, Dating,  Asking for things,  Working for free, Having a life,  a new press, two new classes AND MORE.    Beth Pickens is the author of the books Your Art Will Save Your Life and Make Your Art No Matter What.   Today's episode was guest edited & produced by our theme song composer, Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs. Thank you Carolyn!      You can find Beth & join her homework club RIGHT NOW at bethpickens.com .   You can find Dopamine Press, Beth Pickens, and Nicole all on  on instagram RIGHT NOW! https://www.instagram.com/dopaminebooksla/

We are over the moon to welcome Capricorn dream LIL MISS HOT MESS to the podcast to discuss her book If You’re a Drag Queen and You Know It, Drag Story Hour, queer drag pedagogy, standing up to fascists and MORE.  AND Aquarius friend to the show MICHELLE TEA joins us to talk about the recent anti-queer violence at the Glendale School Board meeting, and how to show up, resist, and keep your queer joy.  Also- Nicole discusses the latest drama from her "friendly" tortoise Facebook group.  Lil Miss Hot Mess is the author of the children's books If You’re a Drag Queen and You Know It (Running Press Kids, 2022) and The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish (2020) and serves on the board of Drag Story Hour.  She has also appeared on world-class stages like SFMOMA, Stanford University, and Saturday Night Live, was a founding organizer of the #MyNameIs campaign that challenged Facebook’s “real names” policy, and has published essays in The Guardian, Wired, and Salon.  When not twirling, Lil Miss Hot Mess is a 

Today on a Super Special Pride Edition Crossover Episode, noted Virgo  Karen Tongson of the Gaymazing Race & Waiting to X-hale joins me to talk about THE ULTIMATUM- QUEER LOVE. Stay tuned.  Karen Tongson is the author of Normporn: Television and the Spectacle of Normalcy (forthcoming 2023), Why Karen Carpenter Matters (2019), and Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries (2011). Her current book-in-progress is titled, Empty Orchestra: Karaoke, Queer Performance, Queer Theory (Duke University Press). She received Lambda Literary’s Jeanne Córdova Award for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction for her body of writing in 2019. Tongson currently chairs the department of gender and sexuality studies at USC, where she’s Professor of GSS, English and American studies & ethnicity. Her writing and cultural commentary have recently appeared in Slate, NPR, The Los Angeles Review of Books, PBS NewsHour, The Los Angeles Times, The AV Club, Entertainment Weekly, and KCRW’s Good Food among other venues. Tongson is co-editor of th

We are over the moon to welcome EILEEN MYLES back to the program.    We talk about Meditation, the concept of home, Making money as an artist, films, tea bags, coparenting, girlfriends ex girlfriend, tolerating the intolerable, activist groups, self-care, ambition and creativity.    Plus, Nicole gives an Unsolicited Whole Foods music review, hardcore music revisit & introduces HERMES THE TORTOISE!  Eileen Myles  is a Sagittarius, a poet, a  novelist, a performer and an art journalist. Their more than twenty books include Cool for You, I Must Be Living Twice, Chelsea Girls, afterglow, and MORE.  Eileen has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and was recently elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters.    Eileen joined me from their home in Marfa, Texas to talk about their new book of poetry, A Working Life.  “With intelligence, heart, and singular vision, a “Working Life” shows Eileen Myles working at a thrilling new pitch of their poetic and philosophical powers.”   They ALSO have a giant

Morgan is a frequent contributor to Sagittarian Matters. She is the former purveyor of Dovetail Bakery, and  loves dry crunchy foods  more than any earthling could understand.    Beth Pickens is the author of the books Your Art Will Save Your Life and Make Your Art No Matter What. Beth is an arts consultant, a CAPRICORN, and an esteemed friend to the show.  You can join her homework club RIGHT NOW at bethpickens.com .     Foods we discuss this episode:   Golden beet poke   Bon Devil ganache   Bam Milk   Snak Club Tajine Gummy Bears   Flaxmeal!   Chocolate covered chickpeas   MEAL TRAIL ADVICE: Veggie Galette, Pho, Mix-n-match Por Que No (Portland)   The zen of Grocery Outlet   Maciel’s plant based butcher (LA)   Ranchside Cafe Ethiopian menu (LA)    Fermenter Koji (Portland) Beet Reuben    Hot Tongue Pizza (LA) - two tongues up.    Baked Feta recipe from  Vegan Cheese by Jules Aron   Food Fight peanut butter cup shake (Portland)   THERMOS   Kitchen Mouse bakery soup   Milk frother   Maca Powder drink     Sip

Today on a very special episode of Sagittarian Matters,  We are talking about the connections between TERFs & fascism! Plus the word dyke. With Professor Greta La Fleur.    Greta LaFleur is an Associate Professor of American Studies at Yale University, and the author or editor of three books and three journal special issues., including the new issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly,  “Trans Exclusionary Feminisms and the Global New Right”, which was co-edited by with Serena Bassi.   You can get this special issue right now from dukeupress.edu.    At the top of the show, Nicole discusses a local chipmunk, her upcoming diary comic collection, and reading March 24 at Heavy Manners Library in LA.   

WILL BETKE BRUNSWICK! Vegan food, Grief, Comics, Advice, and MORE. Plus- unsolicited vegan food review from Morgan!     Today on Sagittarian Matters! We give advice on grief, moving, comics and more- Plus the premiere of Vegan I Don’t Think so Honey. With my special guest, graphic memoirist, WILL BETKE BRUNSWICK! Stay tuned.      Unsolicited Vegan Food Review with MORGAN! Four Sigmatic vegan coconut creamer   PLUS: The world premiere of Vegan I Don't Think So Honey, a DIRECT ode/ripoff to Las Culturistas segment of the same name, which I highly recommend.      Will Betke-Brunswick is a cartoonist and graduate of the California College of the Arts MFA in Comics program. Will’s debut graphic memoir, A PROS AND CONS LIST FOR STRONG FEELINGS, is available from Tin House! You can find Will’s comics anywhere you buy books, or follow them on instagram @Transboycomics

We are over the moon to welcome back noted TRIPLE CAPRICORN Jessica Lanyadoo! We talk about covid protocol & different information, and answer advice questions on friend's transphobic choices, joining a new community as a queer person, the Christ Year, and MORE.    Tune in.    Also! Nicole mentions the campaign to stop a development from paving over the Verdugo mountain lion's home. Sign the petition & find out more here: nocanyonhills.org @nocanyonhills on ig.   Jessica Lanyadoo is an internationally respected Astrologer and Psychic Medium who has been in private practice with clients all over the world since 1995. You may recognize her from her special guest appearance on Relative Fiction.  Jessica is a triple capricorn, she has a wonderful podcast called Ghost of a Podcast, and Her wonderful book,  Astrology for Real Relationships, which is available RIGHT NOW!!! Find it at lovelanyadoo.com, or anywhere books are sold.  @jessica_lanyadoo on instagram 

We are over the moon to welcome esteemed Capricorn BETH PICKENS back to the show to answer your advice questions, AND to talk about the word Dyke and Nicole’s stories career as a sandwich artist.  Tune in

Bran Taylor (Magic Hour Astrology) visited Babyland in 2018 & joined us to discuss watching a cabbage give birth, and the nefarious beginnings of the Cabbage Patch Kids. Dawn Riddle & Screaming Females visited Babyland in 2022, and sent us some updates.  TUNE IN

MEGAN MILKS! DAWN RIDDLE! KAIA WILSON! Queer Weirdness,writing, vegan banana-flavored food reviews and HOME ALONE. Tune in!    We are over the moon to share an interview writer Megan Milks, author of Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body.    BUT FIRST!  We have unsolicited vegan banana-flavored food reviews with Dawn Riddle & Screaming Females, and a long review and revisitation of the movies Home Alone 1 and two, with spouse to the show Kaia Wilson.    Hey! If you are listening to this and you’d like to take my graphic memoir workshop, I have a 5-week class coming up in April. Jog over to my website, Nicolejgeorges.com, for details.    Dawn Riddle is a multidisciplinary artist from Portland, Oregon. She is a brilliant painter, weaver, photographer, musician, playwright, videographer AND unsolicited food review correspondent.    Here are two reviews from Dawn’s recent travels to Philadelphia, and on the road with the band Screaming Females, including friend to the show Marisa Paternoster, who you

We are over the moon to share an interview writer Megan Milks, author of Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body.    BUT FIRST!  We have unsolicited vegan banana-flavored food reviews with Dawn Riddle & Screaming Females, and a long review and revisitation of the movies Home Alone 1 and two, with spouse to the show Kaia Wilson.    Hey! If you are listening to this and you’d like to take my graphic memoir workshop, I have a 5-week class coming up in April. Jog over to my website, Nicolejgeorges.com, for details.    Dawn Riddle is a multidisciplinary artist from Portland, Oregon. She is a brilliant painter, weaver, photographer, musician, playwright, videographer AND unsolicited food review correspondent.    Here are two reviews from Dawn’s recent travels to Philadelphia, and on the road with the band Screaming Females, including friend to the show Marisa Paternoster, who you’ll hear in the background.      Kaia Wilson is a musician and a positive reinforcement dog trainer in Portland, Oregon. She has

This week we welcome Phil Elverum and Marianna Ritchey to talk about the life and art of Geneviève Castrée.    Geneviève Castrée was a French Canadian cartoonist, illustrator and musician. She was the author of the books Susceptible, A Bubble, and more. She had art exhibitions around the world and toured musically under the names O Paeon and Woelv.    Geneviève passed away on July 9, 2016, at only 35 years old.    She is one of my favorite artists.     Drawn and Quarterly just released her complete works, a giant beautiful book organized, edited and assembled by her husband, Phil Elverum (Mt. Eerie, Microphones).      Marianna Ritchey is  a professor, a musician, and the author of the book Composing Capital: Classical Music in the Neoliberal Era .    She’s an old friend of mine, and a longtime friend of Genevieve’s.    Towards the end of her life, Geneviève created an oracle deck from collaged magazines, and Ritchey was listed as one of her collaborators. If you get the book, which I really hope you do, you’l

We are over the moon to welcome back cartoonist, professor and Jeopardy champion AJUAN MANCE to the podcast.  Ajuan is here to celebrate the release of two books- 1001 Black Men (Stacked Deck Press) and Living While Black (Chronicle). Both of her books are out now!    Also on this episode: Nicole talks about the Club Q tragedy & how to support the LGBTQIA+ community when something like this happens.    Ajuan Mance is a Professor of English at Mills College in Oakland, California, a professor of comics at California college of the arts,  and a lifelong artist and writer. In both her scholarly writing and her visual art, Ajuan explores the complexities of race, gender, and identity, Ajuan’s illustrations and comics have appeared in several anthologies, including, Drawing Power, edited by Diane Noomin.  Ajuan has TWO books out that I urge you to get right now! 1001 black men from stacked deck press, and Living While Black with Chronicle books.    You can find Ajuan, her books and more at ajuanmance.com   Now