Isn't It Queer
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Isn't It Queer
A weekly LGBT talk show on community radio station WDBX 91.1 covering news and topics of interest to Southern Illinois LGBTQ communities.
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2025-10-08 - A Queerer Ethic
Jonny relies on Heather's military background to explain just how awful the Secretary Hegseth and President Trump addresses to the military flag offic...
2025-10-01 - Getting Through Grief
Heather and Jonny briefly check in on recent assaults on LGBTQIA+ rights, particularly Trans Rights. They quickly move to a celebration of upcoming ev...
2025-09-24 - History in the Making
Jonny interviews Billy of Golden Rainbows of Illinois South (GRIS) and Juniper, the coordinator of the Paulette Curkin Pride Resource Center--Southern...
2025-09-17 - Welcome Visitors!
Jonny and Heather are joined by Rey and Dan who are visiting Carbondale from Central Texas where they listen to the show. They join the team while the...
2025-09-10 - Isn't It Fake Gay
Jonny and Heather celebrate Heather's birthday by diving into the rights being taken from trans folks, from right to possess firearms to the right to...
2025-09-03 - The Labor of Fighting Disinformation
Jonny and Heather discuss the shooting at Annunciation Catholic School last week and the attemps on the Right to make the tragedy about the "mental il...
2025-08-27 - Crisis and Queeroes
Jonny and Heather review some of the recent developments in the US's devolution into authoritarianism, with a focus on impacts to LGBTQ+ communities....
2025-08-20 - Voda: AI Used Well
Jonny and Heather review some recent stories about the impact of AI on the LGBTQ+ community. While some of that is chatbot horror stories, much of it...
IIQ-2025-08-13
Jonny and Heather adapt to warming conditions and the failure of AC in their ecording studio, bringing an episode made in the virtual space of a Zoom...
2025-08-06 - Seeing Things as They Are
Jonny and Heather are back from their different trips. They pick up stories they missed while away and tie a common thread through them of the problem...
2025-07-23 - Trump is on the List!
Jonny and Heather ponder the many unsuccessful attempts by the Trump Administration to distract the public from the persistent scandal of the Epstein...
2025-07-16 - Systemic Shifts
Jonny is joined by Craig to discuss recent developments that suggest reality is starting to beat attempts to shape it through rhetoric, albeit all whi...
2025-07-09 - Who's Spinning the Spin?
Jonny and Heather begin with a thesis that the weather is transphobic. This not-entirely-serious claim is used as a foil to discuss disinformation and...
2025-07-02 - Look Over Here!
Jonny and Heather celebrate the end of a very busy and very good Pride Month while also taking stock of a lot of bad news for the LGBTQ+ community thi...
2025-06-25 - Surviving Bombshell Decisions
Jonny and Heather process their weekend, which included domestic packing, Pride celebrations, and the threat of WWIII starting in the Middle East. The...
2025-06-18 - The Art of Protest
Jonny and Heather are joined by local queer and trans artist, Brooke Yandle, creator of Hawthorne Art. Together, they discuss the challenges of makin...
2025-06-11 - Reading Pride
Jonny and Heather start off with a little reflection on the street actions during Pride Month so far. This includes various offcial Pride maches and a...
2025-06-04 - Queer Ecology (Archive Repeat)
Jonny digs into the archive pulling an episode about queer ecology from Earth Day (April 22) 2024. Jonny and Heather are on the road and unable to mak...
2025-05-28 - Putting Memory in Memorial
Jonny and Heatherreflect on the true meaning of Memorial Day and why it is a somber holiday of remembrance. They offer a queer and trans infused conte...
2025-05-21 - Twisters and Twisting Attention
Jonny and Heather lead off with recognition of the Agender Day of Visibility (Monday, May 19). They then turn to issues of local concern in Southern I...
2025-05-14 - The Pope and the Truth Seeker
Jonny and Craig give their recap on Mothers Day. They then turn to a hopeful analysis of the Catholic Church's new Pope, Pope Leo XIV. In the back hal...
2025-05-07 - Manipulating Visibility
Jonny and Heather celebrate the official debut of Tesserae, Cabondale's premier queer+ choir and the incredible turnout of community support.They then...
2025-04-30 - Divergence and Conflict
Jonny and Heather discuss disturbing trends in the US and UK to link neurodivergence like autism and ADHD with queer and trans identity. They explore...
2025-04-23 - Community!
Jonny and Heather start off the show discussing Jonny's rececent recogntion with the SIU Sturgis Award for Community Service. They talk about local co...
2025-04-16 - Nuance vs. Caricature
Jonny and Heather discuss Heather's new novel, Goodbye Hello, an unconventional romance that begins with grief at a funeral. In the back half of the s...
2025-04-09 - In the Streets!!!
Jonny and Heather check in on getting through some intense midwest weather, complete with flooding and tornadoes. Despite these challenges, the "Queer...
2025-04-02 - Visibility and Remembering
Jonny and Heather are joined by Craig as we record this episode on Trans Day of Visibility. We discuss visibility, the good and the bad kind, as Craig...
2025-03-26 - Lavender House Connections
Jonny interviews Casey and Jamie about their project, "Laveder House," a center for mutual support for the transgender communiy in Carbondale. In the...
2025-03-19 - DITO and RC
Heather sits down with Morgan and Ryland of the Downstate Illinois Transgender Organization (DITO) to talk about the organization, Lavender House, and...
2025-03-12 - Following the Transgenic Mice
Jonny and Heaher take a moment to recognize Heather's 20th Anniversary of being married to Kaye and reflect generally on Marriage Equality. They then...
2025-03-05 - Shady Vance on the Couch!!!
Jonny and Heather process the Great Ukraine White House Debacle from Friday. They note how the spectacle might be overshadowing other developmensts of...
2025-02-26 - Turning the Knob
Jonny interviews Jordan Badgette about her upcoming performance, "Gender Knobs," an exploration of transgender experience with sound technology. Jorda...
2025-02-19 - Queer+ Choir
Jonny sits down to interview Scott Johnson the director of Tesserae, Carbondale's premier Queer+ Choir. They discuss the origin, makeup, funding, and...
2025-02-12 - Acting Up
Jonny welcomes Heather back with a brief discussion of the Superb Owl, which neither of them watched. They then turn to a brief chronicle of the anti-...
2025-02-05 - DEI Distractions
Jonny and Craig discuss DEI. They start with a focus on the local, plugging artistic work in Carbondale with the upcoming Kleinau Theatre production o...
2025-01-29 - Making (Bad!) Excuses
Jonny and Heather check in with each other after a rough first week of Trump Administration 2.0. They then explore how right wing pundits and trolls m...
2025-01-22 - Miss Thing's Decrees
Jonny and Heather take a look at some of the anticipated executive orders of the incoming Trump administration, especially those targetting trans peop...
2025-01-15 Queer Climates, Hot & Cold
Jonny and Craig dig out from under snow and ice to share some contemplatioms on cultural, political, and environmental climates. In the front half of...
2025-01-01 - IIQ's 2024 in Review
Jonny compiles a montage show of interviews, stories, and topics from 2024, painting a picture of what the year lin LGBTQ concerns, particularly in So...
2024-12-25 - Mary Queer Christmas!!!
Jonny and Heather put together a surprise Christmas show thanks to changes in their holiday travel plans. They put aside the news and politics, and cu...