Cheers & Queers

Hello queers! 

This is Kirya, she/her femme if you’re nasty

I’ve missed y’all! It’s been too long

…I’m back in your ears because I made something really special that I want to share with you. For those of you who loved Cheers & Queers for our Black Femme realness, our occasional witchy remarks, and our commitment to center things Black & femme… I think you’re going to really enjoy this limited series that I made in collaboration with the Dance Theater company, Sydnie L Mosley Dances. Spotlight in PURPLE - The Podcast. There are currently three episodes in season 2 that I wrote, hosted, produced, and edited MYSELF (with some support from a couple of amazing friends and colleagues who responded to my late-night texts and DMs with nothing but love)... I’m honestly really proud of this work, and so… 

I’m dropping the first episode here in this feed. If you like it, please go over the Spotlight in Purple show, subscribe, and share with others. It would mean the world to me!

Thank you!!!

Former C&Q Co-host, Kirya, share’s a new podcast she’s been working on. 

Spotlight in PURPLE -The Podcast shines a light on themes and questions in the creative work of the Dance Theatre Company, Sydnie L. Mosley Dances. In Episode 1, Building the Altar: The Creation of PURPLE by SLMD, we learn about the history of how SLMDances became a collective, the values that guide the work, and how those values show up inside their newest work, PURPLE: A Ritual in Nine Spells.

SIP - The Podcast was Hosted, Edited & Produced by Kirya Traber

Executive Production by SLMDances

Assistant Production by Ziiomi Law

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Show Notes

Links to:

• Follow us on Twitter @CheersNQueers 
• Follow us on Instagram @CheersNQueers 
• Here is our Patreon if you want to give us your money
• Learn more about Queen
• Ms. Vixen Magazine
  • Website
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • Facebook
• Listen to Tea with Queen and J
• Uncle Nearest
• Why use a copper cup for a mule
• Slay TV

Drinking

Black Ass Kentucky Mule

• 2 oz Uncle Nearest Whiskey
• Ginger beer to top
• ½ oz fresh squeezed lime juice
• Ice
• Mint garnish

Add whiskey and lime juice into an ice-filled glass (or a copper mug!), and stir together to combine and chill. Add ginger beer to taste. Garnish with mint. 

Music

• 
  Intro: Sage by Be Steadwell
• Interstitial music by Abel Shiffera
• Outro: Hey by Boomscat

The Team

• Hosted, produced, and engineered by Isake Smith
• Edited by Lance John
• Social media by Jaylen Elise Colvin Taylor

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Show Notes

Links to:

• Follow us on Twitter @CheersNQueers 
• Follow us on Instagram @CheersNQueers 
• Here is our Patreon if you want to give us your money
• Learn more about Jennifer Eden - Jennifer’s IG
• Get into all the things Jennifer Eden does
• The Heaux Hive

Drinking

My Slice of Haven

• 2 oz. RumHaven
• 3 oz. Club Soda
• Squeeze of Lime

Add ingredients into an ice-filled tall glass, and stir together to combine and chill. Garnish with lime. 

Music

• Intro: Sage by Be Steadwell
• Interstitial music by Abel Shiffera
• Outro: Hey by Boomscat

The Team

• Hosted, produced, and engineered by Isake Smith
• Edited by Lance John

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Show Notes

Links to:

• Follow us on Twitter @CheersNQueers 
• Follow us on Instagram @CheersNQueers 
• Here is our Patreon if you want to give us your money
• Learn more about Jewel Cadet - Jewel’s IG, A Ratchet Realm
• Big zaddy energy: Carmine Black is an amazing dance instructor who will break your brain and help you free your spirit
• Rabbit freezable cocktail maker is what Isake uses for frozen drinks
• Support Luv Story Bar!!!
• Get into all the things Jennifer Eden does
• Support the amazingly talented DJ Muse

Drinking

Kentucky Margarita

• 2 oz. Bourbon/Whiskey
• 1 oz. Lime Juice
• 1 oz. Agave Syrup
• Optional: Mint, Lime, or Salt for garnish

Just mix the liquid ingredients, pour over ice, and garnish if you fancy 🎩.. Also an option to make a slush drink by pouring over crushed ice. 

Music

• Intro: Sage by Be Steadwell
• Interstitial music by Abel Shiffera
• Outro: Hey by Boomscat

The Team

• Hosted, produced, and engineered by Isake Smith and Kirya Traber
• Edited by Lance John

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Show Notes

Links to:

• Follow us on Twitter @CheersNQueers 
• Follow us on Instagram @CheersNQueers 
• Here is our Patreon if you want to give us your money
• My Therapy Cards from an amazing Black femme
• Dry January has benefits and drawbacks (if you missed it, maybe consider Sober October). 

Drinking

Winter Cranberry Spritz

• Ingredients:
  • 2 ounces rosemary simple syrup
  • 4 ounces cranberry juice unsweetened
  • soda water or other carbonated water
  • ice
• Instructions
  • Combine simple syrup and juice in a glass with ice and stir. Top with soda water

Paper Plane

• Ingredients
  • 1 part bourbon
  • 1 part amoro 
  • lemon
  • seltzer 
• Instructions
  • Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker/glass, stir, add ice, top with seltzer

Imaginary Airplane

• Ingredients
  • 1 part bourbon
  • 1 part amoro 
  • 1 part Aperol
  • Lemon
• Instructions
  • Add ingredients to a cocktail shaker/glass, stir, add ice

Music

• 
  Intro: Sage by Be Steadwell
• Interstitial music by Abel Shiffera
• Outro: Hey by Boomscat

The Team

• Hosted, produced, and engineered by Isake Smith and Kirya Traber
• Edited by Lance John

★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Show Notes

Links to:

• Follow us on Twitter @CheersNQueers 
• Follow us on Instagram @CheersNQueers 
• Here is our Patreon if you want to give us your money.
• Here is Be’s Pateron if you want to give her money!
• That’s one thicc cat...
• Chani Nicholas book, You Were Born For This
• Be’s cover of Pony
• Thirst Trap video!
• #BlackBirdersWeek
• ‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ Imagines a World Free of Whiteness
• SM Rodriguez 
• Angela Davis’ book: Are Prisons Obsolete?
• Recent article by Mariame Kaba: Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish Police
• How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
• Sydnie L. Mosley​

Drinking

Virgin Paloma

• Ingredients:
  • 1.5 oz lime juice
  • 1 oz grapefruit juice
  • 1 oz agave syrup or honey
  • Healthy pinch of sea salt
  • Soda water
• Instructions
  • Combine ingredients in a cocktail shaker and shake with ice. Strain over ice into a glass and top with soda.

Music

• All the music in this episode is by Be Steadwell

The Team

• Hosted, produced, and engineered by Isake Smith and Kirya Traber
• Edited by Lance John

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Show Notes

Links to:

• Patreon
• Listener survey
• Follow us on twitter @CheersNQueers 
• Isake @is_she_okay on Twitter and IG & Kirya @kiryatraber (twitter) @kiryat (IG)

Drinking

• Alien Sex on the Beach
  • A sweet to semi-sweet pink champagne 
  • 1.5oz your favorite whiskey 
  • Muddled citrus (Kirya’s version) 

OR

• 1.5 oz of Pimms and a splash of passion fruit juice (Isake’s version)

Music

• 
  All sounds from Enterprise! 

The Team

• Hosted, produced, and engineered by Isake Smith and Kirya Traber
• Edited by Lance John

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Show Notes

Links to:

• Patreon
• Listener survey
• Sugaring Brooklyn
• American Theatre Opinion Piece on co-parenting with an ex.
• New York Times Cooking
• Isake’s health coach: Geek Girl Strong
• COVID and cats
• COVID and animals 
• Don’t mix cleaning agents!
• Apartment Therapy tips & tricks
• Follow us on twitter @CheersNQueers 
• Isake @is_she_okay on Twitter and IG & Kirya @kiryatraber (twitter) @kiryat (IG)

Drinking

• Isake: “Bourbon bees knees”: 1/2 oz honey (use the honey crystals from the bottom of the jar, if you got it!), 1/2 oz hot water, 2.5 oz bourbon, juice of half a lemon, and a sprig of thyme if you fancy. Put in a shaker with a large rock, shake and serve. 
• Kirya's "go to" cocktail "The Seven Day Work Week": 1 part Bourbon, 1 part seltzer, ginger beer to taste, cocktail bitters to taste, stir with ice. 

Music

• 
  Intro: Sage by Be Steadwell
• Additional Music 
  • Satisfied, from the Original Cast recording of Hamilton
  • Magic School Bus theme song, by Little Richard
• Boomscat
• Abel

The Team

• Hosted, produced, and engineered by Isake Smith and Kirya Traber
• Edited by Lance John

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Another 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 creation, and being a professional nerd.

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A 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.

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A 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).

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Isake 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 Twitter and IG & Kirya @kiryatraber (twitter) @kiryat (IG). ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Isake 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 friendships, family, and the presence and absence of queer narratives in our history and our lives. ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

We’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.

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Our 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 Audre Lorde Project, then play a drinking game with erotic Star Trek fan fic. Grab a drink and join us! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

**HEAR YE, HEAR YE! THIS EPISODE IS FULL OF SPOILERS!** We 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.

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On this episode we chat about our favorite love relationships in fandom, how to pick a bubbly wine, and what might come after the revolution (aka how to get yo money right when money doesn’t exist anymore). 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). ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

On 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 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

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On 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 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) ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Summary 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 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★