Troye Troye sat down with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang on Wednesday’s episode and spent a chunk of it taking apart the “Khia Asylum,” internet shorthand for the purgatory a pop star lands in once the discourse decides they’ve flopped. His point: the sentence isn’t handed out evenly.
“The straight boys might talk shit about you online, but either they don’t care or they don’t get it as bad,”
he said, laying out how women and queer artists get punished for the same missteps straight men walk away from clean, all while getting told to reinvent themselves every era just to stay in the conversation.
He also discusses his fourth album, She’s the Best, arrives October 9.
Ro explains why, even after years of being harassed and bullied, she still continues to speak up about political issues. Check out the stellar interview above! Thoughts?
Lushious Massacr sat down with TS Madison on her new iHeartRadio OUTLAWS pod to chat about what actually counts as trade, BRICKS, RuPaul, even Lushious’ own gender journey and rise to fame.
Not one to miss! Check out the full interview above!
The Champagne Room has been pulling an enviable guest list lately: queer punk cinema icon Bruce LaBruce, actor Jay Baruchel with his wife, designer Rebecca-Jo Dunham Baruchel, and award-winning author Téa Mutonji have all taken a seat, with DJ baddie Miss Bashful among the names still to come!
This week the chair goes to Canadian filmmaker Blake Mawson, who came ready to talk horror, queerness, and the pole and wig he worked long before any festival came calling.
What do strippers and independent filmmaking have in common? Both come down to protecting your autonomy and a healthy distaste for censorship. Oh, and he calls his mom mid-taping to get his birth time so the hosts can pull his big 3! 🤩 Check out the latest episode of The Champagne Room above!
Interior Motives brought Hamzah & Martin from Slushy Noobz onto the show for a full Canadian Edition, and the hosts are doing what they always do: staring at someone’s bedroom and fridge photos and trying to guess their whole life from them. Check it out above!
Mitch and Greg of ASAPScience‘s SideNote podcast just dropped an episode on gay cruising, tracing the practice from ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics through Renaissance-era crackdowns to modern hookup apps. There’s also a genuinely wild 1970s sociological study in there, which found that many men seeking anonymous public encounters were otherwise living outwardly straight suburban lives.
The science portion makes the case that while same-sex behavior is common across the animal kingdom, cruising is a uniquely human response to social oppression and shame. Interesting! Check them out above!
Téa Mutonji takes over the Champagne Room in the latest episode of the talk series from the team behind STR*PPER NEWS, w/ hosts Andrea and Ariel.
A celebrated Congolese-Canadian author, Mutonji has built a body of work rooted in truthful, character-driven storytelling about friendship and self-discovery. In this episode, she traces her path from aspiring actor and bartender to professional writer, and reflects on how her identity as a queer, bilingual Black woman shapes the stories she tells. She talks about the weight of public perception after Shut Up You’re Pretty became a Canada Reads finalist, why she now guards her privacy and boundaries, her sobriety, her refusal to believe in writer’s block, and her pull toward the unpolished side of human intimacy. She also discusses her forthcoming novel, My Person.
Check it out above and follow on YouTube and Instagram, or subscribe to their Patreon for bonuses and early access!
