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SistersTalk Radio Needs Your Help

Filed Under Lesbian Podcast 

In 2002, I started blogging after a then-popular gay male blogger announced that Britney Spears was the new gay icon.  Whose gay icon?  Not mine!

I was bitching about Britney Spears to a friend who suggested I write my own blog.   I guess she was tired of listening to me and wanted to push me off on someone else.    I’m ok with that.   SistersTalk started out as a blog about gay and lesbian issues and politics,  and has evolved into what you see here today:  random posts about racism, sexism, sexuality, pop culture,  gay and lesbian issues, politics, entertainment and Twitter updates (mine and everybody else’s!).

In October 2008, @GraciePassette asked me to be a guest on her BlogTalkRadio (BTR) show.  The morning after I appeared on Gracie’s show, I setup my own BTR account . . . and here I am, 9 months and 50 shows later.

My first guests were prominent members of the LGBTQ community who I had already interviewed for my blog over the years.  They were the first to be heard live on SistersTalk Radio.   Since then, I’ve been lucky to have some great guest suggestions land in my inbox and Twitter update stream.   Currently, we’re airing live on Sundays at 5pm central and Wednesdays at 7pm central.   Starting August 7, 2009, we’re adding a Friday show that will highlight indie musicians in the LGBTQ community.   You can catch our Friday show at 8pm central.

Why a radio show?  I figured there are hundreds and hundreds of LGBTQ bloggers rantin’ and ravin’ about the same grate-your-nerves political issues.  I will let them do that since they all do it so well.   I want to add a little fun to my week so I’d rather be a podcaster who entertains and informs (and sometimes rants about politics) instead of spending day after day after day bangin’ my head over one more stupid anti-gay politician.

My goal for SistersTalk Radio:  entertain, inform and represent.   I hope our guest lineup will be  a bit a lot more diverse and inclusive than what large LGBTQ magazines and web sites are passin’ off as the definitive gay and lesbian image.   To do that, I need your help.   Feel free to call me out if you think I’m not presenting enough of the L, G, B, T, or Q on SistersTalk Radio – but please, be prepared to suggest a few people you think I should take a look at.   You can send your suggestions to either me or my partner & assistant producer, Andrea.

With any luck, we’ll get to celebrate our 500th show!   Only 450 more to go.

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2 Responses to “SistersTalk Radio Needs Your Help”

  1. Monica Roberts on July 8th, 2009 10:52 am

    Congratulations!
    Sisters Talk radio is a wonderful show.

    Hopefully one of these days my crazy work schedule will allow me to be on it. ;)

  2. Genia on July 8th, 2009 4:12 pm

    Hi Monica: Please let me know when you have some free time. We can record a show during a non-scheduled show day if you want.

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