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Queerly Recommended

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Frequency: 1 episode/12d. Total Eps: 162

Book reviewer, Tara Scott, and award-winning author, Kris Bryant, discuss queer books, movies, TV shows, graphic novels and narrow down selections for listeners. Grab a glass of wine, dram of whisky, or cup of coffee and join them as they suggest to you, the listener, and to each other, something wonderfully queer and inspiring to check out.

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🇫🇷 France - books
24/06/2026
#86
🇩🇪 Germany - books
11/02/2025
#83

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And they all died (QR 101)

Tuesday, January 28, 2025 • Duration 39:44

Kris and Tara talk about their different experiences with last week's Polar Vortex. Kris relates job stress and what she has to do to make sure others get the job done. Then it’s on to the recommendations!

Official Recommendations

From Kris: Severance (Apple TV+)

This week, Kris officially recommends the critically acclaimed series Severance.

A technology is created that can separate the memories of going to work from the rest of someone's life. This means that when the people are outside of work (outies), they reap the benefits of working without having to remember it, while they only experience going to the office when they're at work (innies). Conflict and mystery ensue!

Kris was delighted and surprised by the older queer rep in the show and, while acknowledging that it takes some time to get hooked, when it’s in, it’s in.

From Kris: I Shall Never Fall in Love by Hari Conner

Tara’s official recommendation this week is the graphic novel, I Shall Never Fall in Love by Hari Conner, a queer, regency, friends-to-lovers romance. Tara loved the art and storytelling, as well as how the book explored gender expression and the history behind the period.

Works/People Discussed

Smosh Reads Reddit Stories (Podcast)
Wicked (2024)
Gladiator 2 (2024)
1923 (Paramount+)
Canada’s Drag Race, season 5 (Crave)
RuPaul’s Drag Race, season 17 (MTV)
Balatro (LocalThunk)
Cozy Grove (Spry Fox)
Murder in the Dressing Room by Holly Stars
The Village (2004)
Challengers (2024)
Good One (2024)

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Rainbow Beautiful (QR 100)

Tuesday, January 14, 2025 • Duration 01:05:56

This isn't just any episode of Queerly Recommended. This is the hundredth episode!

To celebrate, Kris and Tara look back over the last four years and pick out the top five recommendations they each made since this whole bag of cats (black and orange) started. Of course, despite the strict format, they add some honourable mentions because limitations are for cowards.

Official Recommendations

Kris’s top five recommendations

Dickinson (Apple TV)
The Old Guard (Netflix)
A League of Their Own (Amazon Prime Video)
Heartstopper (Netflix)
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Honourable mention: Summerland (2020)

Tara’s top five recommendations

Hoosier Daddy by Ann McMan and Salem West
The Headmistress by Milena McKay
The Subtweet by Vivek Shraya
The Beebo Brinker Omnibus: Ann Bannon's Pulp Classics
Truth and Measure/Above All Things by Roslyn Sinclair

Honourable mentions: The Queen (1968) and We’re Here (HBO).

Works/People Discussed

Landman (Paramount+)
Canada’s Drag Race, season 5 (Crave)
RuPaul’s Drag Race, season 17 (MTV)
Dragon Age: Veilguard (Bioware)
Balatro (LocalThunk)

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Knife queen (QR 092)

Tuesday, September 24, 2024 • Duration 39:35

We come up with new terms like knife queens™, heart punchers, and the dangers of sneak reading. All of that is followed by recommendations, as always.

Official Recommendations

From Kris: In Bloom by Kat Jackson

This week, Kris recommends In Bloom by Kat Jackson. It centers around two damaged people, burned by love, who discover that they may not have actually experienced love until now.

This is a difficult book, with lots of hard emotions. Kris praises the writing, including Jackson's way with words and characterization, as well as the book's sense of humor. Run, don’t walk, and get ready to feel something.

From Tara: View from the Top by Rachel Lacey

This week, Tara recommends View from the Top by Rachel Lacey. Tara has read five books by this author, and this smalltown romance is her favorite. She describes it as a "one-night stand to enemies (ish?) to friends to lovers" and it immediately went to her to-reread list.

Works/People Discussed

Frozen Attitudes Melted Hearts Panel (The Lesbian Review)
Sense8 (Netflix)
Prison Break (Fox)
Fear the Walking Dead (AMC)
Wynonna Earp: Vengeance (2024)
RuPaul's Drag Race Global All Stars (Paramount+)
Race Chaser Podcast
Just One Good Reason by Harrytoad (Devil Wears Prada fanfic)
Strange Attractors by Ana K. Wrenn
Informed Consent by Rachel Spangler

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I give you my cheese (QR 091)

Tuesday, September 10, 2024 • Duration 01:26:03

Kris talks about her new book Perfect and her first-ever experience working with a sensitivity reader. Tara shares about vacationing without children, finding a signed copy of one of her favourite books, and the joys of a newly painted house. After a month apart, they have a lot to catch up on!

Official Recommendations

From Kris: Sense8 (Netflix)

This week, Kris recommends the 2015 Netflix series, Sense8. Eight strangers across the globe suffer a traumatic vision that also seemingly connects them to each other. They begin to experience what the others experience and are able to communicate across great distances through their senses. Kris adored the concept and was unable to stop watching.

From Tara: Second Verse by Natasha West

This week, Tara recommends Natasha West’s Second Verse, a tropetastic sapphic romance that Tara found delightful. It's a friends-to-enemies-to-lovers romance told in two timelines, with two women who had once experienced an intense connection at the end of high school and parted on disastrous terms, reuniting 20 years later when their children become best friends.

Works/People Discussed

Perfect by Kris Bryant
A Sweet Sting of Salt by Rose Sutherland
Alone (History Channel)
Alone Australia (SBS)
Twisters (2024)
Three Body Problem (Netflix)
Cherish by Kris Bryant
The Complete Carlisle Series by Roslyn Sinclair
In the Dead of Night by Lost_my_soul_in_a_black_hole

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Kris and Tara write a book (QR 090)

Tuesday, August 27, 2024 • Duration 01:08:26

Kris provides an update on the situation with the feral cats in her neighborhood, including her ongoing campaign to love them (despite their attempts to gently murder her while she sleeps). Tara and Kris take a quick detour to write a book together before diving into the Olympics and then — drum roll — recommendations!

Official Recommendations

From Kris: Consecrated Ground by Virginia Black

This week, Kris recommends Virginia Black's debut novel, Consecrated Ground. It’s an urban fantasy with a romance, set in a world with witches and vampires, and it just hits. While Kris praises all aspects of this book, the pacing and juggling of the many storylines stood out the most for her.

From Tara: The Boyfriend (Netflix)

And this week, Tara recommends Japan’s first gay dating show, The Boyfriend (Netflix). Nine young men live together in a house in a small seaside town, dividing their time between working at a coffee truck and... finding true love? Tara loved how gentle the show was in comparison to a lot of Western dating shows, and how it showcased male vulnerability.

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Works/People Discussed

Good Girls Guide to Murder (Netflix)
House of the Dragon (HBO)
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, season nine (Paramount+)
Hot Summer by Elle Everhart, narrated by Marisa Calin
Stars Collide by Rachel Lacey
Informed Consent by Rachel Spangler
Kate Daniels series by Ilona Andrews

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A Conversation with Frederick Smith (QR 089)

Tuesday, August 13, 2024 • Duration 43:07

This week, Tara sits down with Frederick Smith (he/him), author of Tara’s official recommendation from Episode 86, One and Done. Fred talks about his early writing aspirations, the books that inspired him in his youth, his experiences as an author writing about Black gay men, and who he’s reading right now.

Works/People Discussed

Invisible Life by E. Lynn Harris
Just as I Am by E. Lynn Harris
Denise Hamilton
A Little Kissing Between Friends by Chencia C. Higgins
The 7-10 Split by Karmen Lee
Second Night Stand by Fay Stetz-Waters and Karelia Stetz-Waters
Kennedy Ryan
Beverly Jenkins
Bad Queers Podcast
Minority Report Podcast

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Tara climbed me like a koala (QR 088)

Tuesday, July 30, 2024 • Duration 01:04:00

Kris and Tara are back from the annual GCLS conference. They're energized, motivated, and… suffering from Covid, in Kris’s case. They talk all about their experiences at the best sleepaway camp for sapphic fiction fans before getting deep into those recommendations.

Official Recommendations

From Kris: The Man with 1000 Kids (Netflix)

This week, Kris recommends The Man with 1000 Kids, a limited documentary series that tells the real-life story of a Dutch scammer, accused of traveling the world and deceiving mothers into having his babies on a mass scale. Kris came into this series “completely naive” on the fertility industry and found the scale of the man’s crimes and the laws around it horrible, but in a way that also made it a compelling watch.

From Tara: Loser of the Year by Carrie Byrd

This week, Tara recommends Carrie Byrd's debut novel Loser of the Year. Mattie is a Jewish lesbian working at a Catholic school with a morality clause in its contract, which she didn’t notice when she took the job. Shouldn't be a problem except for the soccer coach, Jillian, who starts as an enemy and over time becomes (you guessed it) a lover. Tara loved this one and thinks you will too.

Works/People Discussed

The Perfect Match (Netflix)
Sapphic World Book Club
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024)
Dimension 20 (Dropout TV)
Hot Summer by Elle Everhart, narrated by Marisa Calin
A Bluestocking’s Guide to Decadence by Jess Everlee
The Black Bird of Chernobyl by Ann McMan

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Ann McMan (GCLS 2024)

Thursday, July 18, 2024 • Duration 10:54

Tara and Kris chat with Ann McMan about her latest novel, The Black Bird of Chernobyl, how elements were inspired by previous GCLS conferences, and eco-friendly burial options (we promise, it makes sense when you listen).

Recorded at the 20th annual Golden Crown Literary Society conference in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Visit Ann McMan's website

Trusting Tomorrow by PJ Trebelhorn

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A.L. Brooks (GCLS 2024)

Thursday, July 18, 2024 • Duration 04:01

Tara and Kris chat with A.L. Brooks about her latest novel, Make Her Wish Come True and her experience at the conference.

Recorded at the 20th annual Golden Crown Literary Society conference in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Visit A.L. Brooks' website

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Kristen Zimmer (GCLS 2024)

Thursday, July 18, 2024 • Duration 08:45

Tara and Kris chat with Kristen Zimmer about her latest novel, Forbidden Girl, and her experience at the conference.

Recorded at the 20th annual Golden Crown Literary Society conference in St. Paul, Minnesota.

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