Tracks of Our Queers

Over 600,000 queers and non-queers alike follow content creator and activist Mardi P for her gripping testimonials on a long, and fabulous, life lived trans. Born to a Polish-Canadian Catholic family, Mardi escaped across the Rockies in the 1970s to the bright lights of Calgary and Vancouver, where she began shaping her life as a trans woman. Decades later and outraged by the tsunami of misinformation online regarding trans people, Mardi decided to pick up her phone and start sharing her test...

Mitch Brown is an advocate, father, and a former AFL player. Last August, Mitch came out publicly as bisexual in an interview with The Daily Aus, sparking a tsunami of conversations in Australia around queerness and masculinity in sport. Mitch is the only player in the AFL's 130 year history to come out. Mitch is also my first sportsperson on the pod, and we have so much fun! Follow Mitch online here, and watch his coming out interview here. It's beautiful. Tracks of Our Queers is...

Peter Tatchell is an activist and human rights campaigner. Not long after leaving Australia for the UK, Peter joined the Gay Liberation Front and became one of the co-organisers of the UK's first Pride march. He hasn't missed a London Pride since. After a brief but violently homophobic parliamentary career in the 80s, Peter co-founded OutRage! in 1990 and helped spearhead the campaign for same-sex marriage. Today, he's the director of the Peter Tatchell Foundation, and shares a weekly newslet...

Welcome back to Tracks of Our Queers. Travis Alabanza is an award-winning writer, playwright, and theatre maker from Bristol. They've sold out the Southbank Centre, toured their writing globally, and their Edinburgh Fringe-award-winning play BURGERZ is currently on it's return visit to Australia. You can catch Travis performing BURGERZ in: Sydney at the Carriageworks from January 7-18Melbourne at the Malthouse Theatre from January 21-31We recorded this episode live in Sydney – and it was so g...

Trailblazers, queeroes, and fascinating folk feature in Season 6, launching in early January. Support the show Follow the pod on Insta at @tracksofourqueers, or email me at [email protected] Help keep the show ad-free by shouting me a coffee right here Enjoy the Selections from Tracks of Our Queers Spotify playlist Thanks besties.