<p>I’m Rad Konieczny, I’m hosting this episode, and my theme is MEN ARE TRASH.</p><br><p>I’m joking. Am I though?... In the past two weeks I got heartbroken, I got rejected, I got ghosted AND I got catfished. My life is a telenovela, and I’m trying to MAKE SENSE of it all. So for my episode of Queer Roots and Routes, I got some of our podcast collective to share their stories of dating and sex.</p><br><p>There’s Stanley, who’s written a poem called “I fell in love with a boy who then blocked me on Grindr”. Then Xing, who teaches me some scary Chinese dirty talk. Also Chase and Tokyo on liking big guys. And a flirty conversation between Fausto and Mali ;) </p><br><p>As I mentioned in the episode, if you also need a HIV or sexual health test, you can go to the NHS — it’s free and confidential. AND there’s a charity called AIDS Map, who have an <a href="https://www.aidsmap.com/hiv-test-finder" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">HIV Test Finder</a>, where you can put your postcode and find somewhere to get tested confidentially. </p><br><p><strong>You can find a transcript of this episode here </strong><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QmZnRjeDvX5-oR_Gq_DwsCPCApKrs2BasWhCWofhtcw/edit" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>in text</strong></a><strong> and </strong><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-6j3JuNRAXiVHf8AkILo_RAJBhw47BSm/view" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>pdf</strong></a>.</p><br><p>Queer Roots and Routes is an Aunt Nell Production for The Love Tank, a not-for-profit community interest company that promotes health and wellbeing of under-served communities through education, capacity building and research.</p><br><p>Produced, edited and engineered by: </p><p>Tash Walker </p><p>and</p><p>Adam Zmith</p><br><p>Assistant producers: </p><p>Saaqib Afzal </p><p>José Carlos Mejia</p><p>Amardeep Singh Dhillon</p><p>Chase Edwards</p><p>Stanley Iyanu </p><p>and</p><p>Rad Konieczny </p><br><p>Creative design and artwork by:</p><p><a href="https://richardkahwagi.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Richard Kahwagi</a> </p><br><p>Music by <a href="https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Edoy/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Edoy</a></p><br><p>Recorded at Pirate Studios in Dalston and Hackney Wick, east London</p><br><p>Executive producers:</p><p>Marc Thompson </p><p>and </p><p>Dale Taylor-Gentles</p><br><p><br></p><p>Sound effects from freesound.org.</p><br><p><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-6j3JuNRAXiVHf8AkILo_RAJBhw47BSm/view" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Full credits and the episode transcript available here.</a></p><br /><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
