This Queer Book Saved My Life
Fans of On Being and Los Culturistas love this 2024 GLAAD Media Award nominee for Outstanding Podcast. Featuring Carmen Maria Machado, Alison Bechdel, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Greg Louganis, Becky Albertalli, and so many more, guests from across the rainbow tell these authors how their books helped them overcome alienation, gender dysphoria, familial homophobia, and being outed. Essayist and Lambda Literary Fellow John Parker hosts the conversations with a gentle and energetic style, standing in as conversational partner for posthumous authors. Stay tuned to off-weeks which features new episodes of 7 Minutes in Book Heaven and The Gaily Show.
This Queer Book Saved My Life
The Gaily Show: Immaculate Misconception with Dr. Gwen Bass
A new episode in our special limited series featuring owners/staff of LGBTQ bookstores drops next week on May 13th! In our off weeks, we air a recent episode of The Gaily Show which John hosts. The Gaily Show is one of the only daily LGBTQ news and talk shows in the country airing in Minneapolis (AM950-KTNF) and Chicago (WCPT 820).
Joining us today: Dr. Gwen Bass returns! We featured Gwen in an episode of 7 Minutes in Book Heaven a couple years back. Now, we had the chance to sit down for forty minutes to discuss her book Immaculate Misconception which charts how her lesbian parents found a doctor willing to perform an artificial insemination procedure in secret, using sperm from an anonymous donor. Her book explores: what happens when we’re born into an identity we didn't choose?
What does biology have to do with belonging? How do we all, in our own ways, suppress unique aspects of our identities in an effort to fit in and secure our safety? How do we unintentionally harm others by assuming they fit into our view of “normal”?
Connect with Dr. Bass here: https://www.drgwenbass.com/meet-gwen
Buy your copy of Immaculate Misconception here: https://bookshop.org/a/82376/9798889269526
Watch on YouTube
We're in video too! You can watch this episode at youtube.com/@thegailyshow
Credits
Host/Founder: John Parker (learn more about my name change)
Executive Producer: Jim Pounds
Production and Distribution Support: Brett Johnson, AM950
Marketing/Advertising Support: Chad Larson, Laura Hedlund, Jennifer Ogren, AM950
Accounting and Creative Support: Gordy Erickson
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