Sagittarian Matters

We are over the moon to welcome friend-to-the-show MORGAN back for UNSOLICITED VEGAN FOOD REVIEWS in honor of our 300th episode. Nicole shares her tip for saving $25 at Erewhon. We try Watermelon Seed Milk, Sól Date Almond Milk, Eat'n Popcorn, Bjorn Quorn, Mookie Health Cookies, Kuli Moringa & Super Greens Gummies, UNCUT ground chorizo, Seapoint Farms Edamame Fettucine, Toriyen (Tujunga's best vegan sushi), Ella's Flats, Intelligentsia instant coffee packets, a stingy hotel, a Stumptown cold brew update, touring as vegans with the band Gossip, AND MORE. Happy 300th Anniversary!   Support us at: patreon.com/nicolejgeorges   Sagittarian Matters is hosted & produced by Nicole J. Georges with help from Ponyo Georges.  Our executive producer is Chris Sutton, and today’s episode was edited by Shanna Polley.Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs composed and performed our theme music.  

We are over the moon to welcome noted Sagittarius Perrin Roosevelt Ireland to talk about queer animals, parthenogenesis, elephant seal gender roles and MORE. Plus! Nicole's current animal obsessions, our graphic memoir community, and how to handle climate grief. Perrin's new book, Poking the Squid: What We Can Learn From Animal Sex is out now with Norton!      Perrin Roosevelt Ireland is an artist and environmentalist. For a decade, she worked at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), ultimately as deputy to the executive director. Her artwork has been published in Discover, Nature, Scientific American, and The Rumpus. She serves on the board of the Roosevelt Institute, was an inaugural Artist in Residence at the New York Aquarium and is a Banff Graphic Novel Resident. Perrin lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her cats (and muses) Ursula and Pudge.   Find Perrin, her books and the Society to Save Slap and Tickle at experrinment.com.      Sagittarian Matters is hosted & produced by Nicole J. Georges with help from Ponyo Georges.  Our executive producer is Chris Sutton, and the podcast is edited by Shanna Polley. Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs composed and performed our theme music. Please leave your 5 star reviews for us on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts, and  Find us on instagram @sagittarian Matters and on patreon patreon.com/nicolejgeorges.       Sagittarian Matters is hosted & produced by me, Nicole J. Georges with help from Ponyo Georges.  Our executive producer is Chris Sutton, and today’s episode was edited by me. Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs composed and performed our theme music. Please leave your 5 star reviews for us on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts, and  Find us on instagram @sagittarian Matters and on patreon patreon.com/nicolejgeorges. See you next time.

We are over the moon to welcome Beaux Lyles Lamotte and Dr. Joan Lubin to the podcast to describe an entire episode of Traitors to me (Nicole) because I did not watch it.   Beaux Lyles Lamotte is an honored Sagittarius and the witch behind Magic Hour Candles.  You can find Beaux at magichourcandles.com. Use the code ilovemonet at checkout for 20% off. You can’t afford NOT to buy some of their candles.   Joan Lubin is a major reality dating competition show enthusiast, and assistant professor of English and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Yale university.   You can support my art, producer Ponyo, the podcast and ALSO  access get exclusive episodes, videos and early releases by going to  to patreon.com/nicolejgeorges NOW and become an Honorary Sagittarian! Thank you for your support.    

We are over the moon to be joined by honored Sagittarius Beaux Lyles Lamotte to discuss TRAITORS US season 4 (including the new cast and the SECRET TRAITOR) and also to talk about what we each wanted to be when we grew up.  Tune in.   You can find Beaux at MagicHourCandles.com Support the podcast and watch a video version of our episode at patreon.com/nicolejgeorges    

We are over the moon to welcome back friend to the show DEAN SPADE to give advice on political divides with family, the term "emotional affairs",  grief, ageism and the romance myth, friend breakups/makeups, boundaries with your date's ex, coworkers and MORE with my very special guest, Dean spade.  PLUS advice on looming pet grief, with an extra bit at the end from Nicole. Stay tuned.   Dean Spade has been working to build queer and trans liberation based in racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He is a law professor  and the author of the books Love in a Fucked Up World, Mutual Aid: building solidarity during this crisis and the next, and Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law   Dean joined me in the sagittarian matters social distancing studios to give advice to listeners and to tell me about his new patreon page. You can join him now at patreon.com/deanspade.

We are over the moon to welcome back friend to the show DEAN SPADE for some advice on love, liberation, intergenerational dating, boundaries and MORE. Dean joined me in honor of his new podcast, Love in a F*cked Up World. We will be posting the third episode, with guests Tourmaline and Morgan Bassichis, in our podcast stream alongside this episode.   Now please enjoy my talk with…. Dean Spade.   p.s. We will be recording more advice together soon! If you'd like to submit a question, please DM Sagittarian Matters on instagram.   Dean Spade has been working to build queer and trans liberation based in racial and economic justice for the past two decades. He is a professor at the Seattle University School of Law, and the author of the books Love in a Fucked Up World, Mutual Aid: building solidarity during this crisis and the next, and Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law    

Today on Sagittarian Matters we are completing our Ultimatum Queer Love s2 coverage by talking with reality dating competition show enthusiast and expert, Joan Lubin. In the second part of the show, we recapped season 3 episode 7 of And Just Like That, the episode where everyone (except the known Broadway stars) sang karaoke,  The Woman shared a drink with Duncan, and then got wildly hostile when Miranda acknowledged reality.     You can hear us recapping the entire season of AJLT Patreon.com/nicolejgeorges. If you become an Honorary Sagittarian or above you’ll have access to tons of bonus episodes, diary comics and top ten lists, AND you’ll be supporting my art and podcasting work, as well as the work of producer Ponyo and assistant executive producer Hermes the tortoise.   Today's episode was edited and produced by me, Nicole J. Georges. 

We are over the moon to present you with the finale of our 3-part Queer Ultimatum crossover coverage with Nicole's other podcast, The Gaymazing Race.  In this episode, titled MAGAN MOANS SADLY, Nicole and Karen Tongson are joined by professors Poulomi Saha and Greta LaFleur to discuss the Ultimatum Queer Love REUNION and provide final thoughts and commentary on this season.  Please join us as we discuss the fate of Nicole's trial wife, what counts as queer sex anyway, and what part of the reunion felt like  "a paid promotion by heterosexuality". Stay tuned. Want to support the podcast? Please do! Become an Honorary Sagittarian at: patreon.com/nicolejgeorges

We are over the moon to present our 2nd of 3 Queer Ultimatum crossover episodes with The Gaymazing Race.  Creator of the Ultimatum Fantasy League Dani Wassel, and raconteur, writer and performer Amanda-Faye Jimenez join Karen Tongson and Nicole to process everything from "The Choice" to "Ultimatum Day." We discuss a range of topics from trial spouse criteria, to  mommy issues, to sexual loopholes and "good old fashioned tribadism."

We are over the moon to present you with this crossover episode with Nicole's other podcast, The Gaymazing Race. TGR returns with 3 special bonus episodes on season 2 of THE ULTIMATUM: QUEER LOVE. Karen and Nicole gather queer experts, friends of the pod and Ultimatum enthusiasts to join them in astute, if also sometimes raw and raunchy assessments of the couplings, uncouplings and potential throuplings of Netflix's messiest queer dating show. This week: Greta La Fleur and Poulomi Saha join us to introduce all the couples, haircuts, trial spouses and more leading up to "The Choice."