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It's the last episode of our second season! Hosts Ty Sloane and Bear Bergman are joined by Sedina Fiati and Catherine Hernandez for an insightful conversation about leadership, accountability, and change in cultural institutions and how we as individuals can hold space for conflict and difficult conversations.Show notes:https://buddiesinbadtimes.com/podcast/S02E08

Zaddies? Elders? Hot mamas? A roundtable of five queers discuss desire, race, (in)visibility, and access as they age. Co-hosts leZlie lee kam and Rhoma Spencer are joined by Debbie Douglas, Canute Lawrence and Carol Thames for a lively discussion about navigating ageism in queer spaces and beyond.Show notes:https://buddiesinbadtimes.com/podcast/S02E07

This episode includes two separate conversations about queerness across geographies, with a focus on folks who’ve come to Toronto from different places. First, Ty Sloane talks with artists Cole Alvis and Jay Northcott about how their queerness has shifted from place to place. Next, we hear from Brendalee Cox, who came to Canada from the Bahamas as a refugee. She talks about both the challenges and opportunities she's found here.Show notes:https://buddiesinbadtimes.com/podcast/S02E06

For this episode of The Youth/Elders Podcast, Naomi Bain and Rhoma Spencer are joined by artists and educators Rania El Mugammar and LeRoi Newbold to talk about how things have changed (and haven't) since global protests and uprisings in support of Black lives in the Spring of 2020, and how they ground their work in resistance movements of the past, and hope for the future. Show notes:https://buddiesinbadtimes.com/podcast/S02E05

Co-hosts leZlie and Ty delve into a topic that's close to both of their hearts - mixed race - with the help of artists Aria Evans and kumari. They talk about their own searches for identity and belonging, the problem with binaries, and the possibilities of spaces where we can be our whole selves.Show notes and transcript:https://buddiesinbadtimes.com/podcast/S02E04

In this episode, Bear sits down with Kai, a trans man and therapist living in the States, to talk about how he's navigated being "out" in various situations and how he's he's found agency in deciding when that's right for him.Show notes and transcript:https://buddiesinbadtimes.com/podcast/S02E03

What does accountability look like on both a personal and an institutional level? Co-hosts Naomi Bain and Ty Sloane talk with Adam Benn and Ravyn Wngz about the often fraught relationship between communities and institutions, the potential they see for real change, and how they stay grounded, inspired, and sustained in their activism.Show notes and transcript:https://buddiesinbadtimes.com/podcast/S02E02

We're back just in time for Pride: a whole new season of The Youth/Elders Podcast, hosted and curated by Naomi Bain, Bear Bergman, leZlie lee kam, Ty Sloane, and Rhoma Spencer. Our first episode features leZlie, Naomi, and Rhoma in conversation with ballroom artist and educator Tamar Miyake-Mugler about "lost years" — times when they haven't been able to live out and freely — and how they're learning to embrace themselves through community and connection. Show notes and transcript:https://buddiesinbadtimes.com/podcast/S02E01Content warning: The discussion refers to suicide/suicidal ideation at 17:00-17:11.

We tackle ideas of home and belonging - from the challenges of being separated from your culture and family, to the possibility of creating new traditions with chosen kin. In the second act, we're joined by Toronto-St Paul's MPP Jill Andrews for a discussion of navigating the holiday season as a queer person.Episode three of the podcast is also the final one of our first mini-season - thanks for listening! Stay tuned for updates on more Youth/Elders Podcast programming, and in the meantime (if you're in Toronto), check out In Conversation, our ongoing intergenerational conversation series. Hosted by Vanessa Dunn. Full show notes and transcript at buddiesinbadtimes.com/podcast/S01E03

This episode delves into histories of queer activism in Toronto and beyond, with stories of the Toronto and Montreal bathhouse raids, New York’s early Pride parades, and a discussion of the sometimes rocky relationship between the Toronto Police and Toronto’s queer communities.Hosted by Vanessa Dunn. Full show notes and transcript at buddiesinbadtimes.com/podcast/S01E02