DCC 38 Chrysanthemum White Alder: Chaos Magnet/15th Century Pagan Nun
Hello! For episode 38 I spoke to Chrysanthemum White-Alder about her Medieval Pagan Nun style. She's an interdisciplinary artist, witch, an...
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Dress Code Cracker: the podcast -- style and communication
"Fashion is nothing but what one says it is." - Barthes 1961 What they wore, why they wore it. Exploring style as personal expression including intersections of fashion/gender/culture/art/al...
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20 of 38 episodesDCC 37 SARAH POTTER: COLOUR WITCH MOB BOSS
I'm back for the first new episode of 2020 with an amazing interview! Sarah Potter is a lecturer, curator, practitioner of colour magick, an...
DCC 36: IVORY CONOVER
"It's the biggest reason why I do what I do: as a model, as a performer and why i;m so mouthy about the whole thing. I belong to all these i...
DCC 35: Gigi Castorina "Everyday Vintage at Gigi's House of Frills!"
Gigi is a long time vintage collector, appreciator and wearer. And an even longer time lingerie enthusiast! She is the owner/operator of Tor...
DCC 34: Amazon Syren "Little House on the Orchestral Pagan Folk Metal Prairie"
Amazon Syren is a queer, poly leather femme, a sex-workers' rights activist, and a Professional Naked Girl. She's also a witchy glamazon who...
DCC 33: Femme Space Amanda Arkansassy Harris
I encountered Amanda Harris' work via a Gender and Media class. I love her Femme Space project and was so excited to talk to her for this ep...
DCC 32: Crystal Kotow
Crystal is a fat activist who moved from fashion blogging to tackling more contested spaces in fat feminist thought: cultural hatred of fat...
DCC 31: Jenna Danchuk "New Age Vamp"
Jenna Danchuk is a writer, researcher, and occasional maker of things. Jenna Danchuk is an Assistant Editor for Spiral Nature, a magazine st...
DCC 30: Vivek Shraya "What I'm doing is not about a performance"
Vivek Shraya is a multimedia artist living in Toronto with strong ties to prairie malls. She's produced 10 albums, written 3 books (with 2 m...
DCC 29: Andrea Zanin "More butch...and more femme"
I'm baaaaack this week with Andrea Zanin, a butch/femme academic and leatherwoman who writes prolifically and teaches about BDSM/Leather/kin...
DCC 28: Mimi Thi Nguyen "New Wave Party Girl....or Monster HIgh Doll"
Mimi Thi Nguyen is an associate professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois. Her resear...
DCC 27: Zoe Dodd "You're cool, stay weird, don't change"
Another park interview! Zoe's an aspiring orthinologist and all the birds came out to see her. She's a harm reduction and hep C worker very...
DCC 26: Sam Conover "Lady Drag"
Sam Conover dresses in deliberately modest and traditionally 'feminine' style which borrows from 1940s to early 1960s styles....she calls it...
DCC 25: Imbyr "Power....and Control"
I got to do my first park interview of 2015 with Imbyr, who describes their style as 'transmasculine harshfemme' and is obsessed with wrestl...
DCC 24: Dre Ngozi & Jade Lee Hoy (aka Hilary and Denise) "Find your tribe and be comfortable with who you are"
It was fun and inspiring to talk to Dre Ngozi and Jade Lee Hoy of Toronto's clothing project Hilary & Denise. Hilary and Denise celebrates a...
DCC 23 Merritt Kopas "Patti Smith Cyber Waif"
Merritt Kopas is a multimedia artist, video game designer and writer whose focus of interest is digital play as an access for exploring care...
DCC 22: Amy Medvick of Os Tropies "Tropicalia, Cleopatra and Carmen Miranda"
Amy Medvick is the vocalist and flautist with Os Tropies , and an ethnomusicology grad student studying the Brazilian diaspora and its music...
DCC Episode 21: Shannon Shaw (Shannon and the Clams) "Eccentric Homemaker meets '80s Bad Kid"
Shannon Shaw almost catfished me, but I finally got to talk to her between recording the new Clams album and touring! She told me about the...
Dress Code Cracker Episode 20: Laina Dawes "Conservative with an Edge"
Laina Dawes is the author of What Are You Doing Here? A Black Woman's Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal (Bazillion Points, 2012). What Are...
DCC Episode 19: Virgie Tovar "Miss PIggy meets RuPaul" #losehatenotweight
I was introduced to the work of VIrgie Tovar by way of reading about body politics a few years back. I picked up her book "Hot and Heavy: Fi...