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84 episodes
Episode 72: Åsa Johannesson
Åsa Johannesson is an artist working across photography, writing, and video, exploring queer vocabularies in imagery and text. She has exhibited internationally, and written several books, including the research monograph Queer Methodology ...
Episode 71: Zeek Taylor
Zeek Taylor is a prominent LGBTQ+ trailblazer who married his longtime partner, Dick Titus, on May 10, 2014, after 42 years together, and became the first legal same-sex male couple to be married in the American South, an event that drew intern...
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Episode 70: Jim Obergefell
Jim Obergefell is an American civil rights activist who was the lead plaintiff in the 2015 United States Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage throughout the United States. Listen in as he describes the love...
Episode 69: Mario Elias
Mario Elías is a multidisciplinary artist of Cuban and Syrian descent based in Chicago. His work spans fiction, nonfiction, photography, painting, and printmaking, often exploring themes of identity, memory, and cultural inheritance. His book <...
Episode 68: Amina Cruz
Amina Cruz is a photographer known for capturing queer punk scenes within the Latino community and breaking cultural barriers with her work. Cruz captures the intimate moments shared between queer folk and is trying to expand the Latino identit...
Episode 67: Judy Giera
Judy Giera is an artist, arts worker, and the Associate Director of Collections for the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in New York City, which is one of the only collecting institutions in the world dedicated to LGBTQ+ art and artists. In addition...
Encore Episode: K.M. Soehnlein
K.M. Soehnlein is an author, activist, and educator who discusses the challenges that the LGBTQ+ community faces today. Enjoy this week's encore episode, which provides a hint at the topic of our upcoming exhibition.
Episode 66: Monica Rodriguez
Enjoy this episode with our Empowerment Grant winner, Monica Rodriguez. Monica "Mo" is a Chicago-born multidisciplinary artist whose work centers on healing, transformation, and emotional evolution through creative practice. Raised in a family ...
Episode 65: Stephanie Lampkin
Stephanie Lampkin, PhD, is the Curator at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, and has 12+ years of experience specializing in museum collections, museum education, exhib...
Episode 64: Weekly Update
This week we're doing something a little different by offering you a weekly update, insight on images that lend themselves to Valentine's Day and a reminder of what's on exhibit and what's up next.
Episode 63: Mina Morita
Mina Morita is a director of vital new plays that champion creative rebellion. She creates worlds where audiences and artists face uncomfortable truths and discover possibility together. Mina is a recent recipient of the 2026 United Stat...
Episode 62: Kalada Halliday
Kalada Halliday, our 2025 Empowerment Grant winner, is a Nigerian-American photographer and educator living and working in the Brox. For more than a decade, he has made pictures of his daily life, centered on putting a compassionate lens to the...
Episode 61: Katherine Ryckman Siegwarth
Katherine Ryckman Siegwarth is the Executive Director of Cincinnati's FotoFocus. She joined the organization in 2021 as the Biennial Director with 15 years of experience in art museums and archives. Siegwarth has a range of experiences and is a...
Episode 60: Miguel Luciano Discusses Fall of Freedom
Miguel Luciano discusses the upcoming Fall of Freedom movement, happening November 21 and 22, 2025.
Episode 59: Alandes Powell
Enjoy our conversation with Black Art Speaks President and CEO Alandes Powell. In addition to her role at the Cincinnati-based arts collective, Powell is renowned for her extensive community advocacy, including the creation of Cincinnati's Blac...
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Episode 58: Rahsaan "New York" Thomas
Rahsaan “New York” Thomas is writer, curator, director, producer, social justice advocate, restorative justice circle keeper, youth counselor, and runner. He is the co-founder of the San Quentin Film Festival and Executive Director of Empowerme...
Repeat Episode: Fizz White
Enjoy a repeat episode with Fizz White, Deputy Director of Mission Programs & Communications of The Matriots, a non-partisan, Ohio-based, political action committee dedicated to supporting, endorsing, and encouraging women candidates. Liste...
Episode 57: Thank God For Abortion
Thank God For Abortion is working to eliminate the criminalizing stigma around abortion by providing an apology-free space, and is committed to allowing others to repossess their narratives from the extreme right by inhabiting a joyful and auth...
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Episode 56: Winnie van der Rijn
Winnie van der Rijn is a multi-disciplinary artist of opportunity– collecting materials, experimenting with techniques and pursuing her curiosities. Her art practice includes textiles, sculpture, collage and collaboration (which she considers i...
Episode 55: Asia Stewart
Performance artist Asia Stewart centers her conceptual work on her body as a living archive. She devises rituals that reflect the way she weathers life in a deeply extractive society. Stewart’s performances frequently unfold as social experimen...
Repeat Episode: Rachel Churner
Carolee Schneemann was an American visual experimental artist, known for her multi-media works on the body, narrative, sexuality and gender who is a part of our permanent collection and featured in our current online exhibition. Enjoy this repe...
Episode 54: Eric "Maserati-E" Abercrombie
Eric “Maserati-E” Abercrombie was born in Oakland Ca. and was featured in the Emmy nominated documentary "Q-Ball." Eric has been a co-host of the Last Mile Radio on Sirius XM, and is the Sound Designer for the Uncuffed podcast in Solano State P...
Episode 53: Greg Eskridge
Greg Eskridge is a founding member of the Uncuffed radio program and podcast. On July 23, 2024, Greg was released from San Quentin prison after serving 30 years and 25 days and currently serves as Uncuffed’s first Leadership Fellow. Greg looks ...
Episode 52: Wendy Jason and Cuong "Mike" Tran
This episode features the social impact arts administrator and grassroots community organizer and the artist, who is incarcerated, Cuong "Mike" Tran. Mike called in from his prison environment for this conversation. We appreciate your patience ...
