Neville Taraporevala was a Master’s Student at Utah State University currently participating in a Kansas canid study - The Witchita Urban Coyote and Fox Project. We talk about science, grad school, predators in urban places, and the human-wildlife interface. Conscious Content Consumption for this episode includes: Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman We Are Lady Parts , a TV series streaming on Peacock Also mentioned: Fox and I by Catherine Raven Follow us on Insta...
Feb 01, 2025•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 44
Liz Whittaker is an Intimacy Coordinator who choreographs intimate scenes for theater and film. Learn more about theatrical intimacy and principles of consent on their website and IG @intimacywithliz. Conscious Content Consumption for this episode includes: @QueerSexTherapy @Consent.Wizardry Reservation Dogs on Hulu Also mentioned: Nimbus the Purrari BDS Boycott List Liz Whittaker - The Daily Utah Chronicle Sexual Harassment in Theater ‘Night Mother by Marsha Norman Shakespeare in Love at West V...
May 01, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 43
Amanda Madden is a local filmmaker and queer community builder based out of Salt Lake City. Check out upcoming workshops and queer collaborations on their website . Conscious Content Consumption for this episode includes: @AriaVelz / @CriticalLesbian - Lesbian Film Reviewer Lilith’s Brood series by Octavia Butler Also mentioned: Freyja’s cat-pulled chariot Artist Solidarity Club Documentary Accountability Working Group Utah Film Center Subject - Documentary We Will Not Cancel Us by Adrienne Mare...
Apr 01, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Misty Murphy, an avid climber and the vice president of Southern Utah Climbing Alliance(SUCA) discusses the work that SUCA does to keep climbing areas safe and protected, as well as a bit about climbing and climbing culture. Check out SUCA on their website here and on Instagram @SUCA , and Misty on her website and @misty_murphy_realtor on Insta. Conscious Content Consumption for this episode includes: You’re Wrong About - one of our favorite podcasts! Living Your Yoga: Finding the Spiritual in E...
Mar 01, 2024•43 min•Ep. 41
Dr. Christy Glass, a thoughtful professor of Sociology at Utah State University, discusses workplace justice - how race and gender play a role in who is "the boss" and what makes a workplace (and state) habitable. Conscious Content Consumption for this episode includes: Enter Ghost , a 2023 novel by Isabella Hammad Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism by Aja Barber Also mentioned: Maintenance Phase , a podcast that debunks and decodes wellness an...
Feb 01, 2024•1 hr 24 min•Ep. 40
Nan Seymour is a local poet and founder of the River Writing Collective who will be holding the third Great Salt Lake Vigil in 2024. She is spunky, beautifully full of emotion, and inspiring. We talk about how you can participate in the 2024 Utah Legislative session, grieving Great Salt Lake, and how we can connect with each other to make an impact. @nan_seymour @riverwritingcollective Sign up here to be part of the Great Salt Lake Vigil in 2024! Conscious Content Consumption for this episode in...
Jan 01, 2024•1 hr 25 min•Ep. 39
Aimee Van Tatenhove, a Pelicanologist, talks about pelicans and other migratory birds that visit Great Salt Lake and how their populations are managing in the face of drought, as well as the lake and art and fullhearted stewardship. Aimee is a grad student at Utah State University researching American white pelicans. See her website at www.avantatenhove.com and on Instagram @aimeevantatenhove and @full_o_fulmars Conscious Content Consumption for this episode includes: Maintenance Phase , a podca...
Dec 02, 2023•53 min•Ep. 38
Jeff Paris discusses Meanwhile Park - a small, urban backyard in Salt Lake City, Utah that hosts community gatherings including art, theatre, and just plain fun. We discuss the inspiration for Meanwhile Park, past and future events including plays, theatre in general, and how you can get involved. Follow on Insta @meanwhilepark Conscious Content Consumption for this episode includes: Casa Ivium The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief a novel by Francis Weller Als...
Nov 01, 2023•37 min•Ep. 37
Madazon Can-Can is an inspiring, refreshigly sex positive burlesquer, puppeteer, clown, drag performer and instructor. They join us to passionately discusses using performing arts for social change in Utah. Follow at insta @madazon_can_can . Also see their website at https://linktr.ee/MadazonCanCan . Conscious Content Consumption for this episode includes: @safe.slut - a sex positive influencer on Instagram @pattigonia - an environmentalist drag queen influencer on Instagram Also mentioned and w...
Oct 01, 2023•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 36
Dr. Chris Babits, an interdisciplinary scholar with specializations in the histories of the modern United States, lived religion, gender and sexuality, and psychology, talks about our homosexuality and conversion therapy history in the US. Specifically, we talk about Cured , an award-winning documentary about the fight to remove homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual and his role as a historical advisor for the doc. Note that we DO NOT discuss the traumatic details of conversio...
Sep 01, 2023•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 35
Dr. Fazilat Soukhakian , Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Design, discusses her Queer in Utah photography project and cross-culture hiding of vulnerable groups. See the Queer in Utah project along with Fazilat’s Defiance project displayed at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art or online at the FotoEvidence Metaverse Gallery , and the description here . See Dr. Soukhakian’s website and read this USU Today Article for more info. Conscious Content Consumption for this episode includ...
Aug 01, 2023•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 34
For Post: There are fireflies in Utah? Nevada? Montana? YES. The fantastic Christy Bills , the Entomology & Malacology Collections Manager at the Natural History Museum of Utah , joined us on the pod to talk about not just fireflies, but how cool all insects are, what insects are, and inspire you to think of them not as scary or gross, but cool and mysterious. Also, all the ants you see are fem 💖 so stop calling them “little guys” Conscious Content Consumption: The Mystery of Luci's Missing...
Jul 01, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 33
Meeting the new cohost of Long Hair Do Care: Merry MaGee! She/they is a witty, fabulous creative being steeping in the world of acting, writing, and moving through what can feel like a hard, straight world. Just wait, the pod is going to improve tenfold with this queeirdo (queer weirdo😊). Listen to hear about her and the bright future for the show. The time is now to be passionate. Conscious Content Consumption: Harry and Cherry written by Adrienne Dawes @Heckleher Abbot Elementary Blackish Als...
Jun 01, 2023•54 min•Ep. 32
Erika Lindstrom, the Gender and Sexuality Coordinator at the Utah State University Inclusion Center, comes on to discuss the representation (and lack of representation) of people of color and queer characters in the Lego universe. Conscious Content Consumption for this episode includes: Joseph Sanders, aka @reelsonwheels (for his wildlife photography) and @saintmmonroe (for his urban photography) The book Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in the ...
May 01, 2023•36 min•Ep. 31
Patrick Kelly, The director of education at Stokes Nature Center, discusses the history of the center, the intrinsic and ecological value of our wild spaces, outdoor preschool, fireflies in Utah(!!), and how you can get involved. Conscious Content Consumption for the episode includes: Black Men Can’t Jump in Hollywood , a dope movie podcast hosted by Jonathan Braylock, Jerah Milligan, and James the Third @blackmenpodcast @jonbraylock @jerahmilligan @james3rdcomedy A pandemic music session from C...
Nov 01, 2022•53 min
Sarah Woodbury and Georgie bond over Boreal toads while discussing the collection of engaging programs Sageland Collaborative has to offer, including mimicking beaver damns and catching wildlife on camera. Follow on Insta @sagelandcollab Conscious Content Consumption for this episode includes: Ologies , a podcast hosted by Alie Ward The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World , a nonfiction book by David Abram Follow on Insta @docarepodcast 💖💜💙 Hosted on Acas...
Oct 02, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 29
Georgie’s taking the month off! But will still share quick words about cats, wildlife, and Conscious Content Consumption. Conscious Content Consumption for this episode is the song Don’t Ask Me Why (music video) by Great Caesar . Listen to Great Caeser’s stuff here . Follow them at @greatcaesarband on Instagram. Follow on Insta @docarepodcast 💖💜💙 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Sep 02, 2022•8 min•Ep. 28
Why did Georgie name the podcast “Long Hair Do Care”? In a short episode, she discusses stereotypes, fluidity, queefing, and flagging. Conscious Content Consumption for the episode is The Principles of Pleasure , a limited series on Netflix. Also mentioned: IconoClad - @iconoclad Come as You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski - @enagoski Follow on Insta @docarepodcast 💖💜💙 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...
Aug 01, 2022•24 min•Ep. 27
The delightful Jaimi Bulter, a Great Salt Lake lover and expert, talks about how magical and important our dear salty lake is and what is happening to it now. Jaimi worked as the Coordinator for Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster College for 13 years and is full of spunk and knowledge. Conscious Content Consumption for the episode includes: The Overstory , a novel by Richard Powers Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimme...
Jul 02, 2022•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 26
Your host discusses their research on queer birders and how birding, birds, and Great Salt Lake are queer. They explore what queer ecology is and why it is important to get diverse groups of people into the outdoors. Conscious Content for the episode is: Booksmart - a 2019 film Talia Keys, found at taliakeys.com Blacklivesmatter.com Equaljusticeinitiative.org Marchforourlives.com Sunrisemovement.org Also mentioned: All Bodies on Bikes Black AF in STEM and Black Birders Week Tracy Aviary (and che...
Jun 01, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 24
Erika Lindstrom (she/her) is the Gender and Sexuality Coordinator at the USU Inclusion Center. She came on to discuss the parallels and connections between the civil rights movement and the gay rights movement, with additional excellent insight on how to be a good human. Conscious Content Consumption for this episode: All My Relations , a podcast (recommended to me by Ronan Hart!) Female Husbands: A Trans History by Dr. Jen Manion Gentelmen Jack - TV series on HBO Max about Anna Lister’s life Di...
May 01, 2022•50 min•Ep. 25
Gabe Dominguez is the director of Ecotopia Now , an ecotopian radical musical theater production with the goal of empowering youth to take charge of their future and create joy and climate justice through music. Learn more here. Conscious Content Consumption for this episode: The Rewilding Podcast with Peter Michael Bauer The three films on Jane Goodall; Jane Goodall: Jane’s Journey (2010), JANE (2017), and Jane Goodall: The Hope (2020) Also mentioned: Sophie Strand #Landback and landback.org Ga...
Apr 01, 2022•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 23
Liz Pitts, Logistics Director of Redrox, and Hillary McDaniel, a returning guest and Production Director of Redrox, come on to talk about Redrox Music Festival, why it is so powerful, why queer spaces are important, and how (and why) you can get involved! Listen to learn about this awesome queer-forward music festival. Follow on Insta @redroxmusicfestival 💖💜💙 Conscious Content Consumption: Unlikely Hikers (on Insta @unlikelyhikers ) Scholarly article Unlikely hikers? Activism, Instagram, and ...
Mar 01, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 22
For the 21st episode of Long Hair Do Care your host, Georgie Corkery, talks about STIs, debunks myths and stigmas about STIs, and shares their recent experience getting tested. Conscious Content Consumption for this episode is the documentary film The Rescue on Disney+. Follow on Insta @docarepodcast 💖💜💙 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information....
Feb 01, 2022•40 min•Ep. 21
Ronan Hart, a friend, fellow queer community member, and Utah State University grad student comes on to share his positive experience of transiting to male. If you are unfamiliar with what being trans means, this episode is for you. If you know it, live it, and/or love it, this episode is also for you because Ronan's experience can bring you some validity and insight, as it did for me. Conscious Content Consumption for the episode: The film Uncle Frank The Sci-Fi novel Semiosis by Sue Burke . Fo...
Jan 01, 2022•2 hr 7 min•Ep. 20
Jeane LeBer, Great Salt Lake Audubon board member since 2018, volunteer since 1980, and leader of the Bird-Window Collision Working Group , discusses how bird-window collisions are the third leading cause of death for birds, and how this is a problem with a solution. Conscious Content Consumption for this episode is The Delightful Horror of Family Birdin g: Sharing Nature with the Next Generation by Eli J. Knapp . Visit greatsaltlakeaudubon.org for more info. Products to reduce bird window colli...
Dec 01, 2021•43 min•Ep. 19
Special Guest: Sarah Timmerman, the Women and Gender Program Coordinator for Utah State University’s Inclusion Center , and also teachers intersectional gender studies 1010, comes on to the show to talk about the Inclusion Center and what efforts USU is implementing to make the campus and town more inclusive, including Fat Acceptance. Conscious Content Consumption for the episode: No Man's Land Film Festival Stop Telling Women They Have Imposter Syndrome - a Harvard Business Review article Also ...
Nov 01, 2021•50 min•Ep. 18
Macy Gustavus, a passionate Utah State University masters student in The Department of Watershed Sciences discusses microplastics - where they come from and how to reduce our exposure to them. Conscious Content Consumption for this episode: the podcast This is Love Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants a book by Robin Wall Kimmerer . Also mentioned was beyondplastics.org , an organization that fights big oil and plastic companies to stop the pr...
Oct 01, 2021•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 17
Hilary McDaniel, the Organizing Director for Rock Camp SLC , passionately talks about what Rock Camp is and how it empowers minority gender teens to be creative, confident, and caring. Listening to Hilary will make you want to change the world. This camp is creating future free thinkers. Conscious Content Consumption for the week is the song You Don’t Own Me by Lesley Gore . Read NRP coverage of You Don’t Own Me by Lesley Gore here . Follow on Insta @docarepodcast 💖💜💙 Hosted on Acast. See aca...
Aug 08, 2021•58 min•Ep. 16
Karel Dimalanta, a board member of the Logan Pride Foundation , talks about the programs and services provided by the foundation and making queer-friendly spaces in conservative places (aka Logan, Utah). Warning - this is a semi-tangential episode, but hopefully fun to listen to either way! Conscious Content Consumption for the episode: She’s Gotta Have It - a Netflix original series directed by Spike and Tonya Lewis Lee Let’s Talk About Love by Clair Kann . Follow on Insta @docarepodcast 💖💜💙...
Aug 01, 2021•42 min•Ep. 15
