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 t...
Jun 30, 2025•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 292
Alison Bechdel returns to the podcast to talk about drawing goats, making a living as a lesbian and her new book SPENT! Alison Bechdel is a Virgo friend to the show and the author of the comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For, and the graphic memoirs Fun Home, Art you My Mother and The Secret to Superhuman Strength. She joined me in the Sagittarian Matters Social Distancing Studios to talk about her newest book, SPENT- a comic novel. Alison is hitting the road with her new book Spent later this mont...
May 19, 2025•51 min•Ep. 291
We are over the moon to welcome back birthday twin to the show BEAUX LYLES-LAMOTTE to discuss the finale, reunion, and episode 10 of TRAITORS. Plus, Nicole's most recent and bizarre travel innovation. Beaux Lyles-Lamotte is an honored sagittarius and the witch behind Magic Hour Candles. They love reality t.v. and have been offering their Housewife insights all season as we've recapped The Traitors US, Season 3. You can find Beaux at magichourcandles.com Listen to the end of the show for a specia...
Mar 21, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 290
Wedding bells are ringing and longboards are rolling as we recap the FINALE and REUNION of Love is Blind with friend to the show, Dr. Joan Lubin. Joan joined me in the Sagittarian Matters Social Distancing Studios to recap the finale and reunion of a show that feels like a self-styled lobotomy, Love Is Blind, season 8. Dr. Joan Lubin is a major reality dating competition show enthusiast, and Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature at Durham University....
Mar 20, 2025•1 hr 39 min•Ep. 289
We are over the moon to welcome reality dating show enthusiast Dr. Joan Lubin to the Sagittarian Matters Social Distancing Studios to recap episodes 1-3 of Love Is Blind, season 8. Join us, won't you, as we discuss attachment styles, straight men, and how Nicole would fare on this very show (spoiler: she'd do GREAT). Find recaps of the rest of this season of Love Is Blind, plus bonus videos, Traitors, and early access episodes on Patreon! Patreon.com/nicolejgeorges Thank you for your support. Dr...
Feb 22, 2025•1 hr 46 min•Ep. 288
We are over the moon to welcome Honored Sagittarius Beaux Lyles Lamotte back to the show to give a full breakdown on the reality star-studded cast of Traitors UK, and to recap episode one. I get a crash course in Scandoval, The Housewives, Gabby the gay Bachelorette, Carolyn from Survivor (Courtney Love as professional wrestler?) and all the contestants who entered Alan Cumming's castle this season. We also discuss my DeeDee Ramone haircut of yore, seeing Jillian Michaels from the Biggest Loser ...
Feb 14, 2025•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 287
We were over the moon to welcome Dean Spade to the Social Distancing Studios to give advice to listeners in honor of his book, Love In A Fucked Up World (available now). Dean and I gave advice to listeners on love, despair, dating, distance, liberation, boundaries and MORE. 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 Mutual Aid:...
Jan 15, 2025•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 286
Ep 284: Solomon J. Brager! We are over the moon to welcome graphic novelist Solomon Brager to the podcast to discuss their new book, Heavyweight, AND complain about ice cream, talk graphic memoir, history, confronting zi**ism, and give advice on friends, leaving academia, tortoise food and MORE. Solomon J. Brager is a writer, teacher, and artist. They are currently a Jerome Hill Artists Fellow, a member of the Pinko magazine editorial collective and the director of community engagement at Jewish...
Jul 29, 2024•53 min•Ep. 285
Show less We are over the moon to have MICHELLE TEA back in the Sagittarian Matters Social Distancing Studio in honor of her new anthology, SLUTS- the inaugural book of Dopamine Press. Michelle Tea joined us to give listeners advice on writing, boundaries, people pleasing, tattoo remorse, and more! But first, in an Unsolicited Vegan Food Review, Katy Davidson tries Acai for the first time and is very surprised. Go learn more about Sluts and all upcoming books and events at dopaminepress.org . Go...
Jul 02, 2024•44 min•Ep. 284
We are over the moon to welcome Capricorn CHRIS VARGAS back to the show to discuss his new book, Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects. But first! We do some live reporting from a Golden Girls show in Hollywood, where Chris & I were treated to room-temperature coke, hateful theater patrons and top notch impersonations. Bonus: Chris discusses a Florida snorkel boat trip Chris Vargas is also a Guggenheim-award winning artist, filmmaker, professor, and the founder of MOTHA, the Museum of Transgender Hir...
Jun 17, 2024•54 min•Ep. 283
Today on the podcast, we are remembering beloved friend to the show Trina Robbins, who passed away April 10th, 2024 at age 85. We are rebroadcasting a solo interview from 2016 (before the rotting pumpkin took office), and a live interview Nicole did in 2017 with Trina, Lee Marrs and Mary Wings at Root Division in San Francisco. Enjoy.
Apr 23, 2024•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 282
We are over the moon to have known Sagittarius Cathy de la Cruz join us to discuss a CHICKEN RESCUE on the streets of Brooklyn. PLUS! Dawn defends her honor, reviews something called Giggles, Morgan & Dawn review CAROB MOLASSES together, Nicole tries it, and talks about getting NEW GLASSES, and MORE. Tune in!
Mar 05, 2024•56 min•Ep. 281
Today on Sagittarian matters! We’re over the moon to welcome Morgan back to the show to talk about Cafix, CELERY, Trader Joes Vegan Fish, TJ's Bird Nest, signs of aging, the smell of trader joes, Alfred Coffee, Outstanding Cheeseballs, Lagusta's cheese powder, Lagusta's turtles, Molasses cookies, Moku mushroom jerky and SO MUCH MORE. PLUS! An unsolicited food review from Dawn Riddle, with special guest Megan DIneen.
Dec 24, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 280
We are on a summer break & will come back at some point in the fall with an actual season of the show!\ But in the meantime, We are over the moon today to bring you Tortoise Drama, Diary Comics, Unsolicited Vegan Vacation Food Reviews, Big news, where to find AJLT recaps and MORE. You can find Nicole's new book here: https://www.phasesevencomics.com/phase8/dogs-breakfast/ Get her 2024 calendar here: nicolejgeorges.com/shop Find an unlocked And Just Like That finale recap bonus episode with B...
Sep 02, 2023•59 min•Ep. 279
BETH PICKENS: Live Advice on Dating, Revenge, Asking, Volunteering, New project announcements and MORE. We are over the moon to welcome noted Capricorn BETH PICKENS back to the show to give Advice on Revenge, Dating, Asking for things, Working for free, Having a life, a new press, two new classes AND MORE. Beth Pickens is the author of the books Your Art Will Save Your Life and Make Your Art No Matter What. Today's episode was guest edited & produced by our theme song composer, Carolyn Penny...
Jul 20, 2023•47 min•Ep. 278
We are over the moon to welcome Capricorn dream LIL MISS HOT MESS to the podcast to discuss her book If You’re a Drag Queen and You Know It, Drag Story Hour, queer drag pedagogy, standing up to fascists and MORE. AND Aquarius friend to the show MICHELLE TEA joins us to talk about the recent anti-queer violence at the Glendale School Board meeting, and how to show up, resist, and keep your queer joy. Also- Nicole discusses the latest drama from her "friendly" tortoise Facebook group. Lil Miss Hot...
Jun 20, 2023•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 277
Today on a Super Special Pride Edition Crossover Episode, noted Virgo Karen Tongson of the Gaymazing Race & Waiting to X-hale joins me to talk about THE ULTIMATUM- QUEER LOVE. Stay tuned. Karen Tongson is the author of Normporn: Television and the Spectacle of Normalcy (forthcoming 2023), Why Karen Carpenter Matters (2019), and Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries (2011). Her current book-in-progress is titled, Empty Orchestra: Karaoke, Queer Performance, Queer Theory (Duke University Pre...
Jun 11, 2023•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 276
We are over the moon to welcome EILEEN MYLES back to the program. We talk about Meditation, the concept of home, Making money as an artist, films, tea bags, coparenting, girlfriends ex girlfriend, tolerating the intolerable, activist groups, self-care, ambition and creativity. Plus, Nicole gives an Unsolicited Whole Foods music review, hardcore music revisit & introduces HERMES THE TORTOISE! Eileen Myles is a Sagittarius, a poet, a novelist, a performer and an art journalist. Their more than...
Apr 24, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 275
Morgan is a frequent contributor to Sagittarian Matters. She is the former purveyor of Dovetail Bakery, and loves dry crunchy foods more than any earthling could understand. Beth Pickens is the author of the books Your Art Will Save Your Life and Make Your Art No Matter What. Beth is an arts consultant, a CAPRICORN, and an esteemed friend to the show. You can join her homework club RIGHT NOW at bethpickens.com . Foods we discuss this episode: Golden beet poke Bon Devil ganache Bam Milk Snak Club...
Apr 09, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 274
Today on a very special episode of Sagittarian Matters, We are talking about the connections between TERFs & fascism! Plus the word dyke. With Professor Greta La Fleur. Greta LaFleur is an Associate Professor of American Studies at Yale University, and the author or editor of three books and three journal special issues., including the new issue of Transgender Studies Quarterly, “Trans Exclusionary Feminisms and the Global New Right”, which was co-edited by with Serena Bassi. You can get thi...
Mar 20, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 273
WILL BETKE BRUNSWICK! Vegan food, Grief, Comics, Advice, and MORE. Plus- unsolicited vegan food review from Morgan! Today on Sagittarian Matters! We give advice on grief, moving, comics and more- Plus the premiere of Vegan I Don’t Think so Honey. With my special guest, graphic memoirist, WILL BETKE BRUNSWICK! Stay tuned. Unsolicited Vegan Food Review with MORGAN! Four Sigmatic vegan coconut creamer PLUS: The world premiere of Vegan I Don't Think So Honey, a DIRECT ode/ripoff to Las Culturistas s...
Mar 08, 2023•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 272
We are over the moon to welcome back noted TRIPLE CAPRICORN Jessica Lanyadoo! We talk about covid protocol & different information, and answer advice questions on friend's transphobic choices, joining a new community as a queer person, the Christ Year, and MORE. Tune in. Also! Nicole mentions the campaign to stop a development from paving over the Verdugo mountain lion's home. Sign the petition & find out more here: nocanyonhills.org @nocanyonhills on ig. Jessica Lanyadoo is an internati...
Feb 27, 2023•59 min•Ep. 271
We are over the moon to welcome esteemed Capricorn BETH PICKENS back to the show to answer your advice questions, AND to talk about the word Dyke and Nicole’s stories career as a sandwich artist. Tune in
Feb 08, 2023•44 min•Ep. 270
Bran Taylor (Magic Hour Astrology) visited Babyland in 2018 & joined us to discuss watching a cabbage give birth, and the nefarious beginnings of the Cabbage Patch Kids. Dawn Riddle & Screaming Females visited Babyland in 2022, and sent us some updates. TUNE IN
Jan 23, 2023•1 hr•Ep. 269
MEGAN MILKS! DAWN RIDDLE! KAIA WILSON! Queer Weirdness,writing, vegan banana-flavored food reviews and HOME ALONE. Tune in! We are over the moon to share an interview writer Megan Milks, author of Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body. BUT FIRST! We have unsolicited vegan banana-flavored food reviews with Dawn Riddle & Screaming Females, and a long review and revisitation of the movies Home Alone 1 and two, with spouse to the show Kaia Wilson. Hey! If you are listening to this and you...
Jan 16, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 268
We are over the moon to share an interview writer Megan Milks, author of Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body. BUT FIRST! We have unsolicited vegan banana-flavored food reviews with Dawn Riddle & Screaming Females, and a long review and revisitation of the movies Home Alone 1 and two, with spouse to the show Kaia Wilson. Hey! If you are listening to this and you’d like to take my graphic memoir workshop, I have a 5-week class coming up in April. Jog over to my website, Nicolejgeorges...
Jan 16, 2023•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 267
This week we welcome Phil Elverum and Marianna Ritchey to talk about the life and art of Geneviève Castrée. Geneviève Castrée was a French Canadian cartoonist, illustrator and musician. She was the author of the books Susceptible, A Bubble, and more. She had art exhibitions around the world and toured musically under the names O Paeon and Woelv. Geneviève passed away on July 9, 2016, at only 35 years old. She is one of my favorite artists. Drawn and Quarterly just released her complete works, a ...
Dec 15, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 266
We are over the moon to welcome back cartoonist, professor and Jeopardy champion AJUAN MANCE to the podcast. Ajuan is here to celebrate the release of two books- 1001 Black Men (Stacked Deck Press) and Living While Black (Chronicle). Both of her books are out now! Also on this episode: Nicole talks about the Club Q tragedy & how to support the LGBTQIA+ community when something like this happens. Ajuan Mance is a Professor of English at Mills College in Oakland, California, a professor of com...
Nov 23, 2022•38 min•Ep. 265
Nov 09, 2022•55 min•Ep. 264
We are over the moon today to talk to you about Nicole's favorite New York foods, turning to decaf, getting a really gross matcha, Dawn inviting us over for dinner and having a calamity, Astronaut Ice Cream, Coalinga Coffee, Unwelcoming while still being a good neighbor, and MORE. Tune in!
Oct 20, 2022•38 min•Ep. 263
