Beaux Lyles Lamotte is an honored Sagittarius and the witch behind Magic Hour Candles. 

You can find Beaux at magichourcandles.com. Use the code ilovemonet at checkout for 20% off. You can’t afford NOT to buy some of their candles.

Joan Lubin is a major reality dating competition show enthusiast, and assistant professor of English and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Yale university.

You can support my art, producer Ponyo, the podcast and ALSO  access get exclusive episodes, videos and early releases by going to  to patreon.com/nicolejgeorges NOW and become an Honorary Sagittarian! Thank you for your support.

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You can find Beaux at MagicHourCandles.com

Support the podcast and watch a video version of our episode at patreon.com/nicolejgeorges

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 law professor  and the author of the books Love in a Fucked Up World, Mutual Aid: building solidarity during this crisis and the next, and Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law

Dean joined me in the sagittarian matters social distancing studios to give advice to listeners and to tell me about his new patreon page. You can join him now at patreon.com/deanspade.

Dean joined me in honor of his new podcast, Love in a F*cked Up World. We will be posting the third episode, with guests Tourmaline and Morgan Bassichis, in our podcast stream alongside this episode.

Now please enjoy my talk with…. Dean Spade.

p.s. We will be recording more advice together soon! If you'd like to submit a question, please DM Sagittarian Matters on instagram.

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 Love in a Fucked Up World, Mutual Aid: building solidarity during this crisis and the next, and Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law

You can hear us recapping the entire season of AJLT Patreon.com/nicolejgeorges.

If you become an Honorary Sagittarian or above you’ll have access to tons of bonus episodes, diary comics and top ten lists, AND you’ll be supporting my art and podcasting work, as well as the work of producer Ponyo and assistant executive producer Hermes the tortoise.

Today's episode was edited and produced by me, Nicole J. Georges. 

In this episode, titled MAGAN MOANS SADLY, Nicole and Karen Tongson are joined by professors Poulomi Saha and Greta LaFleur to discuss the Ultimatum Queer Love REUNION and provide final thoughts and commentary on this season. 

Please join us as we discuss the fate of Nicole's trial wife, what counts as queer sex anyway, and what part of the reunion felt like  "a paid promotion by heterosexuality".

Stay tuned.

Want to support the podcast? Please do! Become an Honorary Sagittarian at:

patreon.com/nicolejgeorges

Creator of the Ultimatum Fantasy League Dani Wassel, and raconteur, writer and performer Amanda-Faye Jimenez join Karen Tongson and Nicole to process everything from "The Choice" to "Ultimatum Day."

We discuss a range of topics from trial spouse criteria, to  mommy issues, to sexual loopholes and "good old fashioned tribadism."

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 to introduce all the couples, haircuts, trial spouses and more leading up to "The Choice."

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 month. Look her up and go see her in Portland, Seattle, San Francisco AND MORE!

You can listen to my 2016 and 2018 Sagittarian Matters interviews with Alison on iTunes or wherever you get your podcasts.

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 special offer code for listeners to get 15% off their order at magichourcandles.com. 

If you want to  access the entire SEASONS of Love is Blind and Traitors recaps,  plus see exclusive videos, bonus episodes,  listen to everything early and frankly support my work and read HUNDREDS of pages of unpublished diary comics, 

Please go to patreon.com/nicolejgeorges and become an honorary sagittarian or above TODAY!

And if you join at a higher level, I’ll say your name on the podcast. Producer Ponyo will too

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.

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. Joan Lubin is a major reality dating competition show enthusiast, and Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Literature at Durham University. 

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 on a dating app, breakups over Skype, AND MORE. 

You can find videos and more Traitors recaps at patreon.com/nicolejgeorges

You can find Beaux at magichourcandles.com

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: Building Solidarity During This Crisis and the Next, and Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law

You can get his new book, Love In A F*cked Up World NOW through Bluestockings, or your preferred independent bookstore. 

Sagittarian Matters is hosted & produced by Nicole J. Georges, with assistance from Ponyo Georges. Our Executive Producer is Chris Sutton, and our editor is Shanna Polley.

You an support the podcast by joining Patreon as an Honorary Sagittarius, Ponyo's Friend Club Member or above. Patreon.com/nicolejgeorges

Thank you for your support. 

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 Currents magazine.

Sol joined me from their home in New York to discuss their new book, Heavyweight- a family story of holocaust, empire, and memory.

Like the show? Become an Honorary Sagittarian at patreon.com/nicolejgeorges . 

Need advice? Call 971-361-9998 and leave a message! 

Time stamps:

Beginning: The bummers of avocado food politics

3:40 Talking Heavyweight: getting fired for being anti-zionist

7:10 Less-effective political strategies

9:35 "You need to train your body out of being afraid of people who disagree with you. That's not a feeling you can trust." 

9:50 The family history behind the book

13:05 Graphic Novel process: Hand-lettering, traditional vs. digital drawing & more

20 Choices between what parts of the story were visual vs text

28:24 The joy of filling in backgrounds with black paint

29- book cover talk

ADVICE:

34:16 - How do I talk to my zi**ist friends about what’s going on?

38:25- Should I leave academia? Is there life after academia? Is it even possible?

FOOD: 

43:35 Bemoaning the changes at Van Leeuwen ice cream

47:55 Advice: How do I differentiate the tortoise’s food from my own? 

Bonus cucumber recipe

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 listen & buy Katy's new album, Human Futures, here. 

You can listen episodes early and support Sagittarian Matters by becoming an Honorary Sagittarius on Patreon. Patreon.com/nicolejgeorges

This week on Patreon, we have a bonus video episode with Michelle Tea, where Nicole recounts the Perfect Wife docu-series, we talk shrimping, prudishness, and more. 

Today's episode produced and hosted by Nicole J. Georges, with Executive Produced by Chris Sutton, with editor Shanna Polley, field producer Ponyo Georges, and intern Gigi Peloso. 

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 Hirstory and Art.

Chris and his collaborators  have just released a giant, beautiful book, Trans Hirstory in 99 objects. A compelling exploration of trans art, activism, and resistance.

In this episode we discuss Angela Douglas, Assunta Femia, Pippa Garner, Catholics regendering indigenous people of California, the Tootsie film genre, A Hormonal Fog AND MORE.

Get Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects by Chris Vargas, Christina Linden & David Evan Frantz now! Wherever you get your books.

PLUS! An unsolicited food review from Dawn Riddle, with special guest Megan DIneen. 

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 Bran Taylor at patreon.com/nicolejgeorges

And find Nicole live in person at SPX Small Press Expo, Cartoon Crossroads in Columbus, and Short Run Comics Fest in Seattle. 

Featured on today's show, 

Roving reporters Dawn, Luca, Morgan & Torrence bring us unsolicited vegan food reviews from Spain, Tucson, & Denver. 

Dawn Riddle is a multidisciplinary artist from Portland, Oregon. She is a brilliant painter, weaver, photographer, musician, playwright, videographer and so much more. 

Luca J. Davis is a writer, web designer and long distance hiker. You will notice their review is in two parts, because it was  originally sent to me as a video text, which you can see on our instagram page, but  after hearing just the names of BEAUTIFUL tahini drink & breakfast items from Houlden’s Rise Above, I demanded more details. Which Luca sent. Via memo. 

Morgan is a baker and seed lover, and Torrence is a cat lover who was once my  very excellent roommate. 

Alec Longstreth is an award winning cartoonist. He also works as a freelance illustrator, animator, digital colorist, and comics educator.

He works at the Center for Cartoon Studies, just did all the images and some animations for Weezer’s summer tour, and is the author of Basewood 

And the all ages comic Isle of Elsi. He runs Phase 8 publishing, and you can get my NEW BOOK by going to his website. 

Phasesevencomics.com. You’ll see the phase 8 logo in the top right, click on it, and be taken to a print AND digital download link that directly benefits me!

Find Alec's comics at phasesevencomics.com.

The audio portion of this episode with Alec was originally recorded and edited by Alec for his Patreon page! Find him here: 

https://www.patreon.com/longstreth/posts

Today's episode was guest edited & produced by our theme song composer, Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs. Thank you Carolyn! 

You can find Beth & join her homework club RIGHT NOW at bethpickens.com .

You can find Dopamine Press, Beth Pickens, and Nicole all on  on instagram RIGHT NOW! https://www.instagram.com/dopaminebooksla/

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 Mess is the author of the children's books If You’re a Drag Queen and You Know It (Running Press Kids, 2022) and The Hips on the Drag Queen Go Swish, Swish, Swish (2020) and serves on the board of Drag Story Hour.  She has also appeared on world-class stages like SFMOMA, Stanford University, and Saturday Night Live, was a founding organizer of the #MyNameIs campaign that challenged Facebook’s “real names” policy, and has published essays in The Guardian, Wired, and Salon.  When not twirling, Lil Miss Hot Mess is a university professor.

Michelle Tea is the author of over a dozen books, including Knocking myself up, Valencia, Against Memoir, and Black Wave. 

She is also the co-creator of Sister Spit and Drag Queen Story Hour. 

Michelle joined me from a literary festival’s wellness center in Denver Colorado to discuss the recent attack on the Glendale school board by the proud boys, and how to be an ally and spark queer joy in the face of it. 

Please enjoy my talk with Michelle Tea 

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 Press). She received Lambda Literary’s Jeanne Córdova Award for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction for her body of writing in 2019. Tongson currently chairs the department of gender and sexuality studies at USC, where she’s Professor of GSS, English and American studies & ethnicity.

Her writing and cultural commentary have recently appeared in Slate, NPR, The Los Angeles Review of Books, PBS NewsHour, The Los Angeles Times, The AV Club, Entertainment Weekly, and KCRW’s Good Food among other venues. Tongson is co-editor of the award-winning book series, Postmillennial Pop with Henry Jenkins at NYU Press, and co-hosts two podcasts: the GenX-themed Waiting to X-Hale with Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh, and The Gaymazing Race (a queer podcast about The Amazing Race) with Nicole J. Georges.

Today’s episode brought to you by  Jaime Raybin, Khale McHurst, and Zella Minor-House !

If you would like to support sagittarian matters, especially producer Chris sutton, please send $5 $40000 via paypal to hornetleg@gmail.com or Hellbooks on Venmo. 

Thank you for your support and we look forward to saying your name on the podcast. Producer Ponyo looks forward to it too. 

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 twenty books include Cool for You, I Must Be Living Twice, Chelsea Girls, afterglow, and MORE.  Eileen has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and was recently elected a member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters. 

Eileen joined me from their home in Marfa, Texas to talk about their new book of poetry, A Working Life. 

“With intelligence, heart, and singular vision, a “Working Life” shows Eileen Myles working at a thrilling new pitch of their poetic and philosophical powers.”

They ALSO have a giant, beautiful, important new anthology, Pathetic Literature. 

Go get both!

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 Tajine Gummy Bears

Flaxmeal!

Chocolate covered chickpeas

MEAL TRAIL ADVICE: Veggie Galette, Pho, Mix-n-match Por Que No (Portland)

The zen of Grocery Outlet

Maciel’s plant based butcher (LA)

Ranchside Cafe Ethiopian menu (LA) 

Fermenter Koji (Portland) Beet Reuben 

Hot Tongue Pizza (LA) - two tongues up. 

Baked Feta recipe from 

Vegan Cheese by Jules Aron

Food Fight peanut butter cup shake (Portland)

THERMOS

Kitchen Mouse bakery soup

Milk frother

Maca Powder drink

Sip Cart Almond butter maca date smoothie

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 this special issue right now from dukeupress.edu. 

At the top of the show, Nicole discusses a local chipmunk, her upcoming diary comic collection, and reading March 24 at Heavy Manners Library in LA. 

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 segment of the same name, which I highly recommend. 

Will Betke-Brunswick is a cartoonist and graduate of the California College of the Arts MFA in Comics program. Will’s debut graphic memoir, A PROS AND CONS LIST FOR STRONG FEELINGS, is available from Tin House! You can find Will’s comics anywhere you buy books, or follow them on instagram @Transboycomics

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 internationally respected Astrologer and Psychic Medium who has been in private practice with clients all over the world since 1995. You may recognize her from her special guest appearance on Relative Fiction. 

Jessica is a triple capricorn, she has a wonderful podcast called Ghost of a Podcast, and

Her wonderful book,  Astrology for Real Relationships, which is available RIGHT NOW!!!

Find it at lovelanyadoo.com, or anywhere books are sold. 

@jessica_lanyadoo on instagram 

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’d like to take my graphic memoir workshop, I have a 5-week class coming up in April. Jog over to my website, Nicolejgeorges.com, for details. 

Dawn Riddle is a multidisciplinary artist from Portland, Oregon. She is a brilliant painter, weaver, photographer, musician, playwright, videographer AND unsolicited food review correspondent. 

Here are two reviews from Dawn’s recent travels to Philadelphia, and on the road with the band Screaming Females, including friend to the show Marisa Paternoster, who you’ll hear in the background. 

Kaia Wilson is a musician and a positive reinforcement dog trainer in Portland, Oregon. She has played guitar in the band Team Dresch since 1993, and has been working professionally with dogs since 2012. You can  find her on instagram at dogspeedtraining or on the World Wide Web  at dogspeed.dog

Megan Milks is the author of Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body and Slug and Other Stories, a finalist for a 2022 Lambda Literary Award. They are also the author of Tori Amos Bootleg Webring, and tThey co-edited We Are the Babysitters Club, an anthology. 

You can sign up for Megan’s writing workshop: What is this thing called weird? Which starts JANUARY 24TH right now. Find it at theshipmanagency.com

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.com, for details. 

Dawn Riddle is a multidisciplinary artist from Portland, Oregon. She is a brilliant painter, weaver, photographer, musician, playwright, videographer AND unsolicited food review correspondent. 

Here are two reviews from Dawn’s recent travels to Philadelphia, and on the road with the band Screaming Females, including friend to the show Marisa Paternoster, who you’ll hear in the background. 

Kaia Wilson is a musician and a positive reinforcement dog trainer in Portland, Oregon. She has played guitar in the band Team Dresch since 1993, and has been working professionally with dogs since 2012. You can  find her on instagram at dogspeedtraining or on the World Wide Web  at dogspeed.dog

Megan Milks is the author of Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body and Slug and Other Stories, a finalist for a 2022 Lambda Literary Award. They are also the author of Tori Amos Bootleg Webring, and tThey co-edited We Are the Babysitters Club, an anthology. 

You can sign up for Megan’s writing workshop: What is this thing called weird? Which starts JANUARY 24TH right now. Find it at theshipmanagency.com

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 giant beautiful book organized, edited and assembled by her husband, Phil Elverum (Mt. Eerie, Microphones). 

Marianna Ritchey is  a professor, a musician, and the author of the book Composing Capital: Classical Music in the Neoliberal Era . 

She’s an old friend of mine, and a longtime friend of Genevieve’s. 

Towards the end of her life, Geneviève created an oracle deck from collaged magazines, and Ritchey was listed as one of her collaborators. If you get the book, which I really hope you do, you’ll see little bits of Ritchey sprinkled throughout, in a diary comic from Australia with her band Lloyd and Michael, and in lists. 

I invited her on to talk about the oracle deck and her late friend. 

"She was so great. She was a beautiful, wonderful, totally unique person, and I hope everyone will look through this book, and just think about how special she was, and how much she put into the world in such a short amount of time that she was here."  -Ritchey 

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 comics at California college of the arts,  and a lifelong artist and writer. In both her scholarly writing and her visual art, Ajuan explores the complexities of race, gender, and identity, Ajuan’s illustrations and comics have appeared in several anthologies, including, Drawing Power, edited by Diane Noomin. 

Ajuan has TWO books out that I urge you to get right now! 1001 black men from stacked deck press, and Living While Black with Chronicle books. 

You can find Ajuan, her books and more at ajuanmance.com

Now please enjoy my talk with Ajuan Mance. 

We are over the moon to welcome back very special guest MICHELLE TEA, to dole out advice on publishing, weathering copycats, bad exes, bad dreams, writing ethics, writing practices, and more. 

Go see me & Michelle LIVE, August 6th at Powells City of Books in Portland, Oregon, where we will be talking about her new book, Knocking Myself Up. 

Michelle Tea is the author of over a dozen books, including  Valencia, Against Memoir, and Black Wave. 

She is also the co-creator of Sister Spit and Drag Queen Story Hour. 

Michelle’s new book: Knocking Myself Up, is out now. 

DAWN RIDDLE is our roving unsolicited vegan food reviewer. She is also a wonderful artist! Today she brings us GF Snyders of Hanover pretzel rods. 

find her here: Dawnriddle.com 

PLUS beverage reviews from DAWN RIDDLE & friends, and Nicole tells you how she got the novel CORONAVIRUS 19. 

TUNE IN!

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 .

We talk about 

Spanish prunes 

Trader Joe’s Cashew Ravioli 

Miyokos pourable pizza cheese 

Vegan smoked salmon 

Chickpea tofu 

Strawberry prices 

Snacklins

New Farm Cookbook 

Middle aged Hummingbird feeder tips and more 

We are over the moon to welcome artist Jessica Campbell to the show this week!

Jessica Campbell is an interdisciplinary artist originally from Nanaimo, British Columbia. She is the author of three graphic novels, including Rave, out now with  Drawn & Quarterly. Her work has been exhibited at museums and galleries throughout North America.

Our Little Secret is a testament to survival and to the importance of telling your story your way

 Tune in to hear about comics, writing, healing, and how to support survivors of childhood abuse in your life. 

Content warning, we are going to discuss abuse and particularly childhood sexual abuse.

Now please enjoy my talk with graphic memoirist, Emily Carrington

Jessie Susannah Karnatz (aka the Money Witch) is a financial coach and the founder of Money Witch, a company that uses practical financial tools and empowering rituals to help clients achieve their financial goals. She is based in San Francisco, California.

We ALSO have the true pleasure of an Unsolicited Vegan Food Review from Dawn Riddle and honored Friend to the Show Morgan. PLUS! Kaia Wilson joins us for a review of a bad bad brunch place. 

Tune in. 

We talk about Dr. Bronners Chocolate, Bonsoi Soy Milk, Bé Ù, salt & pepper tofu, and MORE.

PLUS! Excerpts of new music by Romy & her band, Agender. 

Plus! Nicole opens up the show talking about moving to Tujunga, and Ponyo’s new life as a punk in a coyote vest. 

Tune In. 

TUNE IN! 

She gave us advice about breakups, burnout, Changing your relationship with Money, artist statements, making friends and MORE.

Beth Pickens is the author of the books Your Art Will Save Your Life and Make Your Art No Matter What. Find Beth, her books & Homework club on instagram @bethpickensconsulting or at bethpickens.com.

We are over the moon this week to welcome friend to show Amanda Verwey on to talk about the time she tried to pick up Paula Poundstone. 

We also have vegan food reviews of chips, poetry, beverages and MORE with DAWN RIDDLE, MARISSA PATERNOSTER, MEGHAN DINEEN and SARAH DAEGLING. 

Tune in. 

Amanda Verwey is an illustrator, writer and artist from Los Angeles California. Amanda is the mastermind behind the instagram account chihuahua digest (@chihuahua_digest) you can find her actual life's work online at amandaverwey.com.  

Bishakh is the author of Apsara Engine & Spellbound. She was an  architect , who changed her life completely and dedicated herself to comics in New York City in her 40s.  

Bishak’s short story collection, 

Apsara Engine, won the LA Times Book prize for graphic literature. 

Her work explores themes of gender, sexuality, memory and urbanism, among other things. 

Her website states: On a formal level, some of my pieces conflate the tools of architectural representation with those of sequential narrative in order to question these very methods and offer new means of representing space, time and the role of the body in both simultaneously.

Bishakh joined me through the magic of the internet to talk about her books, food, trans cartography, world-building, comics tools, advice  and MORE. 

FOODS DISCUSSED: Vtopia Brie, Sproud Milk, Sunflower Drive-in, True Nutrition.com, Dandies marshmallows, Soy nog & the British Bake Off!!!! 

This episode originally aired on Xray FM as a special pledge-drive edition!

You can listen to Producer Chris Sutton's show Record Lections as DJ Hell Books every Tuesday night from 10-11 p.m. 

Find Kaia at dogspeed.dog

Find Bran at magichourastrology.com

and find all things Nicole & Sagittarian Matters at 

@nicolejgeorges on instagram, & @sagittarianmatters. 

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Today’s episode brought to you by Josephine McRobbie, Emily Helmus, Maria Turner-Carney , Laura Perry Shoshanna Ruth Wechter, and JOEY SOLOWAY!!!

It is also brought to you by 

Lagusta’s Luscious’ chocolates: organic, fair-trade, always vegan caramels, 

bonbons, bars, and more made for you in New Paltz, NY with passion and politics. 

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A show time ago, frequent contributor to the show Morgan and I were invited over to Bad Boy’s Diner for a 5 course meal made up of entirely original recipes. 

Bad Boys’ Diner is a free dining experience created by Portland artist, musician and playwright Dawn Riddle. 

If listening to a podcast is like hanging out with the host, then this episode will be like a dinner party with friends.  I invite you to a backyard  at the end of the summer, with Producer Ponyo, friend to the show Morgan, and Dawn Riddle.

We will talk about the sourest sourdough focaccia, hardcore music from my past that does not hold up, making the best out food fails, microwaved  a mild tahini milkshake recipe and MORE! 

If you would like to see some of Dawn’s culinary creations , go to @badboysdiner on instagram. 

Now, on with the show. 

Dine with us, won’t you? 

You can find Ajuan’s art show: Black art from the edge of the universe” right now at the African American art and culture complex in San Francisco. Or find Ajuan, her comics, & the 1001 Black Men project, online at ajuanmance.com 

Ajuan Mance is a Professor of African American literature at Mills College in Oakland, California. A lifelong artist and writer, Ajuan has participated in solo and group exhibitions as well as comic and zine fests, from the Bay Area to Brooklyn. In her art, illustration, and comics, Ajuan uses humor and bright colors to explore race, gender, power, and the people and places in which they intersect. 

We also eulogize Wolf & Bears, discuss carob lava, vegan bacon, secret cafes, and the ONE VEGAN FOOD YOU SHOULD NEVER EAT COLD.  Tune in. 

Jessica Lanyadoo is an internationally respected Astrologer and Psychic Medium who has been in private practice with clients all over the world since 1995. 

Jessica is a triple Capricorn, she has a wonderful podcast called Ghost of a Podcast, and

Her wonderful book,  Astrology for Real Relationships, which is available RIGHT NOW!!!

Find it at lovelanyadoo.com, or anywhere books are sold. 

TUNE IN. 

Relative Fiction is  produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting, co-written by Claudia Meza & edited by Sage Van Wing. 

If you like this episode, please subscribe to Relative Fiction wherever you get your podcasts! And if you like it, please rate & review. It really helps. 

We thank you, and we will be back soon with another episode of Sagittarian Matters. 

Maddy joined us to give advice, talk about giving advice, discuss money in relationships, and ask Nicole WHAT she would buy on a budget at the farmer's market. 

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BUT FIRST: strong opinions on a listener question about how to proceed when your friends jump the vaccine line. 

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Sharon joined me from New York to talk about her book, coming out, intersectionality and MORE. 

Note to listeners: we also talked about Drag Race UK, and MORE, but that will have to go on a special Drag Race UK edition of the podcast. 

MORGAN taste tests chocolate tahini spread & oatley yogurt, BETH PICKENS talks about the time we applied to the Amazing Race as queer femme friends, and KAIA WILSON gives advice on reactive dogs & new homes. 

You can find Beth Pickens and her new book, Make Your Art No Matter What at bethpickens.com, & 

Kaia Wilson (starting in March) will be offering remote puppy coaching at dogspeed.dog.

We will discuss Scrooged, Splash, Revenge of the Nerds, Mannequin, Overboard, Back to the Future 2, Never-ending Story & Labyrinth! 

CONTENT WARNING: Some/most/many of these films featured sexism/racism/sizism/homophobia and ableism. We will be discussing their content! 

Side note: My guests loved HEATHERS!!! 

Dynasty Handbag is the stage name of artist Jibz Cameron. 

Jibz is a performance and video artist living in Los Angeles california . Jibz was called outrageously smart, grotesque and innovative by the new yorker. Most Recently, Jibz’ film Weirdo Night debuted to rave reviews at the Sundance Film Festival! You can find Jibz at dynastyhandbag.com  

Mariah Garnett is a filmmaker who mixes documentary, narrative and experimental filmmaking practices to make work that accesses existing people and communities beyond her immediate experience. 

Mariah directed Weirdo Night, which just premiered at Sundance, and is also the creator of a film called Trouble, in which A queer American filmmaker connects with her estranged Northern Irish father, discovering new things about his political past by playing him as a young man in a series of verbatim re-enactments. Find Mariah at mariahgarnett.com 

Alexis was wearing a beautiful pink fringed jacket, and was accompanied by her dog Colonel Mustard. She talked with us about ethical consumption, foraging amidst a pandemic, a lifetime of learning about the environment, and the racist history of trespassing laws in the United States. 

You can find Alexis on tiktok and instagram as BlackForager. 

You can find her recipes & support her work at patreon.com/blackforager. 

THANK YOU ALEXIS!!!

Buffalo Ranch freeze dried Cauliflower, Bada Bean Bada Boom snacks, Maine Needhams chocolate potato candy AND MORE. 

Plus, we talk about what we would make in a homespun Chopped challenge. 

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Beth tries a new flavor of teecinno & gives listeners advice on Fear, Difficult People, & strategies for selling your art and accepting money (and love) online and irl. 

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Beth Pickens is the author of the book Your Art Will Save Your Life. Her forthcoming 

Book, Make Your Art No Matter What is available for preorder RIGHT NOW!!!

She has a podcast for artists called Mind Your Practice, and you can join her homework club RIGHT NOW at mindyourpractice.com 

Karen joins us to answer your advice questions, and to talk about Butch Hair Quarantine, karaoke, the Amazing Race, and our limited series podcast The GAYMAZING RACE. 

Karen Tongson is Professor of English, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and American Studies & Ethnicity at USC. 

You know her as the the Lambda award winning author of Why Karen Carpenter Matters, An originator of Butch Hair Quarantine, and as one half of the podcast waiting to exhale. 

You can tune into The Gaymazing Race later this month wherever you get your podcasts. 

TUNE IN. 

Find Transanta on instagram at @transanta 

Kaia Wilson is a musician, a 

positive reinforcement focused dog training consultant, and a Capricorn. 

You can buy Kaia’s music AND t-shirts that say DOGS! at kaia.bandbamp.com. Keep an eye on her Instagram page for news about remote puppy training and support! @kaia_wilson 

Beth is an arts consultant, a CAPRICORN, and an esteemed friend to the show. 

She has a podcast for artists called Mind Your Practice, and you can join her homework club RIGHT NOW at mindyourpractice.com 

Dr. Joe talked to us about Quaran-Pod planning, Covid activism, quarantine as community care, and MORE.

Dr. Joseph Osmundson is a scientist and writer living in New York. 

Joe is 1/4 of the podcast Food 4 Thot, and the author of the memoir Inside/Out. You can find his Quaranpod Checklist, plust  writing on class, race, sex, and science at josephosmundson.com. 

You can get his Mindful Masculinity workbook, sign up for workshops, and more at  https://www.theintentionalmanproject.com

Rocco Kayiatos is the cofounder of Original Plumbing Magazine and Camp Lost Boys, a summer camp created by and for men of trans experience. Rocco currently hosts a podcast and conducts workshops through the Intentional Man Project, a space dedicated to  Building healthier masculinity through intention, awareness and integrity. 

In two cars parked nose to nose, the Splendid Sagittarian Tasting studio reviewed vegan brownie mix, Teecinno, mushroom chips, ginger seltzer, and gave advice on vegan Cheesecake, carob powder, oatmeal AND MORE. Tune in. 

Isa is a vegan chef, a restauranteur and author of the books Veganomicon, Vegan with a Vengeance,  Isa Does it and so many more. She runs two restaurants called Modern Love in Brooklyn New York and Omaha, we once hosted Vegan Iron Chef together, and she loves cats. 

Isa joined me to answer your advice questions about food trends, restaurant survival amidst covid, rotten tofu, savory soups, soy nostalgia, troubleshooting seitan AND MORE. 

“When you grow up, stop with the peanut butter, start with the tahini.”

Beth Pickens is the author of the book Your Art Will Save Your Life. Her forthcoming survival book for artists will be out with Chronicle Books in Spring of 2021. 

Beth is an arts consultant, a CAPRICORN, and an esteemed friend to the show. 

Amanda is a labor organizer and a lifelong activist living in Washington, D.C. 

She talks with us about voting, what we can do, how to talk to people about voting, despair as a diabolical design, and MORE. 

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the reissue of their rarities compilation (called Three States). It will be released  as a triple vinyl box set on September 18 on Orindal Records. 

Katy joined me from Joshua tree via zoom

To give advice about aging gracefully, heartbreak, making boundaries, our biggest quarantine food fails and MORE. 

Plus! We acknowledge that the West Coast is on fire. 

In this episode, we ALSO give verbal recipes for sesame tempeh, ye olden tofu scramble, preserved lemons, salad dressing for bitter greens & MORE. 

Beth Pickens is the author of the book Your Art Will Save Your Life. Her forthcoming survival book for artists will be out with Chronicle Books in Spring of 2021. 

Beth is an arts consultant, a CAPRICORN, and an esteemed friend to the show. 

Beth joined Producer Ponyo and I via zoom to  answer YOUR advice questions on judgment, corona-kosher, writing & racism, other people’s vibes, plastic surgery, money and MORE. 

Sagittarian Matters FINANCIAL CHALLENGE:

Identify ONE financial goal you would like to achieve between now and the end of the calendar year. 

Ex: Paying off something, saving a certain amount. 

Pick one goal and make a plan of how you’re going to get to it. 

Make it manageable, small & possible. 

Share it with us on Social Media! 

When you achieve your goal, send us a photo of you with your homemade sign!

Resident Capricorn and highly favored contributor Beth Pickens joined NJG for this very special occasion. 

 Big Friendship is a book about friendship & feminism. It is a call to value your friendships in all of their complexity. Actively choose them. And, sometimes, fight for them.

We talked about Shine Theory, couples counseling, Metallica navigating interracial friendships, the queerness of chosen family and MORE. 

“Here, friendship gets the emotional and intellectual respect it deserves; and like any truly great love story, Ann’s and Aminatou’s is a page turner. I love this book. “

—Rebecca Traister, New York Times bestselling author of Good and Mad

Aminatou Sow is a writer, interviewer, and cultural commentator. She is a frequent public speaker whose talks and interviews lead to candid conversations about ambition, money, and power. Aminatou lives in Brooklyn.

Ann Friedman is a journalist, essayist, and media entrepreneur. She is a contributing editor to The Gentlewoman. Every Friday, she sends a popular email newsletter.

Together, Aminatou and Ann host the long-running podcast  Call Your Girlfriend.

Beth Pickens is the author of the book Your Art Will Save Your Life. She is an arts consultant, a CAPRICORN, and an esteemed friend to the show.

More praise for Big Friendship: 

"A wonderful and intimate portrayal. A story as universal as it is revolutionary."

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“In this openhearted book, Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman show us how a friendship can be as rewarding and enduring as a marriage, and they urge us to value it accordingly—as they clearly do. An inspiration."

—Ariel Levy, New York Times bestselling author of The Rules Do Not Apply

Her NEW book, Astrology for Real Relationships, which is available RIGHT NOW!!!

Find it at lovelanyadoo.com, or anywhere books are sold. 

Long Distance Relationships, Breakups, Bedbug Machines, Activism, Allyship, AND MORE. With my guest, Zari Esaian. Stay tuned. 

Zari  is the founder of a feline appreciation society called Cat Klub. She loves a good fight, lives in New York, and you may recognize her from episodes 136 and as the voice of ANONYMOUS BUTCH, and episode 166 in which she saved a kitten off a busy freeway and then got it lost in her car. Zari joined us from New York to give advice about long distance relationships, breakups, activism as an adult AND MORE. 

He has played in the bands Gossip, Dub Narcotic Sound System  The Dirt Bombs, Chain and the gang, hornet leg, Spider and the Webs, the Hooded Hags, COCO. 

He currently has a radio show on Xray FM called Record Lections with hell books. You can listen Tuesdays from 10-11 p.m. or anytime at: https://xray.fm/shows/record-lections

You can find Chris on instagram at hellbookss

Also mentioned in this episode: Vanport comic by Nicole J. Georges, Sarah Mirk and Ed Washington:

https://www.patreon.com/nicolejgeorges

and https://www.blmla.org/

https://thelovelandfoundation.org/loveland-therapy-fund/

Cameron joined me via zoom to answer your advice questions, tell us about her childhood eyepatch, comedy, her book AND MORE. 

You can find Michelle on instagram at @michelleteaz & @thisisyourmagic. 

We talk about: Sweet Earth fake meat, JustEgg, Chao Cheese, Donut Friend, By Chloe, Hail Merry, 365 Whole Foods & MORE.

PLUS, Nicole talks about a high school crush, a chat-n-cut, and how you can help Australia.

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Produced live on the scene by Ponzini Linguini. Production assistance & heavy lifting by Chris Sutton.

You can pre-order her new book, Astrology For Real Relationships, RIGHT NOW.

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AND Friend To The Show Morgan joins us to answer a listener question about making boundaries with challenging family members.

All while your faithful host attempts to record an introduction from a haunted hotel having a noisy open mic night!

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PLUS, in a bonus clip, we talk about our mutual obsession with the Amazing Race. Tune in.

In this photographic comic of hand-built dioramas  with a unibrowed rage-a-colic doll in the center, Jeong tackles sexism, racism, immigration, work, depression, families and MORE. 

Eunsoo joined us in the Sagittarian Matters studios to talk about her comic, her process, her rage and everything in between. 

If you aren't following her yet on instagram, DO YOURSELF A FAVOR:

@koreangry 

Cristy joined us to talk about her Next World Tarot deck, growing up punk and queer in Miami, her love of Child's Play and SO. MUCH. MORE. 

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Don't skip it!

Alison is the author of Fun Home, Are You My Mother? and Dykes to Watch Out For. 

She joined NJG to discuss family, memoir, grief, social media, and MORE. 

You can find an illustrated excerpt of this interview in the Nib's Family Issue. 

https://membership.thenib.com/

We give recipes, talk vegan travel, etiquette around shade and unsolicited advice, our favorite restaurants in NY, Portland, LA, advice about knives, miso, fermented foods AND MORE. 

Enjoy.

You can find lagusta at lagustasluscious.com, 

and use the code SAGITTARIAN for 10% off!!! 

p.s. 

Go to vegetariancalculator.com or vegancalculator.com to calculate how many animal you have not eaten! 

Find her debut comedy album, Organism, on iTunes or via LizzyCooperman.com right NOW.

Ariel Schrag's new book Part Of It, it out NOW with Mariner Books.

Today’s episode brought to you by Urban Cheesecraft (urbancheesecraft.com), Wanpaku Natto (wanpakunatto.com), and 

LAGUSTA'S LUSCIOUS vegan, fair-trade vegan caramels, chocolates, bon bons & more. 

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Today on the show, NJG addresses y'all about the term y'all, gives a topical rant about Little Shop of Horrors, and then speaks to our 2nd Anonymous Butch about class, butchness, dating, misogyny and MORE. Tune in!

Today’s episode brought to you by Lagusta’s Luscious’ chocolates: organic, fair-trade, always vegan caramels, 

bonbons, bars, and more made for you in New Paltz, NY with passion and politics. 

Use the code “sagittarian” for 10% off your order at lagustasluscious.com 

Today’s episode brought to you by Lagusta’s Luscious’ chocolates: organic, fair-trade, always vegan caramels, 

bonbons, bars, and more made for you in New Paltz, NY with passion and politics. 

Use the code “sagittarian” for 10% off your order at lagustasluscious.com 

Ali Liebegott is the author of books The IHOP Papers, The Beautifully Worthless, & the upcoming Summer of Dead Birds. She wrote for Transparent & paints in Los Angeles. 

Today's episode sponsored by Lagusta's Luscious! Use offercode Sagittarian at checkout for 10% off at LagustasLuscious.com

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Today we are joined by Pashmina author Nidhi Chanani to talk about launching a career as a professional illustrator, cartooning while parenting, difficult women & MORE. 

You can find Nidhi, her books, & her illustration series Everyday Love at everydayloveart.com. 

Jessica Lanyadoo is an internationally respected Astrologer and Psychic Medium who has been in private practice with clients all over the world since 1995. 

She is a triple capricorn, and you can find her horoscopes and more at lovelanyadoo.com.

PLUS advice on lyrics & a double dong story. TUNE IN! 

Today's episode brought to you by Urban Cheesecraft. 

THEN we are joined by Ali Liebegott (Transparent, The IHOP Papers), and podcast regular Isaac Soloway Strozier to review Paddington 2, a cinematic triumph. 

Bonus toothpaste and lotion reviews. 

PLUS! Fan favorite Rocco Kayiatos joins us to talk vegan taco trucks. 

Jessica Lanyadoo is an internationally respected Astrologer and Psychic Medium who has been in private practice with clients all over the world since 1995. She is a triple capricorn, and you can find her horoscopes and more at lovelanyadoo.com. 

We also have advice on defriending this week, with friend to the show, Rocco Kayiator (Original Plumbing). 

THEN,

Ignatz-winning artist/author Anders Nilsen joins Nicole & Ponyo to talk about Money, Dating, Monkeys, Healthcare, Representation and MORE. He is the author of 8 books, including Big Questions, Don’t Go Where I can’t Follow, and the recent comic, Tongues. 

Check out her new book “Boundless” with Drawn & Quarterly.

BONUS: series regular Morgan brings us some new & interesting foods to try. 

Jessica Lanyadoo is an internationally respected Astrologer and Psychic Medium who has been in private practice with clients all over the world since 1995. She is a triple capricorn, and you can find her horoscopes and more at lovelanyadoo.com. 

Find her at VirgieTovar.com

Special guest Morgan  joins me to review stale popcorn balls.