Presenting at the Queer Hustle Visibility Summit (June 6th, 2020)

The Queer Hustle Visibility Summit is a 2 day virtual event for queer womxn entrepreneurs, creatives, freelancers and side hustlers on June 6-7, 2020.

I am organizing and moderating a panel discussion at the summit titled “Audience Building and Crowdfunding for your Podcast“. In this panel discussion you will hear from queer podcasters who have built communities around their podcasts and how they sustain their podcasts financially through crowdfunding.

Joining the panel are the hosts/creators of popular queer podcasts: Jessie Blount & Lark Malakia Grey of The Gayly Prophet, Molly Woodstock of Gender Reveal and Ellie Brigida of Lez Hang Out. You can read their bios below!

Registration to attend the summit is FREE.

Jessie Blount and Lark Malakia Grey (from the Gayly Prophet)
The Gayly Prophet is an intersectional, queer Harry Potter analysis podcast hosted by Jessie Blount (she/her), a queer woman of color, and Lark Malakai Grey (he/him), a disabled trans person. Together they discuss the books chapter by chapter through a “humorous, yet ruthless” lens. As a reviewer said, “if you want to queer the way you engage with the witchy world of HP, challenge the systemic problems in that world as well as our own, have your heart torn in two by seeing the beauty in the what-ifs, and laugh so hard it hurts, I urge you to give this podcast a listen!”

Molly Woodstock (from Gender Reveal)
Molly Woodstock is a queer, biracial journalist, audio producer, and equity educator. Molly produces and hosts an award-winning weekly podcast called Gender Reveal, and has been featured as a gender educator in the New York Times, NPR, Washington Post, SF Chronicle, and Autostraddle.

Ellie Brigida (from Lez Hang Out)
Ellie Brigida is a musician, producer and podcaster from Boston, MA. She is the co-host of Lez Hang Out which is on the TAGG podcast network, featured on LOGO’s list of best queer podcasts, HER’s The Best LGBTQ+ Podcasts You Should Be Listening To and named #1 lesbian podcast to listen to on FeedSpot.

Lynn Casper (from Homoground)
Lynn Casper is a queer filipina-american who has been producing the Homoground podcast since 2011. Homoground elevates LGBTQIA musicians from around the world. Lynn is also a project consultant and productivity coach who helps creative-minds overcome internal & external blocks that hinder progress on creative projects and life goals.

WERK IT: How to be a Grown Ass Podcaster

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WNYC held it’s very first women’s podcast festival called “Werk It: How to be a Grown Ass Podcaster” on June 4-5, 2015. I spoke on a panel on how independent podcasters got their start. You can watch the full conversation in the video below:

 

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