Do Care Podcast
Do Care Podcast discusses topics we, your hosts Merry MaGee and Georgie Corkery, care about. We aim to spread knowledge and passion about environmental and social justice through creativity and humor. Follow on Insta @docarepodcast 💖💜💙 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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...
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:
Also mentioned:
- Nimbus the Purrari
- BDS Boycott List
- Liz Whittaker - The Daily Utah Chronicle
- Sexual Harassmen...
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
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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 ...
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
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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.
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 Conten...
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
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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
- @pattigon...
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...
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 mo...
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 “litt...
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.
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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 Racist...
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 @jonb...
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...
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.
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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.
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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:
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
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