Pride & Puck Podcast
Pride & Puck Podcast is a monthly podcast where Queer Hockey Stories will be told. Join us on a journey of sharing the wonderful world of inclusive ice hockey. Rare and inspiring stories from everyday people talking about how much finding inclusive hockey clubs has helped them, and the wider LGBTIQ+ community. Uniting people through discussion we give a unique look behind the curtain at what makes inclusive hockey clubs and their players tick.
Episodes
This month the script is flipped as your host Andrew Macdougall is in the hot seat to celebrate the quarter century mark for Episode 25.
Previous guest Kade Matthews returns to host this episode as it delves into why Andrew started, his own journey and what the future holds for the podcast going forward.
00:48 Intro
01:10 Kade Matthews intro
03:20 Are you nervous04:00 Did you think it would get this far
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We sit down with Nora Renick Rinehart, from Queer Hockey Nova Scotia, to talk about life growing up on Boston, playing hockey in Chicago and Madison, then finding their way to Halifax.
Playing an important role in changing hockey culture through QHNS alongside board members Stasia Sianchuk, Victoria Elms, Dan Marsh and Cris Adams.
00:39 Intro
01:02 Introducing Nora
02:40 Queer Hockey Nova Scotia and Nora's role
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To start Season 3 of the podcast we sit down with Venessa Robinson from Calgary Inclusive Hockey Association in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
We talk about life growing up in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, navigating masculine and feminine, playing hockey for the first time in Canberra, Australia, realising they are trans, living an authentic life and so much more.
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02:29 Being a trans person in Calgary
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For our final episode for season two we sit down with Kevin Jesus from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Talking growing up as a first generation of Canadian of Portuguese background, falling in love with hockey, navigating being gay growing up, a career in media, marrying their husband at Rogers Arena, Edmonton Oilers and their LGBTIQ+ community plus so much more.
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We sit down with goaltender Madeleine Cho from Toronto, Canada.
Talking growing up in Vancouver, moving to Toronto, an amazing field hockey career, surviving a car crash, navigating mental health, finding the Women's Hockey Club of Toronto and so much more.
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This month we sit down with Vanessa Vargas from Spokane, Washington.
We talk growing up in Spokane, hockey camp in New Hampshire, coming out for the first time in hockey, women's hockey league in Spokane, Seattle Pride Classic and so much more.
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This month we sit down with Bec Jennings, hockey player, goaltender and cancer survivor.
We talk growing up in country Victoria, Australia, moving to Melbourne, finding street and ice hockey, being diagnosed with cancer, raising awareness and money through hockey plus so much more.
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This month Andrew sits down with Stuart Ridley from Harbour Lights Ice Hockey. They talk about sport growing up, Harbour Lights, the impact it has on Queer people, connecting through social media and so many laughs.
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They talk about growing up in Burton, New Brunswick, Canada. Playing hockey as a kid, navigating queerness, finding the love of hockey again, becoming President of CIHA and so much more.
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This month we sit down with Yrica Butt, hockey player, trans women and all round awesome person. Talking growing up in Southern Indiana, moving to Minnesota and finding queer hockey, Seattle Pride Classic and much more.
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Andrew sits down with President and Co-founder of the Seattle Pride Hockey Association Steven Thompson. They talk about Seattle growing up, being a young hockey fan, playing hockey, starting SPHA, Seattle Pride Classic and much more.
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Andrew sits down with Sydney Sirens and Australian Women's Ice Hockey League goaltender Ella Licari, they talk hockey growing up, elite inline, transitioning, playing in the AWIHL and much more.
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Andrew sits down with Alex Kaulback, a 31-year-old trans man from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada who is co-founder of Queer Hockey Hamilton. They talk hockey growing up, founding QHH, transitioning seven years ago, finding community within queer hockey and so much more. Queer Hockey Hamilton https://www.instagram.com/queerhockeyhamilton/ QHH is holding there first ever hockey tournament the Spring Fling from April 13-14.
Season two of the Pride & Puck Podcast kicks off with 39 year-old trans, non-binary and queer Canadian hockey player Kao Lawrie.
Kao lives on the Sunshine Coast in BC, Canada. Is the founder of This Tournament Has Everything (TTHE) which will hold their 2nd Annual Tournament on March 1-3, 2024.
Talking about hockey growing up, navigating hockey life as a trans and non-binary person, giving back through TTHE, plus so m...
In the final episode of season one Andrew sits down with Kurt Conway, goaltender for Harbour Lights Ice Hockey Club to talk about hockey, personal growth, becoming club Treasurer and more.
This month Andrew sit down with Noah Riseman - Professor of History at Australian Catholic University, author and co-author of multiple books.
They discuss growing up in the suburbs of Boston, moving to Australia, finding hockey, joining the Southern Lights and so much more.
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Episode 9 sees Andrew sit down with David Hermolin, a Toronto native who came to Australia for love and found ice hockey. They talk growing up in a secular humanistic Jewish community in Toronto, playing hockey in Canberra, joining Harbour Lights and so much more.
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Andrew sits down and reconnects with Dave Massingham, a person who has been involved in hockey for a long time, and is a proud supporter of the LGBTIQ+ community. They talk about Dave's ice hockey journey, their proudest moments, finding the Southern Lights, and how joining an inclusive club has helped change their outlook on queer issues.
Andrew sits down with Anya Grichina, sex and relationship councillor, and ice hockey player for the Harbour Lights. They talk about life growing up in Siberia, moving to Australia, finding ice hockey on Australian shore, why Harbour Lights means so much to them and a whole lot more.
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Episode 6 sees Andrew joined by Merridy Lithgow, a former Harbour Lights hockey player, who has recently moved abroad to New York where they have already found inclusive hockey. They chat about finding the sport of hockey, what Harbour Lights means to them, Queer Roller Hockey, the move to New York, continuing to find a place within the sport in another country and so much more.
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