Hello! For episode 38 I spoke to Chrysanthemum White-Alder about her Medieval Pagan Nun style. She's an interdisciplinary artist, witch, and academic currently working on a Masters of Education at Lakehead University. She's also studied interm

DCC 37: Sarah Potter Colour Witch Mob Boss

Jan 22nd, 2020 1h 9m

I'm back for the first new episode of 2020 with an amazing interview! Sarah Potter is a lecturer, curator, practitioner of colour magick, and a tarot card reader. She's been all over the witch-ternet (sorry) lately, featured in Architectural D

DCC 36: IVORY CONOVER- "IF YOU WANT TO PUT ME ON A PEDESTAL, AND OBJECTIFY ME, COOL. BUT YOU'RE GOING TO LISTEN TO WHAT I HAVE TO SAY"

Nov 7th, 2017 54m 45s

"It's the biggest reason why I do what I do: as a model, as a performer and why i;m so mouthy about the whole thing. I belong to all these intersectional communities that are constantly told to be smaller, that are already fringe and already le

DCC 35: Gigi Castorina "Everyday Vintage at Gigi's House of Frills!"

Jun 29th, 2016 59m 16s

Gigi is a long time vintage collector, appreciator and wearer. And an even longer time lingerie enthusiast! She is the owner/operator of Toronto's only Vintage Style Lingerie Boutique : Gigi's House of Frills. We talked about 'everyday vintag

DCC 34: Amazon Syren "Little House on the Orchestral Pagan Folk Metal Prairie"

May 31st, 2016 1h 9m

Amazon Syren is a queer, poly leather femme, a sex-workers' rights activist, and a Professional Naked Girl. She's also a witchy glamazon who sings opera, writes poetry, reads tarot, grows veggies, works magic, spins her own yarn, cooks, preser

DCC 33: Femme Space Amanda Arkansassy Harris

May 4th, 2016 36m 43s

I encountered Amanda Harris’ work via a Gender and Media class.I love her Femme Spaceproject and was so excited to talk to herfor this episode! Amanda is a queer high femme charmerfrom the South. She was the co-curator of Y’all Come Back:

DCC 32: Crystal Kotow

Mar 8th, 2016 54m 19s

Crystal is a fat activist who moved from fashion blogging to tackling more contested spaces in fat feminist thought: cultural hatred of fat bodies; and how fatphobia can manifest as violence in intimate partner relationships. She's in her secon

DCC 31: Jenna Danchuk "New Age Vamp"

Jan 12th, 2016 1h 4m

Jenna Danchuk is a writer, researcher, and occasional maker of things. Jenna Danchuk is an Assistant Editor for Spiral Nature, a magazine style website dedicated to alternative spiritualities, practical magick, and exploring occulture. She is a

DCC 30: Vivek Shraya "What I'm doing is not about a performance"

Oct 22nd, 2015 59m 14s

Vivek Shraya is a multimedia artist living in Toronto with strong ties to prairie malls.She's produced 10 albums, written 3 books (with 2 more set for release next year) and created 4 short films, all to great acclaim. She talked to me about t

DCC 29: Andrea Zanin "More butch...and more femme"

Sep 27th, 2015 1h 4m

I'm baaaaack this week with Andrea Zanin, a butch/femme academic and leatherwoman who writes prolifically and teaches about BDSM/Leather/kink, power dynamics, non-monogamy and queer sexuality. She's also pursuing a PhD in Gender Feminist and Wo

DCC 28: Mimi Thi Nguyen "New Wave Party Girl....or Monster HIgh Doll"

Jul 29th, 2015 56m 15s

Mimi Thi Nguyen is an associate professor of Gender and Women's Studies and Asian American Studies at the University of Illinois. Her research interests are war, empire and...zines! I first encountered her work via her amazing blog (a collabor

DCC 27: Zoe Dodd "You're cool, stay weird, don't change"

Jul 8th, 2015 57m 34s

Another park interview! Zoe's an aspiring orthinologist and all the birds came out to see her. She's a harm reduction and hep C worker very dedicated to anti-poverty and social justice activism. Anarcho-feminism FTW! She's a long term particip

DCC 26: Sam Conover "Lady Drag"

Jun 17th, 2015 56m 11s

Sam Conover dresses in deliberately modest and traditionally 'feminine' style which borrows from 1940s to early 1960s styles....she calls it "lady drag". She also clarifies that she's going for a modest 'mumsy' look that is more 1950s housewife

DCC 25: Imbyr "Power....and Control"

May 31st, 2015 59m 44s

I got to do my first park interview of 2015 with Imbyr, who describes their style as 'transmasculine harshfemme' and is obsessed with wrestling, dogs, and reading (mostly sci-fi).They are a health sciences student and the vocalist for Antibody

DCC 24: Dre Ngozi & Jade Lee Hoy (aka Hilary and Denise) "Find your tribe and be comfortable with who you are"

May 6th, 2015 1h 3m

It was fun and inspiring to talk to Dre Ngozi and Jade Lee Hoy of Toronto's clothing project Hilary & Denise. Hilary and Denise celebrates and pays tribute to women of colour using pre-loved clothing to cultivate self expression that incorporat

DCC 23 Merritt Kopas "Patti Smith Cyber Waif"

Apr 21st, 2015 45m 56s

Merritt Kopas is a multimedia artist, video game designer and writer whose focus of interest is digital play as an access for exploring care relationships. Her first book came out in April 2015, Videogames for Humans, published by Instar Books

DCC 22: Amy Medvick of Os Tropies "Tropicalia, Cleopatra and Carmen Miranda"

Apr 6th, 2015 1h 11m

Amy Medvick is the vocalist and flautist with Os Tropies, and an ethnomusicology grad student studying the Brazilian diaspora and its musical legacy. Her interests in culture, food and dress lie in Brazilian psychedelic rock (Tropicalia!), and

DCC Episode 21: Shannon Shaw (Shannon and the Clams) "Eccentric Homemaker meets '80s Bad Kid"

Mar 25th, 2015 48m 46s

Shannon Shaw almost catfished me, but I finally got to talk to her between recording the new Clams album and touring! She told me about the books that keep her worrying about serial killers, her love of illustration, metal smithing and girl ba

Dress Code Cracker Episode 20: Laina Dawes "Conservative with an Edge"

Mar 9th, 2015 57m 41s

Laina Dawes is the author of What Are You Doing Here? A Black Woman’s Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal (Bazillion Points, 2012).What Are You Doing Here? is Laina’s first non-fiction book and the first non-fiction, general interest book to spe

DCC Episode 19: Virgie Tovar "Miss PIggy meets RuPaul" #losehatenotweight

Feb 18th, 2015 1h 9m

I was introduced to the work of VIrgie Tovar by way of reading about body politics a few years back. I picked up her book "Hot and Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on LIfe, Love and Fashion" and I loved how she and the essayists in the book connected fa

DCC Episode 18: Liza Kelly "I like to bounce between different eras"

Feb 4th, 2015 1h 8m

Theatrical costuming student and vintage clothing expert Liza Kelly told me where the 'weird shit' is this episode of the show! We talked about her love of film (old musicals, Fellini, Ken Russell, Terry Giliam), classic sitcoms (Rhoda and Maud

DCC Episode 17: Charm Torres "Lazy Glam"

Jan 11th, 2015 50m 58s

Charm Torres describes her style as "lazy glam", but it's hard to reconcile the word lazy with this woman! She has two careers she is passionate about, one in LGBT health care and a second as a make up artist (freelance and with MAC). She takes

DCC Episode 16: Alia O'Brien from Blood Ceremony

Dec 14th, 2014 59m 54s

Alia is the vocalist, flautist and organist for Blood Ceremony--a hard/occult/horror rock band based in Toronto. They've also aptly been called 'witch rock'. She describes her style as 'what you might have worn to a Black Sabbath show in 1972'

DCC Episode 15: Matthew Simpson

Oct 28th, 2014 1h 10m

I interviewed Matthew for a crazy long time earlier in the fall (edited down dear listener)--mainly because, not only does he have a terrific 'telephone voice', but he also has funny and refreshingly uncensored opinions on things. TThis is a gu

Dress Code Cracker Episode 14: Dame Darcy : "The older I get, the more I look like a female version of Adam Ant”

Sep 23rd, 2014 1h

AHHHH!!! I'm still blown away that I got to interview the amazing Dame Darcy. I've been obsessed with her work since the mid 1990s--she's not only an amazing artist/cartoonist/painter she's also a storyteller, musician (her project is called De