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  • But it is that serious: From Zines to Metamorphoses

    But it is that serious: From Zines to Metamorphoses
    Jul 8 2026
    Welcome to week two of Zine Month! Today Amy, Justina, and Payton are joined by friends of the pod Gemma Neall and Shona Edwards. These wonderful guests are zine experts AND classicists — just about the coolest cross-section of interests a person could possibly have. So in this episode we make a journey from ancient poetry to Shakespeare and then all the way to Ronald Reagan, Spockanalia, and Riot Grrrls. But mainly we will find out how zine-making can cut through imposter syndrome, strengthen communities, and challenge the calcified practices of academia. Just don’t forget rule #1: Always make the zine. This month, in lieu of setting a ‘book club pick’ we’ll be making zines, and we want you to create along with us! We hope these episodes inspire you to get crafty — please do send us your zines over on Instagram (@amyandbookclub) and follow along to see whatever unhinged ones we come up with (we’ll be sharing ours in our ‘book club’ episode on July 23). MENTIONS Poetry/booksAeneid by VirgilHeroides by OvidIliad by Homer, translated by Emily WilsonMetamorphoses by Ovid, translated by Stephanie McCarterNox by Anne CarsonOdyssey by Homer, translated by Emily WilsonPygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (play)Pygmalion by OvidSong of Achilles by Madeleine Miller FilmMy Fair LadyPretty Woman Authors/poetsGallusHoraceNatalie HarkinOvidPropertius Sources:Barthes, Roland. ‘The Death of the Author.’ In: Newton, K.M. (eds) Twentieth-Century Literary Theory. Palgrave, London. 1997. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_25Halberstam, Jack. The Queer Art of Failure. Duke University Press, Durham and London. 2011. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822394358Haraway, Donna. ‘Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective.’ Feminist Studies, vol. 14, no. 3, 1988, pp. 575-99. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/3178066Harkin, Natalie. Archival-Poetics. (Archival-Poetics; No. 1 Colonial archive), (Archival-Poetics; No. 2 Haunting), (Archival-Poetics; No. 3 Blood memory). Sydney, Vagabond Press. 2019.Harkin, Natalie. ‘Weaving Blankets of Story and Hearts of Gold: An Archival-poetics Praxis.’ Cordite Poetry Review. 2021. https://cordite.org.au/essays/weaving-blankets-hearts-of-gold/2/ Zine resources:Mental health: madzines.orgRiot Grrrls: riotgrrrlarchive.commons.gc.cuny.edu/zines/Spockanalia: archive.org/details/SpockanaliaV1404 Media Zine about ICE Surveillance: www.404media.co/icezine/International Ronald Reagan Fan Club: https://yaf.org/news/reagan-ranch-center-unveils-new-exhibits-featuring-reagan-letters-photographs-and-memorabilia/https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/from-ronnie-to-a-fan-more-than-100-reagan-letters-for-sale/https://www.paulfrasercollectibles.com/blogs/memorabilia/ronald-reagan-document-archive-to-sell-at-profiles-in-history?srsltid=AfmBOorlAUDuM-y6ioA1GeIhFvWNc_ADvhjys-nA25KiMF-E3tAt0aew LINKS 📓 Where to find our guests: Gemma NeallShona EdwardsFor information on how to join the Australasian Ovidian Society, follow this link 🎵 Our theme music is by Mass Wisteria. Stream their single SAME OLD here: https://linktr.ee/masswisteria#465207993 🌸 Our Socials: IG: https://www.instagram.com/amyandbookclubTT: https://www.tiktok.com/@amyandbookclubYT: https://www.youtube.com/@AmyandBookClub 💛 Where to find Amy: Amy Matthews on IG: https://www.instagram.com/amymatthewsauthor/Amy Barry on IG: https://www.instagram.com/amybarryauthor/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrAmyTMatthewsauthorWebsite: https://amymatthewsauthor.com/ Thank you so much for listening!💞 See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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  • An Anti-Capitalist Fun Time: Intro to Zines

    An Anti-Capitalist Fun Time: Intro to Zines
    Jul 2 2026
    New month, new us! This July we’ll be drawing, writing, cutting, pasting, photocopying, folding and talking all things zines and zine-making. To kick off the month, we dove into Justina’s personal zine collection to find the answers to all our burning zine questions. What is a zine? Where do you find them and how do you make them? How do you archive something so varied and ephemeral? And, most importantly, is it pronounced ‘zeen’ or ‘zyne’? MENTIONS 🫵 Our BOTM is ZINES by YOU! We'll all be making our own zines this month – join us and craft along at home! ✂️ ZINES: How to Make a Zine by Bec Sheedy (becsheedydraws); Fortune Favours the Frog by Gemma Neall (gememberthat); ‘the idea of a rectangle’ by Damien Warman (dmnwrmn); Round Zodiac by Adil Soh Lim (infinitesimal_speck); Frogery House by Gemma Neall; A Selection of Some of Our Favourite Guys from Star Wars by Lizzi Morris and Hope Lumsden-Barry (Picolitre Press); This Was Grandpa’s Paper by Declan Brown (tid.bit); I have too many dice by Theo (exitpursuedbytheo); Renaicore: 16th Century inspired outfits for a modern age by Jez Gleeson (jezmezzewz); Speakeasy zines by the Flinders Speakeasy Team; Freshly Baked Cats by Justina Ashman (javerstina); Bird Watch by Unknown; How to Sound Like a Birdwatcher by Kelly (pidgy_art); The 4 stages of vet visits by Katie Gray (katiegrayart); ‘Nosferatu’: Shadow Puppet Zine by Bria McCarthy (bomburia); Charming Medieval English Names for Girls by Kelly; Instead of Preparing for the Zine Fair I Played 30 Hours of Baldur’s Gate 3 by Justina Ashman; Instead of Preparing for the Zine Fair I Had a Dental Emergency by Justina Ashman; Magic and Mishaps by Jake Holmes (jaketoothandnail); Escape from Incel Island by Margaret Killjoy; Gay Plants – Issue One: Monsters; Queer Workerism Against Work: Strategising Transgender Labourers, Social Reproduction & Class Freedom by Kate Doyle Griffiths; The Fast and the Furious and the Gender Abridged by Justina Ashman; 🎮 VIDEO GAMES: Baldur’s Gate 3 (2023); Mario Kart (1996); Baldur’s Gate (1998) 🎬 FILMS: Nosferatu (1922) 🎭 THEATRE: The Importance of Being Earnest (National Theatre, 2024) 🦦 OTHER: Amon Carter Museum of American Art; The Sticky Institute; Festival of the Photocopier; Zina Warrior Print Fest; National Young Writers Festival; Hallozeen; Greenlight Comics LINKS: Watch the full episode on YouTube: @AmyAndBookclubFollow the Amy & Podcast on IG: @amyandbookclub Follow the Amy & Podcast on TikTok: @amyandbookclubJoin the Amy & Bookclub: Amy & Bookclub Follow Amy Matthews on IG: @amymatthewsauthor Follow Amy Barry on IG: @amybarryauthorOur theme music is by Mass Wisteria. Stream their single "Same Old" here.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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  • BOOK CLUB: Ida by Alison Evans

    BOOK CLUB: Ida by Alison Evans
    Jun 24 2026

    As we wrap up queer sci-fi month (😔🫶🏼) we get together to chat about our incredible book club pick, IDA by Alison Evans. This book follows Ida, who believes that she can time travel and uses her ability to amend errors in her life. From avoiding car crashes to rewinding conversational hiccups, who wouldn't want to travel through time? But when Ida's doppelganger sits down beside her at the train station, and her grasp on time becomes slippery, she realizes that she has been shifting between parallel universes. Every decision she changes creates a new version of herself. What happens to those versions of Ida, who have to live with the consequences she's avoiding? What happens when those doppelgangers get mad?

    Join us as we get philosophical and ask questions such as; what does sci-fi look like at a domestic level? What kind of lives are the alternative versions of yourself living? Do you think it's harder to make mistakes and be imperfect today, in the age of social media, than it used to be? How does IDA disrupt the notion of a single, constant identity? And where do YOU begin and end?

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  • The Gay Audacity of Actively Choosing Hope: Interview with Alison Evans

    The Gay Audacity of Actively Choosing Hope: Interview with Alison Evans
    Jun 18 2026

    This episode Amy, Justina & Abby are joined by Alison Evans, author of our June BOTM Ida, as well as a whole host of other queer YA and middle grade speculative fiction, sci-fi and fantasy. Join us as we discuss all things reading and writing queer spec fic, imagining hopeful futures in YA, zine making for horse girls (gender neutral) – plus some (mostly) spoiler-free Ida chats ahead of next week’s book club.



    MENTIONS

    🌌 Our BOTM is Ida by Alison Evans

    📚 BOOKS: Garth Nix; Isobel Carmody; Paul Collins; Michael Pryor; Obernewtyn by Isobel Carmody; The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells; Jorge Luis Borges; Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut; This is How You Lose the Time War by by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone; Highway Bodies by Alison Evans; This is How We Change the Ending by Vikki Wakefield; Kindred: 12 #LoveOzYA Stories ed. Michael Earp

    ✍️ SHORT STORIES: “Tomorrow, Dawn” by Sascha Stronach

    📺 TV SHOWS: Star Trek (1966–1969); Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999)

    ✂️ ZINES: Long Trek; Pony with a Secret; 2 Pony 2 Zine; Ponies in Space

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    47 Min.
  • Soul Horny for Queer Sci-Fi: Fanfiction, AI, and Human Creativity

    Soul Horny for Queer Sci-Fi: Fanfiction, AI, and Human Creativity
    Jun 10 2026

    For the second week of Pride Month we're tackling fanfiction, all the way back to the Kirk/Spock community that started it all. There's something for everyone this episode: the history and fundamentals of fanfic, the community and passion of the craft, the social implactions of ladies reading slash, and even how AI could effect the way we approach fanfic (clue: we don't like it!). Harry tells us about some strange and thought-provoking LOTR fics he's read, Payton gives us a lesson in cognitive poetics, and Millie gets passionate about sapphic media, all while Amy tangents us and keeps us on track in equal measure.

    This month we're reading Ida by Alison Evans. Grab your copy and read along with us ahead of book club on June 25!

    MENTIONS

    Books

    Heated Rivalry by Rachel Reid
    Cognitive Poetics by Peter Stockwell

    Film/TV

    Star Trek TOS (1966-1969)
    Star Trek TNG (1987-1994)
    Star Trek reboot movies (2009, 2013, 2016)
    Into the Woods (2014)
    Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)
    Starsky & Hutch (1975-1979)
    Buffy (1997-2003)
    Lord of the Rings franchise
    Xena (1995-2001)
    Twilight franchise
    Hacks (2021-2026)

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  • Jurassic Park Dinosaurs Are Gay: Welcome to Queer Sci-Fi

    Jurassic Park Dinosaurs Are Gay: Welcome to Queer Sci-Fi
    Jun 3 2026

    Hi Gay, Happy Pride Month!

    Today we're kicking off the month of June with a festive introduction to Queer Sci-Fi. There are some big Sci-Fi heads in Amy &, so get ready for a journey through all of our favourite books, authors, and films in the beloved genre. We consider if and why Sci-Fi is on the rise lately (it's existential doom again, isn't it?) and discuss the inclusion and exclusion of queerness (or sex/sexuality in general) from the genre throughout history. Expect to hear about the women who pioneered Science Fiction, the LGBTQIA+ writers making it even more radical, and why it is time to subvert all the false binaries plaguing the category.

    Have a listen and please take a shot every time Abby has not engaged with a major film/TV franchise.

    This month we're reading Ida by Alison Evans. Grab your copy and read along with us ahead of book club on June 25!

    MENTIONS

    Books

    Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

    Dune by Frank Herbert

    Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card (as discussed in the ep, Amy & hosts do not condone this author's views or recommend that listeners read his books)

    Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

    Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

    Hail Mary by Andy Weir

    Hex by Rhiannon Lassiter

    Highway Bodies by Alison Evans

    Ida by Alison Evans

    Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

    Monk and Robot by Becky Chambers

    Neuromancer by William Gibson

    Snow Crash by Neil Stephenson

    The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel

    The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish

    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

    The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula LeGuin

    The Long Way To a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers

    The Martian by Andy Weir

    The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

    The Reindeer Hunters by Lars Mytting

    The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu

    The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells

    To Be Taught if Fortunate by Becky Chambers

    Authors

    Carl Sagan

    Isaac Asimov

    Jules Verne

    N. K. Jemisin

    Octavia E. Butler

    Film/TV

    Alien franchise

    Andromeda

    Babylon 5

    Battlestar Galactica

    Black Mirror

    Close Encounters of the Third Kind

    DC and Marvel superheroes

    Doctor Who franchise

    E.T.

    Lord of the Rings

    Matrix

    Signs

    Star Trek franchise

    Star Wars franchise

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    44 Min.
  • BOOK CLUB: To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose

    BOOK CLUB: To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose
    May 27 2026

    We’re sad to say goodbye to dragon month, but happy to send it off with a book club chat about Moniquill Blackgoose’s incredible first installment of the Nampeshiweisit series, To Shape a Dragon's Breath. This book follows the journey of Anequs, who bonds with a dragon hatchling and becomes the first Nampeshiweisit of her people in generations. However, the laws of the Anglish colonisers require her to receive formal training in dragon riding, or face the death of her dragon or even herself. Anequs leaves her home to enrol in a dragon academy. However, it’s far from smooth flying and she faces condescension, suspicion, and outright hostility from the Anglish there.

    Join us as we chat all about magic dragon schools, the importance of oral storytelling and indigenous knowledges, and the ways that fantasy holds up a mirror to the devastating past and present of living in a settler colony.

    Be warned: This is a book club episode, so we will be getting into spoilers!



    MENTIONS

    🐉 Our BOTM is To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose.

    📚 BOOKS: The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers; To Ride a Rising Storm by Moniquill Blackgoose; Ida by Alison Evans

    🎬 MOVIES: Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)

    🖼️GALLERY: Flinders University Museum of Art



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    58 Min.
  • Cozy Fantasy and Queer Abundance: An Interview with Rebecca Thorne

    Cozy Fantasy and Queer Abundance: An Interview with Rebecca Thorne
    May 20 2026

    Join us for our hilarious interview with USA Today, Indie, and Sunday Times bestselling author Rebecca Thorne. Rebecca talks us through her life-long love of dragons, retrospective worldbuilding, the phenomenon of cozy fantasy, and the joy of writing established lesbian couples. We had an absolute blast talking to Rebecca, so we know you'll enjoy this interview: described by participants as "cozy, like the genre".

    This month we’re reading How to Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose. Grab your copy and have a read before our bookclub on 21st May!

    MENTIONS

    Movies/TV
    Dragonheart (1996)
    Sleepless in Seattle (1993)

    Books
    The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein
    Dragonology by Dugald Steer
    The Enchanted Forest Chronicles by Patricia C. Wrede
    Dragon's Bait by Vivian Vande Velde
    Tomes and Tea series by Rebecca Thorne
    Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
    Divergent by Veronica Roth
    The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
    The Song of the Lioness series by Tamora Pierce
    Protector of the Small series by Tamora Pierce
    The McBrides series by Amy Barry
    Moss'd In Space by Rebecca Thorne
    Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
    The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells
    This Gilded Abyss by Rebecca Thorne
    Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
    Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V.E. Schwab
    Sir Callie series by Esme Symes-Smith
    Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

    LINKS

    🐉 Where to find Rebecca:

    • On IG: @rebeccathornewrites
    • Website: https://rebeccathorne.net/

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