Eurovision Song Context
A podcast where we bring in smart people. We talk about smart things, then veer into glitter, wind machines, and geopolitics. Experts. Insight. Eurovision chaos.
Displaying 3 items of Eurovision Song Context with the tag "lgbtq".
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Episode 91: Borders Belonging & Becoming with Josh Rivers
September 29th, 2026 | 1 hr 18 mins
Race, Representation, art, austria, belonging, black europe, black identity, black queer culture, busy being black, conchita wurst, european identity, eurovision, eurovision history, eurovision song contest, identity, jeangu macrooy, josh rivers, joshua rivers, lgbtq, migration, milly scott, netherlands, poetry, queer europe, queer identity, right to opacity, wangechi mutu, édouard glissant
Bradley talks with Busy Being Black host Joshua Rivers about identity, belonging and who gets to be European. From Blackness and queerness to art, poetry and the “right to opacity,” they explore what happens when the labels that help define us also begin to constrain us. Eurovision performances from Milly Scott, Jeangu Macrooy and Conchita Wurst become jumping-off points for conversations about representation, migration and Europe’s changing sense of itself.
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Episode 41: (Part 2) A Place of Our Own, with June Thomas
May 1st, 2024 | 41 mins 8 secs
Queer, alessandra mele, chanel, june thomas, katrina and the waves, lgbtq, lgbtq+, megara, sandie shaw
Welcome to Eurovision Song Context, a podcast about culture in ESC.
We’re Bradley, and Margherita, and in this episode we’re joined by the amazing June Thomas. You may know her from Slate Magazine. She was its Foreign Editor, TV writer, and is now author of the new book A Place Of Our Own; Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women’s Culture . We’ll talk about that, plus, classic Eurivision versus the contemporary Eurovision, Northern English pride, and Queer Women in Eurovision. We’ll also cover Sandie Shaw, Megara, Chanel, Katrina and the Waves and Alessandra Mele. See the shownotes at eurovisionsongcontext.fireside.fm , or by looking in the episode description. Just a note: this episode is supposed to drop on May 12th, but we’re releasing early so you can focus on the Grand Final! Our next regular episode will be June 12th.
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Episode 40: (Part 1) A Place of Our Own, with June Thomas
May 1st, 2024 | 47 mins 1 sec
Queer, alessandra mele, chanel, june thomas, katrina and the waves, lgbtq, lgbtq+, megara, sandie shaw
Welcome to Eurovision Song Context, a podcast about culture in ESC.
We’re Bradley, and Margherita, and in this episode we’re joined by the amazing June Thomas. You may know her from Slate Magazine. She was its Foreign Editor, TV writer, and is now author of the new book A Place Of Our Own; Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women’s Culture . We’ll talk about that, plus, classic Eurivision versus the contemporary Eurovision, Northern English pride, and Queer Women in Eurovision. We’ll also cover Sandie Shaw, Megara, Chanel, Katrina and the Waves and Alessandra Mele. See the shownotes at eurovisionsongcontext.fireside.fm , or by looking in the episode description. Just a note: this episode is supposed to drop on May 12th, but we’re releasing early so you can focus on the Grand Final! Our next regular episode will be June 12th.