Queer FM Episode July 16, 2024
QueerFM Featured Guests: QUIANA MAJOR (she/her) is a black queer southern Rock N’ Roller/COURTNEY BATES-HARDY (she/her) is a poet and the author of Anatomical Venus
8:00am - 10:00am
QUIANA MAJOR (she/her) is a black queer southern Rock N’ Roller from Miami, Florida with high diving anthems and intimate emotional ballads. With genre bending musical influences and honest life provoking lyrics she delivers once in a lifetime performances taking audiences on a journey through time and space. The joy of music is apparent in everything this gifted artist does and we can't wait to share her story with you and a mutual love of all things BREAD. You will have to tune in to catch what we're cooking with that statement!
Their latest release DAMSEL is out on all the streamers, mark your calendars for their EP release ALL WE ARE, available August 2nd. You can find the artist on Insta at @majormuze or on her website at www.quianamajor.com
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COURTNEY BATES-HARDY (she/her) is a poet and the author of Anatomical Venus, House of Mystery, and a chapbook, Sea Foam. Her poems have appeared in Event, Vallum, and PRISM, among others and have been featured in Best Canadian Poetry 2021 and nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She is queer and disabled, and one-third of a writing group called The Pain Poets.
Her latest release is called ANATOMICAL VENUS and is a visceral collection of poems that invoke anatomical models, feminine monsters, and little-known historical figures. It’s a journey through car accidents and physio appointments, 18th century morgues and modern funeral homes.
Grappling with the cyclical nature of chronic pain, these poems ask how to live with and love the self in pain. Magic seeps through, in the form of fairy tales, in the stories of powerful monsters, in the introspection of the tarot, and the transcendence of queer love. You can find the Author on Insta at @courtneybateshardy or their website at www.courtneybateshardy.com