Stacey Copeland’s Lavender Sounds delves into lesbian radio history and its evolution into queer feminist podcasting today, exploring the politics, aesthetics, and cultural activism embedded in queer feminist soundwork. Through deeply personal and archival explorations, Stacey Copeland traces the emergence of queer feminist soundwork—a unique blend of community-led storytelling, political resistance, and creative expression rooted in feminist and LGBTQ+ activism. At the heart of the book lies a powerful idea: sound is not just heard but felt, connecting generations through shared voices and struggles. In conversation with award-winning and cutting-edge queer and feminist podcast producers from across Canada and the U.S., Lavender Sounds invites us to turn a feminist embodied ear to the past to uncover the ways gender, race, and sexual orientations are embedded in our everyday media listening practices. From pioneering Canadian radio shows like Vancouver's The Lesbian Show and Montreal's Dykes on Mykes to today’s queer chumcasts and audio documentary, Lavender Sounds is a journey through auditory landscapes where joy, protest, intimacy, and identity intersect. This book opens a vibrant conversation about how radio and podcasting are vital tools for marginalized communities to connect, create, and claim space in the media world.

Stacey Copeland is Assistant Professor of Cultural Heritage & Identity at the Centre for Media and Journalism Studies at the University of Groningen.

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List of Figures
Introduction: Tuning the Temporal Static
Chapter 1: Feminism and Queer Culture in Stereo: Queer Feminism and the Production of Soundwork
Chapter 2: Being a Public Queer: On Sonic Community and Audibility Activism
Chapter 3: Kisses through the Static: Producing a Queer Politics of Sonic Intimacy and Play
Chapter 4: Finding Queer Soundwork: On Feminist Network Labor and Discoverability
Epilogue: Sound Politics Across Forms and Futures
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