“Lavender Sounds” with Stacey Copeland

Listen, this episode is as delightful as it sounds. Audiophile Stacey Copeland tells me all about feminist soundwork, radical radio, and lesbian podcasts – all of which Stacey writes about in the excellent new book Lavender Sounds. Tune in for the sonic histories, stay for the moment when Stacey illustrating the crafted intimacy of podcasts will make you a little weak in the knees. If you are interested in the politics and potential of audio media, you will absolutely love this episode.  
 
References: 
Stacey Copeland’s Lavender Sounds: From Lesbian Radio to Queer Feminist Soundwork (University of Michigan Press, 2026)
Amplify Network
Copeland, Stacey "Sustaining queer joy and potentiality: Through independent production with homoground music podcast." Journal of popular music studies 35.4 (2023): 111-124.
Betty Friedan
Lavender Menace
Michele Hilmes
Bluestockings Cooperative
bell hooks
Hannah McGregor
The Lesbian Show Fonds are held at the City of Vancouver Archives https://searcharchives.vancouver.ca/the-lesbian-show
Kaitlin Prest
Jennifer Lynn Stoever’s The Sonic Color Line (NYU Press, 2016)
Silva Tenenbein’s original interview with Stacey aired on FemRadio in 2018 https://soundcloud.com/scopeatryerson/the-lesbian-show
Dykes on Mykes is back on the airwaves at CKUT Montreal https://ckut.ca/playlists/DM
The ArQuives - https://arquives.ca/
‘Temporal drag’ is a reference from Elizabeth Freeman’s Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (Duke University Press, 2010)
The Heart’s “Lesbian Separatism is Inevitable” - https://www.theheartradio.org/solos/2020/1/15/lesbian-separatism-is-inevitable
NK (Nicole Kelly)
Phoebe Unter
staceycopeland.com
Forbidden Love: The Unashamed Stories of Lesbian Lives - https://www.nfb.ca/film/forbidden_love/
Studio D – The women’s film studio founded in 1974 under the NFB (National Film Board of Canada)   

Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:

1.      How does Stacey define lavender sounds and why is the colour lavender connected to queerness, historically and politically?
2.      What is soundwork? What is feminist soundwork?
3.      Why is audibility important to consider, not just visibility?
4.      What does Stacey mean when speaking about the everydayness of soundwork?
5.      Why does radio hold radical potential?
6.      How does sound relate to time in Stacey’s work?