Nowt as Queer as Folk: A Conversation with Rio Veradonir
In this episode of our Two for Tea podcast, our editor-in-chief Iona Italia talks to Rio Veradonir about the challenges of celebrating sexual diversity and standing up for the rights of consenting adults to sexual freedom, while avoiding the traps of identity politics and victimhood culture.
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Where to find Rio:
https://www.queermajority.com/about-the-editor-sub/about-the-editor-rv
Bi Foundation: https://www.bisexuality.org/
Queer Majority: https://www.queermajority.com/
Bi.org: https://bi.org/en
amBi: https://www.ambi.org/
Rio Veradonir
Rio Veradonir is a producer, writer and community organizer. Rio is Assistant Director at the Bi Foundation, editor-in-chief of Queer Majority, and a producer at Bi.org and amBi.org—the world’s largest bi resource and social club. He writes about the intersections of philosophy, politics and human sexuality.
Iona Italia
Iona Italia is Areo Magazine's editor-in-chief and the host of the associated podcast Two for Tea. She is the author of two books: Anxious Employment (a study of eighteenth-century essayists) and Our Tango World (sociological and philosophical musings on dance and life). Her political essays can be found here; she also publishes weekly creative non-fiction pieces on her Substack, The Second Swim.
