The Screw

In their deeper exploration of sexual hygiene, Felicia Rose and ALove react to a list of recommenations and compare their expeiences against them. They discuss their respective tolerances with nastiness and share the wisdom they've gathered from less conventional experiences.Catch up on all the NQO happenings at NewQueerOrder.com and follow the Screw on Twitter and Instagram

This series, Felicia Rose and ALove are cleaning up their act and talking about mental and physical hygiene. Your hosts chat about how intentional emotional maintenance makes a person healthier and sexier and about all the places a body harbors bacteria that may or may not need to be scrubbed away. Patronize and jerk off to the Screw’s clown of choice, Sicko!Catch up on all the NQO happenings at NewQueerOrder.com and follow the Screw on Twitter and Instagram

This week, Felicia Rose and ALove wrap up our discussion of HIV with a guest. Steven is HIV+ and shares how his status colors his experience. He explains how his first positive test came 15 months after he contracted it, how people’s treatment changes when they learn his status and how much fear plays into ignorance about HIV. We can’t thank Steven enough for sharing these personal stories with us, and we want to reiterate his parting message: Take care of queer youth. They’re growing up in scary times.Catch up on all the NQO happenings at NewQueerOrder.com and follow the Screw on Twitter and Instagram

In part two of our exploration of HIV, Felicia Rose and ALove present their homework. They explore how HIV impacts communities along class and racial lines in addition to the obvious impact on queer people. They discuss how and why new drugs become part of HIV management and read from personal narratives about how people interact with you when you have HIV.\Catch up on all the NQO happenings at NewQueerOrder.com and follow the Screw on Twitter and Instagram

The Screw returns with a new series discussing the practical realities of HIV. It’s a disease with a complicated history of obfuscation and misinformation, so Felicia Rose and ALove want to investigate how people with HIV live their lives and how they want or need to interact with the world around them. In this first dip into the topic, our hosts cover their personal histories with it, how people of all statuses are bad at safer sex and clear up some of the most obvious misconceptions about HIV. This episode marks a programming change. Going forward, the Screw will be a bi-weekly show that comes out in three-episode blocks. A first impressions episode, an episode where Felica and Aaron present the homework they’ve done on the topic and the roundtable episode where guests share their perspectives.

The Screw is back from its accidental Christmas vacation! This final chapter in the Screw’s investigation into masculinities, Felicia Rose and ALove talk to poet Blake Morrisson, Lynwood Mcleod a.k.a. Shirley U. Jest, and Kamryn Jerrel of Tranos &The Lived Experience about their collective experience of masculinity. Each guest comes from a unique background and arrived at their conclusions in their own ways. The team discusses the source of gender, how children are policed to perform adults’ gender expectations and whether or not it’s sexy. Catch up on all the NQO happenings at NewQueerOrder.com and follow the Screw on Twitter and Instagram

This week, Felicia Rose and ALove dig deep into how masculinity has intersected with their sex lives. They discuss how social pressures to perform masculinity affect everybody from sissy tops, to the larger of two sapphic women, to straight women who never think to perform masculinity. Even in our most intimate interactions, we are not free from the influences of masculinity. Next week, the Screw will collect a grip of perspectives to get all the angles on this. If you want to contribute to the roundtable, leave comments and questions for your hosts on Twitter and Instagram where you can follow to find out what topics the Screw is going to explore and how you might contribute.

In our second pass on masculinities, Felicia Rose and ALove discuss a couple sources that think masculinity is a construct but don't seem to know how. Between the authors' attempts to describe masculinity, your hosts discuss the limits of objective catagories, how much masculinity needs to be taught and pit licking. December 1 is Felicia Rose's birthday! Make sure to intensify your celebration of the People's Tramp by participating in World AIDS Day by contributing to funds and research that reign in HIV and by buying some spank material from the Screw's favorite dumpster.

This week, the Screw begins with a tribute to those killed at Club Q last weekend. It’s difficult but important. If you want to help the parts of the community impacted by this attack, check out Colorado Public Radio’s list of potential resources. When the episode lightens up, Felicia Rose and ALove discuss acceptable and deviant gender performance for masculinity. There are as many rules and regulations governing masculinity as there are masculine individuals, and your hosts embark on a journey to find what is most valuable about masculinity and what barriers have been constructed between men and masc people and their truest self-expressions. This is a deep and nebulous topic, so leave comments and questions for your hosts on Twitter and Instagram. Where you can follow to find out what topics the Screw is going to explore and how you might contribute.

This week, producer Bee Jordan visits the front side of the podcast to fill in some uncovered media. Felicia Rose and ALove ask them questions about their favorite queer sex scene of all time, where to look for representation and whether its worth it to demand representation in the first place. This episode features some more niche media recommendations, so this is a list of some more obscure examples: Hardcoded Sunstone and others Caper at the Castro Catch up on all the NQO happenings at NewQueerOrder.com and follow the Screw on Twitter and Instagram

On this deep dive, Felicia Rose and ALove uncover representation they mostly haven’t ever heard of. They run through a list of media that portrays queer characters for audiences of all ages and demographics, including some shows with the mysterious “Y-7” rating and Aaron reviews “Boys” in a way that listeners of earlier episodes would have predicted, Catch up on all the NQO happenings at NewQueerOrder.com and follow the Screw on Twitter and Instagram

This week on the Screw, Felicia Rose and ALove debunk their ideas from last week. They catch up with the role queer represention plays in the lives of younger people and try to identify growth since their adolecenses and the shortcomings in media for younger people. Felicia talks about her attempts to pray the gay away and ALove rants about how bottom is not a personality. Catch up on all the NQO happenings at NewQueerOrder.com and follow the Screw on Twitter and Instagram

The Screw is back to talk about where queers can see themselves. In this preliminary episode, Felicia Rose and ALove talk about their best understanding of modern queer representation and compare it to what they saw in their youths. They consider how much representation used to be on premium cable and now how much of it is “too mainstream” to reach people where they’re at. Catch up on all the NQO happenings at NewQueerOrder.com and follow the Screw on Twitter and Instagram

In the finale of our four-week dive into health education for queer youth, Felicia Rose and ALove talk to a real educator, Haley Laidlaw. They’re a queer educator- former classroom teacher and current secondary school counselor, as well as the spouse of producer Bee- and they share their expertise to answer all the questions your hosts have come up with in the past month. They explain how and whether the standards from last week actually get applied and talk about how students really interact with the adults who are expected to foster them into healthy adults who know how to choose what’s best for them. If you appreciate Haley’s perspective, follow their art Instagram @MxesArt to get more of it. And write into the Screw on Twitter and Instagram if you have questions about what you’ve already heard or requests about what you want to hear in the future.

This time, Felicia Rose and ALove did some legwork and obtained some of the materials teachers in Denver Public Schools use to teach health classes. They read through the sex ed sections and compare the guidlines and handouts to the rough research they did last week, and make some pleasant discoveries. Colorado is one of the few states that have to teach actual facts, and our hosts head the bill that made that law and another that built from the bare minimum. Ms. Rose does some teacher roleplay and we formulate some questions to ask real, actual educators next week. Catch up on all the NQO happenings at NewQueerOrder.com and follow the Screw on Twitter and Instagram

So, Felicia Rose and ALove did less research than they planned to prepare for this week, but they didn’t come empty handed. They go over commentary and surveys about the lives of young queer people. They find out which states ban, allow and require queer content in health curricula and discuss what they think might be best practices for getting information to kids who need it. Follow this link for the GLSEN resource Felicia shouts out in the episode: https://www.glsen.org/sexed. Catch up on all the NQO happenings at NewQueerOrder.com and follow the Screw on Twitter and Instagram

Felicia Rose and ALove begin this deep dive with more questions than ever. In this investigation of the way queer youth learns about their sexual wellness in the United States. Your hosts haven’t engaged with K-12 education for a good long time, and it’s hard to say what kind of health classes kids take in 2022. With state legislatures across the country working on draconian, bigoted bills that attack queer people both in and out of the classroom, the experience students face today is a mystery! But one that they aim to solve. Catch up on all the NQO happenings at NewQueerOrder.com and follow the Screw on Twitter and Instagram

In our Digital Sex Work finale, Felicia Rose and ALove are joined by Smilee, Dani Leigh and Eddie Stone to examine the industry from their collective perspectives. Together, they explain the texture of this industry, the unique pitfalls and rewards different people can encounter and how they each square those things. They touch on the 4D self-love experience a person can have editing their own content and how important it is to the panel to unwind with non-stop true crime consumption. Make sure to seek our guests out: Dani Leigh at www.danileighxoxo.net Smille on Twitter @SmileeBWR and Eddie on Twitter @Eddie_StoneXXX Catch up on all the NQO happenings at NewQueerOrder.com and follow the Screw on Twitter and Instagram

Felicia Rose and ALove want to talk about whether or not they even like sex work. Is it much easier or much harder than a 9-5? Is it really for anybody who wants to try it, and can a person tell if it’s for them before trying it out? Your hosts chew on these questions and more in the second-deepest part of this dive into digital sex work. Catch up on all the NQO happenings at NewQueerOrder.com and follow the Screw on Twitter and Instagram

NQO apologizes for no new Screw this week. Due to an oral emergency -what kind is up to the audience’s imagination- we weren’t able to record a new episode. But please accept this offering of a relevant re-run. In one of the Screw’s best-beloved episodes, Felicia Rose gives her rundown of top tips for people who are just embarking on their digital trade. Stay tuned for the 2022 finale of this ongoing series about online sex work. Catch up on all the NQO happenings at NewQueerOrder.com and follow the Screw on Twitter and Instagram