Mars Dixon's guest appearances

Mars Dixon

Better Yet

Talk Music Talk with boice

Pixel Therapy Pod

Aye Nako

Laura Stevenson

Rema Webb

Stefan Babcock

Tom Johnson

Kelly Hogan

Anthony Jay

Chris Gethard

Mike Campbell

Christian Howes

Steve Albini

David Berman

Lucy Dacus

Lucie Vítková

Anthony Harris

OwlTail

This week, we're joined by Black queer YouTuber, musician, model, and artist Mars Dixon (they/she/he), who streams games everywhere as @wii_gay from Twitch to PornHub (you read that right), builds computers for trans people, believes in making gaming content more accessible to non-gamers, and is an absolute ray of gay light.Mars shares how The Sims gave them a place to visualize a queer future, and provided sanctuary and validation during a rough childhood. Then, we dive into the story of a queer game developer, Patrick J. Barrett III, who pretty much accidentally made The Sims gay and changed the landscape of gaming forever. It's a powerful reminder of how queer people have always existed and have always contributed to the creation of culture--and we will persevere!Also, your co-hosts do a bit of a deep dive on our experiences playing Spiritfarer and its impact on our relationships to death and our mental health journeys.Heads up: This episode contains story spoilers for Spiritfarer (20:45 - 37:30) and The Haunting of Bly Manor (29:40 - 37:30).Follow WiiGay on Patreon and YouTubeFollow Mars Dixon on InstagramDonate to the Homeless Black Trans Women FundAbout Pixel TherapyNew episodes drop every other Tuesday. Learn more at pixeltherapypod.com or follow us on social media @pixeltherapypod. If you like what you hear, please take a moment to rate us, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts (or your listening app of choice) &amp; subscribe! Thank you!

This week, we're joined by Black queer YouTuber, musician, model, and artist Mars Dixon (they/she/he), who streams games everywhere as @wii_gay from Twitch to PornHub (you read that right), builds computers for trans people, believes in making gaming content more accessible to non-gamers, and is an absolute ray of gay light.Mars shares how The Sims gave them a place to visualize a queer future, and provided sanctuary and validation during a rough childhood. Then, we dive into the story of a queer game developer, Patrick J. Barrett III, who pretty much accidentally made The Sims gay and changed the landscape of gaming forever. It's a powerful reminder of how queer people have always existed and have always contributed to the creation of culture--and we will persevere!Also, your co-hosts do a bit of a deep dive on our experiences playing Spiritfarer and its impact on our relationships to death and our mental health journeys.Heads up: This episode contains story spoilers for Spiritfarer (20:45 - 37:30) and The Haunting of Bly Manor (29:40 - 37:30).Follow WiiGay on <a href="https://www.patreon.com/wiigay" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Patreon</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/wiigay" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a>Follow Mars Dixon on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/mmdizzie/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a>Donate to the <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/p6q5sm-homeless-black-trans-women-fund" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">Homeless Black Trans Women Fund</a>About Pixel TherapyNew episodes drop every other Tuesday. Learn more at <a href="https://pixeltherapypod.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank">pixeltherapypod.com</a> or follow us on social media @pixeltherapypod. If you like what you hear, please take a moment to rate us, leave us a review on Apple Podcasts (or your listening app of choice) &amp; subscribe! Thank you!

Queering Gaming Culture and The Sims' Secret Gay History with Mars Dixon

The best creatives often design from a place of not seeing themselves represented in certain spaces. In the case of Mars Dixon, seven years ago he formed the band Aye Nako because he wanted to see a stage populated with people of color, queer people or even trans people like himself performing punk music that shouts from the margins. The Brooklyn-based group recently put out their third release, Silver Haze. It's a vital collection of spiky, melodic songs where Mars splits guitar and vocal duties with fellow songwriter Jade Payne. Sheena McGrath (drums) and Joe McCann (bass) complete the quartet. [This episode features "Spare Me" and "Sissy" from Silver Haze in their entirety."] Visit Aye Nako online:                                                 https://ayenako.bandcamp.comhttps://twitter.com/aye_nakohttps://www.instagram.com/aye_nako/?hl=en Back Catalog Suggestion:                                                      https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/talk-music-talk-with-boice/id942357796? mt=2&amp;i=1000339392617   SUBSCRIBE ON SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/thisisboice TMT APP FOR iPHONE: http://bit.ly/TMTappiOS TMT APP FOR ANDROID: http://bit.ly/TMTappANDROID SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES: http://bit.ly/TalkMusicTalk SUBSCRIBE ON GOOGLE PLAY: http://bit.ly/TMTgoogleplay Please take a moment to leave a rating and/or review in the store. It helps increase the ranking of the podcast and exposes TMT to a new audience. Thanks!  Liz (The Talk Music Talk Theme)-FULL VERSION Written and Composed on an iPad by boice. https://soundcloud.com/thisisboice/liz-talk-music-talk-theme   SURVEY It would be greatly appreciated if you would take a moment to ﬁll out this brief demographic survey. It will be used solely to help me select advertisers/sponsors for Talk Music Talk to offset the cost to produce the podcast i.e. audio editor, podcast host, traveling to guests to record. It should take less than a minute of your time. Thanks!                                                                                                                                                                                                    http://www.talkmusictalk.com/survey

The best creatives often design from a place of not seeing themselves represented in certain spaces. In the case of Mars Dixon, seven years ago he formed the band Aye Nako because he wanted to see a stage populated with people of color, queer people or even trans people like himself performing punk music that shouts from the margins. The Brooklyn-based group recently put out their third release, Silver Haze. It's a vital collection of spiky, melodic songs where Mars splits guitar and vocal duties with fellow songwriter Jade Payne. Sheena McGrath (drums) and Joe McCann (bass) complete the quartet. [This episode features "Spare Me" and "Sissy" from Silver Haze in their entirety."] Visit Aye Nako online:                                                 <a href="https://ayenako.bandcamp.com/%C3%82" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ayenako.bandcamp.com</a><a href="https://twitter.com/aye_nako" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/aye_nako</a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/aye_nako/?hl=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/aye_nako/?hl=en</a> Back Catalog Suggestion:                                                      <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/talk-music-talk-with-boice/id942357796?%20mt=2&amp;i=1000339392617" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/talk-music-talk-with-boice/id942357796? mt=2&amp;i=1000339392617</a> SUBSCRIBE ON SOUNDCLOUD: <a href="https://soundcloud.com/thisisboice" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/thisisboice</a> TMT APP FOR iPHONE: <a href="http://bit.ly/TMTappiOS" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/TMTappiOS</a> TMT APP FOR ANDROID: <a href="http://bit.ly/TMTappANDROID" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/TMTappANDROID</a> SUBSCRIBE ON iTUNES: <a href="http://bit.ly/TalkMusicTalk" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/TalkMusicTalk</a> SUBSCRIBE ON GOOGLE PLAY: <a href="http://bit.ly/TMTgoogleplay" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/TMTgoogleplay</a> Please take a moment to leave a rating and/or review in the store. It helps increase the ranking of the podcast and exposes TMT to a new audience. Thanks! <a href="http://bit.ly/TMTrssfeed" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> Liz (The Talk Music Talk Theme)-FULL VERSION Written and Composed on an iPad by boice. <a href="https://soundcloud.com/thisisboice/liz-talk-music-talk-theme" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://soundcloud.com/thisisboice/liz-talk-music-talk-theme</a> SURVEY It would be greatly appreciated if you would take a moment to ﬁll out this brief demographic survey. It will be used solely to help me select advertisers/sponsors for Talk Music Talk to offset the cost to produce the podcast i.e. audio editor, podcast host, traveling to guests to record. It should take less than a minute of your time. Thanks!                                                                                                                                                                                                    <a href="http://www.talkmusictalk.com/survey" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.talkmusictalk.com/survey</a>

TMT 142: Mars Dixon (Aye Nako)

Episode 49 - Mars Dixon & Jade Payne (Aye Nako)