90mil radio: Songs for the Crossing
Greetings, travelers! Welcome to Songs for the Crossing on 90mil radio.
Originally designed as a live performance, Songs for The Crossing launches as a monthly radio show, hosted by 90mil radio.
This collaborative performance project is a series of ‘trans campfire stories,’ which I began in conjunction with my own gender transition. When I started microdosing testosterone eighteen months ago, I began to see this intangible terrain stretching before me, superimposed onto every moment of my daily routine. This alternate space, I learned, is the wilderness that lies beyond lawful genders. In this radio hour, we offer you words to be shared around a campfire at night, in the outback between fixed bodily states.
Every month, I’ll be joined by a different guest, and we'll travel with you around a loose theme within trans and queer experience.
Episodes
EP8: THE FOOL
The 2025 Mascot, expert on creating beginnings.
January 2025
Music provided by Delwyn
Featuring writing by:
Encyclopaedia Brittanica
Guillaume de Poitiers
Jaufre Rudel
Arielle Richards
Kimberly Blaeser
And your host, Lou Croff Blake
EP7: SOLSTICE
Rebirthing the world is a process.
December 2024
Guest: Hilary C/B
Featuring writing by:
Wendell Berry
norse-mythology.org
newgrange.com
wonderdome.co.uk
Chris Wood
Katherine Langrish
Edith Wharton
And your host, Lou Croff Blake
EP6: HARVEST
You reap what you sow.
November 2024
Guest: Pablo Diserens
Featuring writing by:
Oliver Baez Bendorf
Niel Gaiman
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Ursula K. Le Guin
Jose Hernandez Diaz
And your host, Lou Croff Blake
EP5: LEGACY
Queer chosen family, ancestry, and heritage in Berlin.
Live on Thursday, 11/10/2024
Re-play on Sunday, 14/10/2024
Guest: Bin Cir
Featuring writing by:
Christopher Isherwood
Audre Lorde
Kurt Schwabach
Hildegard von Bingen
and various Wikipedia excerpts on Nazism and Queerness
And your host, Lou Croff Blake
EP4: ALCHEMY
Solve et Coagula: the dissolving and reforming of matter, material transformation in pursuit of gold and the elixer of life.
Live on Thursday, 12/09/2024
Re-play on Sunday, 15/09/2024
Guest: Slowfoam
Featuring writing by:
Octavia E. Butler
Jone Johnson Lewis
Blog of Iglesia de Satan
Isaac Newton
Wo Chan
And your host, Lou Croff Blake
EP3: CARE PT. 1
Care Among Friends, Lovers, Community
Live on Thursday, 15/08/2024
Re-play on Sunday, 18/08/2024
Guest: Seelene
Featuring writing by:
Aliyah Knight
Nicola Griffith
Zach Croft
Larry Mitchell
Joshua Edwards
And your host, Lou Croff Blake
EP2: BUGS
The very queer world of entomology
Live on Thursday, 18/07/2024
Re-play on Sunday, 21/07/2024
Guest: CCL
Featuring writing by:
Greer & ASU - Ask A Biologist
Renée Branum
Kahlil Gibran
And your host, Lou Croff Blake
EP1: PYROMANCY
Divination by Fire
Live on Thursday, 20/06/2024
Re-play on Sunday, 23/06/2024
Guest: Crysanth
Featuring writing by:
Jamaal May
Sotellaaa
Mejdulene B. Shomali
occult-world.com/pyromancy
And your host, Lou Croff Blake
About 90mil:
“90mil is a temporary urban regeneration project near Jannowitzbrücke, Berlin. For just over a year we have been transforming this 2000sqm site into a multidisciplinary space for creation and community - offering studios, exhibition space, performance venue, theatre, ceramics, movement studio, wood and metal workshop, community kitchen and garden - with a donation-based programme centered on public access; eclectic, unexpected and cross-disciplinary works; and international collaboration.”