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Queering The Airwaves 2025 - See The Full Pride Schedule!

What does it mean to be Queer online? After marking the 50th anniversary of Dublin Pride last year, it is now time to look to the future. As our physical world becomes ever increasingly intertwined with its online counterpart, so do the Queer lives which inhabit it. Since the early days of chat rooms and forums offering Queer people the chance to connect and explore identities, to the present array of social media, live streaming and messaging apps, the internet has forever changed how Queer people interact and organise. In our current era of hyperconnectivity, surveillance capitalism and digital resistance, it is an important moment to reflect on our digital heritage but also envisage how Queer communities can fit into and shape future digital landscapes.




Genesis Fawn

Genesis Fawn presents a live broadcast from the DDR Studios as an ode to "Goth" and its proximity to queerness through electronic genres like EBM, Post-punk, Darkwave, Minimal Wave, and Dark Ambient.

@genesisfawn

I'm Queer & "The Algorithm" Hates Me

In this one-hour talk and music special, Queer artist Meljoann and their equally Queer manager Dwayne dive headfirst into the warped world of music industry algorithms and ask the big question: Why is the Algorithm such a f*cking pleb? Blurring the line between parody and painful truth, the duo unpack their shared experiences navigating an industry that still sidelines Queer voices. Expect sharp wit, subversive insight, and a few uncomfortable truths. Featuring a very special appearance from self-proclaimed music industry ‘expert’ Dr. Synergy Myers (I know, right?) and plenty more Queer surprises, this is one unmissable exposé that slaps, hard.

Moth Manifesto

The moth manifesto invites you to be the pest in your own closet, tearing holes in the fabric of cisnormative reality. Listen close: you might hear a poetic whisper, a kiss or a prophecy of change.

@mothpoet

The full moth manifesto can be viewed here.

Vanakkam Dolls!

This project honours the queer people of a south Asia, specifically the Tamil people of India and Sri Lanka. India was one of the first Asian countries to recognise trans people as a third gender, with a prominent population of strong trans Tamil women in Tamil Nadu (state). Growing up in a western country trans rights were so vocalised and accepted and every time I would visit India, I would see how marginalized and discriminated trans Tamil people are despite struggling to survive and make a living. I want to honour queer and trans siblings in my Tamil community and highlight the change they’ve made in the south Asian community.

@sahanasridharrr @kauzzhik

The Trans Experience in Ireland

The Trans Experience in Ireland is a documentary that highlights individual experiences of transgender people who live in/have grown up in Ireland. In the documentary Eden Walsh interviews 3 transgender/gender non-conforming individuals who are currently living in Ireland, asking them about their experiences with their identity in Ireland and how they have been treated through expressing their identities.

@lucrecialaluna

@official_dylankrug

@darragh.ocruadhlaoich

Dykonic Festival

Dykonic is Ireland’s first outdoor music festival centering queer women, Sapphics, and FLINTA people. Taking place August 9, 2025 at Orlagh House, Dublin, it features live music, DJs, queer vendors, and a lush, inclusive atmosphere. With artists like Beth McCarthy, ARXX, Inge Lamboo, Fox Gunn, and more, Dykonic is more than a festival — it’s a celebration of queer joy, connection, and community. This is our space, our stage, and our summer.

@dykonicfestival

Enola Podcasterizer

One hour of DDR exclusive glitch, sound collage, and rambling hosted by Enola Christ Metalizer. Sit back and relax as an endless barrage of scrap metal, thunder and uncomfortable mouth noises hit your eardrums.

@enolaxmetalizer

Sound It OUT

Sound It OUT is a talk show that revolves around the 'playlist of your queer life' and the importance of music in the queer experience. I invite LGBTQIA+ guests, especially people of color, to share their experiences through the music that accompanied their journeys. The show explores one's past, present, and future as a queer individual. The guest picks a song that represents each phase, and I respond with my own chosen track, creating a conversation through words and tunes.

@reatfr

 Anonymity in Cyberspace

How do we communicate who we are when no one can see us? The proliferation of the digital world into ‘real-life’ in recent years has placed increased pressure on Internet users to present an ‘authentic’ version of one’s ‘real’ self online. What does authenticity mean in a queer context? This 30-minute broadcast will draw from two main works: The Sluts, a novel by the American author Dennis Cooper (@dennis_cooper_writer) that is told primarily through gay male escort forums, and ‘I only have my name?’ a collaborative net.art piece by Dutch performance artist Annie Abrahams (@annie.abrahams).

@feebleflesh

This Feels Like Home w/ DJ Time of the Month

‘This Feels Like Home’ pays tribute to the people, spaces, and sounds that make queer dance culture what it is: joyful, defiant, tender, and radically inclusive. This hour-long mix is my celebration of the community that shaped me both as a DJ and a queer woman — a sonic thank-you to the artists, promoters, dancers, and chosen families that have made these spaces feel like home.

@djtimeofthemonth

NUTOPIA

NUTOPIA is an exploration of Queer Utopian Fiction, a radical reimagining of social life, history and identity as proposed by hosts Cúan and Roibí. Post Nuquear fallout two residents of the NUTOPIA, 'Queer na n'Óg', have a lifestyle podcast- what would the world look like in absence of the cisheteronormative?

@culchie_spice @roibiorua

Fishnets

Mav (she/her) is a DJ, producer and live techno performer based in Dublin; she started spinning tunes in the early 2000s and eventually found her habitat in the alternative clubbing scene where she could simultaneously explore her gender and evolve her sound. She sits on the dark/industrial side of the techno landscape. Coming from rock/metal roots, she approached electronic music from an alternative angle. The exploration of industrial, dark, goth, EBM, aggrotech, has broadened her views and heavily influenced her taste and creativity. She loves strong four on the floor beats and aggressive, hypnotic grooves, minimal melodies and deadpan vocals.

@djmavofficial

Actually, Real Emo

In the long-distant past of around 2006-2010 I stumbled into my first online space full of queers. It was the music forum attached to the unfortunately-named art sharing website deviantART. We were a bunch of horrible music snobs and most of us hadn't even figured out we were queer yet, but I made friends for life and a truly improbable number of us turned out to be trans. This show will be a kind of musical memoir of the time - the music we liked, the music we had flame wars about, and the songs that turned into weird injokes. It might be ridiculously self-indulgent but at least we had pretty good music taste.

@meabhjade

Brokecraic Mountain

We are Brokecraic Mountain, a comedy show and agony aunt extravaganza. Silly bits and we will answer queries and give advice.

Kwoo Void

This very special Queer Glam edition of the Kwoo Void, hosted by DJ Kwoo, will be a glamrock disco of under-and-overground gems from Jobirath, to Tonetta, Patrick Cowley to Jayne County and Amanda Lear. Tune in for campy, trashy, vampy perfection!

@kwoovoid

Queer Cyborgs

A discussion on queer resistance to contemporary digital developments, and a celebration of pioneering queer electronic music. Join me, and practising Dublin-based artists as we talk about queer responses to the online world today. From algorithmic subversion to revolutionary datasets, listen in if you are interested in artistic responses to current issues.

@caprisunhun @rachelbrennannn @J0ywalsh

(Un)making Architecture: Queer Space in Dublin

What does it mean to create a queer space—and how does architecture play a role in that process? In this episode, we explore the idea of queer space through the lens of architecture and queer theory, asking how space can be queered through use, design, and community.

@bia.porf @inespesado2.9

Where are we now, together?

An audio speaking piece based on a project ran in conjunction with the Out South Central LGBTQ+ adult group. It’s a socially-engaged arts piece done over 6 months of working together each Saturday, building relationships, devising and developing text together, including exhibiting at a Work in Progress showing in Street 66.

Yoo-Hoo Radio

“I’m frightened that if I switch it on, I’m going to blow it up. I’m frightened that you hear people say, ‘I’ve lost everything on the computer, months and months of work’, not that I know what it means but I think supposin’ I went in and had a go…” – Kim Woodburn

Don’t be frightened, my loves. The ghost in the machine is an inherently queer figure. Haunting the normativity of the algorithm, mincing around the motherboard, ectoplasm oozing out of the hard drive...

Cruising through a selection of our favourite clips, quips and songs, Yoo-hoo Radio embraces ghostliness as freedom in the Digital Age.

@elliekatelily @mcdliam @mammy_fingers

"This year's edition of Queering the Airwaves represents one of the most diverse and dynamic editions to date. The wide variety  showcased in this broadcasting showcases the diversity and vibrancy of Ireland's Queer community, and the role it plays in shaping Ireland's cultural and creative landscape. From reflections on our past, to dreams of radical digital futures, this year's broadcasting illustrates how our Queer community looks forward to the future and how we can be an integral part in shaping it for the better"

Jonathan Burke, Queering the Airwaves Programmer

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