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Anthropology
February 22, 2021
Streetwalking
LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic
Ana-Maurine Lara
Hosted by Reighan Gillam
In Streetwalking: LGBTQ Lives and Protest in the Dominican Republic (Rutgers University Press, 2020), Dr. Ana-Maurine Lara examines the dominant modes of power that seek to suppress LGBTQ lives and …
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Literary Studies
February 15, 2021
The Phenomenology of Love and Reading
Cassandra Falke
Hosted by Britton Edelen
In this episode, I interview Cassandra Falke, professor of English Literature ad UiT, The Arctic University of Norway, about her book The Phenomenology of Love and Reading (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016). In …
Southeast Asian Studies
February 15, 2021
The Politics of Love in Myanmar
LGBT Mobilization and Human Rights as a Way of Life
Lynette J. Chua
Hosted by Michele Ford
The Politics of Love in Myanmar: LGBT Mobilization and Human Rights as a Way of Life (Stanford UP, 2018) offers an intimate ethnographic account of a group of LGBT activists before …
Psychology
February 9, 2021
Out of the Shadows
Reimagining Gay Men's Lives
Walt Odets
Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
The progress that has been made by the gay rights movement can sometimes obscure the work that is still left to be done. In his new book, Out of the Shadows …
Performing Arts
February 5, 2021
Afro-Fabulations
The Queer Drama of Black Life
Tavia Nyong'o
Hosted by Andy Boyd
Tavia Nyong’o's Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life (NYU Press, 2018), examines a broad range of artists and disciplines, from Adrian Piper to Kara Walker to the meaning of …
LGBTQ+ Studies
January 26, 2021
Black Queer Freedom
Spaces of Injury and Paths of Desire
GerShun Avilez
Hosted by John Marszalek
Whether engaged in same-sex desire or gender nonconformity, black queer individuals live with being perceived as a threat while simultaneously being subjected to the threat of physical, psychological, and socioeconomic …
LGBTQ+ Studies
January 18, 2021
Live At Jackson Station
Music, Community, and Tragedy in a Southern Blues Bar
Daniel M. Harrison
Hosted by Morris Ardoin
The smoke was thick, the music was loud, and the beer was flowing. In the fast-and-loose 1980s, Jackson Station Rhythm & Blues Club in Hodges, South Carolina, was a festive …
Political Science
January 14, 2021
Transforming Prejudice
Identity, Fear, and Transgender Rights
Melissa R. Michelson and Brian F. Harrison
Hosted by Lilly Goren
Melissa Michelson and Brian Harrison, co-authors of the book Listen, We Need to Talk: How to Change Attitudes about LGBT Rights (Oxford University Press, 2017), which focused on how people …
Mobilities and Methods
January 5, 2021
Coming Out to the Streets
LGBTQ Youth Experiencing Homelessness
Brandon Andrew Robinson
Hosted by Alize Arıcan
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth are disproportionately represented in the U.S. youth homelessness population. In Coming Out to the Streets, Brandon Andrew Robinson examines their lives.Based on …
History
January 4, 2021
Her Neighbor's Wife
A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage
Lauren Jae Gutterman
Hosted by Stephen Colbrook
Through interviews, diaries, memoirs, and letters, Her Neighbor's Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019) traces the stories of hundreds of women, like Barbara Kalish, who …
LGBTQ+ Studies
January 4, 2021
Female Husbands
A Trans History
Jen Manion
Hosted by Leo Valdes
Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands - people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men …
Political Science
December 31, 2020
Queer Alliances
How Power Shapes Political Movement Formation
Erin Mayo-Adam
Hosted by Lilly Goren
Queer Alliances: How Power Shapes Political Movement Formation (Stanford UP, 2020) examines not only the policies that political movements advocate for, and those that are achieved, but the research pays …
Chinese Studies
December 29, 2020
Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities
Kinship, Migration, and Middle Classes
John Wei
Hosted by Laurie Dickmeyer
John Wei’s book Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities: Kinship, Migration, and Middle Classes (Hong Kong University Press, 2020) studies queer cultures and social practices in China and Sinophone Asia. Young …
Performing Arts
December 28, 2020
My Autobiography of Carson Mccullers
A Memoir
Jenn Shapland
Hosted by Andy Boyd
Jenn Shapland's My Autobiography of Carson McCullers (Tin House Books, 2020) is a fascinating cross-genre book that combines elements of traditional biography with Shapland's own personal narrative of researching McCullers …
LGBTQ+ Studies
December 28, 2020
Queer Voices of the South
Year in Review
John Marszalek, Pip Gordon and Morris Ardoin
Hosted by Morris Ardoin
In this final episode of 2020, New Books Network hosts and fellow authors take a look back at the evolution of their podcast Queer Voices of the South, recount their …
LGBTQ+ Studies
December 22, 2020
The Lonely Letters
Ashon T. Crawley
Hosted by John Marszalek
In The Lonely Letters (Duke UP, 2020), A tells Moth: “Writing about and thinking with joy is what sustains me, daily. It nourishes me. I do not write about joy primarily because …
Psychoanalysis
December 10, 2020
Psychotherapeutic Engagements With LGBTQ+ Patients and Their Families
Jack Drescher
Hosted by Philip Lance
In this episode, Philip Lance interviews Jack Drescher, a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who is an expert in psychotherapy with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender patients. The interview focuses on a …
LGBTQ+ Studies
November 30, 2020
Confessions of a Gay Priest
A Memoir of Sex, Love, Abuse, and Scandal in the Catholic Seminary
Tom Rastrelli
Hosted by John Marszalek
Tom Rastrelli is a survivor of clergy-perpetrated sexual abuse who then became a priest in the early days of the Catholic Church’s ongoing scandals. Confessions of a Gay Priest: A …
LGBTQ+ Studies
November 27, 2020
Stand by Me
The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation
Jim Downs
Hosted by Morris Ardoin
Despite the tremendous gains of the LGBT movement in recent years, the history of gay life in this country remains poorly understood. According to conventional wisdom, gay liberation started with …
LGBTQ+ Studies
November 17, 2020
Gay Faulkner
Uncovering a Homosexual Presence in Yoknapatawpha and Beyond
Phillip Gordon
Hosted by Morris Ardoin
The life and works of William Faulkner have generated numerous biographical studies exploring how Faulkner understood southern history, race, his relationship to art, and his place in the canons of …
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