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Gender Studies November 30, 2021

Pink Revolutions

Globalization, Hindutva, and Queer Triangles in Contemporary India

Nishant Shahani

Hosted by Shraddha Chatterjee
Pink Revolutions: Globalization, Hindutva, and Queer Triangles in Contemporary India (Northwestern UP, 2021) describes how queer politics in India occupies an uneasy position between the forces of neoliberal globalization, on …

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Interviews with scholars of LGBTQ+ Studies about their new books.

LGBTQ+ Studies November 24, 2021

Queer As All Get Out

10 People Who've Inspired Me

Shelby Criswell

Hosted by Morris Ardoin
On this episode of Queer Voices of the South, I talk with Shelby Criswell, whose book Queer As All Get Out: 10 People Who've Inspired Me (Street Noise Books, 2021) …
Critical Theory November 22, 2021

Homo Psyche

On Queer Theory and Erotophobia

Gila Ashtor

Hosted by Britton Edelen
In this episode, I interview Gila Ashtor, a practicing psychoanalyst and critical theorist, about her new book, Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia (Fordham University Press, 2021). This book …
LGBTQ+ Studies November 16, 2021

My Buddha Is Pink

Buddhism from a LGBTQI Perspective

Richard Harrold

Hosted by John Marszalek
Welcome to the Queer Voices of the South podcast on the New Books Network. In this episode, host John Marszalek interviews Richard Harrold about his book My Buddha Is Pink: Buddhism from …
Intellectual History November 16, 2021

Magnetic Woman

Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic

Karla Huebner

Hosted by John Raimo
Karla Huebner’s Magnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020) follows the life and career Czech artist Toyen (Marie Čermínová, 1902-1980). Toyen’s career spans the twentieth …
Gender Studies November 15, 2021

Prismatic Performances

Queer South Africa and the Fragmentation of the Rainbow Nation

April Sizemore-Barber

Hosted by Isabel Machado
At his 1994 inauguration, South African president Nelson Mandela announced the "Rainbow Nation, at peace with itself and the world." This national rainbow notably extended beyond the bounds of racial …
LGBTQ+ Studies November 10, 2021

Mississippi Barking

Hurricane Katrina and a Life That Went to the Dogs

Chris McLaughlin

Hosted by Morris Ardoin
On August 29, 2005, the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States devastated the city of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi. Like …
Medicine November 9, 2021

Living with HIV in Post-crisis Times

Beyond the Endgame

David A. B. Murray

Hosted by Shraddha Chatterjee
Over the past decade, effective prevention and treatment policies have resulted in global health organizations claiming that the end of the HIV/AIDS crisis is near and that HIV/AIDS is now …
Academic Life November 4, 2021

A Chemistry Professor Shares his Grief and his Favorite Recipes

A Conversation with David Smith

David Smith

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: Professor David Smith’s path to becoming a chemistry professorWhy he’s passionate about making science inclusive and representationalHis husband’s deathBeing …
Irish Studies October 19, 2021

The History of Marriage Equality in Ireland

A Social Revolution Begins

Sonja Tiernan

Hosted by Averill Earls
In 2015, the world witnessed an Irish social revolution. In a historic referendum vote, the Republic of Ireland voted to extend the constitutional right to marriage to same-sex couples. Thirty …
LGBTQ+ Studies October 18, 2021

A Lesbian Belle Tells

OUTrageous Southern Stories of Family, Loss, and Love

Elizabeth McCain

Hosted by John Marszalek
Settle back for a wild ride through a Southern lesbian's life of soul-searching, rule-breaking, and truth-telling. This belle's kind of coming out was not what her traditional Mississippi family expected …
Gender Studies October 18, 2021

Queer Nightlife

Kemi Adeyemi, Kareem Khubchandani and Ramon H. Rivera-Servera

Hosted by Isabel Machado
The mass shooting at a queer Latin Night in Orlando in July 2016 sparked a public conversation about access to pleasure and selfhood within conditions of colonization, violence, and negation …
Australian and New Zealand Studies October 13, 2021

A Queer Existence

The Lives of Young Gay Men in Aotearoa New Zealand

Mark Beehre

Hosted by Ed Amon
Today I talk to Mark Beehre about his new book, A Queer Existence, published by Massey University Press New Zealand 2021. A Queer Existence is a major documentary project that …
LGBTQ+ Studies October 8, 2021

Information Activism

A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies

Cait McKinney

Hosted by Sohini Chatterjee
For decades, lesbian feminists across the United States and Canada have created information to build movements and survive in a world that doesn't want them. In Information Activism: A Queer …
LGBTQ+ Studies October 4, 2021

Cruising for Conspirators

How a New Orleans DA Prosecuted the Kennedy Assassination As a Sex Crime

Alecia P. Long

Hosted by Morris Ardoin
New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison's decision to arrest Clay Shaw on March 1, 1967, set off a chain of events that culminated in the only prosecution undertaken in the …
South Asian Studies September 20, 2021

Love and Reparation

A Theatrical Response to the Section 377 Litigation in India

Danish Sheikh

Hosted by Saronik Bosu
Two plays about the legal battle to decriminalize homosexuality in India. On September 6, 2018, a decades-long battle to decriminalize queer intimacy in India came to an end. The Supreme …
LGBTQ+ Studies September 10, 2021

Saved by a Song

The Art and Healing Power of Songwriting

Mary Gauthier

Hosted by Morris Ardoin
Mary Gauthier was twelve years old when she was given her Aunt Jenny’s old guitar and taught herself to play with a Mel Bay basic guitar workbook. Music offered her …
Popular Culture September 6, 2021

The Cultural Impact of Rupaul's Drag Race

Why Are We All Gagging?

Cameron Crookston

Hosted by Rebekah Buchanan
In The Cultural Impact of RuPaul's Drag Race: Why are we all Gagging? (Intellect, 2021) Cameron Crookston has compiled chapters from scholars in theatre and performance studies, English literature, cultural anthropology …
Gender Studies September 3, 2021

In Between Subjects

A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance

Amelia Jones

Hosted by Isabel Machado
In Between Subjects: A Critical Genealogy of Queer Performance (Routledge, 2021) is a study of the connected ideas of "queer" and "gender performance" or "performativity" over the past several decades …
LGBTQ+ Studies August 27, 2021

Gay, Catholic, and American

My Legal Battle for Marriage Equality and Inclusion

Gregory Bourke

Hosted by John Marszalek
Catholic Greg Bourke's profoundly moving memoir about growing up gay and overcoming discrimination in the battle for same-sex marriage in the US. In this compelling and deeply affecting memoir, Greg …