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Gender Studies July 29, 2022

Sex Is as Sex Does

Governing Transgender Identity

Paisley Currah

Hosted by Sohini Chatterjee
Every government agency in the United States, from Homeland Security to Departments of Motor Vehicles, has the authority to make its own rules for sex classification. Many transgender people find …

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Anthropology July 26, 2022

Being Single in India

Stories of Gender, Exclusion, and Possibility

Sarah Lamb

Hosted by Garima Jaju
Today, the majority of the world's population lives in a country with falling marriage rates, a phenomenon with profound impacts on women, gender, and sexuality.  In Being Single in India …
High Theory July 19, 2022

Black Trans Feminism

A Discussion with Marquis Bey

Marquis Bey

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Marquis Bey talks about the radical and abolitionist project of Black Trans Feminism. Rather than an identity formation, it is a politics and modality of being that vitiates the limits …
LGBTQ+ Studies July 15, 2022

Racism and the Making of Gay Rights

A Sexologist, His Student, and the Empire of Queer Love

Laurie Marhoefer

Hosted by Armanc Yildiz
In 1931, a sexologist arrived in colonial Shanghai to give a public lecture about homosexuality. In the audience was a medical student. The sexologist, Magnus Hirschfeld, fell in love with …
LGBTQ+ Studies July 14, 2022

The Women's House of Detention

A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison

Hugh Ryan

Hosted by Leo Valdes
The Women’s House of Detention stood in New York City’s Greenwich Village from 1929 to 1974. Throughout its history, it was a nexus for tens of thousands of women, trans …
LGBTQ+ Studies July 13, 2022

Selfie Aesthetics

Seeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art

Nicole Erin Morse

Hosted by Daniela Meneses Sala
In Selfie Aesthetics: Seeing Trans Feminist Futures in Self-Representational Art (Duke University Press, 2022) Nicole Erin Morse examines how trans feminine artists use selfies and self-representational art to explore transition, selfhood, and …
Psychoanalysis July 11, 2022

Transgender Children

From Controversy to Dialogue

Jordan Osserman and Hannah Wallerstein

Hosted by Sebastian Thrul
How do we go forward in our psychoanalytic understanding of transgender children? This highly contested issue is at the core of an interesting edition of the journal The Psychoanalytic Study …
Literature June 29, 2022

Furnace Creek

Joseph Boone

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
Taking its inspiration from Great Expectations, Furnace Creek (Eyewear Publishing, 2021) teases us with the question of what Pip might have been like had he grown up in the American …
Anthropology June 29, 2022

Queer Companions

Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan

Omar Kasmani

Hosted by Mathew Gagné
In Queer Companions: Religion, Public Intimacy, and Saintly Affects in Pakistan (Duke UP, 2022), Omar Kasmani theorizes saintly intimacy and the construction of queer social relations at Pakistan's most important …
Biography June 24, 2022

German, Jew, Muslim, Gay

The Life and Times of Hugo Marcus

Marc David Baer

Hosted by Armanc Yildiz
Hugo Marcus (1880–1966) was a man of many names and many identities. Born a German Jew, he converted to Islam and took the name Hamid, becoming one of the most …
Critical Theory June 22, 2022

The Homoerotics of Orientalism

Joseph A. Boone

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
One of the largely untold stories of Orientalism is the degree to which the Middle East has been associated with "deviant" male homosexuality by scores of Western travelers, historians, writers …
Gender Studies June 15, 2022

Queer Carnival

Festivals and Mardi Gras in the South

Amy L. Stone

Hosted by Isabel Machado
Queer Carnival: Festivals and Mardi Gras in the South (NYU Press, 2022) reveals the importance of citywide celebrations like Mardi Gras and Fiesta for LGBTQIA+ communities in the US South …
Anthropology June 10, 2022

Minoritarian Liberalism

A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela

Moises Lino e Silva

Hosted by Reighan Gillam
Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela (University of Chicago Press, 2022) is a mesmerizing ethnography of the largest favela in Rio, where residents articulate their own politics of …
Chinese Studies June 10, 2022

Queering Chinese Kinship

Queer Public Culture in Globalizing China

Lin Song

Hosted by Cody Skahan
China has one of the largest queer populations in the world, but what does it mean to be queer in a Confucian society in which kinship roles, ties, and ideologies …
High Theory June 10, 2022

Decolonial Queerness

A Discussion with Sandeep Bakshi

Sandeep Bakshi

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Sandeep Bakshi (@sandeepbak on Twitter) talks to Saronik about understanding queerness and its emancipatory politics through transnational solidarity building, the persistent inclusion of trans and queer epistemological frames in social …
High Theory June 7, 2022

Sexual Difference

An Discussion with Emma Heaney

Emma Heaney

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Emma Heaney talks about the social organization of the supposedly biologically derived terms of the sex binary into a hierarchy of persons and qualities. She speaks widely about the work …
Poetry June 6, 2022

Glory Hole

Kim Hyun

Hosted by Jennifer Lee
In this episode, co-translators Suhyun J. Ahn and Archana Madhavan discuss their Korean-to-English translation of Glory Hole by Kim Hyun (Seagull Books, 2022). Released as part of The Pride List …
Anthropology June 1, 2022

Minoritarian Liberalism

A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela

Moisés Lino e Silva

Hosted by Armanc Yildiz
Normative liberalism has promoted the freedom of privileged subjects, those entitled to rights—usually white, adult, heteronormative, and bourgeois—at the expense of marginalized groups, such as Black people, children, LGBTQ people …
LGBTQ+ Studies May 31, 2022

The Digital Closet

How the Internet Became Straight

Alexander Monea

Hosted by Galina Limorenko
In The Digital Closet: How the Internet Became Straight (MIT Press, 2022), Alexander Monea argues provocatively that the internet became straight by suppressing everything that is not, forcing LGBTQIA+ content into …
Critical Theory May 31, 2022

The Identity Myth

Why We Need to Embrace Our Differences to Beat Inequality

David Swift

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
In conversations about polarised political issues, phrases like ‘it’s not about race, it’s about class’ have become the perfect way to induce a stalemate. It seems as though the traditional …