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Literary Studies November 28, 2022

Queer Velocities

Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage

Jennifer Eun-Jung Row

Hosted by John Yargo
In a pathbreaking new book, today’s guest, Jennifer Eun-Jung Row, asks how delay and haste in early modern French theater subverts the temporality of heteronormative politics and sexuality. Professor Row …

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Disability Studies November 24, 2022

Queer Silence

On Disability and Rhetorical Absence

J. Logan Smilges

Hosted by Sohini Chatterjee
In queer culture, silence has been equated with voicelessness, complicity, and even death. Queer Silence: On Disability and Rhetorical Absence (U Minnesota Press, 2022) insists, however, that silence can be …
Psychoanalysis November 17, 2022

Hatred of Sex

Oliver Davis and Tim Dean

Hosted by Matthew Pieknik
Hatred of Sex (U Nebraska Press, 2022) links Jacques Rancière’s political philosophy of the constitutive disorder of democracy with Jean Laplanche’s identification of a fundamental perturbation at the heart of …
LGBTQ+ Studies November 14, 2022

Transtopia in the Sinophone Pacific

Howard Chiang

Hosted by Thomas Baudinette
As a broad category of identity, “transgender” has given life to a vibrant field of academic research since the 1990s. Yet the Western origins of the field have tended to …
Art November 4, 2022

Hipster Porn:

Queer Masculinities and Affective Sexualities in the Fanzine "Butt"

Peter Rehberg

Hosted by Pierre d'Alancaisez
It’s easy to forget that the cultural archetypes that pass for queerness today have historical roots. Some of these roots are mere years away from today’s reality but they are …
Psychology October 27, 2022

Before I Do

A Legal Guide to Marriage, Gay and Otherwise

Elizabeth F. Schwartz

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
Not long ago, same-sex couples had to jump through endless hoops to make their relationships even close to legal. Happily, those days are over. But here's the rub: many gay …
Chinese Studies October 26, 2022

Queer China

Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture Under Postsocialism

Hongwei Bao

Hosted by Laurie Dickmeyer
In Queer China: Lesbian and Gay Literature and Visual Culture Under Postsocialism (Routledge, 2020), associate professor of media and cultural studies at the University of Nottingham Hongwei Bao returns with a …
Anthropology October 24, 2022

Amphibious Subjects

Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana

Kwame Edwin Otu

Hosted by Reighan Gillam
Amphibious Subjects: Sasso and the Contested Politics of Queer Self-Making in Neoliberal Ghana (University of California Press, 2022) is an ethnographic study of a community of self-identified effeminate men--known in local parlance …
East Asian Studies October 21, 2022

Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan

Sabine Frühstück

Hosted by Daigengna Duoer
Gender and Sexuality in Modern Japan (Cambridge University Press 2022) is a new addition to a list of publications by Sabine Fruhstuck, one of the leading scholars in the world …
Gender Studies October 19, 2022

The Terrible We

Thinking with Trans Maladjustment

Cameron Awkward-Rich

Hosted by Sohini Chatterjee
In The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment (Duke UP, 2022), Cameron Awkward-Rich thinks with the bad feelings and mad habits of thought that persist in both transphobic discourse and …
Political Science October 13, 2022

Queer Forms

Ramzi Fawaz

Hosted by Lilly Goren
Ramzi Fawaz, Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has a new book that weaves together the more contemporary history of feminism and women’s liberation, the gay liberation movement …
LGBTQ+ Studies October 12, 2022

Memories of a Gay Catholic Boyhood

Coming of Age in the Sixties

John D'Emilio

Hosted by John Marszalek
In this episode of the Queer Voices podcast, John Marszalek interviews author John D’Emilio, one of the leading historians of his generation and a pioneering figure in the field of …
African Studies October 11, 2022

Afropolitan Projects

Redefining Blackness, Sexualities, and Culture from Houston to Accra

Anima Adjepong

Hosted by Ari Barbalat
Beyond simplistic binaries of the dark continent or Africa Rising, Africans at home and abroad articulate their identities through their quotidian practices and cultural politics. Amongst the privileged classes, these …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel October 4, 2022

Suicide Prevention: Grassroots Intervention for High-Risk Groups

A Conversation with Hannah Rothstein

Hannah Rothstein

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
Suicide has been on the rise in recent years, most frighteningly among young people. Suicide is second leading cause of death for people ages 10-14 and 25-34. Gay, lesbian, and …
On Religion September 30, 2022

On Religion and the HIV/AIDS Crisis in San Francisco

A Discussion with Lynne Gerber

Lynne Gerber

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Lynne Gerber (she/her/hers) is an independent scholar. She is the author of Seeking the Straight and Narrow: Weight Loss and Sexual-Reorientation in Evangelical America (Chicago, 2011). She is currently working …
LGBTQ+ Studies September 29, 2022

Queer and Trans Madness

Struggles for Social Justice

Merrick Daniel Pilling

Hosted by Clayton Jarrard
In Queer and Trans Madness: Struggles for Social Justice (Palgrave Macmillan), Merrick D. Pilling urges those invested in social justice for 2SLGBTQ people to interrogate the biomedical model of mental …
Philosophy September 20, 2022

Queering Philosophy

Kim Q. Hall

Hosted by Sarah Tyson
Why isn’t there a queer subfield in philosophy? How has institutionalized philosophy continued to develop without a recognized specialization in queer philosophy? What would it mean to care queerly for …
Van Leer Institute Series on Ideas with Renee Garfinkel September 19, 2022

Queering Anti-Zionism

Academic Freedom, LGBTQ Intellectuals, and Israel/Palestine Campus Activism

Corinne E. Blackmer

Hosted by Renee Garfinkel
Why do some scholars sacrifice truth and logic to political ideology and peer acceptance? With courage and intellectual integrity, queer scholar-activist Corinne Blackmer stages a pointed critique of scholars whose …
LGBTQ+ Studies September 16, 2022

Pretty Baby

A Memoir

Chris Belcher

Hosted by Morris Ardoin
"The dominatrix is the id of American femininity. She says the words that we all wish we could say when we find ourselves frozen in the presence of men. No …
Gender Studies September 13, 2022

Transmovimientos

Latinx Queer Migrations, Bodies, and Spaces

Ellie D. Hernández, Eddy Francisco Alvarez, and Magda García

Hosted by Isabel Machado
Edited by Ellie D. Hernandez, Eddy Francisco Alvarez Jr., and Magda García, Transmovimientos: Latinx Queer Migrations, Bodies, and Space (University of Nebraska Press, 2021) focuses on queer, trans, and gender nonconforming communities of …