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Nordic Asia Podcast May 6, 2022

Deities and Divas

Queer Ritual Specialists in Myanmar, Thailand and Beyond

Peter A. Jackson and Benjamin Baumann

Hosted by Nordic Asia Podcast
How does queer life fit into Buddhism and ritual? What role do gay men and trans women play in the practice of spirit mediumship and how do queer spirit mediums …

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

African American Studies May 5, 2022

Elite Capture

How the Powerful Took Over Identity Politics (and Everything Else)

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò

Hosted by Brittney Edmonds
“Identity politics” is everywhere, polarizing discourse from the campaign trail to the classroom and amplifying antagonisms in the media, both online and off. But the compulsively referenced phrase bears little …
Recall This Book May 5, 2022

We are Not Digested

A Conversation with Rajiv Mohabir (Ulka Anjaria, JP)

Rajiv Mohabir

Hosted by Elizabeth Ferry and John Plotz
Rajiv Mohabir is a dazzling poet of linguistics crossovers, who works in English, Bhojpuri, Hindi and more. He is as prolific as he is polyglot (three books in 2021!) and …
High Theory April 29, 2022

Intersectionality

A Discussion with Kim Adams

Kim Adams

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Saronik interviews Kim about intersectionality, a concept developed by Kimberlé Crenshaw. Kim references two essays by Crenshaw in the episode: one that she read, and one that our previous podcast …
Human Rights April 26, 2022

Banning Transgender Conversion Practices

A Legal and Policy Analysis

Florence Ashley

Hosted by Rine Vieth
NB: This interview contains explicit language. In Banning Transgender Conversion Practices: A Legal and Policy Analysis (U British Columbia Press, 2022), bioethicist and jurist Florence Ashley historicizes recent developments in …
American West April 25, 2022

The Closet and the Cul-de-Sac

The Politics of Sexual Privacy in Northern California

Clayton Howard

Hosted by Stephen Hausmann
"I don't care what people do in their bedroom, but do they need to flaunt it?" This sentiment is a common refrain in American culture and politics when talking about …
High Theory April 21, 2022

JVN

A Discussion with Angelina Eimannsberger

Angelina Eimannsberger

Hosted by Kim Adams and Saronik Bosu
Angelina Eimannsberger talks to Saronik about cultural phenomenon Jonathan Van Ness, and movements in queer femininity that they represent. They touch briefly on Edith Wharton’s The House of Mirth, Jean …
Novel Dialogue April 14, 2022

Why are You in Bed? Why are You Drinking?

Colm Tóibín and Joseph Rezek in Conversation

Colm Tóibín and Joseph Rezek

Hosted by Aarthi Vadde and John Plotz
Colm Tóibín, the new laureate for Irish fiction, talks to Joseph Rezek of Boston University, and guest host Tara K. Menon of Harvard. The conversation begins with Colm’s latest novel …
Gender Studies April 13, 2022

Queering Drag

Redefining the Discourse of Gender-Bending

Meredith Heller

Hosted by Isabel Machado
Drawing on a rich body of archival and ethnographic research, Queering Drag: Redefining the Discourse of Gender-Bending (Indian UP, 2020) illuminates diverse examples of theatrical gender-bending. It shows how, in each case, standard …
Irish Studies April 8, 2022

Gay and Lesbian Activism in the Republic of Ireland, 1973-93

Patrick J. McDonagh

Hosted by Averill Earls
Ireland’s 2015 Marriage Equality referendum is often framed as an incredible achievement just twenty years after sex between men was decriminalized (1993). But starting the story of gay and lesbian …
Novel Dialogue March 31, 2022

The Romance of Recovery

Ben Bateman talks to Shola von Reinhold

Ben Bateman and Shola von Reinhold

Hosted by Aarthi Vadde and John Plotz
Shola von Reinhold is the author of LOTE, a novel about getting lost in the archives and finding what the archives have lost. LOTE won the 2021 James Tait Black …
Caribbean Studies March 30, 2022

Creolized Sexualities

Undoing Heteronormativity in the Literary Imagination of the Anglo-Caribbean

Alison Donnell

Hosted by Alejandra Bronfman
By showing how a wide, and surprising, range of Caribbean writers have contributed to the crafting of a supple and inclusive erotic repertoire across the second half of the twentieth …
Christian Studies March 28, 2022

Queering Wesley, Queering the Church

Keegan Osinski

Hosted by Jackson Reinhardt
Fifty years after Stonewall, the experiences of LGBTQ+ Christians are--rightfully--beginning to be received with interest by their churches. Queering Wesley, Queering the Church presents a prototype for thinking about Wesleyan …
Gender Studies March 28, 2022

Sissy Insurgencies

A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness

Marlon B. Ross

Hosted by Isabel Machado
Sissy Insurgencies: A Racial Anatomy of Unfit Manliness (Duke University Press, 2022) by Marlon B. Ross focuses on the figure of the sissy in order to rethink how Americans have imagined …
LGBTQ+ Studies March 25, 2022

Trans Care

Hil Malatino

Hosted by Sohini Chatterjee
What does it mean for trans people to show up for one another, to care deeply for one another? How have failures of care shaped trans lives? What care practices …
African Studies March 24, 2022

Knowing Women

Same-sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana

Serena Owusua Dankwa

Hosted by Thomas Zuber
Knowing Women: Same-sex Intimacy, Gender, and Identity in Postcolonial Ghana (Cambridge UP, 2021) is a study of same-sex desire in West Africa, which explores the lives and friendships of working-class …
German Studies March 18, 2022

The Ambivalence of Gay Liberation

Male Homosexual Politics in 1970s West Germany

Craig Griffiths

Hosted by Leslie Waters
The Ambivalence of Gay Liberation: Male Homosexual Politics in 1970s West Germany (Oxford UP, 2021) explores ways of thinking, feeling, and talking about being gay in the 1970s, an influential …
On Religion March 11, 2022

On Queer and Feminist Religious Studies

A Discussion with Melissa Wilcox

Melissa Wilcox

Hosted by Gregory Soden
Melissa M. Wilcox received her doctorate in Religious Studies from U.C. Santa Barbara in 2000. Her transdisciplinary research program focuses on gender studies and queer studies in religion, with particular …
Critical Theory March 8, 2022

James Baldwin

Living in Fire

Bill Mullen

Hosted by Morteza Hajizadeh
In the first major biography of Baldwin in more than a decade, James Baldwin: Living in Fire (Pluto Press, 2019), Bill V. Mullen celebrates the personal and political life of the great African-American …
LGBTQ+ Studies March 8, 2022

Playhouses

Sexuality and Fundamentalism

Sherry Scott

Hosted by Morris Ardoin
In this episode of Queer Voices of the South I talk to Dr. Sherry Scott about her new book Playhouses: Sexuality and Fundamentalism, released in February 2022 by Black Rose …