New Books Network
LGBTQ+ Studies
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 …

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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 …
LGBTQ+ Studies August 26, 2021

Queering Femininity

Sexuality, Feminism and the Politics of Presentation

Hannah McCann

Hosted by Sohini Chatterjee
In Queering Femininity: Sexuality, Feminism and the Politics of Presentation (Routledge, 2019), Hannah McCann asks, “how can we consider femininity in a way that best attends to people’s experiences of, and …
Journal of Asian American Studies Podcast August 24, 2021

Association of Asian American Studies Book Awards 2021 (Part 3)

A Discussion with Xuan Juliana Wang and Ricco Villanueva Siasoco

Xuan Juliana Wang and Ricco Villanueva Siasoco

Hosted by Christopher Patterson
This is the third episode of a four-part series featuring the winners and honorable mentions of the 2021 Book Awards for the Association of Asian American Studies (AAAS). This episode …
Gender Studies August 16, 2021

Translocas

The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes

Hosted by Isabel Machado
Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance (U Michigan Press, 2021) focuses on drag and transgender performance and activism in Puerto Rico and its diaspora. Arguing for …
Irish Studies August 11, 2021

LGBTQ Visibility, Media and Sexuality in Ireland

Páraic Kerrigan

Hosted by Averill Earls
“We know what we want, and one day, our prince will come,” says Toby, the bicycle-shorts-wearing, double ententre-making, unacknowledgely-gay neighbor in RTE’s Upwardly Mobile. Though the first queer characters in …
Sociology August 10, 2021

At Risk

Indian Sexual Politics and the Global AIDS Response

Gowri Vijayakumar

Hosted by Sneha Annavarapu
In the mid-1990s, experts predicted that India would face the world's biggest AIDS epidemic by 2000. Though a crisis at this scale never fully materialized, global public health institutions, donors …
Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work August 5, 2021

Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities

Publics, Counterpublics, Human Rights

Kanika Batra

Hosted by Rachel Stuart
Worlding Postcolonial Sexualities: Publics, Counterpublics, Human Rights (Routledge, 2021) demonstrates how late twentieth century postcolonial print cultures initiated a public discourse on sexual activism and contends that postcolonial feminist and …
Christian Studies August 3, 2021

Outlove

A Queer Christian Survival Story

Julie Rodgers

Hosted by Meg Gambino
Outlove: A Queer Christian Survival Story, written by Julie Rodgers was published in 2021 by Broadleaf Books Publishing Inc. In this honest and vulnerable book, Rodgers takes us through her …
Gender Studies July 29, 2021

Hijras, Lovers, Brothers

Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India

Vaibhav Saria

Hosted by Shraddha Chatterjee
Hijras, one of India’s third gendered or trans populations, have been an enduring presence in the South Asian imagination—in myth, in ritual, and in everyday life, often associated in stigmatized …
Psychology July 22, 2021

The Tragedy of Heterosexuality

Jane Ward

Hosted by Eugenio Duarte
If opposite-gender partnerships remain the societal ideal, then why are so many straight couples miserable? Author Jane Ward has been studying this question for some time and outlines her ideas …
Gender Studies July 8, 2021

Unruly Figures

Queerness, Sex Work, and the Politics of Sexuality in Kerala

Navaneetha Mokkil

Hosted by Shraddha Chatterjee
The vibrant media landscape in the southern Indian state of Kerala, where kiosks overflow with magazines and colorful film posters line roadside walls, creates a sexually charged public sphere that …
Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work July 7, 2021

Sorting Sexualities

Expertise and the Politics of Legal Classification

Stefan Vogler

Hosted by Rachel Stuart
In Sorting Sexualities: Expertise and the Politics of Legal Classification (University of Chicago Press, 2021), Stefan Vogler deftly unpacks the politics of the techno-legal classification of sexuality in the United …
Gender Studies July 6, 2021

Out of Time

The Queer Politics of Postcoloniality

Rahul Rao

Hosted by Isabel Machado
Between 2009 and 2014, an anti-homosexuality law circulating in the Ugandan parliament came to be the focus of a global conversation about queer rights. The law attracted attention for the …
LGBTQ+ Studies June 29, 2021

The Shape of Sex

Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance

Leah DeVun

Hosted by Leo Valdes
Leah DeVun is an Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University. Leah DeVun focuses on the history of gender, sexuality, science, and medicine in pre-modern Europe and on contemporary queer …
Gender Studies June 28, 2021

Sexuality, Disability, and Aging

Queer Temporalities of the Phallus

Jane Gallop

Hosted by Jana Byars
Drawing on her own experiences with late-onset disability and its impact on her sex life, along with her expertise as a cultural critic, Jane Gallop explores how disability and aging …
LGBTQ+ Studies June 25, 2021

The Lexington Six

Lesbian and Gay Resistance in 1970s America

Josephine Donovan

Hosted by John Marszalek
On September 23, 1970, a group of antiwar activists staged a robbery at a bank in Massachusetts, during which a police officer was killed. While the three men who participated …