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January 14, 2021
Transforming Prejudice
Identity, Fear, and Transgender Rights
Melissa R. Michelson and Brian F. Harrison
Hosted by Lilly Goren
Melissa Michelson and Brian Harrison, co-authors of the book Listen, We Need to Talk: How to Change Attitudes about LGBT Rights (Oxford University Press, 2017), which focused on how people …
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Mobilities and Methods
January 5, 2021
Coming Out to the Streets
LGBTQ Youth Experiencing Homelessness
Brandon Andrew Robinson
Hosted by Alize Arıcan
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth are disproportionately represented in the U.S. youth homelessness population. In Coming Out to the Streets, Brandon Andrew Robinson examines their lives.Based on …
LGBTQ+ Studies
January 4, 2021
Female Husbands
A Trans History
Jen Manion
Hosted by Leo Valdes
Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women who loved them. Female husbands - people assigned female who transed gender, lived as men …
History
January 4, 2021
Her Neighbor's Wife
A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage
Lauren Jae Gutterman
Hosted by Stephen Colbrook
Through interviews, diaries, memoirs, and letters, Her Neighbor's Wife: A History of Lesbian Desire Within Marriage (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019) traces the stories of hundreds of women, like Barbara Kalish, who …
Political Science
December 31, 2020
Queer Alliances
How Power Shapes Political Movement Formation
Erin Mayo-Adam
Hosted by Lilly Goren
Queer Alliances: How Power Shapes Political Movement Formation (Stanford UP, 2020) examines not only the policies that political movements advocate for, and those that are achieved, but the research pays …
Chinese Studies
December 29, 2020
Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities
Kinship, Migration, and Middle Classes
John Wei
Hosted by Laurie Dickmeyer
John Wei’s book Queer Chinese Cultures and Mobilities: Kinship, Migration, and Middle Classes (Hong Kong University Press, 2020) studies queer cultures and social practices in China and Sinophone Asia. Young …
Performing Arts
December 28, 2020
My Autobiography of Carson Mccullers
A Memoir
Jenn Shapland
Hosted by Andy Boyd
Jenn Shapland's My Autobiography of Carson McCullers (Tin House Books, 2020) is a fascinating cross-genre book that combines elements of traditional biography with Shapland's own personal narrative of researching McCullers …
LGBTQ+ Studies
December 28, 2020
Queer Voices of the South
Year in Review
John Marszalek, Pip Gordon and Morris Ardoin
Hosted by Morris Ardoin
In this final episode of 2020, New Books Network hosts and fellow authors take a look back at the evolution of their podcast Queer Voices of the South, recount their …
LGBTQ+ Studies
December 22, 2020
The Lonely Letters
Ashon T. Crawley
Hosted by John Marszalek
In The Lonely Letters (Duke UP, 2020), A tells Moth: “Writing about and thinking with joy is what sustains me, daily. It nourishes me. I do not write about joy primarily because …
Psychoanalysis
December 10, 2020
Psychotherapeutic Engagements With LGBTQ+ Patients and Their Families
Jack Drescher
Hosted by Philip Lance
In this episode, Philip Lance interviews Jack Drescher, a psychoanalyst and psychiatrist who is an expert in psychotherapy with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender patients. The interview focuses on a …
LGBTQ+ Studies
November 30, 2020
Confessions of a Gay Priest
A Memoir of Sex, Love, Abuse, and Scandal in the Catholic Seminary
Tom Rastrelli
Hosted by John Marszalek
Tom Rastrelli is a survivor of clergy-perpetrated sexual abuse who then became a priest in the early days of the Catholic Church’s ongoing scandals. Confessions of a Gay Priest: A …
LGBTQ+ Studies
November 27, 2020
Stand by Me
The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation
Jim Downs
Hosted by Morris Ardoin
Despite the tremendous gains of the LGBT movement in recent years, the history of gay life in this country remains poorly understood. According to conventional wisdom, gay liberation started with …
LGBTQ+ Studies
November 17, 2020
Gay Faulkner
Uncovering a Homosexual Presence in Yoknapatawpha and Beyond
Phillip Gordon
Hosted by Morris Ardoin
The life and works of William Faulkner have generated numerous biographical studies exploring how Faulkner understood southern history, race, his relationship to art, and his place in the canons of …
Performing Arts
November 16, 2020
One Dyke’s Theater
Selected Plays 1975-2014
Terry Baum
Hosted by Andy Boyd
Terry Baum’s book One Dyke’s Theater: Selected Plays 1975-2014 (Exit Press, 2019) collects plays and solo scripts from throughout the career of a “slightly world-renowned lesbian playwright.” The plays range …
Law
November 10, 2020
Queering Law and Order
LGBTQ Communities and the Criminal Justice System
Kevin Leo Nadal
Hosted by Nick Pozek
Throughout US history, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people have been pathologized, victimized, and criminalized. Reports of lynching, burning, or murdering of LGBTQ people have been documented for …
LGBTQ+ Studies
October 30, 2020
Tinderbox
The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation
Robert Fieseler
Hosted by John Marszalek
An essential work of American civil rights history, Tinderbox: The Untold Story of the Up Stairs Lounge Fire and the Rise of Gay Liberation (Liveright, 2018) mesmerizingly reconstructs the 197 …
Medicine
October 21, 2020
To Make the Wounded Whole
The African American Struggle Against HIV/AIDS
Dan Royles
Hosted by Claire Clark
In the decades since it was identified in 1981, HIV/AIDS has devastated African American communities. Members of those communities mobilized to fight the epidemic and its consequences from the beginning …
LGBTQ+ Studies
October 19, 2020
Stone Motel
Memoirs of a Cajun Boy
Morris Ardoin
Hosted by John Marszalek
In the summers of the early 1970s, Morris Ardoin and his siblings helped run their family's roadside motel in a hot, buggy, bayou town in Cajun Louisiana. The stifling, sticky …
Performing Arts
October 2, 2020
After the Party
A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life
Joshua Chambers-Letson
Hosted by Andy Boyd
In After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Color Life (NYU Press, 2018) Joshua Chambers-Letson invites you to a party featuring Eiko, Nina Simone, Jorge Ignacio Cortiñas, Danh Vō …
Eastern European Studies
September 15, 2020
Queer Budapest, 1873-1961
Anita Kurimay
Hosted by Steven Seegel
By the dawn of the twentieth century, Budapest was a burgeoning cosmopolitan metropolis. Known at the time as the “Pearl of the Danube,” it boasted some of Europe’s most innovative …
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