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LGBTQ+ Studies January 12, 2022

The Life and Comics of Howard Cruse

Taking Risks in the Service of Truth

Andrew J. Kunka

Hosted by Morris Ardoin
In this episode of QUEER VOICES OF THE SOUTH, I talk with ANDREW J. KUNKA, who is a professor of English and division chair at the University of South Carolina …

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

LGBTQ+ Studies December 31, 2021

Queer Voices of the South

The Year In Review (2021)

Morris Ardoin and John Marszelek

Hosted by John Marszalek
In this episode of Queer Voices of the South, co-hosts Morris Ardoin and John Marszalek look back at the books and authors they covered in 2021. January: Black Queer Freedom …
Critical Theory December 17, 2021

De-Centering Queer Theory

Communist Sexuality in the Flow During and After the Cold War

Bogdan Popa

Hosted by Louisa Hann
Bogdan Popa’s De-Centering Queer Theory: Communist Sexuality in the Flow During and After the Cold War (Manchester University Press, 2021) seeks to reorient queer theory to a different conception of …
The Proust Questionnaire Podcast June 27, 2020

Proust Questionnaire 7

Pietra Parker and Miss Cookie Doug, Drag Queens, Artists & Performers

Pietra Parker and Miss Cookie Doug

Hosted by Uli Baer and Caroline Weber
HAPPY PRIDE!!! For this extra special pride 2020 episode we had the pleasure to speak with two New York based Brazilians Drag Queens, PIETRA PARKER & MISS COOKIE DOUG! These …
Eastern European Studies December 24, 2021

Queer Roma

LUCIE. FREMLOVA

Hosted by Steven Seegel
Lucie Fremlova's book Queer Roma (Routledge, 2021) offers in-depth insight into the lives of queer Roma, thus providing rich evidence of the heterogeneity of Roma. The lived experiences of queer Roma …
Gender Studies November 30, 2021

Pink Revolutions

Globalization, Hindutva, and Queer Triangles in Contemporary India

Nishant Shahani

Hosted by Shraddha Chatterjee
Pink Revolutions: Globalization, Hindutva, and Queer Triangles in Contemporary India (Northwestern UP, 2021) describes how queer politics in India occupies an uneasy position between the forces of neoliberal globalization, on …
LGBTQ+ Studies November 24, 2021

Queer As All Get Out

10 People Who've Inspired Me

Shelby Criswell

Hosted by Morris Ardoin
On this episode of Queer Voices of the South, I talk with Shelby Criswell, whose book Queer As All Get Out: 10 People Who've Inspired Me (Street Noise Books, 2021) …
Critical Theory November 22, 2021

Homo Psyche

On Queer Theory and Erotophobia

Gila Ashtor

Hosted by Britton Edelen
In this episode, I interview Gila Ashtor, a practicing psychoanalyst and critical theorist, about her new book, Homo Psyche: On Queer Theory and Erotophobia (Fordham University Press, 2021). This book …
LGBTQ+ Studies November 16, 2021

My Buddha Is Pink

Buddhism from a LGBTQI Perspective

Richard Harrold

Hosted by John Marszalek
Welcome to the Queer Voices of the South podcast on the New Books Network. In this episode, host John Marszalek interviews Richard Harrold about his book My Buddha Is Pink: Buddhism from …
Intellectual History November 16, 2021

Magnetic Woman

Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic

Karla Huebner

Hosted by John Raimo
Karla Huebner’s Magnetic Woman: Toyen and the Surrealist Erotic (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020) follows the life and career Czech artist Toyen (Marie Čermínová, 1902-1980). Toyen’s career spans the twentieth …
Gender Studies November 15, 2021

Prismatic Performances

Queer South Africa and the Fragmentation of the Rainbow Nation

April Sizemore-Barber

Hosted by Isabel Machado
At his 1994 inauguration, South African president Nelson Mandela announced the "Rainbow Nation, at peace with itself and the world." This national rainbow notably extended beyond the bounds of racial …
LGBTQ+ Studies November 10, 2021

Mississippi Barking

Hurricane Katrina and a Life That Went to the Dogs

Chris McLaughlin

Hosted by Morris Ardoin
On August 29, 2005, the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States devastated the city of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and Mississippi. Like …
Medicine November 9, 2021

Living with HIV in Post-crisis Times

Beyond the Endgame

David A. B. Murray

Hosted by Shraddha Chatterjee
Over the past decade, effective prevention and treatment policies have resulted in global health organizations claiming that the end of the HIV/AIDS crisis is near and that HIV/AIDS is now …
Academic Life November 4, 2021

A Chemistry Professor Shares his Grief and his Favorite Recipes

A Conversation with David Smith

David Smith

Hosted by Christina Gessler
Welcome to The Academic Life! In this episode you’ll hear about: Professor David Smith’s path to becoming a chemistry professorWhy he’s passionate about making science inclusive and representationalHis husband’s deathBeing …
Irish Studies October 19, 2021

The History of Marriage Equality in Ireland

A Social Revolution Begins

Sonja Tiernan

Hosted by Averill Earls
In 2015, the world witnessed an Irish social revolution. In a historic referendum vote, the Republic of Ireland voted to extend the constitutional right to marriage to same-sex couples. Thirty …
Gender Studies October 18, 2021

Queer Nightlife

Kemi Adeyemi, Kareem Khubchandani and Ramon H. Rivera-Servera

Hosted by Isabel Machado
The mass shooting at a queer Latin Night in Orlando in July 2016 sparked a public conversation about access to pleasure and selfhood within conditions of colonization, violence, and negation …
LGBTQ+ Studies October 18, 2021

A Lesbian Belle Tells

OUTrageous Southern Stories of Family, Loss, and Love

Elizabeth McCain

Hosted by John Marszalek
Settle back for a wild ride through a Southern lesbian's life of soul-searching, rule-breaking, and truth-telling. This belle's kind of coming out was not what her traditional Mississippi family expected …
Australian and New Zealand Studies October 13, 2021

A Queer Existence

The Lives of Young Gay Men in Aotearoa New Zealand

Mark Beehre

Hosted by Ed Amon
Today I talk to Mark Beehre about his new book, A Queer Existence, published by Massey University Press New Zealand 2021. A Queer Existence is a major documentary project that …
LGBTQ+ Studies October 8, 2021

Information Activism

A Queer History of Lesbian Media Technologies

Cait McKinney

Hosted by Sohini Chatterjee
For decades, lesbian feminists across the United States and Canada have created information to build movements and survive in a world that doesn't want them. In Information Activism: A Queer …
LGBTQ+ Studies October 4, 2021

Cruising for Conspirators

How a New Orleans DA Prosecuted the Kennedy Assassination As a Sex Crime

Alecia P. Long

Hosted by Morris Ardoin
New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison's decision to arrest Clay Shaw on March 1, 1967, set off a chain of events that culminated in the only prosecution undertaken in the …