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About Kyle McMillen
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Literary Studies
June 25, 2019
Original Plumbing
The Best of Ten Years of Trans Male Culture
Amos Mac and Rocco Kayiatos
Hosted by Kyle McMillen
When Amos Mac and Rocco Kayiatos first launched Original Plumbing in 2009, they created a magazine the world desperately needed: a creative and celebratory biannual publication about trans men, by …
American Studies
May 8, 2019
Fighting the US Youth Sex Trade
Gender, Race, and Politics
Carrie Baker
Hosted by Kyle McMillen
Campaigns against prostitution of young people in the United States have surged and ebbed multiple times over the last fifty years. Carrie Baker's Fighting the US Youth Sex Trade: Gender …
American Studies
April 9, 2019
An Economist Walks Into A Brothel
And Other Unexpected Places to Understand Risk
Allison Schrager
Hosted by Kyle McMillen
Whether you are a commuter weighing options of taking the bus vs walking to get you to work on time or a military general leading troops into war, risk is …
American Studies
March 4, 2019
Birth Control and American Modernity
A History of Popular Ideas
Trent MacNamara
Hosted by Kyle McMillen
Birth control, and the access to it, has continued to be a divisive issue in American political and social life. While birth control has almost become shorthand for “the pill,” …
British Studies
January 23, 2019
Black Women Prison Employees
The Intersectionality of Gender and Race
Marcia Morgan
Hosted by Kyle McMillen
With prison reform a topic of international conversation and debate, Marica Morgan’s Black Women Prison Employees: The Intersectionality of Gender and Race offers an in-depth and unique analysis of a …
Gender Studies
January 8, 2019
Histories of the Transgender Child
Julian Gill-Peterson
Hosted by Kyle McMillen
With transgender rights front and center in American politics, media, and culture, the pervasive myth still exists that today’s transgender children are a brand new generation—pioneers in a field of …
American Studies
November 9, 2018
Man Out
Men on the Sidelines of American Life
Andrew L. Yarrow
Hosted by Kyle McMillen
In the era of #MeToo, Brett Kavanaugh, and Donald Trump, masculinity and the harmful effects that follow certain versions of masculinity have become national conversations. Now, like many other times …
Communications
September 28, 2018
Speaking Up
Understanding Language and Gender
Allyson Jule
Hosted by Kyle McMillen
In a time where concepts such as gender pronouns, sexual assault and harassment, and toxic masculinity are entering and shaping public discourse, knowing the ways in which gender and language …
Popular Culture
July 25, 2018
Gaming Masculinity
Trolls, Fake Geeks, and the Battle for Online Culture
Megan Condis
Hosted by Kyle McMillen
Gaming has increasingly become part of mainstream culture, from the continued rise of console and PC gaming to the emergence of eSports. Gaming culture has also come under more scrutiny …
American Studies
April 10, 2018
The Transformation of Title IX
Regulating Gender Equality in Education
R. Shep Melnick
Hosted by Kyle McMillen
When thinking of Title IX, most people immediately associate this important education policy with either athletics or a general idea of increasing opportunities for women in education. Rarely do those …
World Affairs
February 23, 2018
Legalized Families in the Era of Bordered Globalization
Daphna Hacker
Hosted by Kyle McMillen
As debates on globalization rage in the twenty-first century, many countries and the people within them have been challenged socially, economically, and legally. At the same time, our world is …
British Studies
January 23, 2018
Playboys and Mayfair Men
Crime, Class, Masculinity, and Fascism in 1930s London
Angus McLaren
Hosted by Kyle McMillen
In December of 1937, four men robbed a representative of the diamond company Cartier of eight diamond rings in the Hyde Park Hotel. What made this crime unique was the …