Gender Jawn
56 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 months ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsGender Jawn is a podcast about the politics, practices, performances, and pedagogies of gender & sexuality, sponsored by the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Each month we engage thinkers, creatives, organizers, and researchers to think through pressing questions in the field of gender & sexuality studies.
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"how subjectivity gets made" a dialogue with scholar & writer McKenzie Wark
May 21, 2024 20:46 - 36 minutes - 50.4 MBMcKenzie Wark is professor of Culture and Media at the New School, Eugene Lang College and the author of over 10 books. Her memoir Love and Money, Sex and Death was published in September 2023 by Verso Press, and her other recent writing moves at the nexus of trans studies, autotheory and autofiction, including Rave (Duke UP, 2023), Philosophy for Spiders: on the low theory of Kathy Acker (Duke UP, 2021). We discuss her prolific contributions to trans studies, trans literature, Marxist the...
Disorienting Cis with Perry Zurn
May 09, 2024 14:24 - 35 minutes - 48.5 MBIn this episode, FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks to professor Perry Zurn. Zurn Associate Professor of Philosophy at American University, Fellow at Cornell University’s Society for the Humanities (‘23-’24) and a Visiting Scholar at the FQT at Penn. He is the author of Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry (UMinn, 2021), and co-editor of Trans Philosophy (forthcoming UMinn, 2024), and Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Aboli...
Where the Wild Things Are: A conversation with Jack Halberstam
April 19, 2024 19:38 - 32 minutes - 44.8 MBIn this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University, Jack Halberstam about his latest book, Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire and his prolific writing in queer theory, trans studies and cultural studies. This episode includes a musical clip from "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak as narrated by Tammy Grimes.
On Making Art: A Conversation with Lilly Wachowski
April 02, 2024 19:59 - 31 minutes - 43.9 MBIn this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with the luminary and accomplished filmmaker, director and producer Lilly Wachowski. Lilly Wachowski discusses some her most influential and heralded films, such as The Matrix, which she co-directed and filmed with her sister, filmmaker Lana Wachowski, as well as recent work she has been involved in either writing, directing and/or producing such as the Netflix series Sense8, and also the Showtime series Work in Progress, created by ...
Who's Afraid of Gender? A Conversation with Judith Butler
April 02, 2024 19:28 - 36 minutes - 50.4 MBIn this episode (recorded fall 2023) FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Judith Butler, who is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature, and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. Butler discusses their now published book Who's Afraid of Gender? (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024), their extensive scholarship, including on the politics of loss and mourning, grief and grievance.
Stubble Archipelago: Interview with Wayne Koestenbaum
March 20, 2024 14:42 - 44 minutes - 60.8 MBIn this episode of the Gender Jawn podcast, FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with poet, professor and "intellectual cabaret" performer extraordinaire Wayne Koestenbaum about his conception of "fag ideation," queer theory, art, poetics, and Koestenbaum's rich body of work. Also discussed is Koestenbaum's newest book of poetry, Stubble Archipelago just recently published by Semiotexte Press. Koestenbaum closes the interview by reading a selection from Subble Archipelago, a poem titled...
Care Without Pathology: Christoph Hanssmann on the Politics of Trans Care
March 12, 2024 02:05 - 35 minutes - 48.7 MBIn this episode Che Gossett, associate director of The Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies, speaks with UC Davis assistant professor in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Christoph Hanssmann about his book Care Without Pathology: How Trans- Health Activists Are Changing Medicine (University of Minnesota Press, 2023). Professor Hanssman discusses transnational trans health and justice organizing and trans histories of medicine.
Afro-Fabulations: A Conversation with Tavia Nyong'o
February 27, 2024 02:22 - 32 minutes - 45.2 MBIn this episode FQT Associate Director Che Gossett speaks with William Lampson Professor of Theater and Performance Studies, Professor of American Studies and African American Studies at Yale University: Tavia Nyong'o. Nyong'o is the author of The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (University of Minnesota Press, 2009), and most recently, Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life (NYU Press, 2018). Gossett speaks with Nyong'o about blackness, queerness, the...
Process and Virtuality: An Interview with Brian Massumi
February 19, 2024 20:12 - 45 minutes - 62.1 MBIn this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with philosopher Brian Massumi, whom is professor of communication at the University of Montreal, about affect studies, critical theory, the work of Gilles Deleuze and Alfred North Whitehead, and process philosophy. Massumi is the author of Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Duke UP, 2002) and most recently, Couplets: Travels in Speculative Pragmatism (Duke UP, 2021), as well as many other texts, several co-writte...
Against Effacement: Jules Gill-Peterson on histories of the trans child and histories of trans misogyny
January 31, 2024 18:42 - 41 minutes - 56.4 MBIn this episode FQT Center associate director Che Gossett speaks with trans historian and John Hopkins University professor Jules Gill-Peterson, author of Histories of the Transgender Child (University of Minnesota Press, 2018), which received a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction and the Children’s Literature Association Book Award. Gill-Peterson is also the author of A Short History of Trans Misogyny (Verso Press, 2024). Gill-Peterson speaks about both of these texts and als...
Liner Notes for the Revolution The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
December 13, 2023 05:38 - 35 minutes - 48.6 MBIn this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Yale University Professor Daphne Brooks about her newest book, Liner Notes: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound (Harvard UP, 2021) -- winner of the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame -- about Black feminist archives, music history, and Beyonce's brilliance. Music Credits: Koko by Charlie Parker (1945) I Wish it Would Rain by The Temptations (1967) I Want You Back by The Jackson 5 (...
Genres of Freedom: A Conversation with Maggie Nelson
November 18, 2023 00:40 - 29 minutes - 40.7 MBIn this interview Che Gossett speaks with Maggie Nelson -- poet, writer, 2016 MacArthur fellow, and professor of English at the University of California -- about her newest book, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (Random House, 2021) and many other works of poetry and prose. Also mentioned in the episode are poets and writer Eileen Myles and poet and NYU professor, Fred Moten.
Sportscasting: Kate Scott on Sports, Broadcasting, and Societal Change
September 19, 2023 22:20 - 39 minutes - 54.2 MBThe first episode of the 2023-2024 academic year, September's Gender Jawn podcast features an engaging and dynamic conversation with Kate Scott, the play-by-play announcer for the Philadelphia 76ers, as well as the Seattle Seahawks, who is also the first woman play-by-play caster in Philadelphia's history. Scott has called play-by-plays for NHL, NFL and the Olympics, as well as the 2023 World Cup. In conversation with Dr. Maria Murphy, Scott discusses the implications of being a first, t...
New Research in GSWS: Serena Baldick Martinez & Talia Fiester on Nonbinary Harry Potter Fanfic & the Pathology of Gen Z’s Singledom
May 03, 2023 14:09 - 46 minutes - 64.1 MBMay’s episode of Gender Jawn features a conversation with two of this year’s graduating GSWS majors, Serena Baldick Martinez and Talia Fiester, who recently shared their thought-provoking research at the Class of 2023 Honors Thesis Presentations & Celebration, under the direction of GSWS Associate Director Gwendolyn Beetham. Talia Fiester is a graduating Gender Studies major with an academic focus on feminist media and cultural studies as well as heterosexuality theory. Anchoring her extra...
ALL EXITS with LTS
April 01, 2023 21:00 - 1 hour - 99.2 MBThis episode features an interview with Lane Timothy Speidel, Philadelphia artist, musician, writer, and Gender Jawn's podcast producer. In their new exhibition at Vox Populi Gallery, ALL EXITS, Lane Speidel lets us into the backstage of the mind. Sculptures and paintings create a night that is a frozen dream where we can all get lost, take off our underwear, and quit our jobs. Saggy, their music project is deeply discussed, as well as many references from their life practice of surrender. S...
Minerva Parker Nichols: The Search for a Forgotten Architect
March 01, 2023 05:01 - 48 minutes - 66.9 MBThis month’s episode is all about Minerva Parker Nichols, the subject of a groundbreaking exhibition, presented by the Architectural Archives at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weiztman School of Design that will be showing Tuesday March 21st through Saturday June 17th this year. The exhibition tells the story of Minerva Parker Nichols, the first woman in the U.S. to practice architecture independently, with an office in Philly and commissions nationwide. It’s an exhibition that not o...
Sex Sounds with Daniele Schlomit Sofer
February 01, 2023 05:00 - 59 minutes - 81.9 MBIn their new book, Sex Sounds: Vectors of Difference in Electronic Music (MIT, 2022), music theorist, media scholar, and performer Daniele Shlomit Sofer asks what makes sound sexual? What does sex sound like? Is it a moan and a cracking whip? Heels clicking on a floor? Are sex sounds arousing? Are sounds enough to get off? Their book covers a wide range of electronic music, from the musique concrète of Pierre Schaeffer to the tension between sexual aesthetics and personal ethics in samples o...
Fixing Housing in Philly Part II
December 08, 2022 05:00 - 50 minutes - 28.3 MBDecember’s edition of Gender Jawn features a two-part series on housing issues facing Philadelphians. Part-one featured a discussion with Akira Drake Rodriguez on saving the UC Townhomes and Jane Allen on the Whole Home Repair Program. In part two, Gwendolyn Beetham considers how home ownership has been plagued by discriminatory lending practices and how homeowners can support queer, trans, and POC laborers in the trades. She speaks with Kathleen Riley and Kelly Ireland, aka “Tiny Plumber Gi...
Fixing Housing in Philly Part I
December 02, 2022 01:29 - 46 minutes - 30.9 MBDecember’s edition of Gender Jawn features a two-part series on housing issues facing Philadelphians. In part one, Maria Murphy speaks with Akira Drake Rodriguez about saving the UC Townhomes and Penn’s role in the destabilization of west Philly and the displacement of its residents. Jane Allen, Policy Director for the Office of State Senator Nikil Saval, shares the goals for the Whole Homes Repair Program, which aims to help keep Pennsylvanians in their homes by providing support for essent...
The Politics of Laughter with Delia Casadei
November 01, 2022 04:00 - 1 hour - 43.7 MBNovember’s episode features a discussion on the politics of laughter with Delia Casadei, Assistant Professor of Music at the University of California Berkeley. Gender Jawn host Maria Murphy and Casadei discuss the social reproductive labor of laughter, how laughter articulates political unknowns, the Feminist killjoy practice of withholding the social reproductive labor of laughing, and laughter that renders unrecognized labor audible. Maya Angelou’s “We Wear the Mask” Episode produced b...
On the Dobbs decision and the future of reproductive care
September 01, 2022 04:00 - 41 minutes - 32 MBPenn community members Serena Mayeri, Carol Tracy, Antoilyn Nguyen, and Alicia Meyer comment on the recent Dobbs ruling that overturned the nearly 50 year precedent of the constitutional right to an abortion. This ep also features excerpts from the work of SaraEllen Strongman, Dorothy Roberts, and Jessa Lingel. Resources mentioned in this ep: Center for Reproductive Rights Our Data Bodies Tech Learning Collective Electronic Frontier Foundation Penn-specific resources: Penn Re...
S2 E9. Stages, artmaking, and end of life caregiving with Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
May 02, 2022 14:00 - 39 minutes - 34.8 MBIn this last episode on this year’s theme, "Care for the Future," Tamir Williams speaks with Rachel Kauder Nalebuff about her genre-bending book Stages: On dying, working, and feeling. Kauder discusses her experience as an artist-in-residence at an elder care facility in the Bronx, NYC; the lessons she learned from staff members at the nursing home about dying, grief, time, and caregiving; and her expansive dreams for what end of life carework systems could look like in the future. You can...
Stages, artmaking, and end of life caregiving with Rachel Kauder Nalebuff
May 02, 2022 14:00 - 39 minutes - 34.8 MBIn this last episode on this year’s theme, "Care for the Future," Tamir Williams speaks with Rachel Kauder Nalebuff about her genre-bending book Stages: On dying, working, and feeling. Kauder discusses her experience as an artist-in-residence at an elder care facility in the Bronx, NYC; the lessons she learned from staff members at the nursing home about dying, grief, time, and caregiving; and her expansive dreams for what end of life carework systems could look like in the future. You can...
Trans Care with Hil Malatino
March 31, 2022 17:35 - 49 minutes - 34.7 MBIn this episode, the second on this year’s theme, Care for the Future, Gwendolyn Beetham and Tamir Williams speak with Hil Malatino about his books Trans Care and Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad. Malatino discusses how his work on care draws from and expands upon the genealogy of feminist work on care ethics and why we should examine not only the positive, but also the negative affects of trans lives - from burnout, to fatigue, to numbness. Malatino also provides an account of t...
S2 E8. Trans Care with Hil Malatino
March 31, 2022 17:35 - 49 minutes - 34.7 MBIn this episode, the second on this year’s theme, Care for the Future, Gwendolyn Beetham and Tamir Williams speak with Hil Malatino about his books Trans Care and Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad. Malatino discusses how his work on care draws from and expands upon the genealogy of feminist work on care ethics and why we should examine not only the positive, but also the negative affects of trans lives - from burnout, to fatigue, to numbness. Malatino also provides an account of t...
S2 E7. 40 Years of Queer BIPOC Feminism
March 01, 2022 05:00 - 54 minutes - 41.3 MBThis episode recognizes the fortieth anniversary of two landmark publications for BIPOC queer feminist writing, This Bridge Called My Back and But Some of Us Are Brave—volumes whose foundational insights on the mutual formation of gender, sexuality, race, class, ability, environment, slavery, and colonialism have often been excluded from queer theory’s traditional genealogies. As part of the Center’s programming theme Care for the Future, invited speakers reflected on these two texts. Kand...
40 Years of Queer BIPOC Feminism
March 01, 2022 05:00 - 54 minutes - 41.3 MBThis episode recognizes the fortieth anniversary of two landmark publications for BIPOC queer feminist writing, This Bridge Called My Back and But Some of Us Are Brave—volumes whose foundational insights on the mutual formation of gender, sexuality, race, class, ability, environment, slavery, and colonialism have often been excluded from queer theory’s traditional genealogies. As part of the Center’s programming theme Care for the Future, invited speakers reflected on these two texts. Kand...
k.d.lang's Ingénue at 30 with Mairead Sullivan and canada.gov.ca
January 31, 2022 17:53 - 40 minutes - 33.6 MBThis episode is a celebration of k.d.lang’s album Ingénue, which was released 30 years ago this month on January 1st 1992. In conversation with scholar Mairead Sullivan and the admin from the Instagram account Canada.gov.ca, this month’s ep covers lesbian politics, Alberta, butch vocality, lang’s song writing credit on a Rolling Stones song, lang's showmance with Madonna, and even a little chat about Stompin’ Tom Connors. Visit Mairead Sullivan’s website to learn about her work and forthc...
S2 E6. k.d.lang's Ingénue at 30 with Mairead Sullivan and canada.gov.ca
January 31, 2022 17:53 - 40 minutes - 33.6 MBThis episode is a celebration of k.d.lang’s album Ingénue, which was released 30 years ago this month on January 1st 1992. In conversation with scholar Mairead Sullivan and the admin from the Instagram account Canada.gov.ca, this month’s ep covers lesbian politics, Alberta, butch vocality, lang’s song writing credit on a Rolling Stones song, lang's showmance with Madonna, and even a little chat about Stompin’ Tom Connors. Visit Mairead Sullivan’s website to learn about her work and forthc...
The Borders of AIDS with Karma Chávez
December 02, 2021 14:10 - 36 minutes - 33.9 MBDecember’s ep features a conversation with Karma Chávez about her new book The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance out now from University of Washington Press. The book tracks how the early years of the AIDS pandemic in the United States saw the development of rhetorical strategies built on alienizing logics that redefined understandings of citizenry, migration, belonging, and quarantine. In this conversation, Chávez also questions the rehabilitation of Anthony Fauci’s image, d...
S2 E5. The Borders of AIDS with Karma Chávez
December 02, 2021 14:10 - 36 minutes - 33.9 MBDecember’s ep features a conversation with Karma Chávez about her new book The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance out now from University of Washington Press. The book tracks how the early years of the AIDS pandemic in the United States saw the development of rhetorical strategies built on alienizing logics that redefined understandings of citizenry, migration, belonging, and quarantine. In this conversation, Chávez also questions the rehabilitation of Anthony Fauci’s image, d...
Learning in Public with Courtney Martin
November 01, 2021 13:00 - 38 minutes - 33.9 MBNovember’s episode of Gender Jawn features Courtney Martin, author of the book Learning in Public: Lessons for a Racially Divided America from my Daughter’s School in conversation with Gwendolyn Beetham. The book takes a critical look at the state of our segregated school system through the lens of one White family’s journey through their local public school. Courtney discusses the particularities of White motherhood and school choice, her own lived attempts at moving beyond the nuclear fami...
S2 E4. Learning in Public with Courtney Martin
November 01, 2021 13:00 - 38 minutes - 33.9 MBNovember’s episode of Gender Jawn features Courtney Martin, author of the book Learning in Public: Lessons for a Racially Divided America from my Daughter’s School in conversation with Gwendolyn Beetham. The book takes a critical look at the state of our segregated school system through the lens of one White family’s journey through their local public school. Courtney discusses the particularities of White motherhood and school choice, her own lived attempts at moving beyond the nuclear fami...
S2 E3. Abolitionist Body Politics with Kathy Brown
October 01, 2021 04:00 - 40 minutes - 26.9 MBThis month’s ep features Kathy Brown discussing her forthcoming book Undoing Slavery: Abolitionist Body Politics and the Argument over Humanity. In this work, Brown continues her career-long attention to the history of the body by documenting how early abolitionist work emerged alongside developments in medicine and law that determined how knowledge about bodies was produced. She discusses Black personhood, motherhood, and reproductive labor following the “official” end of the transatlantic ...
Abolitionist Body Politics with Kathy Brown
October 01, 2021 04:00 - 40 minutes - 26.9 MBThis month’s ep features Kathy Brown discussing her forthcoming book Undoing Slavery: Abolitionist Body Politics and the Argument over Humanity. In this work, Brown continues her career-long attention to the history of the body by documenting how early abolitionist work emerged alongside developments in medicine and law that determined how knowledge about bodies was produced. She discusses Black personhood, motherhood, and reproductive labor following the “official” end of the transatlantic ...
No sexy deviance without sad deviance with Heather Love
August 31, 2021 22:14 - 52 minutes - 46.5 MBWhat are deviance studies and what does deviance have to do with queer theory? In season 2 episode 2 of Gender Jawn, Heather Love talks about her new book Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory, tells us how microsociology informs queer method, why it’s still all about negative affect, where shame and stigma fit into genealogies of queer theory, and how sexy deviance and sad deviance can’t be separated. Check out Heather Love’s new book Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory (Un...
S2 E2. No sexy deviance without sad deviance with Heather Love
August 31, 2021 22:14 - 52 minutes - 46.5 MBWhat are deviance studies and what does deviance have to do with queer theory? In season 2 episode 2 of Gender Jawn, Heather Love talks about her new book Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory, tells us how microsociology informs queer method, why it’s still all about negative affect, where shame and stigma fit into genealogies of queer theory, and how sexy deviance and sad deviance can’t be separated. Check out Heather Love’s new book Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory (Un...
S2 E1. A little change will do you good with Melissa Sanchez
August 01, 2021 04:00 - 41 minutes - 32.2 MBThe season 2 opener of Gender Jawn unpacks the motivations for changing the name of the gender & sexuality research center at Penn from the Alice Paul Center to the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies. Jennifer W. Reiss talks about the importance of discussing the failures of the suffrage movement and Melissa Sanchez, Director of FQT/GSWS, discusses how formative BIPOC poets, artists, and creatives have been to the genealogy of queer theory, what sustainable care ...
A little change will do you good with Melissa Sanchez
August 01, 2021 04:00 - 41 minutes - 32.2 MBThe season 2 opener of Gender Jawn unpacks the motivations for changing the name of the gender & sexuality research center at Penn from the Alice Paul Center to the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies. Jennifer W. Reiss talks about the importance of discussing the failures of the suffrage movement and Melissa Sanchez, Director of FQT/GSWS, discusses how formative BIPOC poets, artists, and creatives have been to the genealogy of queer theory, what sustainable care ...
Anthea Butler on White Evangelical Racism
May 10, 2021 16:00 - 30 minutes - 23.4 MBIn May’s episode of Gender Jawn Anthea Butler discusses her new book about the history of evangelicalism in the U.S., how evangelical faith is politically leveraged as a powerful voting block, and why evangelicals vote overwhelmingly for politicians who do not practice what evangelicals preach. She exposes the practices of white evangelical racism in so-called color-blind Christianity to demonstrate how the battle between religion and politics is far from over and she explains the aesthetic ...
S1 E8. Anthea Butler on White Evangelical Racism
May 10, 2021 16:00 - 30 minutes - 23.4 MBIn May’s episode of Gender Jawn Anthea Butler discusses her new book about the history of evangelicalism in the U.S., how evangelical faith is politically leveraged as a powerful voting block, and why evangelicals vote overwhelmingly for politicians who do not practice what evangelicals preach. She exposes the practices of white evangelical racism in so-called color-blind Christianity to demonstrate how the battle between religion and politics is far from over and she explains the aesthetic ...
S1 E7. The Case for PILOTs at Penn
April 01, 2021 04:00 - 52 minutes - 45.4 MBThis episode offers an overview of the campaign for Penn to participate in a PILOT program with the city of Philadelphia. As a nonprofit, Penn is not required to pay property taxes, which provide a substantial part of the funding for the Philadelphia public school district. Members of Penn for PILOTs Mary Summers, Akira Drake Rodriguez, and Amy Offner make the case for why Penn should make payments in lieu of taxes to fund public education in Philly. Original Music by David Chavannes For ...
The Case for PILOTs at Penn
April 01, 2021 04:00 - 52 minutes - 45.4 MBThis episode offers an overview of the campaign for Penn to participate in a PILOT program with the city of Philadelphia. As a nonprofit, Penn is not required to pay property taxes, which provide a substantial part of the funding for the Philadelphia public school district. Members of Penn for PILOTs Mary Summers, Akira Drake Rodriguez, and Amy Offner make the case for why Penn should make payments in lieu of taxes to fund public education in Philly. Original Music by David Chavannes For ...
S1 E6. The Future of Lesbian and Queer Space with Jack Gieseking
March 02, 2021 04:59 - 47 minutes - 33.5 MBThe March 2021 episode of Gender Jawn features Jack Gieseking in conversation with Gwendolyn Beetham (Associate Director of GSWS) and Davy Knittle (English PhD Candidate and GSWS Graduate Associate). The discussion is centered around the themes of Jack’s recently released book, A Queer New York, which examines lesbian and queer spaces in New York City from 1983-2008. The conversation takes us from long-standing challenges to urban queer communities such as gentrification and racial injustice...
The Future of Lesbian and Queer Space with Jack Gieseking
March 02, 2021 04:59 - 47 minutes - 33.5 MBThe March 2021 episode of Gender Jawn features Jack Gieseking in conversation with Gwendolyn Beetham (Associate Director of GSWS) and Davy Knittle (English PhD Candidate and GSWS Graduate Associate). The discussion is centered around the themes of Jack’s recently released book, A Queer New York, which examines lesbian and queer spaces in New York City from 1983-2008. The conversation takes us from long-standing challenges to urban queer communities such as gentrification and racial injustice...
S1 E5. Queerness, Gender & Sexuality in the Tarot with Roksana Filipowska
February 01, 2021 05:00 - 45 minutes - 36.7 MBIn February’s episode of Gender Jawn, Roksana Filipowska, a third-generation tarot reader, educator, and researcher, discusses her own (re)discovery of the tarot, the queer, feminist & colonial history of tarot through the imagery of queer, Jamaican-born artist Pamela Colman Smith, and the importance of establishing mutual networks of care. The Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck was first published in 1909 by the Rider Company in London. Scholar and mystic A.E. Waite wrote the instruction manua...
Queerness, Gender & Sexuality in the Tarot with Roksana Filipowska
February 01, 2021 05:00 - 45 minutes - 36.7 MBIn February’s episode of Gender Jawn, Roksana Filipowska, a third-generation tarot reader, educator, and researcher, discusses her own (re)discovery of the tarot, the queer, feminist & colonial history of tarot through the imagery of queer, Jamaican-born artist Pamela Colman Smith, and the importance of establishing mutual networks of care. The Rider-Waite-Smith tarot deck was first published in 1909 by the Rider Company in London. Scholar and mystic A.E. Waite wrote the instruction manua...
S1 E4. Replay with Ricardo A. Bracho
December 14, 2020 22:09 - 1 hour - 36.6 MBThis episode is a replay from spring 2020. It features APC Artist-in-Residence Ricardo A. Bracho in conversation with Poet and Comparative Literature Graduate Student Lucas de Lima and APC Interim Associate Director Maria Murphy. Ricardo reads excerpts from his new work Circa, his short play Mi Madre, and his manifesto A Proclamation Of, By, and On Negation. Ricardo discusses the (in)operability of inclusion discourse, growing up as a red diaper baby, articulations of solidarity, how he stil...
Replay with Ricardo A. Bracho
December 14, 2020 22:09 - 1 hour - 36.6 MBThis episode is a replay from spring 2020. It features APC Artist-in-Residence Ricardo A. Bracho in conversation with Poet and Comparative Literature Graduate Student Lucas de Lima and APC Interim Associate Director Maria Murphy. Ricardo reads excerpts from his new work Circa, his short play Mi Madre, and his manifesto A Proclamation Of, By, and On Negation. Ricardo discusses the (in)operability of inclusion discourse, growing up as a red diaper baby, articulations of solidarity, how he stil...
S1 E3. Jorge Sánchez Cruz
December 01, 2020 12:25 - 39 minutes - 44.8 MBThe December 2020 episode of Gender Jawn features ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow, Jorge Sánchez Cruz. APC Interim Associate Director Maria Murphy asks Jorge about his work on undocu-queer aesthetics, his book project Aesthetics of Dissent: AIDS and Sexual Politics in the Americas, Oaxaca’s festival of reciprocity, and the indigenous performance of everyday living. This show includes the musical works “Jarabe Del Valle” & “Tanguyu,” and Jorge reads "Sick in America" by Alan C Pelaez Lopez. ...