In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with professor Petrus Liu, who is professor of Chinese & Comparative Literature and of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Boston University. Professor Liu is the author of Queer Marxism in Two Chinas (Duke University Press, 2015) and The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Consensus (Duke University Press, 2023), and other many other publications. Gossett speaks with Liu about how he sutures together queer theory, gender and sexuality studies and Marxist thought, and about how the analysis of racial capitalism requires a global scope.
Song credits (-30sec): "Feeling Fuzzy" and "Kids Go Down" by Chinese American Bear
