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FQT Podcast"Purpose Bigger Than Fear" A Conversation with Geena RoceroIn this episode, FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with author, film producer and director, actor and model, Geena Rocero about Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation (Random House, 2003), her modeling, directing and acting careers, her public advocacy work, trans diaspora, spirituality, and her new short film Dolls. Music cred: "QC Gurlz" by Stef Aranas
2025-11-1949 minFQT PodcastWhen Monsters Speak: Part 1 of a conversation with Professor Susan StrykerIn this (first of two parts) episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Professor Susan Stryker. Stryker is Professor Emerita of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Arizona, as well as Distinguished Visitor and 2025-2026 Faculty Research Fellow at Stanford University's Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Stryker has served as Visiting Professor of Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University, and Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Women's Leadership, Mills College. She is an executive editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, and as co-editor of the Duke University Press book series ASTERISK: gen...
2025-10-2838 minFQT PodcastTraumatophilia: a conversation with Avgi Saketopoulou, Psy.DIn this episode, FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with psychoanalyst and scholar Avgi Saketopoulou, who is the 2025-26 Avenali Chair in the Humanities at UC Berkeley, about her book Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia (NYU Press, 2023), and the entanglements of race, gender, sexuality and psychoanalysis. Music Credit: "Consideration" by Rihanna and SZA
2025-10-2842 minFQT PodcastThe Framer's Coup: a Conversation with Professor Michael J. KlarmanIn this episode FQT associate director speaks with Harvard Law professor Michael J. Klarman about his award winning scholarship in civil rights and legal history, including From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality (Oxford University Press, 2004) which received the 2005 Bancroft Prize in History, and his newest book, The Framer's Coup: the making of the United States Constitution (Oxford UP, 2016) which was a finalist for the George Washington Book Prize and the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel Award. Music Credit: "Animosity" by Tupac
2025-10-281h 00FQT PodcastArt's Properties: a conversation with David JoselitIn this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Professor David Joselit. Joselit is Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Art, Film, and Visual Studies and Chair for Art, Film, and Visual Studies (AFVS) at Harvard University. Joselit began his career as a curator at The ICA in Boston from 1983-1989. After receiving his PhD from Harvard in 1995, he has also taught at the University of California, Irvine, and Yale University where he was Department Chair of History of Art from 2006-09, and the CUNY Graduate Center. Some of Joselit's most recent books are After Art (Princeton University Press, 2012) and H...
2025-09-2629 minFQT PodcastThe Artificial and the Real: a conversation with Nora KhanIn this episode FQT associate director and podcast host Che Gossett speaks with critic, essayist, curator, and professor Nora Khan. Nora Khan recently served as the Arts Council Professor at UCLA in Design Media Arts. Her writing on philosophy of artificial intelligence and emergent technologies is referenced heavily across disciplinary formations in the humanities and the arts. Her books include AI Art and the Stakes for Art Criticism (2025), Seeing, Naming, Knowing (2019) and Fear Indexing the X-Files (2017), with Steven Warwick. She is a member of the Curatorial Ensemble of the 2026 edition of Counterpublic, one of the nation's largest public civic e...
2025-09-2642 minFQT PodcastNow Dig This: A Conversation with Kellie JonesIn this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Kellie Jones, Professor in Art History and Archaeology and the Institute for Research in African American Studies (IRAAS) at Columbia University. Professor Jones is a 2016 MacArthur Foundation Fellow, and the recipient of numerous awards for her scholarship and curation. Professor Jones is the author of EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art (Duke, 2011), and South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s (Duke, 2017), which was named a Best Art Book of 2017 in The New York Times. She has worked as a curator for over three...
2025-04-1741 minFQT PodcastBlack Modernisms: A Conversation with Huey CopelandIn this episode, FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Huey Copeland, Andrew W. Mellon Chair and Professor of Modern Art and Black Study at the University of Pittsburgh, about his work in art history, criticism, and Black diasporic and contemporary art. Professor Copeland is the author of the critically acclaimed book Bound to Appear: Art, Slavery, and the Site of Blackness in Multicultural America (Chicago, 2013), co-editor of the award-winning volume Black Modernisms in the Transatlantic World (National Gallery of Art and Yale University Press, 2023), as well over 70 essays, interviews, and reviews that have appeared in a range of jou...
2025-04-1731 minFQT PodcastLife On Mars: a Conversation with Tracy K. SmithIn this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with poet and professor Tracy K. Smith. Smith served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States, and her book of poetry Life on Mars (Greywolf Press, 2011) received the 2012 Pulitzer Prize. Smith is Susan S. and Kenneth L. Wallach Professor at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute as well as professor of English and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. Smith discusses her numerous works of poetry, and her recent, more essayistic book, To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul (Penguin, 2023), the poetics of blackness, the...
2025-03-2935 minFQT PodcastALL EXITS with LTS (2022) This 2022 podcast episode is a conversation between Maria Murphy (then associate director of the FQT Center) and 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. Satre, insomnia, perspectival painting, strikes, and cat ac...
2025-03-281h 12FQT PodcastNegative Life: A Conversation with Steven Swarbrick and Jean-Thomas TremblayIn this episode Che Gossett, associate director of the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer and Transgender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania speaks with the authors of Negative Life: The Cinema of Extinction (Northwestern UP, 2024) professors Steven Swarbrick of CUNY and Jean Thomas Tremblay of York University. They discuss the concept of negative life, the contemporary politics of ecocriticism, film theory, psychoanalysis, and queer studies. Music Credit: The Day the World Turned Day-Glo, by X-Ray Spex
2025-03-1441 minFQT PodcastCare at the End of the World: A Conversation with Jina B. KimIn this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Jina B. Kim, who is assistant professor of English Language & Literature and of the Study of Women & Gender at Smith College, about her forthcoming book, Care at the End of the World: Dreaming of Infrastructure: Crip-of-Color Writing after the U.S. Welfare State (Duke UP, March 2025). Professor Kim speaks about her articulation of a "crip-of-color critique," and how feminist- and queer-of-color literary responses to state austerity measures -- as seen in the work of writers such as Audre Lorde, Octavia Butler, Samuel Delany, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and ot...
2025-02-2633 minFQT PodcastRearranging Desires: A Conversation with Gayatri SpivakIn this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with literary theory, philosophy, and subaltern studies scholar Professor Gayatri Spivak, who is University Professor in the department of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, the 2012 recipient of the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy, and the author of numerous field shaping books and articles, including A Critique of Postcolonial Reason Toward a History of the Vanishing Present (Harvard UP, 1999), Readings (2014) and texts of critical essays including Outside in the Teaching Machine (Routledge, 2008), and An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization (Harvard UP, 2013). In this episode, Professor Spivak speak...
2025-01-2149 minFQT PodcastThe Reorder of Things: A Conversation with Roderick FergusonIn this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Roderick Ferguson, professor of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and American Studies at Yale University. Ferguson was the 2018-2019 president of the American Studies Association. He is the author of One-Dimensional Queer (Polity, 2019), We Demand: The University and Student Protests (University of California, 2017), The Reorder of Things: The University and Its Pedagogies of Minority Difference (University of Minnesota, 2012), and Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique (University of Minnesota, 2004). Song Credit: Adrian Piper being interviewed about and performing her street performance piece "Mythic Being", exc...
2024-12-2129 minFQT PodcastBlack Nihilism and Spirituality: A Conversation with Calvin WarrenIn this episode, recorded during fall semester 2023, FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Calvin Warren, associate professor of African American Studies at Emory University about his book Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism and Emancipation (Duke UP, 2018), and his thoughts on Black nihilism and spirituality. Music credits: "There Are Other Worlds (Have They Not Told You Of) by Sun Ra
2024-12-1335 minFQT PodcastPoetics Against Extraction: A Conversation with Jackie WangIn this conversation FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with poet, author and professor Jackie Wang. Wang is an assistant professor of American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and the author of Carceral Capitalism (Semiotext(e), 2018), and Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun (Semiotext(e), 2023), as well as works of poetry, such as The Sunflower Cast A Spell To Save Us From The Void (Nightboat, 2021). In this expansive conversation, Wang discusses her work on carceral technologies -- including AI -- surveillance, and extraction, as well as her interests in pyschoanalysis, mysticism, and tracing the concept of t...
2024-12-0442 minFQT PodcastStag Dance: Torrey Peters on Lumberjacks and Creating Queer & Trans Literary WorldsIn this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett interviews novelist Torrey Peters about her intellectual and writerly formation, her early online novella publications, The Masker and Infect Your Friends and Loved Ones, and her novel Detransition Baby (One World, 2021) which received the the 2021 PEN/Hemingway award for debut fiction, and was also named a Best Book of the Century by the New York Times. Peters also speaks about her forthcoming collection, Stag Dance (Random House, 2025), the fascinating history and idiom of queer and trans lumberjack culture, and fashioning queer and trans literary worlds. Music Credit: "I C...
2024-11-2531 minFQT PodcastCritical Humanities: A Conversation with Paul GilroyIn this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Paul Gilroy, who is Professor of the Humanities and Founding Director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism & Racialisation at University College London. Professor Gilroy's scholarship has been globally influential, especially his books There Ain't No Black in the Union Jack(1987), The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993), and Against Race (2000). In 2019 Professor Gilroy was awarded the Holberg Prize by the government of Norway in recognition of his scholarship. Che Gossett speaks with Professor Gilroy about his intellectual itinerary, his early career as a journalist, a...
2024-11-1541 minFQT PodcastAmy Tobin on Feminist Art HistoryIn this episode, FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Amy Tobin, University of Cambridge Associate Professor in the History of Art and Curator of Contemporary Programmes, at Kettle's Yard, about feminist art history, feminist art curation, coalitional politics and her book, Women Artists Together Art in the Age of Women's Liberation (Yale UP, 2023), as well as her 2014 article, co-authored with Victorian Horne, "An unfinished revolution in art historiography, or how to write a feminist art history" in feminist review.
2024-11-1238 minFQT PodcastThe Antisocial and its Afterlives: Austin Svedjan and John Paul RiccoIn this episode, FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Austin Svedjan, doctoral student and Hamilton-Law Graduate Fellow in the Department of English at Penn, and John Paul Ricco, professor of Art History at the University of Toronto, about their co-edited special issue of the journal Postmodern Culture, which is freely available online. Song credit: "If You Can't Help Me" by Brontez Purnell.
2024-11-0137 minFQT PodcastGlorious Bodies And Early Modern Trans Studies with Professor Colby GordonIn this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with scholar Colby Gordon, who is associate professor in Department of Literatures in English at Bryn Mawr College, about early modern trans studies and theology, and his exciting new and first book, Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature (University of Chicago, 2024). Song credit (-30sec): "My Enemies are Mine" by Jim Strong
2024-10-2340 minFQT PodcastThe Specter of Materialism: a Conversation with Petrus LiuIn 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. ...
2024-10-1125 minFQT PodcastTouching Through the Archive: a Conversation with Zackary DruckerIn this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with multimedia artist, director, and producer Zackary Drucker about her archival work on and connection to Flawless Sabrina, about being attuned to the spiritual realm, and her prodigious work in TV & film -- especially her co-directed Sundance award-winning and Emmy nominated HBO original documentary film The Stroll (2023) and the HBO documentary series The Lady and the Dale (2021).
2024-10-0137 min
University of Minnesota PressOn Trans Philosophy and troubling a Western-dominant sense of trans.Across language and politics, feminism and phenomenology, and decolonial theory, Trans Philosophy addresses trans worldmaking in all its beauty and mundanity. The volume’s four editors, Perry Zurn, Andrea J. Pitts, Talia Mae Bettcher, and PJ DiPietro focus on the contributions of trans and gender-nonconforming philosophers from around the globe. Showcasing writing from a range of emerging and established voices, Trans Philosophy addresses discrimination, embodiment, identity, language, and law, utilizing diverse philosophical methods to attend to significant intersections between trans experience and class, disability, race, nationality, and sexuality. Here, the book’s four editors engage each other in conversation.
2024-09-261h 03FQT PodcastEnforced In/Visibility: Beeta Baghoolizadeh on Racial Slavery and Historical Memory in IranIn this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Dr. Beeta Baghoolizadeh. Dr. Baghoolizadeh is a historian and an Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University, in the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies. Gossett speaks with Dr. Baghoolizadeh about her book The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran (Duke University Press, March 2024) and how Iranian and Persian Gulf social and political life have been both shaped by racial slavery and the disavowal of it's history, as well as the ways in which its afterlife reverberates now.
2024-09-1139 minFQT PodcastBad Education: Lee Edelman on the Fantasy of Social OrderIn this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Lee Edelman, Fletcher Professor of English Literature at Tufts University, about the continued resonance and influence his book No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Duke UP, 2004) and about his newest work Bad Education: Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing (Duke UP, 2022). Edelman discusses his theorization of queerness as a constitutive exclusion and form of negation, his work with the late Lauren Berlant, psychoanalysis, and the ways in which emotions and affects -- pessimism and utopianism and their interplay -- animate and circulate in the political scene.
2024-08-2237 minFQT PodcastThe Risk it Takes to Bloom: a conversation with Raquel WillisIn this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett talks with Black trans activist and writer Raquel Willis about Black trans liberationist movements, intersectionality, Black feminism(s), growing up in the South, and her new book, The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation (St. Martin Press, 2023).
2024-08-0724 min
Recensioni CaRfaticheRecensioni CaRfatiche - If, gli amici immaginari (John Krasinski 2024)Lo dico subito, ben sapendo di essere abbastanza impopolare: If è una delle più belle pellicole del 2024. Perché mi riporta indietro nel tempo, mi riporta all'importanza di quegli amici inventati, che tanto ci hanno aiutato da bambini e ci hanno aiutato a crescere.
La giovane Bea, ragazzina che vuole essere adulta per forza, si troverà ad aiutare il burbero Cal nella missione non facile, ma emozionante, di riaccoppiare un gruppo di amici immaginari ai bambini più adatti a loro e bisognosi di affetto.
Non è un film privo di difetti, ma tutti quei colori, l'umorismo e le emozio...
2024-07-2924 minFQT PodcastPoems on Fire: Nava Mau on Finding the Language of FilmmakingIn this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett talks with filmmaker, actress and cultural worker Nava Mau. Nava Mau recently received the 2024 Critics Choice Association's "Breakthrough Performance" Award for Television (Limited Series) for her role in the Netflix hit series Baby Reindeer. Nava Mau was the lead actor and director, and co-producer for the short film Waking Hour (2019), and starred in the HBO Max series Generation. Nava Mau also recently directed and starred in the short film All the Words But One (2024) which is showing at film festivals across the globe and was executive produced by Lily Wachowski. In this...
2024-06-2423 minFQT Podcast"how subjectivity gets made" a dialogue with scholar & writer McKenzie WarkMcKenzie 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 theory, critical theory and philosophy.
2024-05-2136 minFQT PodcastDisorienting Cis with Perry ZurnIn 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 Abolition (Springer, 2016), among other edited and co-authored volumes, as well as copious articles. In the interview Zurn upacks a transnational genealogy of the term cis, it's pre...
2024-05-0935 minFQT PodcastWhere the Wild Things Are: A conversation with Jack HalberstamIn 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.
2024-04-1932 minFQT PodcastOn Making Art: A Conversation with Lilly WachowskiIn 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 Abby McEnany and Tim Mason. Lilly Wachowski discusses trans politics, and the power of art to transform, forge bonds of solidarity, and creat...
2024-04-0231 minFQT PodcastWho's Afraid of Gender? A Conversation with Judith ButlerIn 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.
2024-04-0236 minFQT PodcastWho's Afraid of Gender? A Conversation with Judith ButlerIn this episode (recorded fall 2023) FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Judith Butler, who is Distinguished Professor in the Graduate School and former Maxine Elliot Profess 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), and their extensive scholarship and interventions as a public intellectual.
2024-03-2836 minFQT PodcastStubble Archipelago: Interview with Wayne KoestenbaumIn 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 "#34 [Two quartered radishes], currently featured in The Yale Review.
2024-03-2044 minFQT PodcastCare Without Pathology: Christoph Hanssmann on the Politics of Trans CareIn 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.
2024-03-1235 minFQT PodcastAfro-Fabulations: A Conversation with Tavia Nyong'oIn 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 Zora Neale Hurston inspired concept of "angular sociality," and the role of what Nyong'o terms -- extending psychoanalytic interventions -- "critical ambivalence." Writers and/or works referenced: James Baldwin and Audre...
2024-02-2732 minFQT PodcastProcess and Virtuality: An Interview with Brian MassumiIn 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-written with his companion in art and thought, Erin Manning, professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University (Montreal).
2024-02-1945 minFQT PodcastAgainst Effacement: Jules Gill-Peterson on histories of the trans child and histories of trans misogynyIn 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 also in process work on DIY trans community care.
2024-01-3141 minFQT PodcastLiner Notes for the Revolution The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist SoundIn 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 (1969) The Way We Were by Barbra Streisand (1987) I Write the Songs by Barry M...
2023-12-1335 minFQT PodcastGenres of Freedom: A Conversation with Maggie NelsonIn 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.
2023-11-1829 minFQT PodcastSportscasting: Kate Scott on Sports, Broadcasting, and Societal ChangeThe 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, the politics of sports, inclusion, queerness, visibility, and identity. For more about Scott's prolific and impactful work, see: ht...
2023-09-2039 minFQT PodcastNew Research in GSWS: Serena Baldick Martinez & Talia Fiester on Nonbinary Harry Potter Fanfic & the Pathology of Gen Z’s SingledomMay’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 extracurricular life at Penn is her work with Penn Violence Prevention, an organization with which she has been affiliated since her freshman year. In her role as both...
2023-05-0346 min
FQT PodcastALL EXITS with LTSThis 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. Satre, insomnia, perspectival painting, strikes, and cat accents are all mentioned. Songs by Saggy in order...
2023-04-011h 12FQT PodcastMinerva Parker Nichols: The Search for a Forgotten Architect This 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 only focuses on the groundbreaking work of this architect but also the implications for the history of representation in the field of d...
2023-03-0148 minFQT PodcastSex Sounds with Daniele Schlomit SoferIn 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 of Donna Summer’s “Love to love you baby” to Annie Sprinkle’s instructional video Sluts & Goddesses...
2023-02-0159 minFQT PodcastFixing Housing in Philly Part IIDecember'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 Girl," about representation in the trades, maintaining accessible housing prices, and supporting long-time residents in west Philly. Kelly Ireland Instagram page
2022-12-0850 minFQT PodcastFixing Housing in Philly Part IDecember'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 essential home repairs. Save the UC Townhomes DEMAND PENN STOP PUNISHING PEACEFUL PROTESTERS PETITION The...
2022-12-0246 minFQT PodcastThe Politics of Laughter with Delia CasadeiNovember'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 by Tamir Williams Podcast original music by David Chavannes For more information about the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender S...
2022-11-011h 06FQT PodcastOn the Dobbs decision and the future of reproductive carePenn 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 Reproductive Justice Working Group Penn Association for Gender Equality (PAGE) Penn Nurses f...
2022-09-0141 minFQT PodcastStages, artmaking, and end of life caregiving with Rachel Kauder NalebuffIn 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 purchase Stages directly from Thick Press. And you can pre-order her forthcoming Our Red Book. A...
2022-05-0239 minFQT PodcastTrans Care with Hil MalatinoIn 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 the state of Trans Studies today, pointing to the continued marginalization of trans...
2022-03-3149 minFQT Podcast40 Years of Queer BIPOC FeminismThis 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. Kandice Chuh speaks about the ways we are compelled to begin with "we," and how This Bridge Called My Back asks how and by what means...
2022-03-0154 minFQT Podcastk.d.lang's Ingénue at 30 with Mairead Sullivan and canada.gov.caThis 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 forthcoming book Lesbian Death. Follow Canada.gov.ca on Instagram. Musical excerpts by Stompin' T...
2022-01-3140 minFQT PodcastThe Borders of AIDS with Karma ChávezDecember'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, discusses the methodological challenges of recovering archival materials of detained migrants, and considers the coalitional potential to organize against alienization. Check out Th...
2021-12-0236 minFQT PodcastLearning in Public with Courtney MartinNovember’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 family model and, ultimately, what it means to take seriously the idea that having the “best” for our children means having the be...
2021-11-0138 minFQT PodcastAbolitionist Body Politics with Kathy BrownThis 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 slave trade in 1808, demonstrating how this labor system reproduced itself by colonizing the bodies of enslaved women, and she articulates a body-centered politics to show how material analysis of bod...
2021-10-0140 min
NYC Trans Oral History ProjectInterview of Che GossettChe Gossett shares on the left political history of their parents, their time spent in multiple abolitionist, black and queer organizing groups, and their becoming a critical scholar of trans studies, art criticism and race. Specifically, Che discusses their time in Critical Resistance, Hearts on a Wire (a Philly-based trans prisoner zine), and the Barnard Center for Research on Women. Study plays a reoccurring and central role in Che's narrative, serving as an abolitionist political practice, and means of building transformative community. Che reflects on the dynamics of trans feminine people in black communities and institutions and the interrelationship...
2021-09-141h 33
NYC Trans Oral History ProjectInterview of Che GossettChe Gossett shares on the left political history of their parents, their time spent in multiple abolitionist, black and queer organizing groups, and their becoming a critical scholar of trans studies, art criticism and race. Specifically, Che discusses their time in Critical Resistance, Hearts on a Wire (a Philly-based trans prisoner zine), and the Barnard Center for Research on Women. Study plays a reoccurring and central role in Che's narrative, serving as an abolitionist political practice, and means of building transformative community. Che reflects on the dynamics of trans feminine people in black communities and institutions and the interrelationship of...
2021-09-141h 33FQT PodcastNo sexy deviance without sad deviance with Heather LoveWhat 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 (University of Chicago Press) Original music by David Chavannes: www.dchavannes.com For more...
2021-09-0152 minFQT PodcastA little change will do you good with Melissa SanchezThe 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 work might look like in the future, and her new book project on the productivity of guilt. Original Music...
2021-08-0141 minFQT PodcastAnthea Butler on White Evangelical RacismIn 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 & political brilliance of sliding down a stripper pole to hell in Lil Nas X's "MONTERO (Call ME By Your Name)." ...
2021-05-1030 minFQT PodcastThe Case for PILOTs at PennThis 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 more information about the Alice Paul Center visit www.gsws.sas.upenn.ed...
2021-04-0152 min
genderfrequenzMini-Serie: „Geschlecht, Affekt und Politik“ (Teil 2)Gender, Affect, and Politics – Episode 2: Literature, Social Media, and Affective Worldmaking
Gender, Affect, and Politics is a 3-Part Series by the Intimate Readings Research Group at the University of Graz. Die 1. Episode findet ihr hier.
In this episode, Si Sophie Pages Whybrew and Jana Aresin talk about the potentials and limitations of stories and narratives in literature and other media for making people empathize with characters, reflect on their worldviews and identities, and possibly imagine alternative worlds. Through the term “affective worldmaking,” they explore how narratives, emotions, and politics overlap, and ask the question what causes p...
2021-03-2220 minFQT PodcastThe Future of Lesbian and Queer Space with Jack GiesekingThe 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, to the pleasures of queer space -- queer soup nights, lesbian go-go dancers and, of course, astrology. Follow Jack Gieseking @jgieseking Access all...
2021-03-0247 minFQT PodcastQueerness, Gender & Sexuality in the Tarot with Roksana FilipowskaIn 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 manual and directed the project, though it was artist Pamela Colman Smith who created the now iconic imagery of the cards. Roksana is...
2021-02-0145 minFQT PodcastReplay with Ricardo A. BrachoThis 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 still believes in the revolution, and the need for faculty to recognize themselves as workers. Since the recording of this episode, a...
2020-12-141h 02FQT PodcastJorge Sánchez CruzThe 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. Original Music by David Chavannes. For more information about the Alice Paul Center visit www.gsws.sas.upenn.edu
2020-12-0139 minFQT PodcastSelf-Care with Shana Bahemat & Gwendolyn BeethamThe November 2020 Alice Paul Center (APC) podcast episode of Gender Jawn focuses on the practices and politics of self-care. APC Interim Director Maria Murphy interviews UPenn GSWS Associate Director Gwendolyn Beetham and GSWS/APC Program Coordinator Shana Bahemat about meditation and writing as self-care, care work advocacy in the university, and facilitating care work as part of a holistic approach to pedagogy. Readings include excerpts from Judith Butler’s Undoing Gender and Solange Knowles’ “Solange Knowles: Reflections on Stillness, Joy, and the Year That Changed Everything.” Shana Bahemat www.shanabahemat.com In...
2020-11-0243 minFQT PodcastDavid Chavannes APC Graduate Artist in ResidenceThe Alice Paul Center (APC) podcast series relaunches as Gender Jawn with original music composed by the first ever APC Graduate Artist in Residence, David Chavannes. APC Interim Associate Director Maria Murphy asks David about his performance and scholarly work, which critical theorists he’d rather sing to, write with, or drink with, and his take on making research in the North Atlantic academic industry. This show includes the works “mel’s son” (2018) by David Chavannes as well as “different” (2019) and “la dame aux chapeaux” (2019) by David Chavannes and Talie Cerin. Original Music by David Chavannes: www.dchavannes.com
2020-10-0153 minFQT PodcastGender Jawn TeaserStay tuned for our first episode with artist & scholar David Chavannes, the first ever Alice Paul Center Graduate Artist in Residence
2020-09-2400 min
AirGoEp 254 - The Abolition Suite Vol. 3: Andrea RitchieThe Abolition Suite is a series of AirGo episodes exploring the concepts and practices of policing and prison abolition with the thought leaders who have been pushing an abolitionist future forward for decades. The Abolitionist Suite is presented in support of the #DefundCPD campaign and the Black Abolitionist Network. Volume 3 features writer, organizer, and movement worker Andrea Ritchie. Andrea is the author of Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color, and has devoted the last 25 years naming and advocating for women of color, especially LGBTQ women of color, who have been victims of police violence...
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