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SpokesKathleen StockKathleen Stock is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sussex in the UK. She is an analytic philosopher with research interests in philosophical questions around the topics of sex, gender, sexual orientation, fiction, and the imagination. Her book Material Girls, published by Fleet/Little Brown, came out in May 2021. In her spare time she loves ‘reading fiction, cooking, eating, shouting at the telly, and being outside’. More information about Kathleen can be found on her website kathleenstock.com2021-07-141h 01SpokesBret AldermanBret Alderman is a writer and life coach. His book Symptom, Symbol, and the Other of Language: A Jungian interpretation of the linguistic turn examines the linguistic turn of the twentieth century and goes into some detail on the works of postmodern thinkers such as Richard Rorty, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida in a way that makes sometimes complex ideas approachable and understandable. He suggests that the linguistic turn has resulted in a neglect of consideration of the experiential, animate body and has resulted in a rift between language and materiality.More information on Bret can be fo...2021-06-201h 00SpokesFrankie GaffneyFrankie Gaffney is a writer and linguist from Dublin City, Ireland. His debut novel, Dublin Seven, was published by Liberties Press in 2015. Articles by Frankie Gaffney published in the Dublin InquirerFrankie interviews author David Scott for the Irish Times Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2021-05-171h 04SpokesAlice DregerAlice Dreger is a writer, historian and academic from New York. She is probably best well known for her book Galileo’s Middle Finger: Heretics, Activists, and one Scholar’s Search for Justice which was a New York Times editor’s choice. Her other books include Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sex and also One of Us: Conjoined Twins and the Future of Normal. She is the recipient of numerous awards for her writing and research and was the inaugural recipient of the Courage Award from the Heterodox Academy. She has written articles for the New York Times, Wall Street...2021-01-021h 07SpokesJanice FiamengoJanice Fiamengo taught English at the University of Ottawa where she was a Professor of English for sixteen years. She is the creator of the Fiamengo File, a series of videos about academic feminism, freedom of speech, and men’s issues. In 2018, she published Sons of Feminism: Men Have Their Say, a collection of personal essays by men about being male in a feminist culture. She can be found on Twitter @JaniceFiamengoThe Fiamengo File Season 1: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHt1Hh27h4Bs3gYpWa5qAu_kOChBKDIawStudioBrule where all t...2020-09-231h 01SpokesHelen PluckroseHelen Pluckrose is a writer and editor with a background in the Humanities. She is the editor of Areo magazine. Helen, along with James Lindsay and Peter Boghossian, were the people behind the so called ‘Grievance Studies Project’ which exposed some of the problems in academia today. The three of them wrote a series of hoax academic papers which contained some fairly ludicrous ideas and then went on to get some of the papers published in academic journals.Since then, Helen has been working on the book Cynical Theories with James Lindsay. The book was published last month...2020-09-1051 minSpokesPoet Mark RoperMark Roper was born in Derbyshire, England, in 1951. He moved to Ireland with his partner Jane in 1980 and has lived in Ireland ever since. He has seven collections of poetry published including his latest book ‘Bindweed’ which was published by Dedalus in 2017. ‘Bindweed’ was shortlisted for The Irish Times Poetry Now Award, as was Mark’s previous book ‘A Gather of Shadow’ which won the Michael Hartnett Award in 2014. He has worked on many collaborative projects down through the years including three books with the photographer Paddy Dwan: ‘The River Book: A Celebration of the Suir’, ‘The Backstrand: Tramore’s Open Secret’, and ‘C...2020-08-2643 minSpokesStella O'MalleyStella O’Malley is a psychotherapist, bestselling author, and public speaker. She is also a regular contributor to the Irish Independent, Sunday Independent, Newstalk radio and Today FM. Her first book, ‘Cotton Wool Kids’, was released in 2015 and her bestseller 'Bully-Proof Kids: Practical tools to help kids grow up confident, resilient and strong' was released in 2017. Stella’s latest book ‘Fragile: Why are we feeling more stressed, anxious and overwhelmed than ever before’, which focuses on overcoming anxiety was released by Gill Books in April 2019.In 2018 Stella presented the acclaimed documentary ‘Trans Kids: It’s Time To Talk’ which exam...2020-08-1456 minSpokesEwan MorrisonEwan Morrison is one of Scotland’s leading contemporary writers. His seventh novel, NINA X, won the 2019 Saltire Scottish Book of the Year. He has written articles for the Guardian as well as all the other leading UK newspapers as well as for online publications and magazines. His TEDx talk ‘Why We Would Be Happier Without Utopia’ was recorded in 2016. Links to some of his articles and his TEDx talk are included below. He can be found on Twitter @MrEwanMorrisonAwards & accolades:Winner - Saltire Society Scottish Fiction Book of the Year 2019Longlis...2020-07-251h 00SpokesJonathan HaidtAmerican social psychologist and best selling author, Jonathan Haidt, talks about the Heterodox Academy, the importance of viewpoint diversity, openness, humility, group think, and more.https://heterodoxacademy.org/https://jonathanhaidt.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2020-07-0835 minSpokesKevin HigginsKevin Higgins is co-organiser of Over The Edge literary events in Galway City, Ireland. He has published five full collections of poems including his most recent book ‘Sex and Death at Merlin Park Hospital’ which was published by Salmon in June of 2019. His poems feature in numerous anthologies and have been published in many journals, newspapers and websites. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2020-06-2918 minSpokesBenjamin BoyceIn this episode I chat to Benjamin Boyce who was a student at Evergreen State College when student protests broke out in May 2017. Evergreen is a liberal arts college in the State of Washington in the north west of the United States. The protests catapulted the college into the bullseye of international debates that focused on free speech, race, privilege and identity. Benjamin Boyce graduated from the college in June 2017 and has spent much of his time since then documenting the protests and their aftermath. This material, as well as interviews with people discussing a range of topical issues, can be...2020-05-3157 minSpokesLisa MarchianoLisa Marchiano is a Philadelphia-based writer, Jungian analyst, and podcaster. She is a host on the podcast 'This Jungian Life' and also on the podcast 'Secrets of the Motherworld'. You can follow her on Twitter @LisaMarchiano where you can join her mailing list. Her book on how motherhood can lead to personal growth will be published in Spring 2021. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2020-05-091h 00SpokesThomas McCarthyThomas McCarthy was born in Cappoquin, Co. Waterford in 1954 and was educated locally and at University College Cork. He is a member of Aosdana, the elected Assembly of artists and writers in Ireland. He has published nine collections of poetry including his most recent collection ‘Prophecy’ which was published by Carcanet Press in 2019. He has also published two novels and two works of non-fiction. He is a multi-award winning poet and his awards include the Patrick Kavanagh Award and the O’Shaughnessy Prize for Poetry.He worked for many years at Cork City Libraries, retiring in 2014 to write fulltime. He also worked...2020-03-0347 min