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Cracked IvorySpotlight: Interview with Maria Ying, Author of "The Hades Calculus"Emma and Talia bring you an interview with the one-third of the bestselling author of The Hades Calculus Maria Ying, about lesbian futurism, not-so-feminist Greek myth retellings, and how the past is a foreign country (so you can be orientalist about it)! They are joined by Callisto Khan (she/her, @callistokhan.bsky.social) to discuss the Gunmetal Olympus series and the upcoming The Persephone Effect, out this January!Pre-order the sequel to The Hades Calculus, The Persephone Effect here or here.Contact usSupport the showFind more of Talia at...
2026-01-221h 24Cracked IvoryThe Cult That Changed Tumblr. Robinson's "Detransition: Beyond Before and After"Initially, this episode was intended to be exclusive to Patreon. However, given its subject matter, we decided to instead release it to early access and then publicly. Happy holidays!For the Patreon companion episode, Emma, Talia and Lucy dive into Max Robinson's misguided nostalgia tour of the second wave's worst offerings. Robinson attempts to pen a sequel to Janice Raymond's The Transsexual Empire that talks about how we can choose to escape patriarchy if we all just try hard enough, how people transition because they think "FTMs" are taken more seriously than women, and how to run...
2025-12-311h 27Cracked IvoryThe Parent Trap. Shrier's "Irreversible Damage"In this very special episode of Cracked Ivory, Emma traps Talia and Lucy Kartikasari (she/they/he, luckartikasari on TikTok) on a call and subjects them to Abigail Shrier's opinions on transition, teenage sex, and race. Irreversible Damage is a fear-mongering screed combined with a how-to child abuse guide aimed at the parents of young trans children, a manifesto stating plain that children owe their parents not merely their lives and future earnings, but their very bodies and sex, neither of which can be tampered with under the heterosexual regime. We examine how this misbegotten suburban tantrum dehumanizes trans...
2025-12-171h 25Cracked IvorySpotlight: Interview with Jude Doyle, Author of "Did I Leave Feminism?"On this special episode of Cracked Ivory, Talia and Emma invite Jude Doyle (he/they) to discuss his new book, Did I Leave Feminism? They talk about the manufactured antagonism between feminism and queerness, how Western trans theorists talk about race and gender, recuperative readings of the second wave, and more!Did I Leave Feminism? is out now everywhere books are sold.Contact usSupport the showFind more of Talia at taliabhatt.com Find more of Emma at dolphindiaires.carrd.co
2025-10-221h 13Cracked IvorySister Raymond's Transmisogyny Bible. Raymond's 'The Transsexual Empire'Today, Talia and Emma dissect The Transsexual Empire, a foundational text for the modern gender-critical movement. They discuss the history of radical lesbian feminism, the embattled discourse over trans women's place in it, and the way trans-exclusionary 'radfems' codified a feminist pretext for rank bigotry.Sources:Janice Raymond, The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male (don't buy it; don't read it, but if you do, you know where to not buy it)Finn Enke, Collective Memory and the Transfeminist 1970s: Towards a Less Plausible History: https://read.dukeupress.edu/tsq...
2025-10-101h 44Cracked IvoryPlease Just Take Testosterone. Halberstam's "Female Masculinity"Is there a difference between trans men and butch lesbians? Are non-transitioning queer people like refugees? And most importantly, HOW MUCH SEX ARE THEY HAVING IN THE MEN'S BATHROOM? This episode, Emma and Talia are joined by Isaac (The Trans Dandy, he/they/ze) to discuss Jack Halberstam's psychedelic experience Female Masculinity, a work of queer theory with a truly unearned reputation as 'representative' of the transmasculine experience. Find Isaac at: https://substack.com/@transdandyAdditional special thanks to our newest Cum Laudest Patron, Lava Monster, who had the impeccable timing of joining the exact m...
2025-09-051h 33Cracked IvoryArson, Murder, Fandom. Aburime's "Transphobia, homonationalism, and anti-Asian prejudice in anti-BL attitudes"Talia and Emma are joined by May Peterson (she/her, goddessblade.bsky.social) to discuss the sizzling and steamy world of M/M romance fiction and ask: Does having critiques of M/M media make you racist?! A single Tumblr callout post that somehow managed to become an academic paper snowballs into a discussion on identity politics, transfeminine erasure, and the anti-intellectualism inherent to a discursive environment that relies more on vibes than actual arguments when discussing not merely fandom, but topics as important as politics, bigotry, and art.Sources:Sam Aburime, The...
2025-07-091h 43Cracked IvoryWhose Intersectionality Is It Anyway? Crenshaw's Theory of IntersectionalityFor the first episode of Cracked Ivory, Talia and Emma are joined by legal historian and queer feminist of color Kay (who can be found at dihya-bint-neyth.bsky.social on Bluesky) to discuss Kimberlé Crenshaw’s oft-cited yet sparsely-read theory of intersectionality, along with its implications for masculinity studies, critics of feminism, and Ben Shapiro’s fear of bottoming.Sources:Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1052&context=uclfIntersectionality Wars: https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/20/18542843/intersectionality-conservatism-law-race-gender-discriminationIntersectionality and Masculinity Studies: https...
2025-05-121h 40Cracked IvoryTrailer - Cracked IvoryTalia Bhatt and Emma Zakharuk unveil their evil lesbian radical transfeminist agenda: to end both Manhood and Discourse with a single podcast. 'Cracked Ivory' is an examination of popular feminist discourses and the scholarship (both good and very, very bad) that spawned them! Coming soon to wherever you get your podcasts.Contact usSupport the showFind more of Talia at taliabhatt.com Find more of Emma at dolphindiaires.carrd.co
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