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Gender Troubles
Gender TroublesWe're back!Life has been busy but we came out of hibernation to release this fall reading list! We'll be back in a few weeks with more episodes. Show notes: Books- Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, by Andrea Lawlor How to do Nothing, by Jenny Odell Females, by Andrea Long Chu Once and Future Feminist, edited by Merve Emre A Certain Hunger, by Chelsea G. Summers Podcasts- Novara FM  You're Wrong About - Online Shopping ...
2022-11-1233 minGender Troubles
Gender TroublesPorn Futures: An Interview with Maggie MacDonaldIn the FINAL episode of porn month, we interview Maggie MacDonald, a 4th year PhD student who studies the platformization of porn. We talk porn platforms, deepfakes, and anti-sex work policy in Canada.  To read all the articles discussed in this episode, head to Maggie's website: https://www.internetmaggie.com Check out the Maggie's Toronto Sex Work Action Project here: https://www.maggiesto.org Gender Troubles will be taking a little break over the summer to rest and write more great episodes! Thanks for listening and we'll be back in S...
2022-06-151h 16Gender Troubles
Gender TroublesThe Sex WarsEmma and Eva talk about the sex wars (also known as the porn wars), a time in the 1980s when debates on sexuality, pornography and kink dominated the feminist conversation.  Follow us on social media: Instagram Twitter Facebook We are a proud member of the Harbinger Media Network reading list: Diary of a Conference on Sexuality  Pleasure and danger : exploring female sexuality (Gayle Rubin's "Thinking Sex" starts on page 267) Against Sadomasochism: A Radical Feminist Analysis Off our backs, "towards a politics of sexuality" Ju...
2022-05-2958 minGender Troubles
Gender TroublesThe History of PornFrom Pompeii to Pornhub, Eva & Emma discuss the long history of porn. Show notes: https://www.filmsite.org/sexinfilms1.html https://www.proquest.com/openview/31a0431f5269893f8a5632a062bf0a46/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750 https://susannapaasonen.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/01pornification23-32.pdf https://monoskop.org/images/e/e7/Williams_Linda_Hard_Core_Power_Pleasure_and_the_Frenzy_of_the_Visible.pdf https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/how-the-internet-changed-porn-201674/ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/30/internet-porn-says-more-about-ourselves-than-technology https://www.forbes.com...
2022-05-1947 minGender Troubles
Gender TroublesGender Troubles x Pullback: The Ethical Consumption of PornWe kick off Porn Month with a conversation with Kyla Hewson and Kristen Pue, of the podcast Pullback! Pullback investigates the ethical issues behind everyday goods and services. Kyla and Kristen help us work through the issues around the ethical consumption of pornography. What does it look like to be an ethical porn consumer? What are the best ways to directly support porn creators? Is OnlyFans like farm-to-table cuisine? Listen now to find out.  You can find Pullback here and follow them on Instagram Twitter Facebook  The book we discuss, "Porn Work: Sex, Labor and La...
2022-05-1058 minGender Troubles
Gender TroublesRoe v. WadeThis episode, we talk through our thoughts about the leaked Supreme Court draft decision on Roe v. Wade.  Readings and Recommendations  Interrupting Criminalization, Abortion Decriminalization is Part of the Larger Struggle Against Policing and Criminalization Reproaction, Understanding and Advocating for Self-Managed Abortion Plan C, A Guide to Abortion Pills Online  Evan Greer, digital security thread  Caroline Duble, resource thread  Melissa Gira Grant, The Real Fight for Abortion Rights Is Not in the Courts or Congress Jenny Brown, Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now (free e...
2022-05-0738 minGender Troubles
Gender TroublesSurrogacyThis week, Eva and Emma talk about surrogacy. They discuss different feminist perspectives on the topic and consider how we can expand the definitions of "parenthood" and "family" beyond the nuclear model.  Follow us on social media: Instagram Twitter Facebook Support us on Patreon We are a proud member of the Harbinger Media Network READING LIST: Anita L. Allen, "The Black Surrogate Mother" Elizabeth S. Scott, "Surrogacy and the Politics of Commodification" Radiolab, "Birthstory"  Angela Davis, "Surrogates and Outcast Mothers: Ra...
2022-04-2048 minGender Troubles
Gender TroublesPostmodern FeminismWhat's postmodern feminism? In this episode we desperately try to answer that question! Show notes: "Explainer: What is Postmodernism" by David Palmer, 2014 Artland "What is Dadaism?" "On Judith Butler & Performativity" by Sarah Salih, 2007  Feminist thought : a comprehensive introduction" by Rosemarie Tong, 1989 Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 3. Feminist Postmodernism  Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, 1999.
2022-04-0537 minGender Troubles
Gender TroublesThe Male GazeEva and Emma talk about the male gaze, from its origins in feminist film criticism to how the concept gets used today. They also discuss what is often left out from the discourses around the male gaze... (hint: it's capitalism) and also get interrupted by Emma's lovey, loud cat! Follow us on social media: Instagram Twitter Facebook Support us on Patreon We are a proud member of the Harbinger Media Network READING LIST: Big Mama, tiktok  Issues in Feminist Film Criticism (includes 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' a...
2022-03-1136 minGender Troubles
Gender TroublesGender Discrimination & The Indian ActIn this episode, Eva & Emma discuss the history of gender discrimination within the Canadian Indian Act, and the Indigenous women who have been fighting to overturn this sexism since the 1960's. Show notes: Indigenous authors and organizations: Settee, Priscilla. “Indigenous Women Charting Local and Global Pathways Forward.” The English Journal, vol. 106, no. 1, National Council of Teachers of English, 2016, pp. 45–50 Collaborative Process on Indian Registration, Band Membership, and First Nation Citizenship Fact Sheet, Government of Canada, Mohawk Council of Akwesasne Ontario Native Women's Association, Feathers of Hope Simpson, Audra. Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Border...
2022-02-2234 minGender Troubles
Gender TroublesWomen and the Temperance MovementIn the late 1800s, both First-wave feminism and the women-lead Temperance Movement were gaining steam in North America. But why did so many more women join the temperance movement than the suffrage cause? Eva tells Emma about the different strategies both movements used to recruit members, focusing in on the ways christian morality and fears over family safety helped (white, Protestant) women conceive of themselves as political participants.  Follow us on social media: Instagram Twitter Facebook Support us on Patreon We are a proud member of the Harbinger Media Network
2022-01-2546 minGender Troubles
Gender TroublesDomestic WorkIn this week's episode, Emma tells Eva about the history of domestic work, and the patterns of colonialism and racism that still permeate this area of employment. Plus, a rundown of some major successes in domestic worker collective organizing that have resulted in better wages, better working conditions, and more rights for these workers.  Cover image: Colonial Dining by William Henry Jackson, 1895 Show notes: Modigliani, Kathy. “BUT WHO WILL TAKE CARE OF THE CHILDREN? CHILDCARE, WOMEN, AND DEVALUED LABOR.” The Journal of Education, vol. 168, no. 3, Trustees of Boston University, 1986, pp. 46–69, http://www.jstor.org/sta...
2022-01-1142 minGender Troubles
Gender Troublesbell hooksThis week: a celebration of the life and work of bell hooks, who died last week at the age of 69. bell was an unparalleled writer, poet, and theorist, and was incredibly influential in the feminist movement. In this episode, Eva & Emma discuss some of their favourite pieces by bell. Please read the following pieces of writing about bell, written by Black folks and people of colour.  Hua Hsu: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/the-revolutionary-writing-of-bell-hooks Arabelle Sicardi: https://arabellesicardi.substack.com/p/bell-hooks-will-live-forever Maiysha Kai: https://www.theroot.com/bell-hooks-author-educator-and-feminist-icon-dead-at-1848220902
2021-12-2131 minGender Troubles
Gender TroublesThe Wages for Housework MovementIn this episode, Eva tells Emma about the 1970's "Wages for Housework" movement, an international campaign calling for housework and care work to be compensated. They discuss the movement's radical grassroots origins, different feminist perspectives on the gendered division of labour, and the legacy of the movement in today's working and home life. Digressions include conversations about training squirrels and cleaning up roommate's beard hair.  Follow us on social media: Instagram Twitter Facebook Support us on Patreon We are a proud member of the Harbinger Media Network Reading L...
2021-11-2347 minGender Troubles
Gender TroublesPostcolonial FeminismThis week, Eva and Emma get into an introduction to Postcolonial Feminism. They discuss the origins of postcolonial theory, examine how Western feminists frame so-called "third world" women and highlight the ways in which feminist rhetoric gets weaponized to perpetuate colonialism.  Follow us on social media: Instagram Twitter Facebook Support us on Patreon We are a proud member of the Harbinger Media Network Reading List: Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth Routledge’s The post-colonial studies reader Chandra Mohanty, “Under Weste...
2021-10-2634 minGender Troubles
Gender TroublesEcofeminismIn this episode, Emma tells Eva about the early roots of Ecofeminism and its strange, essentialist solutions to fighting patriarchy and capitalism. Side-tangents include Aristotle, The Giving Tree, and mind-body dualism.  Follow us on social media: Instagram Twitter Facebook We are a proud member of the Harbinger Media Network Support us on Patreon Reading List: General Overview of Ecofeminism by Laila Fariha Zein & Adib Rifqi Setiawan Feminist Environmental Philosophy, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2015 Edition) by Warren, Karen J., edited by Edward N. Zalta  Th...
2021-10-1738 minHarbinger Society Presents
Harbinger Society PresentsHarbinger Telethon Pt.2 w/ Paris Marx, The Maple, The Hoser Media, Gender Troubles & Kai NagataIn the second of three Harbinger Society Twitch TV telethon segments celebrating the network's first anniversary host Andre Goulet, Tech Won't Save Us' Paris Marx and the Harbinger Board of Director's Kai Nagata sit down with The Maple managing editor Alex Cosh and The Hoser co-founder Kevin Taghabon in a pair of panels exploring how to revitalize Canadian media + Emma Austin and Eva Espenshade push back against neoliberal feminism in their new show Gender Troubles, coming to the Harbinger community in October.For more from our guests check out* https://techwontsave.us/* https://www.thehoser.ca/
2021-09-291h 02Gender Troubles
Gender TroublesOf Woman BornEva gets into Adrienne Rich's 1976 book "Of Woman Born" and talks about radical feminist approaches to motherhood. We discuss the narrow definition of Rich's "mother" figure, Black feminist responses to her concepts, and the Texas abortion ban. Plus, a rundown on the censored Judith Butler interview in the Guardian. *Content warning*: This episode contains discussion of abortion, infanticide, and mental health struggle. Cover image painting by Chantal Joffe, 2004 Reading List: Judith Butler Interview with Jules Gleeson https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/sep/07/judith-butler-interview-gender; The portion of the Interview that was deleted...
2021-09-2152 minHarbinger Showcase
Harbinger ShowcaseHarbinger Telethon vol.3 w/ Alberta Advantage, Paris Marx, News You Can Use, Sweater Weather, The Hoser, The Maple and Darts & LettersCelebrate Harbinger's first anniversary w/ a stacked deck of incredible guests to lament the hopeless and harrowing 2021 Federal Election on part 3 of an absolutely epic 12 hour-long Twitchstream telethon featuring The Alberta Advantage, Tech Won't Save Us host Paris Marx, the 30-months-in-the-making News You Can Use reunion with Drew Brown, Tannara Yelland and James Wilt, Sweater Weather's Aaron Giovannone, Darts & Letters' Gordon Katic, The Maple managing editor Alex Cosh, The Hoser co-founder Kevin Taghabon, Gender Troubles' Eve Espenshade and Emma Austin, Andre Goulet and the Harbinger Board of Directors' Kai Nagata.Hear the Alberta Advantage: https://albertaadvantagepod.com/...
2021-09-202h 53Harbinger Showcase
Harbinger ShowcaseHarbinger Telethon vol.3 w/ Alberta Advantage, Paris Marx, News You Can Use, Sweater Weather, The Hoser, The Maple and Darts & LettersCelebrate Harbinger's first anniversary w/ a stacked deck of incredible guests to lament the hopeless and harrowing 2021 Federal Election on part 3 of an absolutely epic 12 hour-long Twitchstream telethon featuring The Alberta Advantage, Tech Won't Save Us host Paris Marx, the 30-months-in-the-making News You Can Use reunion with Drew Brown, Tannara Yelland and James Wilt, Sweater Weather's Aaron Giovannone, Darts & Letters' Gordon Katic, The Maple managing editor Alex Cosh, The Hoser co-founder Kevin Taghabon, Gender Troubles' Eve Espenshade and Emma Austin, Andre Goulet and the Harbinger Board of Directors' Kai Nagata.Hear the Alberta Advantage: https://albertaadvantagepod.com/...
2021-09-202h 53Gender Troubles
Gender TroublesIntersectionalityThis week, Eva talks to Emma about the origins of the term “intersectionality”, how the definition has changed, and the importance of crediting and centring Black feminists. Plus-- a rant about the upcoming OnlyFans pornography ban. Reading List: Kimberle Crenshaw, “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Violence against Women of Color”: http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/critique1313/files/2020/02/1229039.pdf Kimberle Crenshaw, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics” http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/critique1313/files/2020/02/1229039.pdf Alex K...
2021-08-2729 minGender Troubles
Gender TroublesRadical FeminismIn this episode, Emma provides an overview of second wave, radical feminism. What does it mean to be a radical feminist, and is this term still useful today? Listen to find out! Reading list: Nachescu, Voichita. “Radical Feminism and the Nation: History and Space in the Political Imagination of Second-Wave Feminism.” Journal for the Study of Radicalism, vol. 3, no. 1, 2009, pp. 29–59. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/41887617 Leigh Miller, A History of Radical Feminism https://www.sutori.com/story/a-history-of-radical-feminism–Pf5HsUfrBG26boQJdwtLbWUS Kathie Sarachild, Conciousness Raising Groups: A Radical Weapon, https://vrrws.seriouso...
2021-08-2032 minHarbinger Showcase
Harbinger ShowcaseThe Cult of Journalistic Objectivity w/ Press Progress (Harbinger Society Presents ep17)Award-winning non-profit news org Press Progress is taking ethical, confrontational journalism to the mainstream. In this conversation publisher Jen Hassum and BC editor Alex Cosh join host Andre Goulet to talk about the organization's journalistic mission, it's relationship with the Broadbent Institute, the myth of objectivity and how to cover the upcoming federal election.And: Emma Austin and Eva Espenshade introduce 'Gender Troubles', their new show demystifying and debunking feminism by examining its movements and moments from a left perspective, coming to the Harbinger community this October.Find out more about Jen and Alex's work at...
2021-08-1255 minHarbinger Showcase
Harbinger ShowcaseThe Cult of Journalistic Objectivity w/ Press Progress (Harbinger Society Presents ep17)Award-winning non-profit news org Press Progress is taking ethical, confrontational journalism to the mainstream. In this conversation publisher Jen Hassum and BC editor Alex Cosh join host Andre Goulet to talk about the organization's journalistic mission, it's relationship with the Broadbent Institute, the myth of objectivity and how to cover the upcoming federal election.And: Emma Austin and Eva Espenshade introduce 'Gender Troubles', their new show demystifying and debunking feminism by examining its movements and moments from a left perspective, coming to the Harbinger community this October.Find out more about Jen and Alex's work at...
2021-08-1255 minHarbinger Society Presents
Harbinger Society PresentsThe Cult of Journalistic Objectivity (w/ Press Progress)Award-winning non-profit news org Press Progress is taking ethical, confrontational journalism to the mainstream. In this conversation publisher Jen Hassum and BC editor Alex Cosh join host Andre Goulet to talk about the organization's journalistic mission, it's relationship with the Broadbent Institute, the myth of objectivity and how to cover the upcoming federal election.And: Emma Austin and Eva Espenshade introduce 'Gender Troubles', their new show demystifying and debunking feminism by examining its movements and moments from a left perspective, coming to the Harbinger community this October.Find out more about Jen and Alex's work at...
2021-08-1255 minGender Troubles
Gender TroublesThe American Birth Control Movement: The Early YearsIn this episode, Eva talks about the first birth control clinic in the US and the different tactics feminists of this time used to spread their message. Reading List: Ellen Chesler, Woman of valor: Margaret Sanger and the birth control movement in America. https://archive.org/details/womanofvalormar000ches/page/n11/mode/2up Margaret Sanger, An Autobiography. https://archive.org/details/margaretsangerau1938sang/page/n1/mode/2up Jill Lepore, The secret history of Wonder Woman. https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780804173407 Peter C Engelman...
2021-08-1030 minGender Troubles
Gender TroublesStandpoint TheoryIn this week’s episode, Emma tells Eva about Standpoint Theory, a method of doing research that rejects traditional notions of objectivity and instead, prioritizes thought created from the experience of oppression. Standpoint theory has been popular method of researching and writing in feminist history, so we figured it deserved it’s own mini episode! Reading List: Harding, Sandra. “RETHINKING STANDPOINT EPISTEMOLOGY: WHAT IS ‘STRONG OBJECTIVITY?”.” The Centennial Review, vol. 36, no. 3, 1992, pp. 437–470. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23739232. Accessed 29 July 2021. Video-- Sandra Harding: On Standpoint Theory's History and Controversial Reception- https://www.youtube.com/wa...
2021-07-2912 minGender Troubles
Gender TroublesNeoliberal Feminism, AKA the girl boss-apocalypseIn this episode, Eva tells Emma about Neoliberal Feminism, or as we like to call it, the girlbossopocapopolous...or something like that. Eva uses the case of Sophia Amuroso's book #girlboss to discuss this type of feminism and it's limits. Reading List: Rachel Thwaites "Making a choice or taking a stand? Choice feminism, political engagement and the contemporary feminist movement." Feminist Theory 18.1 (2017) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1464700116683657 Eda Ulus "White fantasy, white betrayals: On neoliberal ‘feminism’ in the US presidential election process." Ephemera: Theory and Politics in Organization 18.1 (2018) https://discovery.dundee.ac.uk/w...
2021-07-2432 minGender Troubles
Gender TroublesMini Episode: The Wave DebateIn this mini episode, Emma discusses the controversial topic of feminism’s “waves”. Are these a helpful framing tool, or a reductive method of remembering history? Reading List: Laughlin, Kathleen A., et al. “Is It Time to Jump Ship? Historians Rethink the Waves Metaphor.” Feminist Formations, vol. 22, no. 1, 2010, pp. 76–135. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/40835345. Accessed 14 July 2021. Crenshaw, Kimberle. “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color.” Stanford Law Review, vol. 43, no. 6, 1991, pp. 1241–1299. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/1229039. Accessed 14 July 2021. Spade, Dean, and Craig Willse. “Sex, Gender, and War in an Age of Multi...
2021-07-2209 minGender Troubles
Gender TroublesAnti-Canada Day Special: Emily MurphyIn this Anti-Canada Day episode, Eva & Emma discuss famous Canadian ‘feminist’ Emily Murphy. Murphy was known for her role in the passing of various laws related to women’s rights in the early 20th century, such as the Dower Act and the Person’s Case. She was also a fervent racist and eugenicist. Listen to her story in this week’s episode. Content warning – this episode deals with some seriously disturbing content around eugenics, racism, ableism, and forced sterilization. Reading List: “Emily Murphy”- Library and Archives Canada “Why the Persons Case Matters”- Senate o...
2021-07-0129 minGender Troubles
Gender TroublesLiberal FeminismIn this week’s episode, Eva and Emma discuss the roots, ethos, and heroes of Liberal Feminism. Reading List: Mary Wollstonecraft- A Vindication for the Rights of Women bell hooks- Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center Lucy Bailey- Liberal Feminism in The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Gender & Sexuality Studies "GoArmy" Army recruitment video featured in this episode 
2021-06-2436 min