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Doc to DockEpisode 4. American Dreams…on credit.In this episode, Nicole docks the conversation, asking what the American Dream really promises...and to whom. Brett and Nicole unpack the myth of individual success, tracing how race, class, and history shape who gets to dream and who gets left behind. They talk about the emotional and existential debts of chasing fulfillment through capitalism, the tension between visibility and belonging, and what it means to build a life beyond meritocracy. It’s a reflective and grounded conversation about reimagining success, community, and the dreams, or perhaps the credit or debts, we inherit....
2025-11-211h 07Doc to DockEpisode 2. This is fine...The mundanity of living in fascist timesIn this episode, Nicole docks the conversation, asking what it actually means to live under authoritarianism. The hosts talk about how oppressive regimes become normalized, how family and culture shape our political beliefs, and the challenges of having meaningful conversations across deep divides. Brett and Nicole also explore how everyday bureaucracy and cultural norms perpetuate harm, and how art, from Disney’s Andor to everyday acts of defiance, can keep resistance alive. It’s a candid look at the personal and collective work of resisting oppression, healing, and building solidarity in a fractured world.
2025-11-0758 min
Hagley History HangoutQueer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America with Margot CanadayIn this episode of Hagley History Hangout Roger Horowitz interviews Margot Canaday about her remarkable book Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America that received the received 2024 Hagley Prize for the best book in business history that year.
Canaday’s Queer Career’s rincipal focus is on the private sector, business enterprises large and small, and traces the opportunities, obstacles, and accomplishments of LGBT+ people as they sought to make a living from the 1950s through today. She emphasizes that as federal and many state agencies routinely refused to hire LGBT+ people, their most important sources of employment was in t...
2024-11-1149 min
Who Makes Cents?: A History of Capitalism PodcastMargot Canaday on Queer Workers in Modern AmericaIn today's episode, Margot Canaday reveals the not-so-hidden history of LGBT workers in modern America. In the absence of state protections, she finds, some employers actually appreciated queer workers precisely because they were contingent, unattached, and exploitable. In many ways, that employment relationship augured the way all workers would come to be treated in the era of post-Fordism. And it would set the terms for queer peoples' struggles for recognition and protections on the job in the closing decades of the twentieth century.
2024-08-0151 min
Why Will No One Date These Guys?Episode 170: Book Club - The Straight StateJoel and Naomi get together to discuss more queer history with this book, a guide to how US government policy in the 19th and 20th century helped shape and reinforce ideas about queerness across America. In this part we discuss Joel's half-remembered recollection of Foucault's History of Sexuality and author Margot Canaday's in-depth discussion of queer immigration policy. Find a copy of the book here. DTG despises genocide and continue to support people fighting all forms of it. We're still making monthly donations to local trans funds and have now started doing the same for...
2024-07-151h 11
2 Complicated 4 HistoryQueerness in the Military and The Lavender Scare - Dr. Heather HaleyDescription:
Dr. Lynn Price Robbins and Isaac S. Loftus are joined by Dr. Heather Haley to discuss sexuality and the military during the Cold War. A new "ideal of American morality” resulted in federal purges of gay men, lesbians, and bisexuals that became known as the Lavender Scare. How did the individuals affected fight back?
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2024-06-111h 13
NPR's Book of the Day'Queer Career' chronicles the history of LGBTQ workers in the U.S.In her new book, Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America, historian Margot Canaday sets out to discover the experiences of LGBTQ people in the American workplace. From the Lavender Scare that sought to remove gay and lesbian employees from government jobs, through the abuse and exploitation that outed workers often faced when they didn't get fired, Canaday's book recounts how sexuality and gender shaped the careers of countless Americans. Canaday tells NPR's Stacey Vanek Smith that despite the adversity, queer people still found meaning and community through their jobs.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices...
2023-08-3110 min
Know Band of Full Audiobooks in Self Development, Health & WellnessStraight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America - Margot CanadayListen to this audiobook in full for free onhttps://epod.spaceTitle: Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century AmericaAuthor: Margot CanadayNarrator: Laurel LefkowFormat: UnabridgedLength: 10:33:41Language: EnglishRelease date: 01-31-2023Publisher: Princeton University PressGenres: Non-Fiction, Politics, Social Science, Public Policy, Political AdvocacySummary:A classic book now available on audio
With narration by Laurel Lefkow, who reveals how the government enforced sex and gender conformity and relegated gays to second-class citizenship
The Straight State is the most expansive study...
2023-01-3110h 33
Immerse Yourself In This Ground-Breaking Full Audiobook And Feel The Difference.Queer Career by Margot CanadayPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/32858to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Queer Career
Author: Margot Canaday
Narrator: Laurel Lefkow
Format: mp3
Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
Release date: 01-31-23
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 2 ratings
Genres: LGBTQ+ Studies
Publisher's Summary:
Workplaces have traditionally been viewed as “straight spaces” in which queer people passed. As a result, historians have directed limited attention to the experiences of queer people on the job. Queer Career rectifies this, offering an expansive historical look at sexual minorities in the modern American workforce. Arguing that queer workers were more visible than hidden and, against the backdrop of stat...
2023-01-3110h 48Absorb Your Day With A Next-Level Full Audiobook.Queer Career by Margot CanadayPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/8995to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Queer Career
Author: Margot Canaday
Narrator: Laurel Lefkow
Format: mp3
Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
Release date: 01-31-23
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 2 ratings
Genres: Workplace & Organizational Behavior
Publisher's Summary:
Workplaces have traditionally been viewed as “straight spaces” in which queer people passed. As a result, historians have directed limited attention to the experiences of queer people on the job. Queer Career rectifies this, offering an expansive historical look at sexual minorities in the modern American workforce. Arguing that queer workers were more visible than hidden and, against the backdrop of s...
2023-01-3110h 48
the Essential Free Audiobooks in Non-Fiction, Current Affairs, Law, & PoliticsThe Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America by Margot CanadayPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/649666 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America Series: #74 of Politics and Society in Modern America Author: Margot Canaday Narrator: Laurel Lefkow Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 10 hours 33 minutes Release date: January 31, 2023 Genres: Current Affairs, Law, & Politics Publisher's Summary: A classic book now available on audio With narration by Laurel Lefkow, who reveals how the government enforced sex and gender conformity and relegated gays to second-class citizenship The Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Unearthing startling new evidence from t...
2023-01-3105 min
Past PresentEpisode 229: Little RichardIn this episode, Natalia, Neil, and Niki discuss the life and legacy of Little Richard. Support Past Present on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pastpresentpodcast Here are some links and references mentioned during this week's show: Musical legend Little Richard died this month of bone cancer. Niki referred to Margot Canaday's book The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America and George Chauncey's book Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940. Natalia recommended this GQ article on Little Richard's inimitable style. Neil commented on Little R...
2020-05-1933 min
Past PresentEpisode 128: Sean Hannity, Gayborhoods, and Running TutusIn this episode, Natalia, Neil, and Niki debate the Sean Hannity phenomenon, battles over the "gayborhood," and the popularity of running tutus. Support Past Present on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/pastpresentpodcast Here are some links and references mentioned during this week's show: Conservative media personality Sean Hannity has attained new fame thanks to his proximity to President Trump. Niki referred to her Washington Post piece arguing Hannity is more a promoter rather than a kingmaker and to Neil's Huffington Post article arguing that Hannity is not a journalist. Natalia recommended a 2015 Chapo Trap H...
2018-05-0158 min