Heidi Matthews On Demand Podcast

In this episode we chat with author, columnist and media personality Michael Malice. Michael is author of the brand new book, The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics, and is the host of the “Your Welcome with Michael Malice” podcast. Find out more about Michael’s work on his website: http://michaelmalice.com/ Follow Michael on Twitter @michaelmalice Donate to the show by going to donate.hmodpod.com your help keeps us producing shows! Thanks in advance.

In this episode we chat with Ben Burgis, author of Give Them an Argument – Logic for the Left (Zero Books, 2019). Ben is a lecturer in philosophy at Georgia State University Perimeter College, and is regular contributor to The Michael Brooks Show, Zero Books, and The Serfs. Follow Ben on Twitter @BenBurgis Buy Ben’s book here: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/give-them-an-argument Support Ben’s work on his Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/benburgis

This week Heidi and David chat with journalist and writer Andray Domise about race, politics, and everything. This is a tour de force – don’t miss it! Andray Domise, The moral cowardice of Canadian media if leaving racism unchallenged, Macleans, March 28, 2019. https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/the-moral-cowardice-of-canadian-media-is-leaving-racism-unchallenged/. All of Andray’s writing for Macleans: https://www.macleans.ca/author/andray-domise/ Black Tea podcast with Melayna Williams https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/black-tea/id1439694046 Andray on Twitter: @andraydomise https://twitter.com/andraydomise

This is the second episode in a series on the adjudication of harassment and bullying complaints pursuant to #MeToo-inspired academic and professional association codes of conduct. Heidi talks to Richard Ned Lebow, the man at the center of the ‘lingerie elevator joke’ scandal that erupted at the 2018 International Studies Association conference. Professor Lebow, who is an expert in conflict prevent and resolution, explains why it was so important to him to fight this complaint. Links Professor Lebow’s faculty page at King’s College London: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/person?id=5402e739-96f2-4936-86d6-203f197283a5 Richard Ned Lebow, “Warning: Telling a Lame Joke in an Elevator can Endanger Your Career,” Quillette, Nov. 23, 2018. https://quillette.com/2018/11/23/warning-telling-a-lame-joke-in-an-elevator-can-endanger-your-career/ Richard Ned Lebow, “How my lame joke saw me fall foul of the campus zealots,” The Spectator, May 14, 2018. https://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2018/05/how-my-lame-joke-saw-me-fall-foul-of-the-campus-zealots/ Richard Ned Lebow, “My innocent joke about lingerie and an insidious culture of censorship: Leading academic says trouble caused by a one-liner he cracked in a lift left him reeling,” Daily Mail, May 16, 2018. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5738391/PROFESSOR-RICHARD-NED-LEBOW-innocent-joke-lingerie-insidious-culture-censorship.html The installation on display at the ISA 2019 panel on “Confronting Political Backlash: Creative Feminist Responses”: https://twitter.com/simonasharoni/status/1112377478465630208 Code of Conduct, International Studies Association, April 8, 2018. https://www.isanet.org/Portals/0/Documents/ISA/ISA%20Code%20of%20Conduct%200418.pdf

This is the first episode in a series on the adjudication of harassment and bullying complaints pursuant to #MeToo-inspired conference codes of conduct. Heidi talks to Simona Sharoni, the professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at the center of the ‘lingerie elevator joke’ scandal that erupted at the 2018 International Studies Association conference. Prof. Sharoni gives her account of the incident, and explains why it was important for her to launch a formal harassment complaint in the wake of the alleged ‘joke.’ Links Professor Simona Sharoni on Twitter: @simonasharoni https://twitter.com/simonasharoni?lang=en Conor Friedersdorf, “Is ‘Ladies Lingerie’ a Harmless Joke or Harassment?, The Atlantic, May 9, 2018. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/is-this-old-lingerie-joke-harmless-or-harassment/559760/ Katherine Mangan, “Dispute Over ‘Lingerie’ Comment Persists, as Society Rejects Professor’s Appeal,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 14, 2018. https://www.chronicle.com/article/Dispute-Over-Lingerie-/245094 Ruth Marcus, ‘She called his elevator joke offensive. He called her complaint ‘frivolous.’ Who’s right?,” The Washington Post, May 3, 2018. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/she-called-his-elevator-joke-offensive-he-called-her-complaint-frivolous-whos-right/2018/05/03/43ba4084-4ee1-11e8-af46-b1d6dc0d9bfe_story.html?utm_term=.7ef0456094ed Code of Conduct, International Studies Association, April 8, 2018. https://www.isanet.org/Portals/0/Documents/ISA/ISA%20Code%20of%20Conduct%200418.pdf

In this episode David and I chat with videogame enthusiast and expert, Alfie Bown. Alfie is a lecturer in media at Royal Holloway University London and author of The Playstation Dreamworld, published by Polity in 2017. Truthout YouTubers Play a Key Role in Far-Right Extremism of Online Forums He writes for the Guardian and other places, and tweets at @leftist_gamer. This is text from Alfie’s most recent piece: "To understand what is really at play here, we need to think not about whether PewDiePie himself is to blame for the massacre in New Zealand, but about what ingredients combine to produce such horrific results. We know that PewDiePie was not directly responsible for the mass shooting, just as we know that games themselves do not cause violence or school shootings (as Donald Trump claimed, along with many ’80s parents). Nevertheless, there is a connection between gaming, far-right extremism and the “mainstream” influencers with whom their jokes and arguments intersect. In fact, this so-imagined blurred line between supposed humor and serious fascism is far from an excuse.” Links Truthout YouTubers Play a Key Role in Far-Right Extremism of Online Forums https://truthout.org/articles/youtubers-play-a-key-role-in-far-right-extremism-of-online-forums/ Alfie Bown on Twitter https://twitter.com/leftist_gamer PlayStation Dreamworld https://www.amazon.com/PlayStation-Dreamworld-Theory-Redux/dp/1509518037

We explain why you’re not wrong when you self-diagnose with impostor syndrome; I come to terms with the politics of my edgelord identity (see what I did there?); cisman David has a trans expression; Clif explains Socratic pick up culture in Ancient Athens, and why at the end of the day you don’t deserve anything you have and if you think you do you’re an asshole. In this episode we talk to Toronto writer and sometimes academic Clif Mark [@Clifton_Mark https://twitter.com/Clifton_Mark]. We cover Clif’s very hot new hot new piece in Aeon magazine titled “A Belief in Meritocracy is not only False: it’s bad for you,” [https://aeon.co/ideas/a-belief-in-meritocracy-is-not-only-false-its-bad-for-you] as well as his recent standout article on ContraPoints in The Atlantic [https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2019/01/contrapoints-political-philosophy-natalie-wynn-youtube/579532/]. Also referenced are ContraPoints’ new video essay, The Darkness [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtj7LDYaufM], as well as the work of Harvard Law professor Janet Halley [https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10356/Halley]. Be sure to check out the Heidi Matthews On Demand Male Discourse Bot [https://bit.ly/hmodmdb]

Sex exceptionalism is the tendency to elevate the sexual component of difficult questions and controversies as inherently worthy of specialized attention. This episode addresses the risks of ‘sexceptionalism’ in the context of coercion and the competing duties of university professors. Kim Ferzan is Harrison Robertson Professor of Law & Joel B. Piassick Research Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. She researches and writes on criminal law theory. We discuss her forthcoming article in the Arizona State Law Journal, “Consent and Coercion.” Professor Ferzan’s Faculty Bio: https://www.law.virginia.edu/faculty/profile/kf8f/2457739 You can find Professor Ferzan on Twitter @KimFerzan https://twitter.com/KimFerzan On the Sullivan/Weinstein controversy: In Defense of Harvard Weinstein’s Harvard Lawyer, The Atlantic, March 3, 2019. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/03/defense-harvey-weinsteins-lawyer-ronald-sullivan/583717/ Petition, Students for the Removal of Winthrop Dean Sullivan. https://www.change.org/p/harvard-administration-students-for-the-removal-of-winthrop-dean-sullivan Robby Soave, “A Harvard Law Professor Is Representing Harvey Weinstein. Students Say This Makes Them Unsafe, Demand His Resignation,” Reason, Feb. 26, 2019. https://reason.com/blog/2019/02/26/ronald-sullivan-harvey-weinstein-harvard

If we’re serious about emancipatory projects, we need to think trans. In this episode, Heidi speaks with two queer activists and writers about how to start down this road. Florence Ashley is a transfeminine activist and scholar based at the Faculty of Law at McGill University in Montreal. Her work focuses on bioethics and transgender healthcare. Florence is on the Advisory Board of the Trans Legal Clinic and is a member of the Comité trans of the Conseil Québécois LGBT. They are the recipient of the 2019 Canadian Bar Association’s LGBTT Hero Award, and next year, they will begin work as the first openly trans law clerk at the Supreme Court of Canada. Daniel Karasik is an artist and activist based in Toronto. They are the author of five books including a poetry collection, three volumes of plays, and most recently a compilation of short stories titled Faithful and Other Stories with Guernica. Daniel has won the CBC Short Story Prize, as well as the Toronto Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award. They are active in the Fight for $15 and Fairness campaign, as well as in the prison abolition movement. Part I: Florence Ashley Florence Ashley’s website: https://www.florenceashley.com/ Florence Ashley on Twitter: https://twitter.com/butnotthecity Maryse Chouinard, “En-“gendering” change”, CBA/ABC National, Feb. 5, 2019. TBP Florence Ashley on Medium: https://medium.com/@florence.ashley Part II: Daniel Karasik Daniel Karasik’s webpage: https://danielkarasik.com/ Daniel Karasik on Twitter: https://twitter.com/fondfaun Mexie on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mexieYT Mexie’s Website: www.veganvanguardpodcast.com

In Part I of this episode Heidi talks to Brooklyn Law professor Alice Ristroph about intellectual history, mass incarceration, sexual assault, and Kamala Harris. In Part II, Osgoode super student Heather Donkers lays out how the law school tuition crisis facing Ontario law students is emblematic of a much wider cross-jurisdictional crisis in access to justice. Show Notes: Part I: Alice Ristroph faculty page: https://www.brooklaw.edu/faculty/directory/facultymember/biography?id=alice.ristroph Part II: Heather on Twitter: https://twitter.com/HeatherDonkers Heather Donkers in PrecedentJD Magazine, Cover Story: The on-campus interview process is broken. https://precedentjd.com/news/cover-story-the-ocis-are-broken/ Law Students' Society of Ontario (LSSO) Just or Bust? Results of the 2018 Survey of Ontario Law Students’ Tuition, Debt, & Student Financial Aid Experience http://bit.ly/2TMiKUm Participate in the LSSO Lawyers’ Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LSSOsurvey

On this episode Heidi talks to Mark Tushnet, William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. In the interview, Professor Tushnet talks about the role of critical legal studies in political activism and the need for those seeking progressive goals to develop a double consciousness as part of their practice. In the second half Heidi talks to producer and New American Husband David Slavick about the recent Elsa (from Frozen) arrest controversy. We ask the question “Can cops ever be funny?” and break down the deep dark underbelly of Elsa fantasies. **Show Notes** *Part 1* Professor Mark Tushnet Faculty Page – Harvard Law School https://hls.harvard.edu/faculty/directory/10906/Tushnet Mark Tushnet, The Critique of Rights, 47 SMU L. Rev. 23 (1994) https://scholar.smu.edu/smulr/vol47/iss1/6 *Part 2* Elsa from "Frozen" arrested - Album on Imgur, original photoshoot, February 2015. http://bit.ly/2URDier Illinois police department shares photos of Frozen's Elsa "under arrest" for bringing polar vortex, CBS News, Sophie Lewis, January 29 2019 https://cbsn.ws/2GxHj3Q McLean Police Department - Home | Facebook http://bit.ly/2I1zqWC Police officers in the US were charged with more than 400 rapes over a 9-year period - CNN https://cnn.it/2DpCJS2 What makes YouTube’s surreal kids’ videos so creepy? - The Verge http://bit.ly/2HVocTo