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Exploring the stories we tell and how they make us who we are. New episodes every other Monday. Follow us on Twitter for production updates.

Q.E. Drummond


    • Jun 7, 2021 LATEST EPISODE
    • infrequent NEW EPISODES
    • 11m AVG DURATION
    • 15 EPISODES


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    15 - The Truth of the Story

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 7, 2021 12:21


    Herein, Q.E. brings us home in the conclusion of Internarrative. Transcript and references available here. Follow us on Twitter!

    14 - The Death of Meaning

    Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2021 11:48


    Herein, Q.E. does the unthinkable: she explores the weaknesses and failures of the narrative apparatus. Transcript and references available here. Follow us on Twitter!

    13 - Cancel Culture Will Be Used Against You (But Not In The Way You Think)

    Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2021 12:40


    Herein, Q.E. tackles cancel culture, of all things, with a mind to understanding its vulnerability to narrative weaponization and how it may ultimately be used against all of us - though not in the way you might expect. Transcript and references available here. Follow us on Twitter!

    12 - Mastery of a Ghastly Medium

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2021 12:13


    Herein, Q.E. gives something slightly new a crack by carrying out a case study of a specific manifestation of a narrative medium: namely, Alok Vaid-Menon's Instagram book reports and what makes them so damn good. Transcript and references available here. Follow us on Twitter!

    11 - Your Beliefs Are Not (Necessarily) Your Own

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2021 12:25


    Herein, Q.E. launches season three by investigating the powerful and reflexive interplay of stories with community. Transcript and references available here. Follow us on Twitter!

    10 - Who Do You Think You Are?

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2021 11:17


    Herein, Q.E. finally delves into the show's namesake - Maan's theory of internarrative identity - and how the stories we tell about ourselves mold our very self-concept. Transcript and references available here. Follow us on Twitter!

    9 - Pigeonholed Perceptions of Disability

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2021 10:37


    Herein, Q.E. examines popular media's synthetic depictions of disability and the effects such depictions have both on disabled individuals and on the public consciousness. Transcript and references available here. Follow us on Twitter!

    8 - The Problem With Political Correctness

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2021 10:41


    Herein, Q.E. ponders the failings of political correctness and how we might perhaps do better in fostering truly transformative change through our stories. Transcript and references available here. Follow us on Twitter!

    7 - Tailoring to Technology

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 25, 2021 10:15


    Herein, Q.E. interrogates the complex relationship between humans and technology and why it is that you should be striving to make an emotional connection with your audience. Transcript and references available here. Follow us on Twitter!

    6 - Stories For Profit

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 11, 2021 10:49


    Herein, Q.E. kicks off season two by examining the complex effects of capitalism upon storytelling. Transcript and references available here. Follow us on Twitter!

    5 - You'll Do As I Say, One Way Or Another

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2020 10:34


    Herein, Q.E. takes a look at the dialectic and the rhetorical and how they might be employed so as to make your story as persuasive as it can possibly be. Transcript and references available here.

    4 - The Ways We're Rendered Blind

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 23, 2020 11:27


    Herein, Q.E. begins to apply what was discussed last episode by looking at the ways in which the stories we tell construct the world around us: how fiction shapes reality. Transcript and references available here.

    3 - What, Exactly, Do You Mean?

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 9, 2020 10:06


    Herein, Q.E. breaks down the way human beings make meaning - and how the process isn't as infallible as we may think. Transcript and references available here.

    2 - A Queer Story If Ever I Heard One

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 26, 2020 10:28


    Herein, Q.E. guides us through a particular case study of the power of narrative: that of queerness as it is represented in media. Transcript and references available here.

    1 - The Shape of the Story

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 12, 2020 10:05


    Herein, Q.E. sets the stage and develops the fundamental concepts we need to better understand the stories that surround us. Transcript and references available here.

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