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