Podcasts about Amia Srinivasan

In this solo episode of The Feminist Bar, host Tinatswe Mhaka steps behind the mic for a reflective check-in. She shares thoughts on the current season of the podcast, the state of the development and NGO space, and the emotional weight of doing feminist work in spaces that are often extractive, underfunded, and contradictory. Tinatswe also offers some self-care strategies that are helping her navigate burnout and disillusionment, and shares a personal review of The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan—unpacking what resonated, what challenged her, and how the book speaks to contemporary feminist discourse on desire, access, and autonomy. It's a quiet, personal, and grounding episode for anyone needing a moment to pause, process, and realign. Follow The Feminist Bar: Instagram: @thefeministbarpodcast Twitter/X: @thefeministbar Support on Patreon: The Feminist Bar Podcast Follow The Feminist Bar Resistance Journal : https://tinatswe.substack.com/ 

A key source of opposition to authoritarian regimes in recent history has come from universities and colleges. Trump has been attacking the independence of American universities, demanding they submit to his requirements and using massive funding cuts as his weapon. David Cole, formerly National Legal Director of the ACLU, has our analysis. Also: Mahmoud Khalil is the Palestinian student activist at Columbia arrested and jailed by ICE. The Trump administration intends to revoke his status as a permanent resident—a green-card holder – and deport him – they say, to protect Jewish students on campus. That's clearly a violation of freedom of speech. But is deporting Palestinian student activists a good way to protect Jewish students? David Myers comments – he teaches Jewish history at UCLA.Plus: Katha Pollitt comments on The Right to Sex, a provocative title by the feminist philosopher Amia Srinivasan. Does anyone have a right to sex? Who does? Who doesn't? (First recorded 2-3-2022)

For the final introduction to next year's full Close Readings programme, Emily Wilson, celebrated classicist and translator of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, returns for a second season of Among the Ancients, to take on another twelve vital works of Greek and Roman literature with the LRB's Thomas Jones, loosely themed around ‘truth and lies' – from Aesop's Fables to Marcus Aurelius's Meditations.Authors covered: Hesiod, Aesop, Herodotus, Pindar, Plato, Lucian, Plautus, Terence, Lucan, Tacitus, Juvenal, Apuleius, Marcus Aurelius.First episode released on 24 January 2024, then on the 24th of each month for the rest of the year.How to ListenClose Readings subscriptionDirectly in Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3pJoFPqIn other podcast apps: lrb.me/closereadingsClose Readings PlusIn addition to the episodes, receive all the books under discussion; access to webinars with Emily, Tom and special guests including Amia Srinivasan; and shownotes and further reading from the LRB archive.On sale here from 22 November: lrb.me/plus Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For the final introduction to next year's full Close Readings programme, Emily Wilson, celebrated classicist and translator of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, returns for a second season of Among the Ancients, to take on another twelve vital works of Greek and Roman literature with the LRB's Thomas Jones, loosely themed around ‘truth and lies' – from Aesop's Fables to Marcus Aurelius's Meditations.Authors covered: Hesiod, Aesop, Herodotus, Pindar, Plato, Lucian, Plautus, Terence, Lucan, Tacitus, Juvenal, Apuleius, Marcus Aurelius.First episode released on 24 January 2024, then on the 24th of each month for the rest of the year.How to ListenClose Readings subscriptionDirectly in Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3pJoFPqIn other podcast apps: lrb.me/closereadingsClose Readings PlusIn addition to the episodes, receive all the books under discussion; access to webinars with Emily, Tom and special guests including Amia Srinivasan; and shownotes and further reading from the LRB archive.On sale here from 22 November: lrb.me/plus Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Can we trust our emotions as a guide to right and wrong?This week's guest James Hutton is a philosopher at the University of Delft who argues that emotions provide a way of testing our moral beliefs — similar to the way observations are used in natural sciences as evidence for or against theories.This is not to say that emotions are infallible, nor that they are not themselves influenced by our moral beliefs, but that they do have a place in our moral inventory. In particular, the destabilizing power they can have — their capability to clash with our beliefs — is an important counterpoint to the entrenchment of poorly justified beliefs.I found myself revising my own views throughout this discussion. It feels right that emotions play a role in our decision-making. Perhaps that feeling is justified. James' academic website Multiverses websiteOutline(00:00) Intro(2:28) Start of conversation: Metathical frameworks(4:45) Reason alone cannot provide moral premises(6:30) Are moral principles self-evident? Or do we have a moral sense?(11:00) Is emotion antithetical to reason?(12:00) Emotional senses:Amia Srinivasan's example of Nour, an example where emotions are trustworthy(23:00) Antonio Damasio & Descartes' Error: the importance of emotion as a motivating force(29:30) … But should it be a motivating force?(30:30) Tolstoy's emotional reaction to an exection and how it disrupted his moral theory of progress(34:50) Emotions can cause us to revise our moral beliefs(37:25) This does not mean emotion is infallible as a guide to morality(40:25) The tension between reasoning from principles and emotional reaction creates a useful instability(42:00) The analogy between science and moral reasoning: sometimes observations (and emotions) should be ignored, but sometimes we should pay attention to them(46:00) Is it possible to have a no-holds-barred ethics incorporating principles and emotions? (Not really!)(49:40) Observations and theories are perennially in conflict, sometimes we reject the observation(50:40) Utilitarianism: elegant but easy to find cases where it clashes with our intuitions(51:50) Harvesting organs — where the greatest good for the number does not feel right(53:20) Ethics and Inuition — Peter Singer: we shouldn't trust our emotions(54:20) But why trust the utilitarian principle over our intuitions?(57:45) Situations in which we need to be wary of our emotions: burn a teddy vs releasing tonnes of CO2(1:03:00) Emotional blind spots: abstract, global, probabilistic, outgroup vs ingroup(1:08:00) Partiality: should we treat everyone equally, or do we have special obligations to friends and family?(1:10:28) Heckled by a doorbell(1:11:50) Partiality is a litmus case for utilitarian principles vs intuition(1:15:30) Given emotions are fallible how do we make good use of them?(1:17:30) Unreliable emotions and ethical knowledge: blood sugar, mood &c. cause emotional noise(1:19:30) How do we deal with noisy information in other areas — the analogy with testimony(1:23:50) Defeaters — cues that give us pause to double check our emotional responses(1:25:40) Negative meta-emotions: e.g. shame at being angry(1:26:25) Should we expand our emotional repertoire?(1:30:20) Flight shame as an example of a new emotional response(1:34:25) Should we expect evolution to have created morally fitting emotional responses?(1:38:15) The problems with evolutionary debunking arguments(1:46:43) This is work in progress — google James Hutton Delft to get in touch

This week, while our audio team is on summer break, we're featuring an episode from one of our favorite podcasts: Conversations with Tyler, hosted by the wonderful Tyler Cowen. It's a conversation with philosopher Amia Srinivasan about her book, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century. They debate questions such as: do we have a “right” to be desired? How are our sexual desires shaped by the society around us? Is consent sufficient for a sexual relationship? How should we address falling fertility rates? What did women learn about egalitarianism during the pandemic? Why, according to her, progress requires regress. And much, much more. . .  The episode received a lot of attention and reactions, for reasons you'll understand when you listen to it. Most importantly, it's contentious yet respectful in a way that I think is increasingly rare in public life. As Tyler wrote at the time, on his blog Marginal Revolution, about the conversation: “You have to learn to learn from people who bother, annoy, or frustrate you. If you do, they will not in fact bother, annoy, or frustrate you.” I couldn't agree more. In fact, this conversation between Tyler and Amia was a big inspiration for our first-ever Free Press live debate, which is happening next week in L.A. The proposition: has the sexual revolution failed? If this conversation inspires you too, please consider buying a ticket to the event: Wednesday, September 13, at the Ace Theatre in downtown L.A. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

‘Octopuses,' Amia Srinivasan writes, ‘are the closest we can come, on earth, to knowing what it might be like to encounter intelligent aliens.' In our third summer reading, Srinivasan explores the paradoxical nature of octopus lives, and the difficulties humans have in understanding them.Read more by Amia Srinivasan in the LRB: lrb.me/srinivasanpodLet us know your thoughts: lrb.me/podsurveyProduced by Zoe Kilbourn; editing by Sarah SahimSubscribe to Close Readings:In Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3pJoFPqIn other podcast apps: lrb.me/closereadings Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Last month, the UK government appointed their first “free speech tsar”, whose stated mission is to protect free speech and academic freedom in universities. But, as Amia Srinivasan argues in a recent article, there's an inherent conflict in those goals. Amia joins Malin to discuss the Higher Education (Freedom of Speech) act, whether students are increasingly leaning left and how activists across the political spectrum weaponise the concept of harm.Find further reading on the episode page: lrb.me/cancelledSubscribe to Close Readings Plus: lrb.me/closereadings Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, the panel begins with the question: is The Bear's second season even better than its first? Then, the trio discusses Jennifer Lawrence's new “sex” comedy, No Hard Feelings. Finally, they examine an essay by Jonah Weiner of Blackbird Spyplane, “Is Ssense hurting the cool-clothes eco-system?” about the online clothing emporium that's growing like a weed.  In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, the panel dives into former New York Times film critic—and current Book Review critic—A.O. Scott's recent piece, “Everyone Likes Reading. Why Are We So Afraid of It?” Email us at culturefest@slate.com.  Endorsements: Dana: Access and Engagement Curator at the Brontë Parsonage Museum — The Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth is hiring! Dana thinks someone out there must be perfect for this wonderful job: a part-time Access and Engagement curator at the former home of the Brontë family and where Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall were written. Applications close on Sunday, July 2nd.  Julia: Cédric Grolet on Instagram — The French pastry chef (who works as executive pastry chef at Le Meurice in Paris) posts beautifully shot baking videos to his Instagram and TikTok. In them, he demonstrates how to make fruity, complex pastries at a huge scale. The result is perfection.  Stephen: “Cancelled” by Amia Srinivasan — Published by the London Review of Books, “Cancelled” is philosopher Amia Srinivasan's exploration of the role of fee speech on campus. In it, she asks “Who gets to speak?” and details the ways academic freedom is currently being suppressed.  Outro music: “Zero Gravity” by ELFL Podcast production by Cameron Drews and Jared Downing. Production assistance by Kat Hong.  If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows. You'll also be supporting the work we do here on the Culture Gabfest. Sign up now at Slate.com/cultureplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, the panel begins with the question: is The Bear's second season even better than its first? Then, the trio discusses Jennifer Lawrence's new “sex” comedy, No Hard Feelings. Finally, they examine an essay by Jonah Weiner of Blackbird Spyplane, “Is Ssense hurting the cool-clothes eco-system?” about the online clothing emporium that's growing like a weed.  In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, the panel dives into former New York Times film critic—and current Book Review critic—A.O. Scott's recent piece, “Everyone Likes Reading. Why Are We So Afraid of It?” Email us at culturefest@slate.com.  Endorsements: Dana: Access and Engagement Curator at the Brontë Parsonage Museum — The Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth is hiring! Dana thinks someone out there must be perfect for this wonderful job: a part-time Access and Engagement curator at the former home of the Brontë family and where Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall were written. Applications close on Sunday, July 2nd.  Julia: Cédric Grolet on Instagram — The French pastry chef (who works as executive pastry chef at Le Meurice in Paris) posts beautifully shot baking videos to his Instagram and TikTok. In them, he demonstrates how to make fruity, complex pastries at a huge scale. The result is perfection.  Stephen: “Cancelled” by Amia Srinivasan — Published by the London Review of Books, “Cancelled” is philosopher Amia Srinivasan's exploration of the role of fee speech on campus. In it, she asks “Who gets to speak?” and details the ways academic freedom is currently being suppressed.  Outro music: “Zero Gravity” by ELFL Podcast production by Cameron Drews and Jared Downing. Production assistance by Kat Hong.  If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows. You'll also be supporting the work we do here on the Culture Gabfest. Sign up now at Slate.com/cultureplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Blog update: Reflective altruism, published by David Thorstad on May 14, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum. About me I'm a research fellow in philosophy at the Global Priorities Institute. Starting in the Fall, I'll be Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University. (All views are my own, except the worst. Those are to be blamed on my cat.). There are many things I like about effective altruism. I've started a blog to discuss some views and practices in effective altruism that I don't like, in order to drive positive change both within and outside of the movement. About this blog The blog features long-form discussions, structured into thematic series of posts, informed by academic research. Currently, the blog features six thematic series, described below. One distinctive feature of my approach is that I share a number of philosophical views with many effective altruists. I accept or am sympathetic to all of the following: consequentialism; totalism; fanaticism; expected value maximization; and the importance of using science, reasons and evidence to solve global problems. Nevertheless, I am skeptical of many views held by effective altruists including longtermism and the view that humanity currently faces high levels of existential risk. We also have a number of methodological disagreements. I've come to understand that this is a somewhat distinctive approach within the academic literature, as well as in the broader landscape. I think that is a shame. I want to say what can be said for this approach, and what can be learned from it. I try to do that on my blog. About this document The blog is currently five months old. Several readers have asked me to post an update about my blog on the EA Forum. I think that is a good idea: I try to be transparent about what I am up to, and I value feedback from my readers. Below, I say a bit about existing content on the blog; plans for new content; and some lessons learned during the past five months. Existing series Series 1: Academic papers The purpose of this blog is to use academic research to drive positive change within and outside of the effective altruism movement. This series draws insights from academic papers related to effective altruism. Sub-series A: Existential risk pessimism and the time of perils This series is based on my paper “Existential risk pessimism and the time of perils”. The paper develops a tension between two claims: Existential Risk Pessimism (levels of existential risk are very high) and the Astronomical Value Thesis (efforts to reduce existential risk have astronomical value). It explores the Time of Perils hypothesis as a way out of the tension. Status: Completed. Parts 1-6 present the main argument of the paper. Part 7 discusses an application to calculating the cost-effectiveness of biosecurity. Part 8 draws implications. Part 9 responds to objections. Sub-series B: The good it promises This series is based on a volume of essays entitled The good it promises, the harm it does: Critical essays on effective altruism. The volume brings together a diverse collection of scholars, activists and practitioners to critically reflect on effective altruism. In this series, I draw lessons from papers contained in the volume. Status: In progress. Part 1 introduces the series and discusses the foreword to the book by Amia Srinivasan. Part 2 looks at Simone de Lima's discussion of colonialism and animal advocacy in Brazil. Part 3 looks at Carol J Adams' care ethical approach. Series 2: Academics review WWOTF Will MacAskill's book What we owe the future is one of the most influential recent books about effective altruism. A number of prominent academics have written insightful reviews of the book. In this series, I draw lessons from some of my favorite academic reviews of What we owe the future....

Cześć! Tym razem zabierzemy Was do labiryntu! Zaczniemy od książki Amii Srinivasan „Prawo do seksu”, w której autorka, filozofka, rozbiera na czynniki pierwsze różnego rodzaju zagadnienia, którymi zajmuje się feminizm XXI wieku. Razem ze Srinivasan krążymy w labiryncie pojęć, teorii i podejść. Przy okazji drugiej książki „Już nie żyjesz” Svena Lindqvista poruszamy się po labiryncie historii. Autor przygląda się bombardowaniom na przestrzeni wieków w ujęciu tematycznym, podsuwając czytelnikom i czytelniczkom literaturę i stosując antykolonialne podejście. Książki, o których rozmawiamy w podkaście, to: Amia Srinivasan, „Prawo do seksu. Feminizm w XXI wieku”, tłum. Katarzyna Mojkowska; Sven Lindqvist, „Już nie żyjesz. Historia bombardowań”, tłum. Ewa Wojciechowska, wydawnictwo W.A.B. Wspominamy też o książce Eimear McBride, "Coś nie tak. Kobiecość i wstręt", tłum. Aga Zano, Pauza, której fragment czytamy. Dziękujemy Wydawnictwu W.A.B. za przysłanie nam obu książek. Mamy Patronite! Jeżeli chcesz dołączyć do naszego grona Matronek i Patronów, będziemy zaszczycone! Dla tych, którzy zdecydują się nas wspierać, mamy spersonalizowane książkowe rekomendacje, newslettery głosowe, podziękowania na stronie i wiele więcej! Szczegóły tutaj: https://patronite.pl/juztlumacze Zachęcamy do odwiedzin na naszym profilu na Instagramie: https://www.instagram.com/juz_tlumacze i na Facebooku https://www.facebook.com/juz.tlumacze oraz na naszej stronie internetowej https://juztlumacze.pl/ Intro: http://bit.ly/jennush

Co to była za lektura! Absolutnie musicie przeczytać tę książkę. Amia Srinivasan to nasza nowa shero, a jej książka "Prawo do seksu" sprawiła, że niewygodne pytania, którymi challenguje feminizm, skłoniły nas do mega rozkminy i nieskromnie powiemy - super rozmowy. Czy pożądanie może być niepoprawne politycznie? Czy incele powinni tak naprawdę zostać feministami? Czy istnieje spisek przeciwko mężczyznom? Posłuchajcie!

Statt einer neuen Folge gibt es hier ein kleines Überbrückungs-Hörstück. Annik Hosmann empfiehlt das die Bücher  «The Bell Jar» und «Das Herz steht nicht still» von Sylvia Plath. Sowie das Buch «The Right to Sex» von Amia Srinivasan. Hier geht's zum Tagi-Artikel dazu: «Viele Männer glauben, dass sie ein Recht auf Sex haben» (Abo)Podcast Tipp von Produzentin Laura Bachmann: «Sind wir endlich da?» von Denise Fernholz. In zwei Wochen gibt es wieder eine reguläre Folge «Tages-Anzeigerin» mit Annik Hosmann und Priska Amstutz.  Habt ihr Lob, Kritik oder Gedanken zum Thema? Schreibt uns an podcasts@tamedia.ch

Philosopher and writer Amia Srinivasan meets with artist Paul Chan for the latest episode of Artists on Writers | Writers on Artists. Together they contemplate fate, the distortion of reality caused by screens, their first experiences with philosophy, and making meaning through their respective disciplines. Chan's exhibition “Breathers” is currently on view at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis through July 16. Amia's latest book, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-first Century, is out now with Bloomsbury in the United Kingdom and Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the United States.

A live session from Jaipur Literature Festival 2023!

Even if you don't recognize the advice columnist Dan Savage by name, it's possible that his ideas have influenced how you think about sex and relationships. For decades now, Savage has been arguing that our expectations for long-term partnerships are way too high; that healthy relationships are about acknowledging our vast spectrum of desires, not repressing them; and that monogamy is not the ideal setup for every partnership. Through over 30 years of writing “Savage Love,” one of the most widely read sex advice columns in the country, and more than 17 years of hosting the podcast “Savage Lovecast,” he has been one of America's most subtly influential public intellectuals on the topic of how humans conduct our most intimate — and important — relationships.In the past half-century or so, America's culture around sex, dating and relationships has undergone a profound transformation. Women are no longer confined to roles as wives and mothers, same-sex marriage is legal, hookup culture has changed the way young people enter the dating world, and there has been a growing interest in less traditional approaches to relationships, like polyamory and ethical nonmonogamy. These transformations have ushered in a lot of new freedoms but also a lot of new anxieties and frustrations. So I wanted to bring Savage on the show to talk through how we navigate this complicated, messy moment in our relational and sexual lives.We discuss how America's relationship culture has changed in the past 30 years, why the myth of finding “the one” can be so damaging, what dating apps are (and aren't) good for, how to give more grace to our partners when they do not meet our expectations, why so many feminist writers are re-evaluating the legacy of the sexual revolution, how gay sexual cultures have influenced straight dating life, why we've had a “sexual revolution” but not a concomitant “relationship revolution,” what Savage makes of the statistic that 18 percent of people have had sexual experiences outside their primary relationships without their partners' consent, the advantages and risks of experimenting with nonmonogamy, what better sex education for young people should look like, why marriages between two men seem to end less frequently than heterosexual marriages do and more.This episode contains strong language.Mentioned:YouGov poll on Monogamy and Polyamory“Can We Change Our Sexual Desires? Should We?” with Amia Srinivasan on The Ezra Klein Show“Let's Talk About the Anxiety Freedom Can Cause” with Maggie Nelson on The Ezra Klein Show“Sex, Abortion and Feminism, as Seen From the Right” with Erika Bachiochi on The Ezra Klein ShowDan Savage and Esther Perel on “Love, Marriage & Monogamy”Screaming on the Inside by Jessica Grose“What Does the ‘Post-Liberal Right' Actually Want?” with Patrick Deneen on The Ezra Klein ShowBook Recommendations:The Ethical Slut by Janet W. Hardy and Dossie EastonBerlin Diary by William L. ShirerA Royal Affair by Stella TillyardThoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.You can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.“The Ezra Klein Show” is produced by Emefa Agawu, Annie Galvin, Jeff Geld, Rogé Karma and Kristin Lin. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris, Mary Marge Locker and Kate Sinclair. Original music by Isaac Jones. Mixing by Jeff Geld and Sonia Herrero. Audience strategy by Shannon Busta. The executive producer of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. Special thanks to Pat McCusker.

Beyond The Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon, The Ethical Slut by Janet W. Hardy, Polysecure by Jessica Fern, Well-Read Black Girl by Gloria Edim, WhiteWalling: Art, Race, and Protest by Aruna D'Souza, The Right To Sex by Amia Srinivasan, Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge, GenderQueer by Maia Kobabe, Yoga as Resistance by Dr. Stacie C.C. Graham, Caste by Isabel Wilkerson, and Ace by Angela Chen. All My Relations Podcast - the episode title is Decolonizing Sex. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this raw and unfiltered episode, Nicolene and Jana talk about their experiences with sex education in South Africa. They start by reflecting on shocking Sunday school lessons and the awkward conversations about sex in their formative years. Then they turn to contemporary thinkers who expose the limits of sex education today, like relationship-guru Esther Perel and the feminist philosopher Amia Srinivasan. Despite wanting to say A LOT more, especially about popular culture and sex in the Afrikaner context, the conversation had to end abruptly. Let us know if you want a follow-up chat! Here are some of the resources mentioned in our conversation: Esther Perel podcasts and her book, Mating in Captivity The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan Pen15 tv-show If you haven't subscribed to our podcast yet, please do so. Rate and review us if you enjoy our content– this way you help us by making it easier for other listeners to find us. Thank you to our Patreon members that make this labour of love possible! If you like what we do, please consider supporting us on Patreon or make a donation here: https://www.nbcollective.space/air-it-support-us As always, we would love to hear what you think about the concepts, theories, texts, and practices discussed in this podcast, so please reach out: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/airit_podcast/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/airitpodcast/?hc_location=ufi Email: airitpodcast@gmail.com Research and content production by Jana Vosloo and Nicolene Burger. Intro and outro music by Thabo Krouwkam. And remember, STAY STIMULATED!

What shapes the way we think about sex?Consent and power relations, gender justice and the state, pornography and freedom - political philosophy professor Amia Srinivasan refuses to turn away from the hard questions about society and sex.Hosted by Emma A Jane, recorded live at the Sydney Opera House for All About Women 2022.-Watch other talks on Stream. The new streaming service from the Sydney Opera House. Register for free now and start watching.Follow the Sydney Opera House on: Instagram, Twitter and Facebook. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In today's episode, we have Vaishnavi Patel in #FiveDesiFaves. She has a debut book out this year: Kaikeyi: A Novel. Here, she discusses the five desi books that speak to who she is as a reader and writer. Spanning genres and age groups, these are by Roshani Chokshi, Madhusree Mukerjee, Tasha Suri, Amia Srinivasan, and Tanvi Berwah. Thank you for listening. Twitter: @DesiBooks Instagram: @desi.books Facebook: @desibooksfb Website: https://desibooks.co Newsletter: https://bit.ly/desibooksnews Email: desibooks@desibooks.co --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/desibooks/support

Philosopher Amia Srinivasan, bestselling author of The Right to Sex, in conversation with the author of Three Women, Lisa Taddeo. '[This] ambitious, magisterial work stands out in the ongoing tide of dull, girl boss feminism arguing for personal empowerment over collective liberation . . . In a world of easy, one-dimensional answers, [Srinivasan] is unquestionably the real deal' – Vogue Amia Srinivasan is the author of one of the most talked about books in recent times, The Right to Sex, which is published in paperback this May. A landmark collection of essays from one of the most exciting young philosophers at work today, it examines the politics and ethics of sex in the twenty-first century – from pornography to incels, rape culture to sex work. Lisa Taddeo is the New York Times-bestselling author of Three Women and Animal. For this special online event hosted by 5x15, two literary stars come together to discuss this groundbreaking book and the issues it raises. Amia Srinivasan was born in 1984 in Bahrain and raised in London, New York, Singapore and Taiwan. She is currently the Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford, and has held permanent or visiting academic posts at University College London, Yale, NYU and UCLA. The Right to Sex is her first book and was named Blackwell's Book of the Year 2021. It was acclaimed by critics and authors ranging from Judith Butler and Katherine Rundell, to Pandora Sykes and Emily Ratajkowski. Lisa Taddeo's Three Women (2019) became a world-wide sensation, forever changing how we think about women and desire. Nearly a decade in the making, Three Women was hailed instantly as a feminist classic – a staggering work of nonfiction that was the result of thousands of hours spent in the company of its subjects. Lisa has contributed to New York magazine, Esquire, Elle, Glamour and many other publications, and her short stories have won two Pushcart Prizes. Her debut novel, Animal, was published in 2021 and described by Marian Keyes as ‘like a series of grenades exploding'. 5x15 brings together outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories

Sommeren er på vej, om lidt er det årets længste dag. Solen er vores fælles læselampe, men hvilke bøger skal vi have med ind og ud i ferien?Hvad skal vi læse på stranden mellem dukkerter? Hvad skal vi sætte os i havens svale hjørne med? Sommerferien er en tid til både lethed og fordybelse. Vi vil have det hele.Derfor går der endnu en gang bogpusher i Poptillægget, vi giver dig alt det, du ikke ved, du vil læse. Vi serverer digte, romaner og faglitteratur på nye og gamle flasker.Og så drømmer vi fremad, kaster vores litterære ønsker i fontænen og krydser fingre for at lukke hullerne i den kollektive bogreol. Så sæt et æseløre og puds læsebrillerne, det er sommerbog-tid. Panelets anbefalinger:Eva anbefalede: 'Ikke at dø' af Anne Boyer 'Ting jeg ikke vil vide' af Deborah Levy  Olga anbefalede: 'Væggen' af Marlen Haushofer 'Bøgetid' af Nanna Storr-Hansen Antologien 'Natural History of Books: A Messy History of Women in Printing'  Line anbefalede: 'Når vi ikke længere forstår verden' af Benjamin Labatut 'Eufori' af Elin Cullhed 'The Right to Sex' af Amia Srinivasan  Felix anbefalede: 'Sapfo' Gendigtet af Mette Moestrup og Mette Christiansen 'Om udregning af rumfang' af Solvej Balle 

In Amia Srinivasan's book The Right To Sex she discusses some of the most hotly controversial topics of today: sex work, pornography, the nature of sexual liberation. What can and should a philosopher bring to these debates? Also, we explore one of the philosophical techniques informing Srinivasan's work: genealogy. First named by Friedrich Nietzsche (although arguably practiced by philosophers before him) and developed by Michel Foucault and Bernard Williams, amongst others, genealogy seeks to investigate concepts and institutions by looking at the contingent historical situations in which they arose and that have shaped them over time. Christopher Harding in conversation with Amia Srinivasan, Caterina Dutilh Vovaes and Christoph Schurinnga. Producer: Luke Mulhall

Emma hosts Amia Srinivasan, Professor of Social and Political Theory at the University of Oxford, to discuss her recent book The Right to Sex: Feminism in the 21st Century. Then Emma is joined by Melanie D'Arrigo, candidate for Congress in New York's 3rd district, to give us an update from the campaign trail. Prof. Srinivasan and Emma dive right into the biggest news of the last two weeks, taking on their initial reactions to the Roe v. Wade leak, from the instinctive and personal horror to deranged awe for the American conservatives seeing their strategy of the last half-century finally come to fruition, before getting into the questions this decision raises and what the future of reproductive rights looks like when the party defending them is constantly inert. Next, they turn to Professor Srinivasan's book, looking at the divide between the sphere of politics and the private sphere, and how she follows in the path of emphasizing the inherently political nature of feminism and sex. First looking to the feminisms of the ‘60s and '70, Emma and Amia discuss this repoliticization of private issues, as concepts like abortion, family structure, childcare, and education became central to the feminist fight, alongside a birth of sex positivity, before the ‘80s rolled around and saw pushback amidst feelings of encouraging sex on men's terms, looking beyond just consent at the larger coercive factors. This brings Professor Srinivasan to an analysis of the neoliberal market ideology, with consent and contracts as the only moral factor, considering sexual freedom along the same lines of tradeoffs, particularly around status, and how this analysis can be used to pushback, particularly against incel misogyny. They then look to the development of feminisms' stances on porn, with the antithesis to sex positivity seeing porn as the lynchpin of patriarchy and a training ground for men's subjugation of women, despite the large inaccessibility of porn at the time, before the boom of the internet in the 21st Century saw it become almost ubiquitous in much of the Western world, and thus plagued by monopoly and corruption as a neoliberal institution. Emma and Amia pin that conversation with a discussion on the importance of a sex-worker-owned-and-led world of porn as the only one where they can have a sense of security, before they wrap up the interview with a discussion on #MeToo, and the racialization and classism involved in rape accusations and where they go in the legal world. Then, Melanie D'Arrigo discusses her campaign in NY-3, and engaging as a progressive with notoriously conservative constituents. Emma also covers Israel's murder of journalist Shereen Abu Aqleh, Finland getting closer to joining NATO, and Manchin's objection to giving women rights, when that's not what some Americans want! And in the Fun Half: Emma is joined by Matt and Brandon as they listen in awe to Randy Zuckerberg's crypto anthem sequel, before having an extensive discussion on the recent crypto collapse and the role of Luna and Terra currencies in the drop. Bryan in the Poconos gives some updates on the PA Senate race on both the left and right, Ned Price, representing Biden's administration, does anything but address Israeli war crimes, entrusting the IDF to investigate whether or not they're murderers, and the crew discusses constitutional reform and Latin America. Jordan Peterson declares the Bible as the basis for truth itself and Dennis Prager gets covid (again), plus, your calls and IMs! Check out Amia's book here: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374721039/therighttosex Check out Melanie's campaign here: https://darrigo2022.com/ Purchase tickets for the live show in Boston on May 15th HERE:   https://majorityreportradio.com/live-show-schedule Become a member at JoinTheMajorityReport.com: https://fans.fm/majority/join Subscribe to the AMQuickie newsletter here:  https://madmimi.com/signups/170390/join Join the Majority Report Discord! http://majoritydiscord.com/ Get all your MR merch at our store: https://shop.majorityreportradio.com/ Support the St. Vincent Nurses today! https://action.massnurses.org/we-stand-with-st-vincents-nurses/ Check out Matt's show, Left Reckoning, on Youtube, and subscribe on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/leftreckoning Subscribe to Matt's other show Literary Hangover on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/literaryhangover Check out The Nomiki Show on YouTube. https://www.patreon.com/thenomikishow Check out Matt Binder's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/mattbinder Subscribe to Brandon's show The Discourse on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/ExpandTheDiscourse Check out The Letterhack's upcoming Kickstarter project for his new graphic novel! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/milagrocomic/milagro-heroe-de-las-calles Check out Jamie's podcast, The Antifada. https://www.patreon.com/theantifada, on iTunes, or at https://www.twitch.tv/theantifada (streaming every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at 7pm ET!) 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Welcome to part two of our "Waves" episodes everyone! This is month one of season one here at Grabbing Back, THE place for all things feminist theory and good chat. We're chatting to the amazing Gillian Love about ‘the waves'; when were they, what were they, did they even exist and what should as modern feminists learn or critique about them. Content warning: discussions touched on homophobia and transphobia - without graphic details. References and recommendations This is a list of some of the sources mentioned in this episode, plus other recommended texts on the theme of third and fourth wave feminism..and beyond! This is by no means an exhaustive list, and we recommend them not as a full-throated support of all of their contents, but as representations of particular feminist positions. Third wave feminism Naomi Wolf. 1990. The Beauty Myth – Explores the pressures women are under to meet impossible standards of beauty and femininity. Susan Faludi. 1991. Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women – An influential third wave book arguing that there was a backlash against the gains of the second wave that must be combatted. Rebecca Walker. 1996. To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism – Walker is credited with coining the term ‘third wave' in an article for Ms. Magazine. This book features 21 essays from feminist activists about their understanding of feminism. Fourth wave and beyond Laura Bates. 2014. Everyday Sexism - Inspired by a digital project where women shared their experiences of harassment and sexism. Rebecca Solnit. 2014. Men Explain Things to Me – Credited with popularising the term ‘mansplaining.' Lola Olefumi. 2020. Feminism, Interrupted. – A contemporary feminist manifesto that is radical and intersectional. Amia Srinivasan. 2021The Right to Sex – cutting-edge contemporary feminist theory on sex, intimacy and power. Commentary on feminist ‘waves' Bailey, Cathryn. 2002. Unpacking the Mother/Daughter Baggage: Reassessing Second – and Third-Wave Tensions. Women's Studies Quarterly , Vol. 30, No. 3/4. pp. 138-154. Graff, Agnieszka (2003). Lost between the Waves? The Paradoxes of Feminist Chronology and Activism in Contemporary Poland. Journal of International Women's Studies, 4(2), 100-116. Available at: https://vc.bridgew.edu/jiws/vol4/iss2/9 Networks The Feminist Gender Equality Network (FGEN) – A major new global movement, dedicated to countering anti-trans propaganda at home and abroad.

What shapes the way we think about sex? Amia Srinivasan, one of the most exciting feminist thinkers today, examines the political and cultural implications of sex. Combining philosophical arguments, popular culture, and political theory, her book The Right to Sex explores male sexual entitlement, the tension between sex positivity and porn's hold on the imagination, and the inadequate way we talk about consent. What are the political forces that instruct the types of bodies we find attractive? And can we change who we desire to liberate sex from the distortions of oppression? Hosted by Associate Professor Emma A Jane, this talk is an unflinching exploration of the way our sexual lives reflect the political context of the wider world - and how to challenge these inequalities and blind spots, within ourselves and society. Presented in partnership with Sydney Opera House. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

No provocativo livro O DIREITO AO SEXO, Amia Srinivasan compila uma série de ensaios em que questiona a relação entre a nossa estrutura social, repleta de opressões, e o desejo – passando por consentimento, autonomia e prazer. No Quarta Capa #26, convidamos a psicanalista Vera Iaconelli e a cientista política e especialista em direitos humanos Manoela Miklos para mergulhar nesse debate. Falamos sobre padrões de beleza, estrutura política e social, colonização, gênero, raça, economia, mídia, cultura e, é claro, poder: "O que esses caras pensam quando olham pra gente?", pergunta Manoela a certa altura deste episódio.==Mais sobre O DIREITO AO SEXO: https://todavialivros.com.br/livros/o-direito-ao-sexo===FICHA TÉCNICA -Produção: Nataly Callai e Ricardo Terto /Narração: Leandro Sarmatz /Roteiro: Ricardo Terto /Montagem: Alice Santos /Mixagem e Finalização de Som: Ricardo Terto /Arte: Flora Próspero /===Contato: quartacapa@todavialivros.com.br

In dieser Folge mit Anika, Robin und Meike: „Vladimir“ von Julia May Jonas, "Das Recht auf Sex" von Amia Srinivasan, „Aus unseren Feuern“ von Domenico Müllensiefen und „Tao“ von Yannic Han Biao Federer. Bevor wir uns den dieswöchigen Büchern zuwenden, stellen wir euch im Vorgeplänkel zwei lesenswerte Essays von Vladimir Sorokin und Deniz Yücel vor, die Putins System und seinen Kampf gegen Demokratie und westliche Werte erläutern.

dlr Libraries were delighted to welcome Ola Majekodunmi and Jessica Traynor for a discussion on books, poems and music that inspire them. Please note that the discussion contains adult themes. If you are interested in borrowing any of the books mentioned, please visit the national library catalogue here: https://bit.ly/35Dt78m Books and Poems Mentioned are: "Questions for Ada" by Ijeoma Umebinyuo "Insistence" by Ailbhe Darcy "Fill Arís" Poem by Seán Ó Ríordáin "The Right To Sex" by Amia Srinivasan "It Is Obscene" Essay by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie "Night Bitch" by Rachel Yoder "Meascra Ón Aer" by Marcus Mac Conghail "As You Were" by Elaine Feeney "Snow Party" Poem by Derek Mahon "We Live Happily During The War" Poem by Ilya Kaminsky Poet- Rupi Kaur Music: Denise Chaila- EP "Duel Citizenship

Chaired by Clare Wright Described by The New York Times as “quietly dazzling”, Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex is a landmark examination of the politics and ethics of sex. “A truly inclusionary politics,” Amia writes, “is an uncomfortable, unsafe politics.” Moving beyond questions of consent, and the notion of wanted or unwanted sex, this formidable collection re-centres the second-wave feminist idea of the personal as political in thrilling new ways, asking us to interrogate what it is that shapes our expectations and desires.

Tussen de planken: februari In deze allereerste editie van Tussen de planken nemen Lola en Suzanne je mee de winkel in! Ze praten je bij over het reilen en zeilen van Savannah Bay en vertellen over alle leuke dingen die op de agenda staan en geven je een mooie voorraad boekentips mee voor de laatste dagen van februari. Wil je meekletsen met Lola en Suzanne? Laat het ons weten op Instagram, Twitter en Facebook en gebruik #RadioSavannah. Voor (lees)tips en fanmail zijn we ook te bereiken op info@savannahbay.nl. Boeken van de maand Louise Erdrich - De nachtwaker Thomas Wazhashk is nachtwaker bij de lagersteenfabriek in het Turtle Mountain-reservaat. Daarnaast is hij stamhoofd van de Chippewa-indianen. Al enige tijd hoort hij verontrustende geluiden vanuit Washington over een ‘emancipatiewet'. Deze wet zou een einde maken aan de verdragen met de Amerikaans-indiaanse stammen – verdragen die waren overeengekomen voor ‘zolang het gras groeit en de rivieren stromen'. Thomas realiseert zich algauw dat deze wet niets met vrijheid te maken heeft, maar als doel heeft de indianen hun land en hun identiteit te ontnemen. Hij besluit te vechten voor zijn volk, koste wat het kost. Ondertussen verlaat zijn nichtje Patrice – of Pixie, zoals ze tegen haar zin wordt genoemd – het reservaat om op zoek te gaan naar haar zus, die spoorloos verdwenen is. Haar zoektocht brengt haar naar Minneapolis, waar ze geconfronteerd wordt met de harde realiteit van een wereld waarin ze zich maar niet thuis voelt. Gebaseerd op het buitengewone leven van haar grootvader verkent Louise Erdrich in De nachtwaker het meedogenloze lot van een volk dat moet vechten voor zijn bestaan. Erdrich brengt haar personages op onvergetelijke wijze tot leven en vertelt een weergaloos verhaal over een zwarte bladzijde uit de Amerikaanse geschiedenis en een strijd die nog altijd niet geheel gestreden is. Vind het boek hier in de webshop. Amia Srinivasan - Het recht op seks: feminisme in de 21e eeuw Sinds #MeToo gaat het gesprek over seks vooral over seksueel overschrijdend gedrag. Maar seks is veel complexer dan alleen gewenst versus ongewenst. Het is een private handeling vol publieke betekenis. Hoe worden onze voorkeuren gevormd? Hoe werken ideeën over verkrachting en racisme op elkaar in? Wat zegt porno over vrijheid? In zes baanbrekende essays onderzoekt filosoof Amia Srinivasan de politiek en de ethiek van seks, in de hoop het gesprek een nieuwe wending te geven. Vind het boek hier in de webshop. Informatie, events en meer uit deze aflevering Savannah Bay was bij de presentatie van Jerrycan, de verhalenbundel van Joep van Helden. Benieuwd naar zijn werk? Bestel de bundel dan hier.  Naar aanleiding van de verschijning van het rapport Onafhankelijkheid, dekolonisatie, geweld en oorlog in Indonesië 1945-1950 maakte Savannah Bay een lijst vol leestips. Je vind hem hier.  Je kunt Het Achterhuis van Anne Frank nog steeds cadeau geven! Meer informatie over de actie lees je hier.  Marieke Lucas Rijneveld signeert Komijnsplitsers! Kom op vrijdag 25 februari tussen 15.00 en 15.45 naar Savannah Bay en ontvang een krabbeltje. Ga hierheen om je op te geven. Savannah Bay gaat de hort op! Vind ons op 1 maart in TivoliVredenburg en op 6 maart in Museum Catharijneconvent. Tessel ten Zweege komt langs in Savannah Bay. Tref haar op 8 maart en laat jouw exemplaar van Dat zou jij nooit toelaten door de auteur herself signeren. De Radio Savannah theme song werd gemaakt door Guflux. Het logo is gemaakt door Rike Blom. 

Amia Srinivasan gilt als junge Star-Philosophin aus Oxford. Ihr Essayband über Sex, Macht und Politik wird als neues feministisches Manifest gefeiert. Jetzt ist „Das Recht auf Sex“ auf Deutsch erschienen – aber so viel Neues zum Thema Feminismus steht gar nicht drin. Lukas Meyer-Blankenburg im Gespräch mit Silke Arning. Aus dem Englischen von Anne Emmert und Claudia Arlinghaus Klett-Cotta Verlag, 320 Seiten, 24 Euro ISBN 978-3608982381

The Democrats are not doomed to defeat in the midterms, says Ro Khanna. Politics can turn around in the next few months. Khanna represents Silicon Valley in Congress, where he's a prominent figure in the Progressive Caucus. His new book is Dignity in a Digital Age: Making Tech Work for All of Us.Additionally, Katha Pollitt comments on The Right to Sex, a provocative title by the feminist philosopher Amia Srinivasan. Does anyone have a right to sex? Who does? Who doesn't?   Subscribe to The Nation to support all of our podcasts: thenation.com/podcastsubscribe.Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

In episode thirteen of Reading for Attention, Saz and Paz take on Amia Srinivasan's collection of essays, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the 21st Century, which cover a range of topics including porn, not sleeping with students, incel culture and how sex must be deemed an inherently political act. Don't worry though - they balance all that superficial stuff out with a heavy dose of Love Island chat and a delicious Earl Grey martini.Next, it's onto the important stuff - season two of Cheer, and disappointment in their parents for not forcing them to pursue a career in tumbling and/or basket tossing when they were bairns. Imagine the abs they'd have now for crying out loud. This pod poses all of the important questions: Does anyone actually have the right to sex? And if Sarah and Paul were both on Navarro's Cheer team, who would be top girl and get all the attention?  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In haar debuutroman De man van het licht onderzoekt Katrien Scheir waar machtsmisbruik begint. Moraalfilosofe Petra Van Brabandt is enthousiast over Het recht op seks van de Indiaas-Britse filosofe Amia Srinivasan, een blauwdruk voor feminisme in de 21ste eeuw. Christophe Vekeman leest Altijd weer opstaan van Helga Schubert, een persoonlijke memoir over schrijverschap, ouder worden en leven in de schaduw van de Berlijnse muur.

Indian women are lonely in the bedroom, lonely in the kitchen, lonely in the workplace. Shrayana Bhattacharya joins Amit Varma in episode 259 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss the interior and exterior lives of these unseen millions. Also check out 1. Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh: India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence -- Shrayana Bhattacharya. 2. Select Shah Rukh Khan films: Baazigar, DDLJ, Dil Tho Pagal Hai, Kal Ho Naa Ho, Dilwale, Mohabbatein. 3. Shar Rukh Khan interviews selected by Shrayana: 1, 2, 3, 4. 4. The Power to Choose -- Naila Kabeer. 5. Naila Kabeer on Amazon. 6. Counting for Nothing: What Men Value and What Women are Worth -- Marilyn Waring. 7. The Odd Woman and the City -- Vivian Gornick. 8. Vivian Gornick on Amazon. 9. Future Sex -- Emily Witt. 10. Kamala Das's autobiography, poems and stories. 11. Deborah Levy and Bell Hooks on Amazon. 12. Poor Economics -- Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo. 13. Exit, Voice, and Loyalty -- Albert O Hirschman. 14. The Art of Loving -- Erich Fromm. 15. The Penguin Complete Novels of Nancy Mitford. 16. Selected Satire: Fifty Years of Ignorance -- Shrilal Shukla. 17. Most of Amit Varma's writing on DeMon, collected in one Twitter thread. 18. Dani Rodrik's tweet thread about the 'jerk quotient' in economics. 19. The Hidden Taxes on Women -- Sendhil Mullainathan. 20. "Academia is a giant circlejerk" -- Amit Varma's tweet. 21. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen with Ajay Shah (in reverse chronological order): 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. 22. The Universe of Chuck Gopal -- Episode 258 of The Seen and the Unseen. 23. Miss Excel on Instagram and TikTok. 24. Bahujan Economics. 25. Raghuram Rajan at the Harvard Kennedy School in 2018. (Minute 5 onwards.) 26. In Service of the Republic -- Vijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah. 27. Superforecasting -- Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner. 28. Listen, The Internet Has SPACE -- Amit Varma. 29. Raees: An Empty Shell of a Gangster Film -- Amit Varma. 30. The Baptist, the Bootlegger and the Dead Man Walking -- Amit Varma. 31. Bootleggers and Baptists-The Education of a Regulatory Economist -- Bruce Yandle. 32. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen with Jai Arjun Singh and Uday Bhatia. 33. The Life and Times of Abhinandan Sekhri -- Episode 254 of The Seen and the Unseen. 34. Films, Feminism, Paromita -- Episode 155 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Paromita Vohra). 35. Modi's Lost Opportunity -- Episode 119 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Salman Soz). 36. Women at Work -- Episode 132 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Namita Bhandare). 37. What explains the decline in female labour force participation in India? -- Urmila Chatterjee, Rinku Murgai and Martin Rama. 38. Why Are Fewer Married Women Joining the Work Force in India? -- Farzana Afridi, Taryn Dinkelman and Kanika Mahajan. 39. India Moving — Chinmay Tumbe. 40. India = Migration -- Episode 128 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Chinmay Tumbe). 41. House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths. 42. The Right to Sex -- Amia Srinivasan. 43. 'Let Me Interrupt Your Expertise With My Confidence' -- New Yorker cartoon by Jason Adam Katzenstein. 44. Katty Kay and Claire Shipman -- Katty Kay and Claire Shipman. 45. The Ugliness of the Indian Male -- Mukul Kesavan. 46. The Blank Noise Project by Jasmeen Patheja. 47. Why Loiter? -- Shilpa Phadke. 48. The Jackson Katz quote on passive sentence constructions. 49. The Kavita Krishnan Files -- Episode 228 of The Seen and the Unseen. 50. Metrics of Empowerment — Episode 88 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Devika Kher, Nidhi Gupta and Hamsini Hariharan). 51. Jane Austen and Pico Iyer on Amazon. This episode is sponsored by CTQ Compounds. Check out The Daily Reader and FutureStack. Use the code UNSEEN for Rs 2500 off. Check out Amit's online courses, The Art of Clear Writing and The Art of Podcasting. And subscribe to The India Uncut Newsletter. It's free!

Part two of Richard Seymour responding to listener's questions, including on Amia Srinivasan's work, and also on critiques of psychoanalysis - a practice that plays a very important role in Richard's writing. Become a £5 PTO patron to get access to this episode and all other episodes of PTO Extra: https://www.patreon.com/poltheoryother

What are the politics of sex? Incels, porn, sexual racism, the feminist sex wars, and more. Philosopher Amia Srinivasan on her new essay collection The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century.Want our very good weekly newsletter emailed to you? Support us at Patreon.com/TheDigInterested in the book advertised on this week's Dig?thenewpress.com/books/empire-of-rubber

What are the politics of sex? Incels, porn, sexual racism, the feminist sex wars, and more. Philosopher Amia Srinivasan on her new essay collection The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century. Want our very good weekly newsletter emailed to you? Support us at Patreon.com/TheDig Interested in the book advertised on this week's Dig? thenewpress.com/books/empire-of-rubber

In his new book, Rationality, the experimental psychologist Steven Pinker argues that human beings have the power to think, act and behave rationally, if given the right tools to do so. He asks why rationality so often plays second fiddle to opinion, bias and prejudice. And he believes that in order to ensure our survival as a species we need to learn how to apply rational thought to our daily lives. Our attitudes towards sexual desire may not always be regarded as rational. Amia Srinivasan is Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at Oxford University and in ‘The Right to Sex' she considers this universal topic from a modern feminist perspective – a collision of pleasure, ethics and gender politics. If physical relationships are often the result of irrational decisions, then the belief in ghosts takes the human scope for irrationality to a whole new level. In The First Ghosts: Most Ancient of Legacies, British Museum curator Irving Finkel goes right back to the beginning and shows how the Sumerians, Babylonians and Assyrians believed in the spirit world and considers why this enduring belief in ghosts is something that spans diverse cultures and historical periods. Producer: Natalia Fernandez

Professor Anne Orford, Melbourne Laureate Professor and Michael D Kirby Chair of International Law at Melbourne Law School, joins us to discuss history and international law, and her new book International Law and the Politics of History. Publications mentioned in the episode: Anne Orford, International Law and the Politics of History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Anne Orford, Florian Hoffman and Martin Clark (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the Theory of International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016). Anne Orford, “In Praise of Description”, Leiden Journal of International Law 25, no. 3 (2012): 609–25. Pierre Schlag, “A Brief Survey of Deconstruction”, Cardozo Law Review 27, no. 2 (2005): 741–52. Amia Srinivasan, “Genealogy, Epistemology and Worldmaking”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society CXIX, no. 2 (2019): 127–56. Annalise Riles, “Legal Amateurism”, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper no. 16-41. Oliver Wendell Holmes, “The Path of Law”, Harvard Law Review 10 (1897): 457–97. Duncan Kennedy, “The Hermeneutic of Suspicion in Contemporary American Legal Thought”, Law and Critique 25 (2014): 91–139. Onuma Yasuaki, “When was the Law of International Society Born?”, Journal of the History of International Law 2 (2000): 1–66. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading; or, You're So Paranoid, You Probably Think This Introduction is About You” in Touching Feeling (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003), 123–52.

This week Anna joins us to review Amia Srinivasan's book of essays: The Right To Sex.

Amia Srinivasan joins PTO to talk about her new book, The Right to Sex. We spoke about whether it's legitimate to interrogate our sexual desires and to think about how desire is shaped by patriarchy, racism, capitalism, and heteronormativity. We also talked about why Amia takes the case of so-called incels as the way into discussing those questions. Finally, we considered the anti-pornography critique of Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon, and whether their work can be generative in spite of its obvious drawbacks and failings.

This week Allan and Darren begin by resuming their discussion of AUKUS. With the decision now a few weeks old, have their minds changed? How are they seeing the debate evolving? What have been some of the more interesting contributions? For Darren, interventions by former Prime Ministers Malcolm Turnbull and Paul Keating are particularly notable, and Allan has plenty to say on both. Second, the two turn to the first in-person leaders meeting of the Quad. What is its significance? What should one make of the (over 2000 word) communique? Are things headed in a positive direction? Third, an area where both agree US leadership has been lacking is in trade, which makes China's application to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) all the more interesting. Is this a serious application? How should Canberra approach it, given the ongoing campaign of economic coercion? Meanwhile, the United States Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai gave a speech on US-China relations this week—does that offer clues as to the Biden administration's plans for China, or economic leadership generally in the region? Finally, with Beijing upping its aerial incursions into Taiwan's air defense identification zone (ADIZ), both Allan and Darren offer some preliminary comments on what will certainly remain an issue in the months and years ahead. We thank Mitchell McIntosh for audio editing and Rory Stenning for composing our theme music.      Relevant links Stephen Dziedzic (@stephendziedzic ; Twitter) on FM Payne's response to criticism on AUKUS, 1 October 2021: https://twitter.com/stephendziedzic/status/1443864244152274948 Deep State Radio (Podcast), “Biden's multi-tiered China policy is a far cry from Trump's”, 4 October 2021: https://thedsrnetwork.com/bidens-multi-tiered-china-policy-is-a-far-cry-from-trumps/ Zachary Basu and Jonathan Swan, “Inside Biden's full-court press with France”, Axios, 6 October 2021: https://www.axios.com/biden-make-amends-france-macron-8db93b4c-39a3-458b-8216-02dfd0a8f03f.html Malcolm Turnbull, Address to the National Press Club, 29 September 2021: https://www.malcolmturnbull.com.au/media/address-to-the-national-press-club-september-2021 Paul Keating, “A relic of a bygone age? I might be, but I'm not a defeatist”, Sydney Morning Herald, 29 September 2021: https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/a-relic-of-a-bygone-age-i-might-be-but-i-m-not-a-defeatist-20210928-p58vdu.html Peter Khalil, “Why my hero Keating is wrong on China and our national security”, Sydney Morning Herald, 23 September 2021: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/why-my-hero-keating-is-wrong-on-china-and-our-national-security-20210922-p58twd.html Paul Keating, “China's responsibilities”, Speech to the 21st Century Council, Beijing, 3 November 2013: https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/paul-keating-chinas-responsibilities Quad Leaders' Summit Communique, 24 September 2021: https://www.pm.gov.au/media/quad-leaders-summit-communique Fact Sheet: Quad Leaders' Summit, The White House, 24 September 2021: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/09/24/fact-sheet-quad-leaders-summit/ “Australia to oppose China's bid to join trade pact until it halts strikes against exports”, The Guardian, 18 September 2021: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/18/australia-to-oppose-chinas-bid-to-join-trade-pact-until-it-halts-strikes-against-exports “A Conversation with Ambassador Katherine Tai, U.S. Trade Representative”, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 4 October 2021: https://www.csis.org/analysis/conversation-ambassador-katherine-tai-us-trade-representative “9/11 Inside the President's War Room” (TV Show): https://www.apple.com/au/tv-pr/originals/911-inside-the-presidents-war-room/ Amia Srinivasan, “Does anyone have the right to sex?”, London Review of Books, 22 March 2018: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v40/n06/amia-srinivasan/does-anyone-have-the-right-to-sex Lidija Haas, “A Woman and a Philosopher: An Interview with Amia Srinivasan”, The Paris Review, 22 September 2021: https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2021/09/22/a-woman-and-a-philosopher-an-interview-with-amia-srinivasan/ Conversations with Tyler (podcast), “Amia Srinivasan on utopian feminism”, 22 September 2021: https://conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/amia-srinivasan/  

Amia Srinivasan joins PTO to talk about her new book, The Right to Sex. We spoke about whether it's legitimate to interrogate our sexual desires and to think about how desire is shaped by patriarchy, racism, capitalism, and heteronormativity. We also talked about why Amia takes the case of so-called incels as the way into discussing those questions. Finally, we considered the anti-pornography critique of Andrea Dworkin and Catharine MacKinnon, and whether their work can be generative in spite of its obvious drawbacks and failings.

Die Schönheit hat ihre Unschuld verloren. Wer für den Körper anderer schwärmt, steht heute sofort im Verdacht, einer patriarchal-kapitalistischen Norm zu folgen. Gibt es wirklich keinen Weg, um Schönheit moralisch einwandfrei zu beschreiben? Body Shaming, Body Positivity, Body Neutrality – so lauten die zentralen Begriffe einer Bewegung, die sich gegen die Diskriminierung von Menschen aufgrund ihres Aussehens richtet. Denn eines lässt sich nicht bestreiten: Wenn wir absolute Gleichheit anstreben, dann ist die Ungleichverteilung von Schönheit ein schreiender Skandal. Schöne Menschen sind beliebter, verdienen besser und haben den schnelleren Zugang zu Sex. Lässt sich diese Ungerechtigkeit aus der Welt schaffen? Anhänger der Body Positivity-Bewegung würden sagen: Ja, denn die Schönheitsideale sind bloß soziale Konstrukte. Eigentlich sind alle Körper schön! Wir müssen bloß unsere durch Werbung, Social Media und den "männlichen Blick" vergiftete Wahrnehmung ändern. Aber ist das so einfach? Und radikal weitergefragt: Wäre ein Leben, in dem wir es uns alle anerzogen haben, nur noch auf die inneren Werte zu achten, überhaupt erstrebenswert? Ist die Schönheit nicht auch deshalb eine solche Macht, weil sie so völlig unverdient und ungerecht über die Menschen kommt? Und was sind eigentlich "dickfette" Menschen? Nina Pauer und Ijoma Mangold schlagen sich in dieser Folge des Feuilleton-Podcasts Die sogenannte Gegenwart durch den Dschungel neuer woker Begriffs- und Denkkonzepte und merken schnell, dass Utopie und Dystopie am Ende recht nah beieinander liegen. Dabei besprechen und empfehlen sie: - Den Nachruf auf Jean-Paul Belmondo (https://www.zeit.de/2021/37/jean-paul-belmondo-film-schauspieler-bebel-tod) - Den Film "Embrace – Du bist schön" mit Nora Tschirner (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oojpv2ma0ZA) - Das Buch "Body Politics" von Melodie Michelberger (https://www.melodiemichelberger.com), sowie ihren Instagramaccount (https://www.instagram.com/melodie_michelberger/) - Den Podcast "Fette Gedanken" von Charlotte Kuhrt (https://www.fettegedanken.de) - Den Aufsatz "Does anyone have the right to sex?" von Amia Srinivasan (https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v40/n06/amia-srinivasan/does-anyone-have-the-right-to-sex)

Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by author Cynthia Cruz to discuss The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class. A mix of memoir, cultural theory, and polemic, Cruz's latest work addresses the personal and social consequences of the marginalization of America's majority population, its working class. Cruz speaks about what inspired her to write the book and how she came to focus on the lives of certain famous working-class people, like musicians Amy Winehouse and Ian Curtis (who both died tragically in their 20s), and Jason Molina (who made it to 39), actress Barbara Loden, and others. How did they and Cynthia contend with the hegemonic “middle-class” culture's shaming of working-class characteristics? Denial and repression of working-class consciousness is encouraged in our society. This repression is seen as a precondition for success, but it mangles the soul and shreds the bonds of social solidarity that are the foundation of community and provide a sense of belonging. 173 years after Marx and Engels recast the working class as the protagonist of history in their Manifesto, Cruz does the same in hers. Also, Amia Srinivasan, author of The Right to Sex: Feminism in the 21st Century, returns to recommend Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights by Molly Smith and Juno Mac, who are both British sex workers.

Kate Wolf and Medaya Ocher are joined by author Cynthia Cruz to discuss The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class. A mix of memoir, cultural theory, and polemic, Cruz's latest work addresses the personal and social consequences of the marginalization of America's majority population, its working class. Cruz speaks about what inspired her to write the book and how she came to focus on the lives of certain famous working-class people, like musicians Amy Winehouse and Ian Curtis (who both died tragically in their 20s), and Jason Molina (who made it to 39), actress Barbara Loden, and others. How did they and Cynthia contend with the hegemonic “middle-class” culture's shaming of working-class characteristics? Denial and repression of working-class consciousness is encouraged in our society. This repression is seen as a precondition for success, but it mangles the soul and shreds the bonds of social solidarity that are the foundation of community and provide a sense of belonging. 173 years after Marx and Engels recast the working class as the protagonist of history in their Manifesto, Cruz does the same in hers. Also, Amia Srinivasan, author of The Right to Sex: Feminism in the 21st Century, returns to recommend Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights by Molly Smith and Juno Mac, who are both British sex workers.

Writer and Poet Cynthia Cruz joins Kate and Medaya to discuss The Melancholia of Class: A Manifesto for the Working Class. A mix of memoir, cultural theory, and polemic, Cruz's latest work addresses the personal and social consequences of the marginalization of America's majority population, its working class. Cruz discusses what inspired her to write the book; and how she came to focus on the lives of certain famous working class people, like musicians Amy Winehouse, Ian Curtis (who both died tragically in their 20s), and Jason Molina (who made it to 39), actress Barbara Loden, and others. How did they and Cynthia contend with the hegemonic “middle class” culture's shaming of working class characteristics? Denial and repression of working class consciousness is encouraged in our society. This repression is seen as a precondition for success; but it mangles the soul and shreds the bonds of social solidarity that are the foundation of community and provide a sense of belonging. 173 after Marx and Engels did the trick in their Manifesto, Cruz does the same in hers: by casting the working class in its proper role, as the protagonist of history. Also, Amia Srinivasan, author of The Right to Sex: Feminism in the 21st Century, returns to recommend Revolting Prostitutes: The Fight for Sex Workers' Rights by Molly Smith and Juno Mac, who are both British sex workers.

On this week's episode of The Waves, Slate staff writer and co-host of the podcast Outward, Christina Cauterucci sits down with author Amia Srinivasan to discuss her new book The Right to Sex. They talk about why false rape accusations are like plane crashes—greatly feared, but not as prevelant as we think. Then they dig into what could help us all start having a better kind of sex, and why just giving women money could go a long way in preventing domestic violence.  In Slate Plus, we debut our new segment, “Is This Feminist?” Slate News Director Susan Matthews and The Waves producer Cheyna Roth discuss Dr. Jill Biden's decision to keep teaching while also carrying out her First Lady “duties”.  Podcast production by Cheyna Roth with editorial oversight by Susan Matthews and June Thomas.  Send your comments and recommendations on what to cover to thewaves@slate.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In March 2018, the Oxford philosopher Amia Srinivasan wrote a provocative essay for the London Review of Books asking, “Does anyone have the right to sex?” Three years later, the essay forms the backbone of a bold new collection that probes the complexity of sex as private and political act, moving beyond the simplicity of yes and no and the hashtags of #girlboss feminism. Srinivasan joins the podcast to discuss the ideas that animate The Right to Sex, whether it's pornography and freedom, rape and racial injustice, punishment and accountability, or pleasure and power.Go beyond the episode:Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First CenturyRead the essay that started it all: “Does anyone have the right to sex?”Relatedly, her essay on pronouns: “He, She, One, They, Ho, Hus, Hum, Ita”How many other philosophers have been profiled by Vogue?Smarty Pants is no stranger to feminism: listen to our episodes on feminist book collecting, rock criticism, war, science, and religionListen to historian Scott Stern on the origins of criminalizing sex work, and read his essay, “Sex Workers of the World United”Tune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.Subscribe: iTunes • Feedburner • Stitcher • Google Play • AcastHave suggestions for projects you'd like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar [dot] org. And rate us on iTunes! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In March 2018, the Oxford philosopher Amia Srinivasan wrote a provocative essay for the London Review of Books asking, “Does anyone have the right to sex?” Three years later, the essay forms the backbone of a bold new collection that probes the complexity of sex as private and political act, moving beyond the simplicity of yes and no and the hashtags of #girlboss feminism. Srinivasan joins the podcast to discuss the ideas that animate The Right to Sex, whether it's pornography and freedom, rape and racial injustice, punishment and accountability, or pleasure and power.Go beyond the episode:Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First CenturyRead the essay that started it all: “Does anyone have the right to sex?”Relatedly, her essay on pronouns: “He, She, One, They, Ho, Hus, Hum, Ita”How many other philosophers have been profiled by Vogue?Smarty Pants is no stranger to feminism: listen to our episodes on feminist book collecting, rock criticism, war, science, and religionListen to historian Scott Stern on the origins of criminalizing sex work, and read his essay, “Sex Workers of the World United”Tune in every week to catch interviews with the liveliest voices from literature, the arts, sciences, history, and public affairs; reports on cutting-edge works in progress; long-form narratives; and compelling excerpts from new books. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.Subscribe: iTunes • Feedburner • Stitcher • Google Play • AcastHave suggestions for projects you'd like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast [at] theamericanscholar [dot] org. And rate us on iTunes! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

'Incel' violence is a clear example of the lethal danger of believing that anyone is entitled to sex. But feminist philosopher Amia Srinivasan argues who is and is not sexually desired can still be an issue of political injustice. She speaks with host Nahlah Ayed about autonomy, preference, entitlement, and the moral and political complexities of sexual desire. The fifth in our series Body Language.

On this week's episode of The Waves, Slate staff writer and co-host of the podcast Outward, Christina Cauterucci sits down with author Amia Srinivasan to discuss her new book 'The Right to Sex'. They talk about why false rape accusations are like plane crashes—greatly feared, but not as prevelant as we think. Then they dig into what could help us all start having a better kind of sex, and why just giving women money could go a long way in preventing domestic violence.  In Slate Plus, we debut our new segment, “Is This Feminist?” Slate News Director Susan Matthews and The Waves producer Cheyna Roth discuss Dr. Jill Biden's decision to keep teaching while also carrying out her First Lady “duties”.  Podcast production by Cheyna Roth with editorial oversight by Susan Matthews and June Thomas.  Send your comments and recommendations on what to cover to thewaves@slate.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's episode of The Waves, Slate staff writer and co-host of the podcast Outward, Christina Cauterucci sits down with author Amia Srinivasan to discuss her new book 'The Right to Sex'. They talk about why false rape accusations are like plane crashes—greatly feared, but not as prevelant as we think. Then they dig into what could help us all start having a better kind of sex, and why just giving women money could go a long way in preventing domestic violence.  In Slate Plus, we debut our new segment, “Is This Feminist?” Slate News Director Susan Matthews and The Waves producer Cheyna Roth discuss Dr. Jill Biden's decision to keep teaching while also carrying out her First Lady “duties”.  Podcast production by Cheyna Roth with editorial oversight by Susan Matthews and June Thomas.  Send your comments and recommendations on what to cover to thewaves@slate.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Building on her essay ‘Does anyone have the right to sex?', first published in the London Review of Books in 2018, Professor of Social and Political Theory Amia Srinivasan explores the political and cultural dimensions of sexual desire, and its frustration. Srinivasan is in discussion with co-editor of the LRB, Alice Spawls. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

What is our right to be desired? How are our sexual desires shaped by the society around us? Is consent sufficient for a sexual relationship? In the wake of the #MeToo movement, public debates about sex work, and the rise in popularity of “incel culture”, philosopher Amia Srinivasan explores these questions and more in her new book of essays, The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century. Amia's interests lay in how our internal perspectives and desires are shaped by external forces, and the question of how we might alter those forces to achieve a more just, equitable society. Amia joined Tyler to discuss the importance of context in her vision of feminism, what social conservatives are right about, why she's skeptical about extrapolating from the experience of women in Nordic countries, the feminist critique of the role of consent in sex, whether disabled individuals should be given sex vouchers, how to address falling fertility rates, what women learned about egalitarianism during the pandemic, why progress requires regress, her thoughts on Susan Sontag, the stroke of fate that stopped her from pursuing a law degree, the “profound dialectic” in Walt Whitman's poetry, how Hinduism has shaped her metaphysics, how Bernard Williams and Derek Parfitt influenced her, the anarchic strain in her philosophy, why she calls herself a socialist, her next book on genealogy, and more. Visit our website: https://conversationswithtyler.com Email: cowenconvos@mercatus.gmu.edu Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cowenconvos Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/cowenconvos/ Follow Tyler on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tylercowen Follow Amia on Twitter: https://twitter.com/amiasrinivasan Like us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/cowenconvos Subscribe to our Newsletter: https://go.mercatus.org/l/278272/2017-09-19/g4ms Thumbnail photo credit: Nina Subin

Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf are joined by writer, critic, and philosopher Amia Srinivasan, whose new book is The Right to Sex: Feminism in the 21st Century. Amia is a professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College at Oxford and a contributing editor at the London Review of Books. The essays in her book probe how we think and talk about sex. Srinivasan grapples with the subject from a variety of angles, looking closely at the #MeToo movement, the history of feminism and pornography, and the larger political forces that shape our personal lives. She discusses the complicated relationships between sex and racial justice, class, and disability. As she asks in her preface, “What would it take for sex really to be free? We do not yet know; let us try and see.” Also, poet Kaveh Akbar, author of Pilgrim Bell, returns to recommend Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry, a poetry anthology edited by Jane Hirshfield.

Medaya Ocher and Kate Wolf are joined by writer, critic, and philosopher Amia Srinivasan, whose new book is The Right to Sex: Feminism in the 21st Century. Amia is a professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College at Oxford and a contributing editor at the London Review of Books. The essays in her book probe how we think and talk about sex. Srinivasan grapples with the subject from a variety of angles, looking closely at the #MeToo movement, the history of feminism and pornography, and the larger political forces that shape our personal lives. She discusses the complicated relationships between sex and racial justice, class, and disability. As she asks in her preface, “What would it take for sex really to be free? We do not yet know; let us try and see.” Also, poet Kaveh Akbar, author of Pilgrim Bell, returns to recommend Women in Praise of the Sacred: 43 Centuries of Spiritual Poetry, a poetry anthology edited by Jane Hirshfield.

“Feminists have long dreamed of sexual freedom,” writes Amia Srinivasan. “What they refuse to accept is its simulacrum: sex that is said to be free, not because it is equal, but because it is ubiquitous.”Srinivasan is an Oxford philosopher who, in 2018, wrote the viral essay “Does Anyone Have the Right to Sex?” Her piece was inspired by Elliot Rodger's murderous rampage and the misogynist manifesto he published to justify it. But Srinivasan's inquiry opened out to larger questions about the relationship between sex and status, what happens when we're undesired for unjust reasons and whether we can change our own preferences and passions. The task, as she frames it, is “not imagining a desire regulated by the demands of justice, but a desire set free from the binds of injustice.” I love that line.Srinivasan's new book of essays, “The Right to Sex,” includes that essay alongside other challenging pieces considering consent, pornography, student-professor relationships, sex work and the role of law in regulating all of those activities. This is a conversation about topics we don't always cover on this show, but that shape the world we all live in: Monogamy and polyamory, the nature and malleability of desire, the interplay between sex and status-seeking, what it would mean to be sexually free, the relationship between inequality and modern dating, incels, the feminist critique of porn, how the internet has transformed the sexual culture for today's young people and much more.(One note: This conversation was recorded before the Supreme Court permitted a Texas law prohibiting abortions after six weeks, arguably ushering in the post-Roe era. We're working on an episode that will discuss that directly.)Mentioned: The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan"Sex Worker Syllabus and Toolkit for Academics" by Heather Berg, Angela Jones and PJ Patella-ReyBook recommendations: Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around by Alethia Jones and Virginia Eubanks, with Barbara Smith Revolting Prostitutes by Juno Mac and Molly SmithFeminist International by Verónia Gago, translated by Liz Mason-DeeseYou can find transcripts (posted midday) and more episodes of "The Ezra Klein Show" at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast, and you can find Ezra on Twitter @ezraklein. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com.“The Ezra Klein Show” is produced by Annie Galvin, Jeff Geld and Rogé Karma; fact-checking by Michelle Harris; original music by Isaac Jones; mixing by Jeff Geld, audience strategy by Shannon Busta. Special thanks to Kristin Lin.

It's MotherThunking Season 3! We're so happy to be back with you all with all our delicious news and recommendations collected in our hiatus. Rhiannon encountered a rogue priest and we mull over the need for male writers to include shapely, heaving breasts in every scene featuring a woman. We discuss the big events in the media over the past month, including Afghanistan, the Olympics, incels and of course, the man with a box on his head on the A37. And we have some stunning books for those of you interested in feminism, Ireland and grief. We are an accessible podcast so find transcripts on our linktree in our instagram bio @thegrandthunk. Follow us on social media @thegrandthunk or email us - thegrandthunk@gmail.com. We'd love to hear from you! Subscribe, rate, review and tell all your friends. See below for a full list of what we discuss: The Last Wish (The Witcher) by Andrzej Sapkowski Choose Love Does Anyone Have the Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan in the London Review of Books https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v40/n06/amia-srinivasan/does-anyone-have-the-right-to-sex Incels Aren't a Punchline https://novaramedia.com/2021/08/18/incels-arent-a-punchline-its-high-time-we-took-them-seriously/?fbclid=IwAR1_XqAZlXESpaqKJtUQphutbYrex-EDpEDuncFUa7YcsU4xP1_trkhp3GM Pieces of Britney by Pandora Sykes on BBC 4 Sounds The Wheel This Way Up on Channel 4 by Aisling Bea Scenes of a Graphic Nature by Caroline O'Donoghue Ellipsis by Isabelle Farrah Hannah Gadsby The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer Sunset by Jessie Cave The Grand Thunk, the podcast in which Alex Blanchard and Rhiannon Kearns discuss the books they've been reading, the films and TV shows they've been watching and the podcasts they've been listening to!

Amia Srinsivasan is the Chichele Professor of social and political theory at Oxford University and the author of thought provoking new collection of essays, The Right To Sex. We talk about incel culture, fuckability, dating apps, and why banning porn is not the answer. Buy The Right to Sex here: https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Amia-Srinivasan/The-Right-to-Sex/24711982

Is there a right to sex, who are the incels, was Me Too a straightforward act of liberation for all women, what does "believe women" mean, and is misogyny an inherent part of porn? 'The Right to Sex' is a brilliant new book written by Amia Srinivasan - Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory at All Souls College, Oxford - and here she explores all of these themes with nuance, insight and knowledge.Help us take on the right-wing media here: https://patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this week's episode, writer, philosopher and Oxford don Amia Srinivasan joins us to talk about the ideas explored in her latest essay collection, The Right to Sex. From male entitlement to the politics of desire, Amia tells us why sex is a topic in need of a more philosophical interrogation. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

How should we talk about sex? It is a thing we have and also a thing we do; a supposedly private act laden with public meaning; a personal preference shaped by outside forces; a place where pleasure and ethics can pull wildly apart.In this week's episode Amia Srinivasan speaks to Merve Emre about the politics of desire and how, from consent to capitalism, we need to rethink sex as a political phenomenon. To pre-order 'The Right to Sex' click here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/right-to-sex-9781526612533 Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Ntina Tzouvala (Australian National University) joins us to talk about critical legal studies, and her book, Capitalism As Civilisation: A History of International Law (CUP, 2020). We discuss issues such as critical legal studies in international law, tackling interdisciplinarity, and inclusivity in international law. Publications mentioned in the episode: Pierre Schlag, 'Spam Jurisprudence, Air Law, and the Rank Anxiety of Nothing Happening (A Report on the State of the Art)', Georgetown Law Journal 97 (2009): 803–35. Maria Aristodemou, 'A Constant Craving for Fresh Brains and a Taste for Decaffeinated Neighbours', European Journal of International Law 25, no. 1 (2014): 35–58. Mari J. Matsuda, ‘Liberal Jurisprudence and Abstracted Visions of Human Nature: A Feminist Critique of Rawls' Theory of Justice', New Mexico Law Review 16, no. 3 (1986): 613–30. Amia Srinivasan, 'The Aptness of Anger', Journal of Political Philosophy 26, no. 2 (2018): 123–44. Natarajan, Usha, 'Creating and Recreating Iraq: Legacies of the Mandate System in Contemporary Understandings of Third World Sovereignty', Leiden Journal of International Law 24, no. 4 (2011): 799–822.

From sex and the pandemic to sex positivity, from dating apps to transphobia to incels, I'm joined by 3 brilliant guests: Shon Faye - author of the upcoming The Transgender Issue; Huw Lemmey, writer of author of books such as Chubz: The Demonization of my Working Arse; and Amia Srinivasan, philosopher and author of the upcoming The Right to Sex.Please like, subscribe and help us take on the rightwing media here!: https://patreon.com/owenjones84Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Amia Srinivasan talks to Thomas Jones about the long search for a third person singular, gender-neutral pronoun, and the resurgence of the pronoun debate in recent years.Read Amia Srinivasan's piece on pronouns in the LRB here: https://lrb.me/srinivasanpronounsSubscribe to the LRB from just £1 per issue: mylrb.co.uk/podcast20b See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A lotta anger out there right now, but does it do more harm than good? Is anger counterproductive, an obstacle to progress? And even when it is, can anger be appropriate anway? We talk about two excellent articles by the philosopher Amia Srinivasan criticizing anger's critics. Plus we express some counterproductive anger of our own at the IDWs response to the protests.  

Leïla Slimani was the first Moroccan woman to win France’s prestigious Prix Goncourt for her novel Lullaby. Her latest book Sex and Lies (Faber) departs from fiction to explore the lives of and give a voice to the young women of Morocco, struggling to survive and thrive in a deeply conservative, patriarchal culture.Slimani was in conversation about her work with Professor Amia Srinivasan, tutorial fellow in Philosophy at Oxford and contributing editor at the LRB, where she has published articles on, inter alia, sexual politics, sharks and octopuses. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Amia Srinivasan is an Associate Professor of philosophy at Oxford and a tutorial fellow at St John’s College. Previously she was a permanent lecturer at University College London and a Prize Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. She works on topics in epistemology, metaphilosophy, political philosophy and feminism, and is currently writing a book on the genealogy of belief. Her essays and criticism have appeared in The New York Review of Books, the London Review of Books, Harper’s, The Nation, and elsewhere. She is an associate editor of Mind, and a contributing editor of the London Review of Books. This podcast is an audio recording of Professor All Srinivasan's talk - 'Pn Genealogy' - at the Aristotelian Society on 4 February 2019. The recording was produced by the Backdoor Broadcasting Company.

Deborah Levy, Adam Phillips and Amia Srinivasan join Matthew Sweet at the British Library for a Royal Society of Literature debate. Why do we read? Why do we write? What do we reveal when we do? A writer, a psychotherapist and a philosopher discuss what we reveal about ourselves through literature and the difference, if any, between non-fiction, novels and the psychotherapist’s couch. Deborah Levy is a playwright, novelist and poet. In her ‘living autobiography’ The Cost of Living, she considers what it means to live with value, meaning and pleasure. Adam Phillips is a practising psychoanalyst and Visiting Professor in the English department at the University of York. Amia Srinivasan is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and works on topics in epistemology, metaphilosophy, social and political philosophy, and feminism. She is a contributing editor of the London Review of Books. Producer: Luke Mulhall

The trailer for the Netflix adaptation of Jenny Han's YA novel, "To All The Boys I've Loved Before," has fans excited, especially because an Asian woman is in a lead rom-com role. But within Asian American spaces, there has been a lot of discussion over how progressive this movie actually is when it's yet another story about an Asian girl obsessing over mainly white boys. Is media rep for POC always to be unquestioningly celebrated? Can we freely talk about the problems of idealizing white love interests? Joining Jess and Oxford, male model Kevin Kreider offers his insider knowledge of the racist hierarchy in the modeling/entertainment world to highlight why this is an important issue that is much more than about movies and TV. Intro: "To All The Boys I've Loved Before" Trailer Outro Song: "I Like Me Better" (Instrumental) by Lauv TWITTER: Jess (@cogitatotomato) Oxford (@oxford_kondo) Kevin Kreider (@kevkreider) KEVIN KREIDER LINKS: "The Ugly Model" documentary: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/uglymodeldoc/the-ugly-model-a-documentary Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAJJBY9sSThM02XLsfb3U3A Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kevin.kreider/?hl=en The Disappointing Reality of Dating as an Asian-American Man: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/youre-really-good-looking-for-an-asian-guy_us_5b33ccdee4b03b6966b99426 REFERENCED RESOURCES: Some People Are Upset There’s No Asian Male in Netflix’s New Film With Lana Condor: https://nextshark.com/people-upset-theres-no-asian-male-netflixs-new-film-lana-condor/ Hapa actor Charles Melton cast as full-Korean male lead in "The Sun Is Also A Star": https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sun-is-a-star-riverdale-star-charles-melton-joins-yara-shahidi-1116216 Jesse Wiliams and Light-Skinned Privilege: http://blackyouthproject.com/why-we-need-to-talk-about-light-skinned-privelege/ Amandla Stenberg turned down "Black Panther" role because she felt she was too light-skinned: https://rollingout.com/2018/03/01/amandla-stenberg-rejected-black-panther-role-light-skin/ Alicia Vikander and Riley Keogh to star with Naoki Kobayashi in Netflix's "The Earthquake Bird": https://www.empireonline.com/people/alicia-vikander/alicia-vikander-riley-keough-starring-earthquake-bird/ Justin Chon and Ellie Bamber to star in "Taipei": https://variety.com/2016/film/news/justin-chon-ellie-bamber-romance-movie-taipei-1201931718/ The pursuit of white women: Brown actors like Aziz Ansari have reduced brown women to a punchline: https://qz.com/1016554/aziz-ansari-hasan-minhaj-kumail-nanjiani-brown-actors-have-reduced-brown-women-to-a-punchline/ I’m Tired of Watching Brown Men Fall in Love With White Women Onscreen: https://themuse.jezebel.com/i-m-tired-of-watching-brown-men-fall-in-love-with-white-1796522590 The Problem With How Some Brown Male Comics Portray Brown Women In Films And TV: https://mic.com/videos/7577/pr-0037-brownwomeninmedia#.EtZwAvyr9 Does Anyone Have The Right To Sex by Amia Srinivasan: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n06/amia-srinivasan/does-anyone-have-the-right-to-sex You Need 20,000 Followers to Even Look at This Instagrammable Mural in L.A.: https://www.travelandleisure.com/travel-news/instagram-famous-art-mural-los-angeles "To All The Boys I've Loved Before" Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTLc_RzqaJc&t=2s

On Episode 3 of Rather Be Reading, Anastasia Berg interviews Andrea Long Chu about her debut essay in n+1 “On Liking Women” and the problem with trying to get our desires to conform to our political principles (1:03). Then Rachel Rosenfelt, the founding editor of the New Inquiry and new publisher of the New Republic, joins us to talk about the history of Occupy at leftist magazines and the future of the New Republic (26:24). Finally, we call up Jon’s mom for her two cents on Doris Lessing, sexist bosses and Bernie bros (36:59). Editors: Jon Baskin, Anastasia Berg & Rachel Wiseman 
Guests: Andrea Long Chu, Rachel Rosenfelt & Judy Wise Relevant Sources:
 - “On Liking Women” by Andrea Long Chu in n+1:  nplusonemag.com/issue-30/essays/on-liking-women/ 
- “Does Anyone Have the Right to Sex?” by Amia Srinivasan in the LRB: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n06/amia-srinivasan/does-anyone-have-the-right-to-sex 
- “Lesbianism or Feminism: Synonyms or Contradictions?” by Robin Morgan, 1973 West Coast Lesbian Conference address: http://www.onearchives.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Lesbianism-and-Feminism-Synonyms-or-Contradictions-by-Robin-Morgan-April-14-1973.pdf 
- “Tired of Winning” by Jon Baskin in The Point:
thepointmag.com/2018/politics/tired-of-winning 
- “Occupy a Bank” by Sarah Leonard in the New Inquiry:
 thenewinquiry.com/occupy-a-bank/
 - “Switching Off” by Rachel Wiseman in The Point:
thepointmag.com/2018/examined-life/switching-off
 - “Leaving Herland” by Nora Caplan-Bricker in The Point:
thepointmag.com/2018/politics/leaving-herland + the rest of our new intellectuals symposium: https://thepointmag.com/point_symposia/what-are-intellectuals-for

Jacqui and LeMar take on incels and discuss recent incidents of weaponized white feminism.  Download Lady Bits on iTunes! Relevant Links Does anyone have the right to sex? – Amia Srinivasan for London Review of Books ‘Beta Males’ Want To Kill Women Because They Can’t Get Laid – Robyn Pennacchia for Bust Magazine On Sexual […]

The world's first penis transplant has been a success, yay! We also hear that Facebook are planning to launch their own dating app (less yay). We all learnt what incels were this month which was a scary journey to say the least but it did spark this week's debate on whether sex is a human right. Finally, we discuss what on earth people are talking about when they say someone is “good in bed”.LINKSThe world's first penis and scrotum transplant has been a success, which is obviosuly great news.Facebook are planning to launch a new dating app – although Grindr apparently aren't convinced.What are incels and what the hell is the “redistribution of sex”? – Ross Douthat explores it in an opinion piece for the New York Times. Meanwhile here is Amia Srinivasan's essay on the subject of the human right to sex.And here's VICE's article on how disabled people have sex.The Second Circle is a sex and gender politics podcast hosted by Franki Cookney. Get in touch @The2ndCircle or via our contact page. If you enjoyed the show today, why not buy me a coffee?Support the show (https://ko-fi.com/frankicookney)

'What is a woman?' may seem a straightforward question, but it isn't. Feminist philosophers from Simone de Beauvoir onwards have had a great deal to say on this topic. Amia Srinivasan gives a lucid introduction to some of the key positions in this debate in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast. She is talking to Nigel Warburton.

Does it matter where our ideas came from? Friedrich Nietzsche famously diagnosed the origin of Christian morality in what he thought of as a slave mentality. Amia Srninivasan discusses genealogical reasoning with Nigel Warburton in this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast.

Questions for Free-Market Moralists by Amia Srinivasan answered by Stefan Molyneux. Freedomain Radio is the largest and most popular philosophy show on the web - http://www.freedomainradio.com

Religious Epistemology and the Safety Condition for Knowledge, New Insights and Directions for Religious Epistemology Workshop, 12th-13th June 2013. Day one 2nd paper by Amia Srinivasan. Comments from Clayton Littlejohn and chaired by Matthew Benton.

Religious Epistemology, Contextualism, and Pragmatic Encroachment, New Insights and Directions in Religious Epistemology Workshop held in Oxford University on 13th-14th March 2013. The commentator is Amia Srinivasan.