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Matthew Leifheit, Photo by Shala Miller Matthew Leifheit is an American photographer, magazine editor, and professor based in Brooklyn, New York. A graduate of Rhode Island School of Design and the Yale School of Art, Leifheit is Editor-in-Chief of MATTE Magazine, the journal of emerging photography he has published since 2010. Leifheit's photographs have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, Aperture, TIME, and Artforum, and have been exhibited internationally. His work has been supported by residencies at the Corporation of Yaddo and The Watermill Center, receiving grants from the New York State Cultural Council and the Fund for Lesbian and Gay Studies at Yale, where he was awarded the Richard Benson Prize in 2017. He is currently full-time faculty at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. Gay Archive was presented at Union College Crowell and West Galleries and at Massachusetts College of Art and Design's Brant Gallery in the fall of 2024. "Matthew Leifheit: Gay Chorus" will be on view at REVERB Gallery in Tampa, Florida through February 14th. Selections from Leifheit's Gay Archive work will also be included in the Griffin Museum of Photography's upcoming exhibition "Nuclear Family," on view January 17th—March 30th 2025. Installation View of Matthew Leifheit: Queer Archive at Massachusetts College of Art and Design's Brant Gallery, November 2025 John Pfleiderer Body Hair Collection* (undated, collected prior to Pfleiderer's death in 1982) GLBT Historical Society, San Francisco, 2023 40x30” dye sublimation print with footnote. Harvey Milk Underwear, GLBT Historical Society, San Francisco, 2023 40x30” dye sublimation print on aluminum Pedro Zamora Gift Image, 2024 22.75'' x 32.75'' offset lithography on newsprint, edition of 1000 copies.

John Weir is the author of two novels, the Irreversible Decline of Eddie Socket, winner of the 1989 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men‘s Debut Fiction, and What I Did Wrong. His collection of linked stories  Your Nostalgia Is Killing Me, Linked Stories won  theGrace Paley Prize in Short Fiction.He is an associate professor of English at Queens College CUNY where he teaches in the MFA program in creative writing and literary translation. In 1991 with members of Act Up New York, he interrupted Dan Rather's CBS Evening News to protest government and media neglect of AIDS. His nonfiction pieces have appeared in the New York Times, Rolling Stone,Spin, TriQuarterly, and Gulf Coast and many anthologies, including the Columbia Reader in Lesbian and Gay Studies, Taking Liberties and Beyond Queer He lives in Brooklyn, New York. Today John joins us to discuss his novels and writing during the AIDS pandemic.

In Cina gli indovini, come quello che predisse allo scrittore Tiziano Terzani di non viaggiare in aereo nel 1993, stanno perdendo terreno rispetto agli oroscopi occidentali. Ma l'astrologia non è solo oroscopo: può giustificare una guerra o può essere, per fortuna, anti capitalista e transfemminista. L'astrologia, del resto, si è sempre adattata ai tempi di crisi, sapendo catturare le speranze dei giovani e finendo per la prima volta sui giornali nel 1930.  -- Ospite della puntata Antonella Serrecchia. Contributo audio: Simonetta Tosiani. -- I contributi audio di questa puntata sono tratti da un video pubblicato sul canale YouTube maxdemartino il 1 ottobre 2012 https://youtu.be/3SkfnxA8bas?fazeature=shared; da un video pubblicato sul canale YouTube Fragrant Mandarin del 9 gennaio 2021 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5fLXn53K6Q&ab_channel=FragrantMandarin%E9%A6%99%E6%A9%98%E5%AD%90; da un video pubblicato sul canale YouTube FAMETIME TV il 16 aprile 2022 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcqR9pEcLy4&ab_channel=FAMETIMETV; da un video pubblicato sul canale YouTube grovigli nel blu il 23 luglio 2011 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsgfdxPzMfc&list=PL14sY_EOzpfnjsczspbBP_WsB6PpKQUq-&ab_channel=groviglinelblu; da articolo pubblicato sul sito rds.it https://www.rds.it/podcast/oroscopo-di-branko; da un video pubblicato sul canale Youtube Rai il 5 gennaio 2024 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPXLOGewoE8; da un video pubblicato sul canale YouTube Simon & the Stars l'9 gennaio 2024, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xfljvuKwz4. Le fonti degli articoli citati nella puntata sono le seguenti: Astrologers and psychics come to the rescue of Russia's 'special operation' in Ukraine, Le Monde, 16 luglio 2022, https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2022/07/16/astrologers-and-psychics-to-the-rescue-of-russia-s-special-operation-in-ukraine_5990321_4.html; Star wars: Russians turn to astrologers amid Ukraine conflict, France24, 5 luglio 2022, https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220705-star-wars-russians-turn-to-astrologers-amid-ukraine-conflict; Young people are flocking to astrology. But it comes with risks, The Washington Post, 13 giugno 2023, https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/06/13/astrology-millennials-gen-z-science/; Queer Political Astrology: Problems and Potentials, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 1 gennaio 2021, https://read.dukeupress.edu/glq/article-abstract/27/1/103/167434/Queer-Political-AstrologyProblems-and-Potentials?redirectedFrom=fulltext; L'immaginazione e la rivoluzione, Il Tascabile, 11 ottobre 2023, https://www.iltascabile.com/linguaggi/immaginazione-e-rivoluzione/; Le origini dell'astrologia psicologica, Il Tascabile, 4 dicembre 2023, https://www.iltascabile.com/societa/le-origini-dellastrologia-psicologica/; Horoscopes: Tales of the expected, Express, 29 agosto 2010, https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/196242/Horoscopes-Tales-of-the-expected. Fuori anche da qui: Podcast Skyline Drive, iHeart, https://www.iheart.com/podcast/867-skyline-drive-104974284/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Join us on the latest episode of the Peppa Pot as we explore the history of Indentured Indian Women and the challenges they faced once they arrived in the Caribbean. Throughout the period of Indian Indentureship, the number of men recruited to work throughout the Caribbean greatly outnumbered the number of women, resulting in women being in high demand but receiving no preferential treatment and often falling victim to abuse. Despite this, for some women, arriving in the Colonies represented freedom and an opportunity to overcome generations of oppression that they experienced back home. Learn more about the history and adversity of Indentured Indian Women and how they took care of themselves by tuning in to Episode 5 of the Peppa Pot: Leggo me nah Raja. Follow and connect with The Peppa Pot Podcast online, we'd love to hear from you! Instagram YouTube LinkedIn Credits Beats and Music by Noyz Research by Ryan N. Ramdin Creative Direction by Sara-Sati Ramprashad Produced by WESTINDIECO    Resources Bahadur, G. “Coolie Woman: the Odyssey of Indenture” (The University of Chicago Press: 2014). Chatterjee, C. (1997) “Indian women's lives and labor: the indentureship experience in Trinidad and Guyana, 1845-1917”. Christian, R. “‘They Came in Ships...' Indo-Caribbean Women and their Construction of Safe Spaces in the Caribbean” in Lurdos, M. & Misrahi-Barak, J. (dir.), “Transport(s) in the British Empire and the Commonwealth.” Jagessar, R. “Kiss and Breathe: Only the Broken Ones Will Rise” (Rohit Jagessar: 2022). Khan, A. (2016) “Voyages across Indenture: From Ship Sister to Mannish Women” A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 22 at 249-280. Martinez, K. (1997), “Chutney in yuh Soca,” available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPCJqqYCXBs&t=383s  Mehta, B. (2020) “Jahaji-bahin feminism: a de-colonial Indo-Caribbean consciousness” South Asian Diaspora 12(2) at 179-194. Mehta, B., Diasporic (Dis) locations: Indo-Caribbean Women Writers Negotiate the Kala Pani. (Jamaica: UWI Press, 2004). Niranjana, T. Mobilizing India: Women, music and migration between India and Trinidad. (USA: Duke University Press, 2006). Sengupta, S. (1995 June 5), “Relishing the Mix New York's developing a taste for the musical fusion called chutney,” Newsday.  Sharma, H. (23 December 2020) “Why Indian women became the faces of these Victorian-era postcards,” CNN, retrieved at: https://www.cnn.com/style/article/indo-caribbean-women-colonial-postcards/index.html  Singh, K. A. “Comparative Caribbean Feminisms: Jahaji-bhain in Carnival” in “Indo-Caribbean Feminist Thought: Genealogies, Theories, Enactments” (New York: Palgrave Maxmillan, 2016).

‘Cause we are living in a material world, Kadji Amin is here to talk about trans materialism! Kadji's work is all about exploring what being trans means beyond gender identity. What are material reasons to transition or transgress gender expectations? How did our trancestors live as their chosen gender? And why does the history of trans women look quite different from that of trans men? In this episode, we talk about all of this and about how and why categories such as trans, cis, hetero and homo came to shape our queer lives.CW: homophobia, transphobia, medicalisation of queerness, racism References:https://www.kadjiamin.com/Kadji Amin's Disturbing Attachments (Duke UP, 2017)“Queer Form.” Coedited with Amber Jamilla Musser and Roy Pérez. Special issue, ASAP/Journal 2.2.Amin, Kadji. (2023) “Taxonomically Queer?: Sexology and New Queer, Trans, and Asexual Identities,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. 29.1: 91-107.Amin, Kadji. (2022)“We Are All Non-Binary: A Brief History of Accidents,” Representations 158.1: 106-119.Emily SkidmoreJen ManionMurray HillEmpiricismMichel Foucault's History of Sexuality Vol. 1Magnus Hirschfeld“Trans Childhood” with Jules Gill-Peterson https://www.spreaker.com/episode/46314264Susan Stryker's Transgender History https://www.spreaker.com/episode/49782773Robert StollerLeslie Feinberg's Stone Butch Blueshttps://lesliefeinberg.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Stone-Butch-Blues-by-Leslie-Feinberg.pdfQuestions you should be able to respond to after listening: Kadji talks about a ‘flattening effect' of the term trans. What does this mean? Which dissymetries does Kadji mention?How does Kadji describe the diverging historical lineages of transmasculine and transfeminine people?What can be material reasons to transition? Please give at least two examples.Kadji speaks about trans idealising cis. What does this mean?Which term did Robert Stoller coin and to what end?Why does Kadji find it useful to think about trans without gender identity? What do you think about this?

Earl Lind, Ralph Werther, and Jennie June were all pseudonyms of the same person, who wrote what are sometimes described as the first autobiographies of a transgender person ever published in the West. Research: “Lost transgender memoir from 1921 discovered by Drexel researcher” (2010, October 13) retrieved 13 March 2023 from https://phys.org/news/2010-10-lost-transgendermemoir-1921-drexel.html Book Notes. “The American Journal of Psychology, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Apr., 1919).” https://www.jstor.org/stable/1414118 Ellis, Havelock. “Eonism and other supplementary studies.” F.A. Davis. 1928. Gearhardt, Nan. “Rethinking Trans History and Gay History in Early Twentieth-Century New York.” QED: A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking , Vol. 6, No. 1 (Spring 2019). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.14321/qed.6.1.0026 Joseph, Channing Gerard. “Who Was Jennie June?” OutHistory. 10/10/2022. https://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/wwjj/wwjj2 Lind, Earl. “Autobiography of an Androgyne.” Edited by Alfred W. Herzog. The Medico-Legal Journal. 1918. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/67711/pg67711-images.html Meyerowitz, Joanne. “Thinking Sex with an Androgyne.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Volume 17, Number 1, 2011. Via Project Muse. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/409154 Peterson, Jules-Gill. “Histories of the Transgender Child.” University of Minnesota Press. 2018. Ralph Werther - Jennie June. “Boy – But Never Man.” The American Journal of Urology and Sexology. Volume 15. No. 3. March 1919. https://archive.org/details/americanjournalo1519unse/ Ralph Werther - Jennie June. “Protest from an Androgyne.” The American Journal of Urology and Sexology. Volume 15. No. 7. July 1919. https://archive.org/details/americanjournalo1519unse/ Ralph Werther - Jennie June. “The Fairie Boy (An Autobiographical Sketch).” The American Journal of Urology and Sexology. Vol. 14. No. 10. October 1918. https://archive.org/details/americanjournalo1419unse Ralph Werther - Jennie June. “The Female Impersonator.” The American Journal of Urology and Sexology. Volume 15. No. 6. June 1919. https://archive.org/details/americanjournalo1519unse/ Ralph Werther - Jennie June. “The Girl-boy's Suicide.” The American Journal of Urology and Sexology. Vol. 14. No. 11. November 1918. https://archive.org/details/americanjournalo1419unse/ Ralph Werther - Jennie June. “The Sorrows of Jennie June.” The American Journal of Urology and Sexology. Volume 15. No. 4. April 1919. https://archive.org/details/americanjournalo1519unse/ Schroth, Peter W. et al. “Perspectives on Law and Medicine Relating to Transgender People in the United States.” The American Journal of Comparative Law, 2018, Vol. 66. Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/26497456 Shaheen, Aaron. “Strolling through the Slums of the Past: Ralph Werther's Love Affair with Victorian Womanhood in ‘Autobiography of an Androgyne.'” PMLA , October 2013, Vol. 128, No. 4 (October 2013). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23489164 Werther, Ralph. “The female-impersonators.” Edited by Alfred W. Herzog. The Medico-Legal Journal. 1922. https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70019/pg70019-images.html Werther, Ralph. “The Riddle of the Underworld.” Via OutHistory. https://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/earllind23/manuscript See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the 1960s, Christopher Isherwood gave an unprecedented series of lectures at California universities about his life and work. During this time, Isherwood spoke openly for the first time about his craft and spirituality. The release of the updated edition of ISHERWOOD ON WRITING includes the long-lost conclusion to the second lecture, including its discussion of A Single Man and A Meeting by the River. This conversation brings the volume's editor, James J. Berg, into conversation with fellow Isherwood scholars Chris Freeman and Claude Summers.BIOS:James J. Berg is a writer, editor, and scholar living in New York, and editor of ‘Isherwood on Writing.' Chris Freeman is professor of English and gender studies at the University of Southern California. The two are coeditors of ‘Isherwood in Transit,' ‘The American Isherwood,' ‘Conversations with Christopher Isherwood,' and ‘The Isherwood Century,' winner of a Lambda Literary Award for Gay Studies.Claude Summers is William E. Stirton Professor Emeritus in the Humanities and professor emeritus of English at the University of Michigan, Dearborn. A founding member of the Modern Language Association's gay and lesbian caucus, Summers helped lead the gay studies movement to maturity within the academy.NOTE:This episode includes archival audio of Christopher Isherwood speaking at the Honors Convocation at the University of Southern California, 1974.

At the recent 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), right-wing movement leaders couldn't stop whining about “pronouns.” For example, Texas Senator Ted Cruz said that his preferred pronouns are “kiss my ass,” and former Trump official Matt Schlapp complained that instead of carrying out his “duties” like dealing with the “open border,” President Biden is “talking about pronouns.” However, 2022 was not the first CPAC in which this particular part of speech caught heat; back in 2019, Fox News contributor Michelle Malkin began her remarks, “my pronouns are ‘U-S-A'!”Why do some conservatives attack and mock “pronouns”, and what exactly do they mean when they use the term? As our entry in the Big Rhetorical 2022 Podcast Carnival on “Spaces and Place In and Beyond the Academy”, this episode unpacks the history and politics of gendered personal pronouns such as “he” and “she,” genderless and non-binary pronouns (e.g. “they”), and various discourse practices in academic and activist circles that relate to personal pronoun usage. After analyzing some recent and relevant policy documents, Alex and Calvin explain the epistemic and ideological bases for “pronouns” as a negative ideograph–a one-word slogan encapsulating everything scary and “un-American” about the increasing tolerance of LGBTQ+ people in public life. “Pronouns,” we find, doesn't only index a debate over present-day gender expression; it also draws from the legacies of settler-colonialism and hyper-nationalism, which have always co-constituted hierarchies of race, class, gender, and sexuality in US society. However, we also note the ironic fact that strict use of gendered pronouns such as “he” and “she,” especially to refer to a generic person or non-human objects and entities, is historically recent and linguistically arbitrary.We conclude by shifting from history and theory to a question of action: what is the pragmatic case for putting your preferred pronouns in your social media bios and email signature lines, and giving students the opportunity to “share your name and pronouns” in classroom introductions? How do these practices make everyday learning and social action more feasible and manageable? We break down some practical benefits for teaching, political organizing, and ordinary personal interaction.Overall, we hope this episode helps demystify and defang the issue of “pronouns”, which are really not as confusing or threatening as some make them out to be. From Connecticut to Utah, in academia and beyond, we all use them, and they haven't caused the sky to fall (so far!).Works and Concepts ReferencedAllen, J. M., & Faigley, L. (1995). Discursive strategies for social change: An alternative rhetoric of argument. Rhetoric Review, 14(1), 142-172.Baron, D. (2018). A brief history of singular ‘they.' Oxford English Dictionary blog. Butler, J. (1990). Gender trouble: Feminism and the subversion of identity. Routledge.Conrod, K. (2018). Pronouns and gender in language. In K. Hall & R. Barrett (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Language and Sexuality. Oxford UP.Hinchy, J. (2019). Governing gender and sexuality in colonial India: the Hijra, c. 1850–1900. Cambridge University Press.McGee, M. C. (1980). The “ideograph”: A link between rhetoric and ideology. Quarterly journal of speech, 66(1), 1-16.Miranda, D. A. (2010). Extermination of the joyas: Gendercide in Spanish California. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, 16(1-2), 253-284.Swyers, H., & Thomas, E. (2018). Murderbot pronouns: A snapshot of changing gender conventions in the United States. Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture, 3(3), 271-298.“Wisconsin District Bans Pride Flags From Classrooms, Pronouns in Emails” - Education WeekTennessee bill on pronounsBiden-Harris Executive Order that mentions pronouns twiceTranscript of this episode's audio from Otter.ai

This week's episode we have co-host, Dr. Phillip Gordon, associate professor of English and Gay Studies coordinator at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, who has received continued recognition for his book, “Gay Faulkner: Uncovering a Homosexual Presence in Yoknapatawpha and Beyond”. Phillip, “Pip”, and I discuss queer safe spaces, the “gender space”, having to deal with “non-understanding others”, his awesome book, the “don't say gay bill”, as well as many other hot topics. This episode will definitely have you talking out loud, probably laughing in the car, and maybe swearing in agreement

Dr. Cutcha Risling-Baldy offers us the opportunity to explore the revitalization of ceremony that marks the passage into adulthood. Dr. Risling-Baldy speaks about the importance of uplifting our young people and honoring the ancestral strength of our bodies. She unpacks toxic eurocentric ideologies and modes of colonization and reminds us of the sacred nature of menstruation, queer identity, and becoming.  Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy (Hupa, Yurok and Karuk) (she/her) is an Associate Professor and Department Chair of Native American Studies at Humboldt State University. Her research is focused on Indigenous feminisms, California Indians, Environmental Justice, and Decolonization. Her book We Are Dancing For You: Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women's Coming-of-age Ceremonies was awarded "Best First Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies" at the 2019 Native American Indigenous Studies Association Conference.  She received her Ph.D. in Native American Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Feminist Theory and Research from the University of California, Davis and her M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Literary Research from San Diego State University. She also has her B.A. in Psychology from Stanford University. Dr. Risling Baldy is Hupa, Yurok and Karuk and an enrolled member of the Hoopa Valley Tribe in Northern California. In 2007, Dr. Risling Baldy co-founded the Native Women's Collective, a nonprofit organization that supports the continued revitalization of Native American arts and culture. She lives in Humboldt County with her husband, daughter, step-son, and a puppy named Buffy. Resources: Cutcha's BookRisling-Baldy, We Are Dancing for You: Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women's Coming-of-Age Ceremonies. University of Washington Press, 2018PublicationsRisling-Baldy, "mini-k'iwh'e:n (For That Purpose—I Consider Things) (Re)writing and (Re)righting Indigenous Menstrual Practices to Intervene on Contemporary Menstrual Discourse and the Politics of Taboo" ​Cultural Studies↔ Critical Methodologies (2016): 1532708616638695.Miranda, The Extermination of the Joyas: Gendercide in Spanish California GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Duke University PressVolume 16, Number 1-2, 2010Buckley & Gottlieb, Blood Magic: The Power of Menstruation, ​​Cutcha's Blogwww.cutcharislingbaldy.com/blogSupport the Native Women's Collective:https://www.nativewomenscollective.org/   

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In 1967, Jim Thompson left his silk business in Thailand for a Malaysian holiday with three friends. On the last day, he disappeared from the cottage in which they were staying. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll review the many theories behind Thompson's disappearance, which has never been explained. We'll also borrow John Barrymore's corpse and puzzle over a teddy bear's significance. Intro: A 1969 contributor to NPL News suggested that orchestras were wasting effort. Robert Wood cleaned a 40-foot spectrograph by sending his cat through it. Sources for our feature on Jim Thompson: William Warren, Jim Thompson: The Unsolved Mystery, 2014. Joshua Kurlantzick, The Ideal Man: The Tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American Way of War, 2011. Matthew Phillips, Thailand in the Cold War, 2015. Taveepong Limapornvanich and William Warren, Thailand Sketchbook: Portrait of a Kingdom, 2003. Jeffery Sng, "The Ideal Man: The Tragedy of Jim Thompson and the American Way of War by Joshua Kurlantzick," Journal of the Siam Society 102 (2014), 296-299. Tim McKeough, "Jim Thompson," Architectural Digest 71:4 (April 2014). Alessandro Pezzati, "Jim Thompson, the Thai Silk King," Expedition Magazine 53:1 (Spring 2011), 4-6. Daisy Alioto, "The Architect Who Changed the Thai Silk Industry and Then Disappeared," Time, May 9, 2016. Anis Ramli, "Jim Thompson Found, 40 Years On," Malaysian Business, May 1, 2009, 58. "Thailand: Jim Thompson's Legacy Lives On," Asia News Monitor, Feb. 8, 2010. Peter A. Jackson, "An American Death in Bangkok: The Murder of Darrell Berrigan and the Hybrid Origins of Gay Identity in 1960s Thailand," GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 5:3 (1999), 361-411. Mohd Haikal Mohd Isa, "Documentary Claims CPM Responsible for Jim Thompson's Disappearance in Cameron Highland," Malaysian National News Agency, Dec. 10, 2017. Barry Broman, "Jim Thompson Was Killed by Malay Communists, Sources Say," The Nation [Bangkok], Dec. 4, 2017. Grant Peck, "New Film Sheds Light on Jim Thompson Mystery," Associated Press, Oct. 21, 2017. "A 50-Year Mystery: The Curious Case of Silk Tycoon Jim Thompson," dpa International, March 22, 2017. George Fetherling, "The Man Who Vanished," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Sept. 29, 2013, B.7. "Trends: The Mystery of Jim Thompson," [Hamilton, New Zealand] Waikato Times, May 8, 2013, T.13. "Bangkok: Remembering Jim Thompson," The Nation [Bangkok], Oct. 3, 2012. Bernd Kubisch, "The Riddle of Jim Thompson Continues to Fascinate Bangkok Visitors," McClatchy-Tribune Business News, Feb. 21, 2012. Joshua Kurlantzick, "Into the Jungle," [Don Mills, Ont.] National Post, Dec. 7, 2011, A.16. Joshua Kurlantzick, "Our Man in Bangkok," [Don Mills, Ont.] National Post, Dec. 6, 2011, A.14. Yap Yok Foo, "Mystery of Jim Thompson's Disappearance," [Kuala Lumpur] New Straits Times, Feb. 1, 2004, 30. Robert Frank, "Recipe for a Fashion Brand?", Wall Street Journal, June 25, 2001, B.1. Jonathan Napack, "Will Jim Thompson's House Disappear, Too?", International Herald Tribune, Aug. 30, 2000. Michael Richardson, "The Disappearance of Jim Thompson," International Herald Tribune, March 26, 1997, 2. Hisham Harun, "Jim Thompson's Legacy," [Kuala Lumpur] New Straits Times, Aug. 12, 1996, 09. Philp Shenon, "What's Doing In: Bangkok," New York Times, Jan. 31, 1993. William Warren, "Is Jim Thompson Alive and Well in Asia?", New York Times, April 21, 1968. "Jim Thompson," Encyclopaedia Britannica (accessed Oct. 4, 2020). Listener mail: Wikipedia, "John Barrymore" (accessed Oct. 8, 2020). "Drew Barrymore Has a Hard Time Processing While Eating Hot Wings," Hot Ones, Aug. 20, 2020. Marina Watts, "Drew Barrymore Reveals the Unique Experience Grandfather John Barrymore Had After Death," Newsweek, Aug. 21, 2020. Adam White, "Drew Barrymore Says Her Grandfather's Corpse Was Stolen From the Morgue for 'One Last Party,'" Independent, Aug. 20, 2020. Wikipedia, "Hot Ones" (accessed Oct. 8, 2020). "Earth Does Not Move for Science," BBC News, Sept. 7, 2001. Tim Radford, "Children's Giant Jump Makes Waves for Science," Guardian, Sept. 7, 2001. Reuters, "Jump Kids, Jump! Shake That Earth," Wired, Sept 7, 2001. "Schoolkids Jump-Start a Quake in Britain," Los Angeles Times, Sept. 8, 2001. "Newspaper Clipping of the Day," Strange Company, Aug. 26, 2020. This week's lateral thinking puzzle was contributed by listener Hanno Zulla, who sent these corroborating links (warning -- these spoil the puzzle). You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on Google Podcasts, on Apple Podcasts, or via the RSS feed at https://futilitycloset.libsyn.com/rss. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- you can choose the amount you want to pledge, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!

Tune in for this podcast-only episode with host C. R. Grimmer and the instructors behind ModPo, Anna and Davy, as they discuss the importance behind open-access education around poetry. Accessibility takes on multiple valences in this conversation, from thinking about the disability or self-termed "crip" communities to accessible costs, to geographic location. ModPo also has a large international base of students and colleagues who are studying a largely Americanist archive; Davy and Anna are generous in this episode about dipping into the ethics and histories around how we teach a poetry archive, how we negotiate meaning, and ways we can both critique power dynamics and create new, more livable futures. Find more about ModPo here: Website: (http://modpo.org) // Instagram: (@mod_po) // Twitter: (@modpopenn) // Facebook: (@modpo) // -- About Davy: Davy Knittle is a PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania who works in the fields of feminist, queer, and trans theory, environmental humanities, and multiethnic U.S. writing. His dissertation, "Queer with the City: Environmental Justice, Racial Capitalism, and the Poetics of Urban Change," uses literary accounts of gender, sexuality, and kinship as lenses for reading the relationship between natural and built environments in the globalizing U.S. city. His critical work has appeared recently or is forthcoming in Women's Studies Quarterly, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Planning Perspectives, and Modern Language Studies. He is a reviews editor for Jacket2, curates the City Planning Poetics talk and reading series at the Kelly Writers House, and organizes with Penn's Trans Literacy Project. About Anna: Anna Safford is a teacher and writer based in Philadelphia. She teaches poetry and writing at the University of Pennsylvania and she is the overall course coordinator for ModPo, a free MOOC hosted by the Kelly Writers House and Coursera. Her poems and essays can be found at Cleaver, Peregrine, Tinge, and others. ● The Poetry Vlog is a YouTube Channel and Podcast dedicated to building social justice coalitions through poetry, pop culture, cultural studies, and related arts dialogues. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to join our fast-growing arts & scholarship community (youtube.com/c/thepoetryvlog?sub_confirmation=1). Connect with us on Instagram (instagram.com/thepoetryvlog), Twitter (twitter.com/thepoetryvlog), Facebook (facebook.com/thepoetryvlog), and our website (thepoetryvlog.com). Sign up for our newsletter on (thepoetryvlog.com) and get a free snail-mail welcome kit! ● Season 3 of The Poetry Vlog is supported by The Simpson Center for the Humanities, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Jack Straw Cultural Center. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Podcast Description “When you are used to being dominant, equality looks like a loss.”Mel Stanfill is an Assistant Professor with a joint appointment in Texts and Technology and Games and Interactive Media at the University of Central Florida. Stanfill holds a PhD in Communications and Media from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Stanfill’s research interrogates how the relationship between media industries and their audiences in the Internet era is shaped by labor, intellectual property law, consumption, heteronormativity, and whiteness, and has appeared in venues such as New Media and Society, Critical Studies in Media Communication, and Cinema Journal. Additional Resources On the Invention of whiteness:Roediger, David R. 1991. The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class. London, UK: Verso. Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Wages-Whiteness-Making-American-Working/dp/1844671453 Full text PDF: https://caringlabor.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/roediger-the-wages-of-whiteness-race-and-the-making-of-the-american-working-class.pdfBlack Internet Studies:Brock, André. 2012. “From the Blackhand Side: Twitter as a Cultural Conversation.” Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 56 (4): 529–49. https://doi.org/10.1080/08838151.2012.732147.Steele, Catherine Knight. 2016. “The Digital Barbershop: Blogs and Online Oral Culture Within the African American Community.” Social Media + Society 2 (4): 2056305116683205. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305116683205.Gray, Kishonna L. 2012. “Intersecting Oppressions and Online Communities.” Information, Communication & Society 15 (3): 411–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2011.642401.Intersectionality:Cohen, Cathy J. 1997. “Punks, Bulldaggers, and Welfare Queens: The Radical Potential of Queer Politics?” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 3 (4): 437–65.https://read.dukeupress.edu/glq/article/3/4/437/9940/Punks-Bulldaggers-and-Welfare-Queens-The-Radicalhttps://archiveofourown.org/Safiya Umoja NobleNoble, Safiya Umoja. 2018. Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. New York: NYU Press. https://nyupress.org/books/9781479837243/Introduction is free to read.Some of Safiya’s talks: https://safiyaunoble.com/talks/ Twitter Mel Stanfill Become a #causeascene Podcast sponsor because disruption and innovation are products of individuals who take bold steps in order to shift the collective and challenge the status quo.Learn more >All music for the #causeascene podcast is composed and produced by Chaos, Chao Pack, and Listen on SoundCloud. Listen to more great #causeascene podcasts full podcast list >

We discuss the ways fashion and autobiography intersect - prompted by a visit to see clothes in the Museum of London archive. See links below. Edwina Ehrman and Amy de la Haye (eds), London Couture: British Luxury 1923-1975 (2015): https://www.vam.ac.uk/shop/london-couture-british-luxury-1923-1975-131549.html (article on couture clients features Lady Fox and Lady Delamere) Photos of Myra Alice (née Newton), Lady Fox at NPG: https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp91931/myra-alice-nee-newton-lady-fox Lady Fox's skating outfit at Museum of London: https://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/discover/ice-skating-fashion-craze James Fox, White Mischief (1998, first published 1982): https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/103/1034644/white-mischief/9780099766711.html Michael Radford, White Mischief (1988): https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0094317/ Lisa Cohen, “Frock Consciousness”: Virginia Woolf, the Open Secret, and the Language of Fashion, Fashion Theory, Vol. 3, Issue 2 (1999): https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.2752/136270499779155032 Lisa Cohen, “VELVET IS VERY IMPORTANT”: Madge Garland and the Work of Fashion, GLQ - A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, Vol. 11, Issue 3 (2005): https://read.dukeupress.edu/glq/article-abstract/11/3/371/9851/VELVET-IS-VERY-IMPORTANT-Madge-Garland-and-the?redirectedFrom=fulltext Iris Marion Young, Throwing Like a Girl And Other Essays in Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory (1999): http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=806576

Rev. Stringfellow is the Senior Pastor and Teacher at Metropolitan Community Church of Detroit. A Native of Fort Wayne, IN he now calls Detroit home. Rev. Stringfellow works to create dialogs on the topic of LGBTQ equality with congregations as the Director of Ministerial Outreach with the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Sexuality on the campus of Pacific School of Religion. He has conducted multiple workshops on the topics of race, religion, class and sexuality. In 2011, he became licensed with the United Church of Christ and the Fellowship of Affirming Ministries (TFAM) churches, a predominantly African-American denomination with an outreach to LGBTQ individuals. In addition to all of his work within church contexts, Rev. Stringfellow has also worked in the field of education in a variety of capacities including teacher, guidance counselor, college adviser and vice-principal. In 2010, he directed a national African-American faith community outreach (the Umoja Project) working with pastors and lay leaders in the Black church to provide pastoral care for gay and lesbian members of their congregation. He asks pastors, lay leaders and congregations “if this (the Bible) is the last will and testament of a God that is dead or a living breathing document of a God who is alive.” Dr. Stringfellow has been consulted by media outlets regarding his work on marriage equality and the role of people of color and communities of faith in local, statewide and national debates. Stringfellow has conducted multiple workshops on the topics of race, religion, class, sexuality and gender identity. He has had several articles published in the Huffington Post.

Clostridium difficile (klos-TRID-e-um dif-uh-SEEL), often called C. difficile or C. diff impacts 453,000 people every year. And with 29,000 associated deaths, it takes more lives than AIDS and drunk-driving combined. Yet, most people have never even heard of it. That's a big problem because you can't protect yourself from a threat when you don't even know it exists. The impact on the business of healthcare is significant too. A study published in the American Journal of Infection Control found that C. diff-associated diarrhea (CDAD) increases hospital costs by 40% per case (an average of $7,285 ) and puts those infected at high risk for longer hospital stays and readmissions.  Some even believe those numbers are likely underestimated. C. diff presents us with an interesting problem at the cross-section of Infection Prevention and Control (IPAC). It's an environmental bacterium that's found pretty much everywhere and is difficult to kill, but it's usually held in check by the good bacteria in our bodies. The problem usually occurs when a patient is in a weakened state from some other healthcare intervention. That may be an antibiotic treatment for another healthcare-associated infection or chemotherapy, etc. With our bodies in a weakened state and our good bacteria depleted by antibiotics, we become susceptible to C. diff. So, it's important that we execute on all the other IPAC practices like proper hand hygiene and surface cleaning in the hospital so that, as our guest puts it, we can disrupt the chain of events that allow to C. diff to proliferate. Episode 005 (part 4 of our IPAC series): On this episode, we're joined by the co-founder and Executive Director of the Peggy Lillis Foundation (PLF), Christian John Lillis.  Like so many people who've dedicated their lives to driving change in the healthcare industry, Christian has a very powerful "why". He lost his mother to a clostridium difficile (C. diff) infection in April 2010. After struggling with the fact that he lost his mother to a disease he never heard of, and later finding out that it impacts so many people, Christian, along with his brother Liam, founded PLF and are building a nationwide C. diff awareness movement by educating the public, empowering advocates and shaping policy. Christian gives us a deep and personal take on his family's experience with C. Diff and the work that the Peggy Lillis Foundation is doing to help. We discuss: What is clostridium difficile (C. diff)? Is C. diff a Healthcare-Associated Infection (HAI) or something else? How important are hand hygiene and environmental cleaning in preventing the spread of C. diff? Why haven't more people heard of C. diff? Why is it so hard to measure the true impact of C. diff on our health system? How do we fix that? Why do only some states require reporting on outbreaks? How does that affect the business of healthcare? How does it affect the patients? What is the Prevention and Public Health Fund? Why is it under fire and what is the impact to the CDC, states and beyond? What is the financial impact of C. diff? Christian's story is powerful and it's full of wisdom that can help patients, families, and providers. In our quest to unravel the business of healthcare, it's important to understand the people we serve and how our work impacts their lives. This is a crash course and I hope it touches you as it did me. Enjoy. ~Don Lee   About Christian John Lillis Christian John Lillis is executive director of The Peggy Lillis Foundation (PLF), which he co-founded with his brother, Liam, following the death of their mother from a clostridium difficile (C. diff) infection in April 2010. PLF is building a nationwide C. diff awareness movement by educating the public, empowering advocates and shaping policy. He was previously managing director of prospect strategy & research at Teach For America. With more than 15 years' experience as a frontline fundraiser and behind-the-scenes strategist for healthcare, LGBT rights, and education organizations, he led prospect identification and research programs that increased resource development both nationally and regionally. Prior to joining Teach For American in November 2009, Christian served in a variety of roles for a diverse group of nonprofits, including as Director of Development for In The Life Media, Director of Major Gifts for the National LGBTQ Task Force, and Associate Director of Development Research for NYU Langone Medical Center. Throughout his career, Christian has been a frequent speaker at conferences including the Mid-Atlantic Researchers Conference and Creating Change: The National Conference on LGBT Equality. He was also a contributor to Prospect Research: A Primer for Growing Nonprofits by Cecilia Hogan. Christian is an adviser to the Patient Voice Institute and Gulf Coast C. diff Collaborative, as well as a member of Consumers Union Safe Patient Project and Chicago Area Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Network. He is a former member of the board of directors of the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the City University of New York and the Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement (APRA) of Greater New York. Christian began his fundraising career at Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund. He holds a B.A. in Political Theory from Brooklyn College, where he served as a term as President of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Alliance and won The Donald G. Whiteside Poetry Award his senior year. Christian is a native of Brooklyn, New York. He currently lives in Park Slope with his husband, Chris Young, and their rescued “beagle baby”, April. His hobbies include Tae Kwon Do (he is a black belt), Zumba, reading comic books and JD Robb's “In Death” series, and poetry writing. About the Peggy Lillis Foundation Mission: The Peggy Lillis Foundation is building a nationwide clostridium difficile awareness movement by educating the public, empowering advocates, and shaping policy. Vision: We envision a world where C. diff is rare, treatable and survivable. https://peggyfoundation.org/ 2017 C. diff Summit & National Strategy Meeting Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PeggyFoundation/ Twitter: @PeggyFund Mentioned on the show: The Uncounted: The deadly epidemic America is ignoring. A Reuters report. Catastrophic Care: Why Everything We Think We Know about Health Care Is Wrong: One of my favorite books on healthcare. Be prepared to be jarred and probably angry, but more aware of what's going on in the business of healthcare. Also, a good listen on Audible at 1.25 speed. Patient Mortality During Unannounced Accreditation Surveys at US Hospitals About the Infection Prevention and Control Series This episode is part of The #HCBiz Show's Infection Prevention and Control (IPAC) series. We'd like to thank our partners InfectionControl.tips and the Center of Excellence for Infection Prevention and Control (COE IPAC) for their support and guidance with the series. About InfectionControl.tips InfectionControl.tips is a Pan-Access journal that extends globally and touches locally. www.IC.tips is: Free to Publish. Free to Access and provides Accessible Scientific Services. About Center of Excellence for Infection Prevention and Control (COE IPAC) Center of Excellence for Infection Prevention and Control (COE IPAC) is a collaborative effort to accelerate and support new solutions that hold the promise of significantly advancing infection prevention and control. On a quarterly basis, the Center of Excellence will evaluate at least 3 international innovations – giving them access to independent testing, publication as well as a US commercialization site. The #HCBiz Show! is produced by Glide Health IT, LLC in partnership with Netspective Media.   Soundtrack credit: Acid Lounge by FoolBoyMedia

  Liz Latty is a writer, educator, consultant, and domestic adoptee 15 years post-reunion. She is the founder of the adoption news blog, An Open Record (www.anopenrecord.com), and Open Record Consulting (www.openrecordconsulting.com), where she offers adoptee-centric, trauma-informed support and education services with a social justice framework to prospective and existing adoptive families, as well as professionals who work with adopted and fostered youth.Liz is the author of the chapbook Split (Unthinkable Creatures Press, 2012) and her writing can be found or is forthcoming in The Rumpus, make/shift magazine, The Feminist Wire, HOLD: a journal, and the anthology We Don't Need Another Wave: Dispatches from the Next Generation of Feminists, among others. She is a Lambda Literary Fellow and her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, Best American Essays, and the Jackson, Phelan, and Tanenbaum Literary Awards from the San Francisco Foundation. Liz earned an MFA in creative writing from Goddard College and has presented work at readings and conferences across the country, including The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the City University of New York Graduate Center, the Conference of the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture, and the upcoming American Adoption Confernce in April.  She currently lives in Brooklyn and is working on a memoir. You can find more of her writing at www.liz-latty.com and follow her on Twitter at @lizlatty. 

In August, 2014 The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in Religion and Ministry’s  African-American Roundtable and Many Voices hosted the Souls a’ Fire Conference focusing on the next generation of Black Queer Theology.  The conference encourages young scholars in their current work and seasoned theologians and preachers as they explore the intersections of African-American culture, the church and LGBTQ identity. As a follow up to CAN WE TALK FOR REAL’s “Black LGBT Believers” series which aired in May, CWT4R cohosts Teresa Adams, Ina Anthony and Michelle E. Brown will once again be joined by Rev. Roland Stringfellow (Detroit) and Rev. Anthony W. Sullivan Jr. (Chicago) as well as Rev. Gwen Thomas (Atlanta) to continue the conversation.Finding solace and strength in religion, Black LGBTQ Believers often find themselves at odds with the very faith communities they were born and raised in. Besides sharing their personal story, they will talk about the safe harbor LGBTQ churches provide, how to build more inclusive and supportive communities of faith outside the LGBTQ community, and how to remain strong/be agents of change in the face of attacks against the LGBTQ community.Rev. Roland Stringfellow is Senior Pastor of Metropolitan Community Church in Ferndale, Michigan (a suburb of Detroit). Rev Anthony W. Sullivan, Jr. serves as a Regional Consultant for the United Church of Christ HIV/AIDS Network, Inc. (UCAN) in Chicago, Illinois.Rev. Gwen Thomas is currently the Executive Director at the S.H.E. Experience and a minister at Victory for the World Church, Atlanta, GA.  Part Three of CWT4R series on Black LGBTQ Believers .