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Jack Halberstam, the author of The Queer Art of Failure, is someone I've wanted to talk to since I first started this podcast. As a professor and scholar, Jack has dedicated his career to dissecting the often-radical undertones of popular cultural media. Together, we look at how animated kids' movies like Shrek, Finding Nemo, and Chicken Run offer critiques of a system that fails so many of us. We also talk about Jack's experience as a queer child in England, since where we come from always informs where we go. It's a wide-ranging conversation that calls into question the very essence of this podcast, as we examine what it means to be a failure in this world — and why Samuel Beckett's phrase “fail better” isn't all that inspiring when read in context. Follow me on Instagram at @davidduchovny. Stay up to date with Lemonada on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram at @LemonadaMedia. Joining Lemonada Premium is a great way to support our show and get bonus content. Subscribe today at bit.ly/lemonadapremium. And if you want to continue the conversation with other listeners, join the My Lemonada community at https://lemonadamedia.com/mylemonada/ For a list of current sponsors and discount codes for this and every other Lemonada show, go to lemonadamedia.com/sponsors. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Due to scheduling issues, this episode is coming to you later than planned; my apologies for the delay. My guest this month is Brennan Kettelle.Brennan is a PhD researcher at the Centre for History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents (HHP), University of Amsterdam. Brennan holds an MA in Gender and Cultural studies (2016) and a research MA in Religious Studies, specializing in Western esotericism (2021). She is currently writing her doctoral dissertation, investigating historical associations between the religiomythic demoness Lilith and queerness within artistic, literary, and occult discourses. Brennan also teaches an 8-week online course on Lilith - focusing on Lilith's origins and cultural receptions within Western esotericism - for the Brooklyn-based organization Morbid Anatomy. Utilizing monster theory and queer theory in her research, Brennan is more broadly interested in investigating themes of the ‘monstrous-queer' within esoteric literature, orders, and figures, as well as esoteric themes within queer subcultures, politics, and histories.This episode is Part 1 of 2; the second part is planned for December of this year.Brennan starts this conversation by explaining her motivations for delving into monster theory as part of her larger research into the figure of Lilith. Monster theory looks at what a group fears as well as how marginalized populations or individuals align with ‘the monstrous,' what she's calling (at this time) ‘stigmatized alignment.' Monster theory is used here as the methodological axis upon which the larger research revolves.Brennan also talks about the background of this new area of study, its postmodern critical analysis of the monster and how this has switched to looking at the monster from the monster's perspective, how the monster is used by people, and examining which groups become monstrous themselves. We talk a bit about this process in the figure of the vampire as well as Lilith. Brennan also talks more about how she is using the figure of Lilith as ‘an esoteric example that shows the enduring historical entanglement between queerness and monstrosity.'PROGRAM NOTES (Full Episode)(99+) S. Brennan Kettelle | University of Amsterdam - Academia.eduResearch: Brennan Kettelle - HHP | History of Hermetic Philosophy and related currents (amsterdamhermetica.nl)The monsters and the critics, and other essays : Tolkien, J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel), 1892-1973 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveMonster theory : reading culture : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveAmazon.com: The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947 (Among the Victorians and Modernists): 9780367885069: Ferguson, Christine, Radford, Andrew: BooksThe Monster Theory Reader: Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew: 9781517905255: Amazon.com: BooksTime Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe): Freeman, Elizabeth: 9780822348047: Amazon.com: BooksThe Well of Loneliness (penguin.co.uk)Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History: Love, Heather: 9780674032392: Amazon.com: BooksThe Celluloid Closet (youtube.com)All Music: Daniel P. Shea
The session looks at living spaces as normative enclosures and holders of bodies that are yet to be dismantled, queering vessels hosting alternative family structures. The session also explores rituals of diaspora communities in architectural space and homemaking.Read the interview with the curators and the co-hosts of the symposium here: https://koozarch.com/interviews/before-being-home-doing-domesticity-at-prada-frames-podcastThe podcast "Prada Frames: Being Home" is a project produced by KoozArch in partnership with Prada, and curated by FormaFantasma for Prada. The episode is presented by KoozArch's chief editor Shumi Bose.
Most widely recognized for his paintings that rigorously combine spray paint, stenciled geometric forms, and brushstrokes, the Brooklyn-based artist Adam Pendleton is also known for his “Black Dada” framework, an ever-evolving philosophy that investigates various relationships between Blackness, abstraction, and the avant-garde. Many will recognize Pendleton's work from “Who Is Queen?,” his 2021 solo exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art, which he has said was his way of “trying to overwhelm the museum.” This is a natural position for him: His works in and of themselves are often overwhelming. At once political and spiritual, they provoke deep introspection and consideration, practically demanding viewers to look, and then look again.On this episode, he discusses the elusive, multifarious nature of “Black Dada”; “An Abstraction,” his upcoming exhibition at Pace Gallery in New York (on view from May 3–August 16); painting as a kind of technology; and why, for him, jazz is indefinable.Special thanks to our Season 9 presenting sponsor, L'École, School of Jewelry Arts.Show notes:Adam Pendleton[05:00] Joan Retallack[05:00] Pasts, Futures, and Aftermaths[05:22] “Becoming Imperceptible”[07:41] Ishmael Houston-Jones[07:41] Joan Jonas[07:41] Lorraine O'Grady[07:41] Yvonne Rainer[07:41] Jack Halberstam[14:26] Fred Moten[05:22] “Who Is Queen?”[23:50] Hugo Ball's Dada Manifesto[23:50] Amiri Baraka's “Black Dada Nihilismus”[31:14] Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum[31:14] “System of Display”[31:14] “Reading Dante”[34:40] “Adam Pendleton” at Pace Gallery[34:40] “An Abstraction” at Pace Gallery[34:40] Arlene Shechet[34:40] “Adam Pendleton x Arlene Shechet”[40:30] “Blackness, White, and Light” at MUMOK[45:07] “Twenty-One Love Poems” by Audrienne Rich[50:40] “Occupy Time” by Jason Adams[56:04] “What It Is I Think I'm Doing Anyhow” by Toni Cade Bambara[57:13] “Some Thoughts on a Constellation of Things Seen and Felt” by Adrienne Edwards
The session investigates the bathroom as an immersive body of water and an architecture of streams, fluids, sex, and gender.Find accompanying images here: https://koozarch.com/interviews/prada-frames-being-home-conversations-from-the-bathroom Read the interview with the curators and the co-hosts of the symposium here: https://koozarch.com/interviews/before-being-home-doing-domesticity-at-prada-frames-podcastThe podcast "Prada Frames: Being Home" is a project produced by KoozArch in partnership with Prada, and curated by FormaFantasma for Prada. The episode is presented by KoozArch's chief editor Shumi Bose.
[Spoiler Alert] Grace discusses the K-drama series Captivating the King (2024, tvN) starring Jo Jung-seok and Shin Se-kyung. Grace asks the question why Korean period pieces tend to have so many gay kings, and what's progressive and regressive about this narrative choice. Grace explores Captivating the King's queerness in its defiance against status quo and going against the typical choice for a hetero expectation in an ending, referencing Jack Halberstam's book The Queer Art of Failure. Grace also admires Jo Jung-seok for being a queer icon like Tom Cruise. K-Drama School: A Pop Culture Inquiry into Why We Love Korean Television is available for pre-order and a 20% discount until April 23, 2024! Use code KDRAMA20 at the checkout on the Hachette Book Group webpage: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/grace-jung/k-drama-school/9780762485727/ Exclusions apply. This code only applies at the Hachette checkout for hardcover copies of the book, and expires on April 23, 2024. Please visit K-Drama School's Patreon page to support the show at http://www.patreon.com/kdramaschool. Visit the K-Drama School Store at http://www.kdramaschool/com/store. Follow @KDramaSchool on Instagram, and TikTok.Visit https://www.kdramaschool.com/ to learn more.
[Spoiler Alert] Grace discusses the K-drama series Captivating the King (2024, tvN) starring Jo Jung-seok and Shin Se-kyung. Grace asks the question why Korean period pieces tend to have so many gay kings, and what's progressive and regressive about this narrative choice. Grace explores Captivating the King's queerness in its defiance against status quo and going against the typical choice for a hetero expectation in an ending, referencing Jack Halberstam's book The Queer Art of Failure. Grace also admires Jo Jung-seok for being a queer icon like Tom Cruise. K-Drama School: A Pop Culture Inquiry into Why We Love Korean Television is available for pre-order and a 20% discount until April 23, 2024! Use code KDRAMA20 at the checkout on the Hachette Book Group webpage: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/grace-jung/k-drama-school/9780762485727/ Exclusions apply. This code only applies at the Hachette checkout for hardcover copies of the book, and expires on April 23, 2024. Please visit K-Drama School's Patreon page to support the show at http://www.patreon.com/kdramaschool. Visit the K-Drama School Store at http://www.kdramaschool/com/store. Follow @KDramaSchool on Instagram, and TikTok.Visit https://www.kdramaschool.com/ to learn more. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kdramaschool/support
In this episode, I speak with Mariella Franzoni, a Contemporary Art Specialist, Curator, and Consultant with over 15 years of international experience across Spain, Italy, and South Africa. Her diverse career spans academic research, teaching, and various pivotal roles in art organizations and events. Mariella dedicates herself to guiding art collectors, buyers, and brands, helping them navigate the complexities of the contemporary art scene.Celebrating the 11th edition of the fair, she shares the theme for 2024 "Inhabiting the Wild," drawing from Jack Halberstam's intriguing perspectives on human interaction with nature.
In this episode of High Theory, Erin Pineda talks about decolonizing praxis. Black American activists in the 1950s and 1960s used strategies of civil disobedience and nonviolent direct action as part of a broader anticolonial movement, and reading their story in an international context can help us rethink the narrative of the US civil rights movement enshrined in American political theory. In the episode Erin references Jack Halberstam's concept of “low theory” which derives from the work of Stuart Hall, and appears in the book, The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP 2011). She also references several mainstream liberal political philosophers who set the terms of the debate about “civil disobedience” in the US academy in the 1970s, John Rawls Theory of Justice (Harvard UP, 1971), Hugo Bedau, “On Civil Disobedience” (Journal of Philosophy 58, no. 21 (1961): 653-665) and Carl Cohen, Civil Disobedience: Conscience, Tactics, and the Law (Columbia University Press, 1971). Pineda writes against this tradition. The American activists she studies developed a different set of theoretical commitments to civil disobedience that are a bit less polite, and have a bit more potential for actual revolution. Erin Pineda is the Phyllis Cohen Rappaport '68 New Century Term Professor of Government at Smith College. She teaches courses in the history of political thought, democratic theory, race and politics, social movements and American political thought. Her research interests include the politics of protest and social movements, Black political thought, race and politics, radical democracy and 20th-century American political development. If you want to learn more about the topics she discusses in this episode, read her book! It's called Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement (Oxford UP, 2021). The image for this episode is a famous photograph of Black student Elizabeth Eckford being jeered by white student Hazel Bryan as she attempts to enter Little Rock Central High School, taken by Will Counts on 4 September 1957, one of the more famous images of school desegregation from the US Civil Rights Movement. This digital version came from wikimedia commons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies
In this episode of High Theory, Erin Pineda talks about decolonizing praxis. Black American activists in the 1950s and 1960s used strategies of civil disobedience and nonviolent direct action as part of a broader anticolonial movement, and reading their story in an international context can help us rethink the narrative of the US civil rights movement enshrined in American political theory. In the episode Erin references Jack Halberstam's concept of “low theory” which derives from the work of Stuart Hall, and appears in the book, The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP 2011). She also references several mainstream liberal political philosophers who set the terms of the debate about “civil disobedience” in the US academy in the 1970s, John Rawls Theory of Justice (Harvard UP, 1971), Hugo Bedau, “On Civil Disobedience” (Journal of Philosophy 58, no. 21 (1961): 653-665) and Carl Cohen, Civil Disobedience: Conscience, Tactics, and the Law (Columbia University Press, 1971). Pineda writes against this tradition. The American activists she studies developed a different set of theoretical commitments to civil disobedience that are a bit less polite, and have a bit more potential for actual revolution. Erin Pineda is the Phyllis Cohen Rappaport '68 New Century Term Professor of Government at Smith College. She teaches courses in the history of political thought, democratic theory, race and politics, social movements and American political thought. Her research interests include the politics of protest and social movements, Black political thought, race and politics, radical democracy and 20th-century American political development. If you want to learn more about the topics she discusses in this episode, read her book! It's called Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement (Oxford UP, 2021). The image for this episode is a famous photograph of Black student Elizabeth Eckford being jeered by white student Hazel Bryan as she attempts to enter Little Rock Central High School, taken by Will Counts on 4 September 1957, one of the more famous images of school desegregation from the US Civil Rights Movement. This digital version came from wikimedia commons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
In this episode of High Theory, Erin Pineda talks about decolonizing praxis. Black American activists in the 1950s and 1960s used strategies of civil disobedience and nonviolent direct action as part of a broader anticolonial movement, and reading their story in an international context can help us rethink the narrative of the US civil rights movement enshrined in American political theory. In the episode Erin references Jack Halberstam's concept of “low theory” which derives from the work of Stuart Hall, and appears in the book, The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP 2011). She also references several mainstream liberal political philosophers who set the terms of the debate about “civil disobedience” in the US academy in the 1970s, John Rawls Theory of Justice (Harvard UP, 1971), Hugo Bedau, “On Civil Disobedience” (Journal of Philosophy 58, no. 21 (1961): 653-665) and Carl Cohen, Civil Disobedience: Conscience, Tactics, and the Law (Columbia University Press, 1971). Pineda writes against this tradition. The American activists she studies developed a different set of theoretical commitments to civil disobedience that are a bit less polite, and have a bit more potential for actual revolution. Erin Pineda is the Phyllis Cohen Rappaport '68 New Century Term Professor of Government at Smith College. She teaches courses in the history of political thought, democratic theory, race and politics, social movements and American political thought. Her research interests include the politics of protest and social movements, Black political thought, race and politics, radical democracy and 20th-century American political development. If you want to learn more about the topics she discusses in this episode, read her book! It's called Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement (Oxford UP, 2021). The image for this episode is a famous photograph of Black student Elizabeth Eckford being jeered by white student Hazel Bryan as she attempts to enter Little Rock Central High School, taken by Will Counts on 4 September 1957, one of the more famous images of school desegregation from the US Civil Rights Movement. This digital version came from wikimedia commons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history
In this episode of High Theory, Erin Pineda talks about decolonizing praxis. Black American activists in the 1950s and 1960s used strategies of civil disobedience and nonviolent direct action as part of a broader anticolonial movement, and reading their story in an international context can help us rethink the narrative of the US civil rights movement enshrined in American political theory. In the episode Erin references Jack Halberstam's concept of “low theory” which derives from the work of Stuart Hall, and appears in the book, The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP 2011). She also references several mainstream liberal political philosophers who set the terms of the debate about “civil disobedience” in the US academy in the 1970s, John Rawls Theory of Justice (Harvard UP, 1971), Hugo Bedau, “On Civil Disobedience” (Journal of Philosophy 58, no. 21 (1961): 653-665) and Carl Cohen, Civil Disobedience: Conscience, Tactics, and the Law (Columbia University Press, 1971). Pineda writes against this tradition. The American activists she studies developed a different set of theoretical commitments to civil disobedience that are a bit less polite, and have a bit more potential for actual revolution. Erin Pineda is the Phyllis Cohen Rappaport '68 New Century Term Professor of Government at Smith College. She teaches courses in the history of political thought, democratic theory, race and politics, social movements and American political thought. Her research interests include the politics of protest and social movements, Black political thought, race and politics, radical democracy and 20th-century American political development. If you want to learn more about the topics she discusses in this episode, read her book! It's called Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement (Oxford UP, 2021). The image for this episode is a famous photograph of Black student Elizabeth Eckford being jeered by white student Hazel Bryan as she attempts to enter Little Rock Central High School, taken by Will Counts on 4 September 1957, one of the more famous images of school desegregation from the US Civil Rights Movement. This digital version came from wikimedia commons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In this episode of High Theory, Erin Pineda talks about decolonizing praxis. Black American activists in the 1950s and 1960s used strategies of civil disobedience and nonviolent direct action as part of a broader anticolonial movement, and reading their story in an international context can help us rethink the narrative of the US civil rights movement enshrined in American political theory. In the episode Erin references Jack Halberstam's concept of “low theory” which derives from the work of Stuart Hall, and appears in the book, The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP 2011). She also references several mainstream liberal political philosophers who set the terms of the debate about “civil disobedience” in the US academy in the 1970s, John Rawls Theory of Justice (Harvard UP, 1971), Hugo Bedau, “On Civil Disobedience” (Journal of Philosophy 58, no. 21 (1961): 653-665) and Carl Cohen, Civil Disobedience: Conscience, Tactics, and the Law (Columbia University Press, 1971). Pineda writes against this tradition. The American activists she studies developed a different set of theoretical commitments to civil disobedience that are a bit less polite, and have a bit more potential for actual revolution. Erin Pineda is the Phyllis Cohen Rappaport '68 New Century Term Professor of Government at Smith College. She teaches courses in the history of political thought, democratic theory, race and politics, social movements and American political thought. Her research interests include the politics of protest and social movements, Black political thought, race and politics, radical democracy and 20th-century American political development. If you want to learn more about the topics she discusses in this episode, read her book! It's called Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement (Oxford UP, 2021). The image for this episode is a famous photograph of Black student Elizabeth Eckford being jeered by white student Hazel Bryan as she attempts to enter Little Rock Central High School, taken by Will Counts on 4 September 1957, one of the more famous images of school desegregation from the US Civil Rights Movement. This digital version came from wikimedia commons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory
In this episode of High Theory, Erin Pineda talks about decolonizing praxis. Black American activists in the 1950s and 1960s used strategies of civil disobedience and nonviolent direct action as part of a broader anticolonial movement, and reading their story in an international context can help us rethink the narrative of the US civil rights movement enshrined in American political theory. In the episode Erin references Jack Halberstam's concept of “low theory” which derives from the work of Stuart Hall, and appears in the book, The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP 2011). She also references several mainstream liberal political philosophers who set the terms of the debate about “civil disobedience” in the US academy in the 1970s, John Rawls Theory of Justice (Harvard UP, 1971), Hugo Bedau, “On Civil Disobedience” (Journal of Philosophy 58, no. 21 (1961): 653-665) and Carl Cohen, Civil Disobedience: Conscience, Tactics, and the Law (Columbia University Press, 1971). Pineda writes against this tradition. The American activists she studies developed a different set of theoretical commitments to civil disobedience that are a bit less polite, and have a bit more potential for actual revolution. Erin Pineda is the Phyllis Cohen Rappaport '68 New Century Term Professor of Government at Smith College. She teaches courses in the history of political thought, democratic theory, race and politics, social movements and American political thought. Her research interests include the politics of protest and social movements, Black political thought, race and politics, radical democracy and 20th-century American political development. If you want to learn more about the topics she discusses in this episode, read her book! It's called Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement (Oxford UP, 2021). The image for this episode is a famous photograph of Black student Elizabeth Eckford being jeered by white student Hazel Bryan as she attempts to enter Little Rock Central High School, taken by Will Counts on 4 September 1957, one of the more famous images of school desegregation from the US Civil Rights Movement. This digital version came from wikimedia commons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies
In this episode of High Theory, Erin Pineda talks about decolonizing praxis. Black American activists in the 1950s and 1960s used strategies of civil disobedience and nonviolent direct action as part of a broader anticolonial movement, and reading their story in an international context can help us rethink the narrative of the US civil rights movement enshrined in American political theory. In the episode Erin references Jack Halberstam's concept of “low theory” which derives from the work of Stuart Hall, and appears in the book, The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP 2011). She also references several mainstream liberal political philosophers who set the terms of the debate about “civil disobedience” in the US academy in the 1970s, John Rawls Theory of Justice (Harvard UP, 1971), Hugo Bedau, “On Civil Disobedience” (Journal of Philosophy 58, no. 21 (1961): 653-665) and Carl Cohen, Civil Disobedience: Conscience, Tactics, and the Law (Columbia University Press, 1971). Pineda writes against this tradition. The American activists she studies developed a different set of theoretical commitments to civil disobedience that are a bit less polite, and have a bit more potential for actual revolution. Erin Pineda is the Phyllis Cohen Rappaport '68 New Century Term Professor of Government at Smith College. She teaches courses in the history of political thought, democratic theory, race and politics, social movements and American political thought. Her research interests include the politics of protest and social movements, Black political thought, race and politics, radical democracy and 20th-century American political development. If you want to learn more about the topics she discusses in this episode, read her book! It's called Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement (Oxford UP, 2021). The image for this episode is a famous photograph of Black student Elizabeth Eckford being jeered by white student Hazel Bryan as she attempts to enter Little Rock Central High School, taken by Will Counts on 4 September 1957, one of the more famous images of school desegregation from the US Civil Rights Movement. This digital version came from wikimedia commons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/politics-and-polemics
In this episode of High Theory, Erin Pineda talks about decolonizing praxis. Black American activists in the 1950s and 1960s used strategies of civil disobedience and nonviolent direct action as part of a broader anticolonial movement, and reading their story in an international context can help us rethink the narrative of the US civil rights movement enshrined in American political theory. In the episode Erin references Jack Halberstam's concept of “low theory” which derives from the work of Stuart Hall, and appears in the book, The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP 2011). She also references several mainstream liberal political philosophers who set the terms of the debate about “civil disobedience” in the US academy in the 1970s, John Rawls Theory of Justice (Harvard UP, 1971), Hugo Bedau, “On Civil Disobedience” (Journal of Philosophy 58, no. 21 (1961): 653-665) and Carl Cohen, Civil Disobedience: Conscience, Tactics, and the Law (Columbia University Press, 1971). Pineda writes against this tradition. The American activists she studies developed a different set of theoretical commitments to civil disobedience that are a bit less polite, and have a bit more potential for actual revolution. Erin Pineda is the Phyllis Cohen Rappaport '68 New Century Term Professor of Government at Smith College. She teaches courses in the history of political thought, democratic theory, race and politics, social movements and American political thought. Her research interests include the politics of protest and social movements, Black political thought, race and politics, radical democracy and 20th-century American political development. If you want to learn more about the topics she discusses in this episode, read her book! It's called Seeing Like an Activist: Civil Disobedience and the Civil Rights Movement (Oxford UP, 2021). The image for this episode is a famous photograph of Black student Elizabeth Eckford being jeered by white student Hazel Bryan as she attempts to enter Little Rock Central High School, taken by Will Counts on 4 September 1957, one of the more famous images of school desegregation from the US Civil Rights Movement. This digital version came from wikimedia commons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Rivka and Frank are joined by Devon Young, organizer and founder of the performance venue Little Secret LA, for a truly mind-altering conversation about the 2000 stoner comedy Dude, Where's My Car? They discuss the concept of “male amnesia” and how the film's protagonists, Jesse and Chester, progress through their adventure as unbiased babies. While the film remains immensely offensive upon a rewatch, Devon mentions a thesis by queer theorist Jack Halberstam that explores the characters' latent heteroflexibility. Devon also tells Rivka and Frank the story of going on a date with the '90s supermodel Fabio.
Guy Gunaratne joins me to talk about Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak's beloved 1963 picture book. Guy is the award-winning author of In Our Mad and Furious City and Mister, Mister which comes out at the end of May. We discuss domesticity, order and disorder, and embracing wildness and bewilderment as readers and writers. You can find out more about Guy's books, as well as more about the other books that come up in our conversation at my Bookshop store: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/bookwandering-the-podcastThe video essay by Jack Halberstam that we discuss can be watched here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ia5CmrzTqw4&ab_channel=RIBOCA The Hilary Mantel quote I could not remember is part of this interview with her in 2020 in the Guardian, the particular bit I was trying to bring to mind was in answer to Amanda Foreman's question, about half way through: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/oct/04/hilary-mantel-wolf-hall-mantel-pieces New episodes on Wednesdays. Music by Adam Collier, artwork by Hester Kitchen. Produced by Adam Collier. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This week, a new contributor, Ian, talks to cartoonist and educator Johnny Damm about his recent releases I'm a cop, featuring dialogue from Police Union speeches and Riot Comics: Tompkins Square Park, which explores the 1988 Tompkins Square Riot in which Police evicted an unhoused encampment in the park on New York's Lower East Side. They discuss the collage technique by which Damm assembles his comics, how his work dovetails with the larger work of abolition, and the role of propaganda in movement-making. Listeners can follow Johnny Damm on twitter @dammjohnny (with two m's) and on IG @johnny.damm. His website is JohnnyDamm.com Also notable, are Damm's influence by Jack Halberstam's ideas that became the book The Queer Art of Failure ala the Failure Biographies book, and Damm's representations of the Compton's Cafeteria Riot, a similar but smaller trans and queer uprising in San Francisco in 1966, preceding the more famous Stone Wall Riots of 1969 in New York City. . ... . .. Featured Track: More Light by J Mascis and The Fog from More Light
In this episode, I present chapters 6 and 7 of J. Jack Halberstam's "In a Queer Time and Place." If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Twitter: @DavidGuignion IG: @theory_and_philosophy TikTok: @theoryphilosophy
In this episode, I cover chapter 5 of J. Jack Halberstam's "In a Queer Time and Place." If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Twitter: @DavidGuignion IG: @theory_and_philosophy TikTok: @theoryphilosophy
In this episode, I cover chapters 3 and 4 of J. Jack Halberstam's "In a Queer Time and Place." If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Twitter: @DavidGuignion IG: @theory_and_philosophy TikTok: @theoryphilosophy
In this episode, I begin my presentation of J. Jack Halberstam's "In a Queer Time and Place" covering chapters 1 and 2. If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy Twitter: @DavidGuignion IG: @theory_and_philosophy TikTok: @theoryphilosophy
In this episode, I present J. Jack Halberstam's perspective of Queer Temporalities. If you want to support me, you can do that with these links: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theoryandphilosophy paypal.me/theoryphilosophy TikTok: @theoryphilosophy Twitter: @DavidGuignion IG: @theory_and_philosophy
Happy new year! In this episode Sian and Heather talk about failure in video games. Failure has been an aspect of gameplay that has fascinated many scholars studying video games. We walk through the theories of several scholars, including Jesper Juul, Jane McGonigal, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Ronald Tocci, Christopher Paul, Bonnie Ruberg, and Jack Halberstam, reflecting...Continue reading »
In this episode of High Theory, Jack Jen Gieseking tells us about queer space. Queer geographies matter alongside queer temporalities. And it turns out that lesbian life in the 1950s cannot be generalized from the specific history of Buffalo, New York. In the episode they reference a number of scholarly books including J. Jack Halberstam, In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (NYU Press, 2005); Elizabeth Freeman, Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (Duke UP, 2010); Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community (Routledge, 1993); Mairead Sullivan, Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer (Minnesota UP, 2022); Henri Lefebre, The Production of Space (La production de l'espace, Editions Anthropos, 1974, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith, Blackwell, 1919). He also names a number of scholars, including the geographer Gill Valentine, the historian David Harvey, and cultural anthropologist Gayle Rubin, and the 1982 Barnard Conference on Sexuality. Jack Jen Gieseking is a Research Fellow at the Five College Women's Studies Research Center. Their book A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers was published by NYU Press in 2020, and has a companion website called An Everyday Queer New York. They are working on a new book called Dyke Bars*: Queer Spaces for the End Times that uses the trans asterisk to invite consideration of queer spaces not historically claimed as dyke bars. Image: “Last Lesbian Bars in New York City” © 2023 Saronik Bosu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
In this episode of High Theory, Jack Jen Gieseking tells us about queer space. Queer geographies matter alongside queer temporalities. And it turns out that lesbian life in the 1950s cannot be generalized from the specific history of Buffalo, New York. In the episode they reference a number of scholarly books including J. Jack Halberstam, In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (NYU Press, 2005); Elizabeth Freeman, Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (Duke UP, 2010); Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community (Routledge, 1993); Mairead Sullivan, Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer (Minnesota UP, 2022); Henri Lefebre, The Production of Space (La production de l'espace, Editions Anthropos, 1974, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith, Blackwell, 1919). He also names a number of scholars, including the geographer Gill Valentine, the historian David Harvey, and cultural anthropologist Gayle Rubin, and the 1982 Barnard Conference on Sexuality. Jack Jen Gieseking is a Research Fellow at the Five College Women's Studies Research Center. Their book A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers was published by NYU Press in 2020, and has a companion website called An Everyday Queer New York. They are working on a new book called Dyke Bars*: Queer Spaces for the End Times that uses the trans asterisk to invite consideration of queer spaces not historically claimed as dyke bars. Image: “Last Lesbian Bars in New York City” © 2023 Saronik Bosu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode of High Theory, Jack Jen Gieseking tells us about queer space. Queer geographies matter alongside queer temporalities. And it turns out that lesbian life in the 1950s cannot be generalized from the specific history of Buffalo, New York. In the episode they reference a number of scholarly books including J. Jack Halberstam, In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (NYU Press, 2005); Elizabeth Freeman, Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (Duke UP, 2010); Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community (Routledge, 1993); Mairead Sullivan, Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer (Minnesota UP, 2022); Henri Lefebre, The Production of Space (La production de l'espace, Editions Anthropos, 1974, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith, Blackwell, 1919). He also names a number of scholars, including the geographer Gill Valentine, the historian David Harvey, and cultural anthropologist Gayle Rubin, and the 1982 Barnard Conference on Sexuality. Jack Jen Gieseking is a Research Fellow at the Five College Women's Studies Research Center. Their book A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers was published by NYU Press in 2020, and has a companion website called An Everyday Queer New York. They are working on a new book called Dyke Bars*: Queer Spaces for the End Times that uses the trans asterisk to invite consideration of queer spaces not historically claimed as dyke bars. Image: “Last Lesbian Bars in New York City” © 2023 Saronik Bosu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/gender-studies
In this episode of High Theory, Jack Jen Gieseking tells us about queer space. Queer geographies matter alongside queer temporalities. And it turns out that lesbian life in the 1950s cannot be generalized from the specific history of Buffalo, New York. In the episode they reference a number of scholarly books including J. Jack Halberstam, In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (NYU Press, 2005); Elizabeth Freeman, Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (Duke UP, 2010); Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community (Routledge, 1993); Mairead Sullivan, Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer (Minnesota UP, 2022); Henri Lefebre, The Production of Space (La production de l'espace, Editions Anthropos, 1974, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith, Blackwell, 1919). He also names a number of scholars, including the geographer Gill Valentine, the historian David Harvey, and cultural anthropologist Gayle Rubin, and the 1982 Barnard Conference on Sexuality. Jack Jen Gieseking is a Research Fellow at the Five College Women's Studies Research Center. Their book A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers was published by NYU Press in 2020, and has a companion website called An Everyday Queer New York. They are working on a new book called Dyke Bars*: Queer Spaces for the End Times that uses the trans asterisk to invite consideration of queer spaces not historically claimed as dyke bars. Image: “Last Lesbian Bars in New York City” © 2023 Saronik Bosu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology
In this episode of High Theory, Jack Jen Gieseking tells us about queer space. Queer geographies matter alongside queer temporalities. And it turns out that lesbian life in the 1950s cannot be generalized from the specific history of Buffalo, New York. In the episode they reference a number of scholarly books including J. Jack Halberstam, In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (NYU Press, 2005); Elizabeth Freeman, Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (Duke UP, 2010); Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community (Routledge, 1993); Mairead Sullivan, Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer (Minnesota UP, 2022); Henri Lefebre, The Production of Space (La production de l'espace, Editions Anthropos, 1974, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith, Blackwell, 1919). He also names a number of scholars, including the geographer Gill Valentine, the historian David Harvey, and cultural anthropologist Gayle Rubin, and the 1982 Barnard Conference on Sexuality. Jack Jen Gieseking is a Research Fellow at the Five College Women's Studies Research Center. Their book A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers was published by NYU Press in 2020, and has a companion website called An Everyday Queer New York. They are working on a new book called Dyke Bars*: Queer Spaces for the End Times that uses the trans asterisk to invite consideration of queer spaces not historically claimed as dyke bars. Image: “Last Lesbian Bars in New York City” © 2023 Saronik Bosu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology
In this episode of High Theory, Jack Jen Gieseking tells us about queer space. Queer geographies matter alongside queer temporalities. And it turns out that lesbian life in the 1950s cannot be generalized from the specific history of Buffalo, New York. In the episode they reference a number of scholarly books including J. Jack Halberstam, In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (NYU Press, 2005); Elizabeth Freeman, Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (Duke UP, 2010); Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community (Routledge, 1993); Mairead Sullivan, Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer (Minnesota UP, 2022); Henri Lefebre, The Production of Space (La production de l'espace, Editions Anthropos, 1974, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith, Blackwell, 1919). He also names a number of scholars, including the geographer Gill Valentine, the historian David Harvey, and cultural anthropologist Gayle Rubin, and the 1982 Barnard Conference on Sexuality. Jack Jen Gieseking is a Research Fellow at the Five College Women's Studies Research Center. Their book A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers was published by NYU Press in 2020, and has a companion website called An Everyday Queer New York. They are working on a new book called Dyke Bars*: Queer Spaces for the End Times that uses the trans asterisk to invite consideration of queer spaces not historically claimed as dyke bars. Image: “Last Lesbian Bars in New York City” © 2023 Saronik Bosu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/lgbtq-studies
In this episode of High Theory, Jack Jen Gieseking tells us about queer space. Queer geographies matter alongside queer temporalities. And it turns out that lesbian life in the 1950s cannot be generalized from the specific history of Buffalo, New York. In the episode they reference a number of scholarly books including J. Jack Halberstam, In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (NYU Press, 2005); Elizabeth Freeman, Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (Duke UP, 2010); Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community (Routledge, 1993); Mairead Sullivan, Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer (Minnesota UP, 2022); Henri Lefebre, The Production of Space (La production de l'espace, Editions Anthropos, 1974, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith, Blackwell, 1919). He also names a number of scholars, including the geographer Gill Valentine, the historian David Harvey, and cultural anthropologist Gayle Rubin, and the 1982 Barnard Conference on Sexuality. Jack Jen Gieseking is a Research Fellow at the Five College Women's Studies Research Center. Their book A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers was published by NYU Press in 2020, and has a companion website called An Everyday Queer New York. They are working on a new book called Dyke Bars*: Queer Spaces for the End Times that uses the trans asterisk to invite consideration of queer spaces not historically claimed as dyke bars. Image: “Last Lesbian Bars in New York City” © 2023 Saronik Bosu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/geography
In this episode of High Theory, Jack Jen Gieseking tells us about queer space. Queer geographies matter alongside queer temporalities. And it turns out that lesbian life in the 1950s cannot be generalized from the specific history of Buffalo, New York. In the episode they reference a number of scholarly books including J. Jack Halberstam, In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives (NYU Press, 2005); Elizabeth Freeman, Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (Duke UP, 2010); Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy and Madeline D. Davis, Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: The History of a Lesbian Community (Routledge, 1993); Mairead Sullivan, Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer (Minnesota UP, 2022); Henri Lefebre, The Production of Space (La production de l'espace, Editions Anthropos, 1974, trans. Donald Nicholson-Smith, Blackwell, 1919). He also names a number of scholars, including the geographer Gill Valentine, the historian David Harvey, and cultural anthropologist Gayle Rubin, and the 1982 Barnard Conference on Sexuality. Jack Jen Gieseking is a Research Fellow at the Five College Women's Studies Research Center. Their book A Queer New York: Geographies of Lesbians, Dykes, and Queers was published by NYU Press in 2020, and has a companion website called An Everyday Queer New York. They are working on a new book called Dyke Bars*: Queer Spaces for the End Times that uses the trans asterisk to invite consideration of queer spaces not historically claimed as dyke bars. Image: “Last Lesbian Bars in New York City” © 2023 Saronik Bosu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Once upon a midnight dreary, Queer Lit pondered all things eerie… and believe me, this episode is quaint and curious queer horror galore! Horror writer and researcher Lucy Holmes take us on a trip down vampire lane and chills me to the bone with everything from 1930s gay directors to 1970s lesbian bloodsuckers to nonbinary and trans representation in contemporary horror shows. Lucy also reminds us that horror, just like your queer identity, can mean anything you want it to mean. And yes, of course, we talk Buffy and Alien!If you're not too spooked out, follow @lulu_pew and @queerlitpodcast on Instagram and Twitter and tell all your scary friends.Texts by Lucy mentioned:“Horror in the Closet” in Hear Us Scream ( @hearusscream )https://www.amazon.co.uk/Hear-Us-Scream-Voices-Horror/dp/B09M7F3SN3“Breaking Bloody Binaries” https://www.hearusscream.com/editorials/breaking-bloody-binaries“Silencing Sapphics”https://www.hearusscream.com/editorials/silencing-sapphics-a-mirror-image-between-killing-eve-and-bly-manor“Sapphics Bite Back” in Ghouls MagazineOther texts and concepts mentioned:Hays CodeGhoulfriends Podcast ( @GhoulFriendPod )https://mobile.twitter.com/ghoulfriendpod“Queerness and Race in Gothic and Horror” with Maisha WesterAbigail Waldron's Queer ScreamsDragulaJames Whale's Frankenstein (1931)PsychoAlfred Hitchcock's RopeFear StreetChucky#UntoldTalesRipleyAlienEvil DeadMurnau's NosferatuMax SchreckKilling EveBly ManorFirst KillDracula's DaughterBuffyTrue BloodFreaky (Blumhouse)Misha OsherovichThey/ThemScreamWingsMarlene DietrichDandyBury your gays tropeThe L WordThe Wilds#SaveGentlemanJack with Sarah WingroveYellowjacketsAssassination NationBitInterview with a VampireDaughters of DarknessVampire LesbosThe Vampire LoversThe HungerFinal Girls PodcastQueen of the DamnedLet the right one come inElizabeth BathoryVincent PriceHouse of Haunted Hill“Medieval Disney Queers” with Amy Louise MorganSleepaway CampCandymanShudderQueer for FearHannibalMads MikkelsenTagGillian AndersonNightmare on Elm StreetFreddyVelvet BuzzsawBuffering the Vampire SlayerCarol Clover's Men, Women, and ChainsawsQuestions you should be able to respond to after listening:1.How would you define horror?2.Why might queer people be drawn to horror as a genre? Which possible answer does Lucy give? What do you think?3.What is potentially problematic about queer representation in horror?4.Have you ever identified with a monster? If so, which one?5.Please look up Jack Halberstam's work on queer monsters. What do you notice about his approach?
Oo-De-Lally! Dr Amy Louise Morgan (she/her, Surrey University) tells me tales of feminist dragons, gender-nonconforming foxes, wild princesses and all kinds of other queer characters from Disney's medieval(ish) films. We compare favourite VHS tapes, most fantastic princesses, and try to figure out whether we (or was it just me?) wanted to be, or be with, Robin Hood. Amy also tells me all about Disney's problematic relationship to queerness, why queer fans still relate to it so much, and what positive changes are possibly in store. Golly, what an episode!If this episode awoke the medieval fanperson in you, follow @AmyLouise921 and @queerlitpodcast on Twitter. @queerlitpodcast is also on Insta. No dragons though, just cats.Texts, characters and films mentioned:Morgan, Amy Louise. "“To Play bi an Orchardside”: Orchards as Enclosures of Queer Space in Lanval and Sir Orfeo." The Medieval and Early Modern Garden in Britain. Routledge, 2018. 91-101.Locus amoenusSleeping BeautySword in the StoneRobin HoodBraveLady KluckJack Halberstam's Female MasculinityMaleficentPerceforest (c. 1330-1340)Grimm's Fairy TalesCharles PerraultThe Little MermaidPinocchioSnow WhiteSir OrfeoJeffrey Jerome CohenMadam MimLoathly Lady trope#GiveElsaAGirlfriendMeridaFrozenWreck it RalphDisney PrincessesSGS episodeBrenda ChapmanELMSRobyn MuirMulanAtlantisHunchback of Notre-DameBelleBeauty and the BeastLightyearLucaHays CodeThe Reluctant DragonRobert BenchleyKenneth GrahameHow To Train Your DragonJack Halberstam's Wild Things“Wildness, Masculinity and Swimming” with Jack HalberstamQuestions you should be able to respond to after listening:1. First things first, what is your favourite Disney film and why?2. What do you think is the most problematic Disney film and why?3. We speak quite a bit about anthropomorphised characters. Why do these offer themselves for a queer reading?4. How does queerness relate to monstrosity and fairies? Can you think of other monsters that are frequently read as queer?5. Please look up Jack Halberstam. Why do you think Amy recommends his book in this context
This season we're putting a queer twist on movies that aren't gay on purpose, such as seminal childhood classic Shrek (2001), dir. Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson. Join Hal, Autumn, and returning guest Kenley as they talk about queer coding, The Hegemony(tm), and Jack Halberstam's The Queer Art of Failure on this week's episode of Okay, But Is It Gay?.Alternate titles for this episode include: More Things Should be Motivated by Spite and If You Can Be Scared, Then You're a Person.TW: This episode contains discussions of hetero- and cisnormativity, pogroms and racial cleansing, the policing of queer bodies, microaggressions, fatphobia, and misogyny.
Finnish director Hanna Bergholm put her creative spirit into her new body-horror coming-of-age film for IFCMidnight, Hatching. But she's hear today to tell us about feeling seen by another creative spirit: the titular Lucy Muir in Joseph L. Mankiewicz's 1947 classic The Ghost and Mrs. Muir.Then, Jordan has one quick thing about Tron, obviously.Hatching is in theaters and will hit streaming in the US starting May 17, 2022.***With Jordan Crucchiola and Hanna Bergholm
Felix Deiters und ich haben uns verabredet, um über das Abschweifen zu reden. Und schweifen immer wieder ab. Wir sprechen über Denkräume, das poröse Selbst, zittrig aufgetragenen Kajal und neurotische Quirks; aber auch über die Kunst des Vergessens und das Abschweifen als Abweichen von der Norm. Anhand von Paul B Preciados Text ‘Can The Monster Speak?', Jack Halberstams ‘The Queer Art of Failure' und Kathryn Bond Stocktons ‘The Queer Child' sprechen wir über geschichtete Erinnerungen, asignifikante Brüche, Assoziation vs. Dissoziation und die Romantisierung und Disziplinierung von Kindheit.
Get ready for the ultimutt dream team: Dr Sarah Parker (Loughborough) and Dr Hannah Roche (York) share their clever mewsings on queer pets and their keepurrs in this pawesome episode. Although a cat called Winky, a poodle named Basket and Whym Chow, the chow, are clearly the alphas of this episode, other Modernist animals and their human companions feature as well: from Gertrude Stein to Radclyffe Hall to 'Michael Field', we've got the whole pack! We retrieve their literary hisstories to reflect on how ruff the discrepancy between different timelines of human and non-human animal lives can be, but Hannah and Sarah also read furrmidable love poetry for pets, and talk about the pupstar status most of these animals had in their humans' lives. At the tail end of the conversation, we all share some furvourite texts and films. Apparently, I need to watch She-Ra!Texts, people and pets mentioned:Sarah Parker's The Lesbian Muse and Poetic Identity, 1889-1930 (Pickering and Chatto, 2013)Michael Field: Decadent Moderns, edited by Sarah Parker and Ana Parejo Vadillo (Ohio University Press, December 2019)Sarah Parker's “Women Poets and Photography, 1860–1970” (National Portrait Gallery)https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/about/photographs-collection/featured-collections-archive/women-poets-and-photography/ Hannah Roche's The Outside Thing: Modernist Lesbian Romance (Columbia UP, 2019)Gertrude SteinRadclyffe HallDjuna BarnesAlice B. ToklasBasketMan RayBasketMarie LaurencinUna TroubridgeFidoFitz John MinniehahaHedgehog WarwickDonkey HilaryParrot CockyWinkyAmy Lowell's “Chopin”Romaine BrooksThelma WoodCat DillyH.D.BryherEkphrasisDjuna Barnes' NightwoodKathryn Bond Stockton's The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century (Duke University Press, 2009, 92-93)Joyce's UlyssesT.S. EliotKatharine Bradley and Edith Cooper's Works and DaysWhym ChowJack Halberstam's Wild ThingsHomo Sapiens 141: Dan Savage Part 2Stein's Paris FrancePicassoMichael Field's “Trinity” Whym Chow, Flame of Love (written 1906, published 1914) Amy Lowell's “To Winky”Gertrude Stein's The Autobiography of Alice B. ToklasSarah E. Kersh, “‘Betwixt Us Two': Whym Chow, Metonymy, and the Amatory Sonnet Tradition.” Michael Fields: Decadent Moderns, 2019.Caroline Baylis Green, “Sentimental Coatings and the Subversive Pet Closet: Michael Field's Whym Chow: Flame of Love” (2018 blog post)https://www.torch.ox.ac.uk/article/sentimental-coatings-and-the-subversive-pet-closet-michael-fields-whym-chow-flame-of-love She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (Netflix)Alison Bechdel's The Secret to Superhuman StrengthI'm not kitten: You absolutely must follow Hannah (@he_roche) and Sarah (@DrSarahParker) on Twitter. If you'd like to see (p)oodles of queer pets, you could also check out @Lena_Mattheis (Twitter) or @queerlitpodcast on Instagram.Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:1. Which of the authors mentioned are you already familiar with? Do you remember non-human animals featuring in their writing and life?2. Why do you think writing about pets is often classified as ‘whimsical' or in some way less relevant?3. Please read the final scene of Djuna Barnes' novel Nightwood (1928). What function do you think the dog has here?4. What are potential roles that can be ascribed to pets in a queer household? What is problematic about these?5. Please look up Jack Halberstam's work on wildness and compare his position to Donna Harraway's Companion Species Manifesto. You may want to refer to the Queer Lit episode with Jack as well. 6. Do you think queer people have a different relationship to pets? (You may want to consider queer temporality, empathy, and queer childhoods in your response.)
In this episode of the Navigating Interdisciplinarity series, Hita, Maria and Dane were joined by Vanesa Castán Broto, Professor of Climate Urbanism at the Urban Institute, The University of Sheffield; and Jennifer Vanos, Professor of Climate at Health at the School of Sustainability, Arizona State University. We talked about Jenni's and Vanesa's journey towards interdisciplinary research, and the idea of interdisciplinarity as an interplay of disciplinary institutions. We also touched upon balancing our passion for research with strategizing for career advancement, and ended with our guests sharing some of their epic fails in their academic journey. Vanesa's website: https://urbaninstitute.group.shef.ac.uk/who-we-are/prof-vanesa-castan-broto/ Jenni's website: https://sustainability.asu.edu/person/jennifer-vanos/ Dane's website: https://sustainability.asu.edu/person/dane-whittaker/ References: Castán Broto, Vanesa, Maya Gislason, and Melf-Hinrich Ehlers. 2009. “Practising Interdisciplinarity in the Interplay between Disciplines: Experiences of Established Researchers.” Environmental Science & Policy 12 (7): 922–33. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2009.04.005. Vanos, Jennifer K., Ariane Middel, Michelle N. Poletti, and Nancy J. Selover. 2018. “Evaluating the Impact of Solar Radiation on Pediatric Heat Balance within Enclosed, Hot Vehicles.” Temperature (Austin, Tex.) 5 (3): 276–92. https://doi.org/10.1080/23328940.2018.1468205. We also spoke about these other books and lectures Bogaard, Paul, ed. Harvard Lectures of Alfred North Whitehead: Philosophical Presuppositions of Science, 1924-1925. Edinburgh University Press, 2017. Kuhn, Thomas S. The structure of scientific revolutions. University of Chicago press, 2012. Halberstam, Judith, and Jack Halberstam. The queer art of failure. Duke University Press, 2011. Vatn, Arild. Institutions and the Environment. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007.
Gender and sexuality can feel natural and even immutable, but science and the lived experience of numerous humans tell us that these categories are far more variable than they may seem. At a time when dozens of states around the US have passed or are considering legislation to enforce rigid definitions of gender, queer theorist Jack Halberstam and journalist Zach Stafford discuss the fallaciousness of what scholars call the “gender binary.” Bringing an intersectional perspective, and looking at examples from women's sports, they invite journalists to speak truth to the power that is exercised, often violently, through an insistence on “normative” ideas of gender and sexuality. Guests: Zach Stafford & Jack Halberstam
How do you get from wild theory all the way to wild swimming? By taking a deep dive with Prof Jack Halberstam (Columbia University) of course! Jack takes us where the wild things crawl and on the way, we discuss masculinities, the creative powers of failure, our difficult relationships to non-human animals, nudity and queer bodies, queerness, colonialism and capitalism, and, naturally, our favourite swimming pools. We also dip into some great queer texts, including but by no means limited to: gay falconry novels, animation films, eco-critical writing and non-binary theory.Works by Jack mentioned:The Wild Beyond: Music, Architecture and Anarchy (forthcoming)Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire (Duke UP, 2020)Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variance (University of California Press, 2018)“Unbuilding Gender: Trans* Anarchitectures In and Beyond the Work of Gordon Matta-Clark” (Places Journal, October 2018)Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (Beacon Press, 2012) The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP, 2011)Female Masculinity (Duke UP, 1998)Other texts, people and concepts mentioned:Pinky and the BrainPaul Preciado's potentia gaudendi (Testo Junky)Jane Bennett's vitality (Vibrant Matter)Sigmund Freud's Civilization and its DiscontentsHelen MacDonald's H is for HawkT.H. White's The Goshawk (ferox)T.H. White's The Once and Future KingGlenway WescottAntoine de Saint-Exupéry's Le Petit PrinceJ.A. Baker's The PeregrinRachel Carson's The Silent SpringDonna Haraway's A Cyborg ManifestoColin Dayan's With Dogs at the Edge of LifeGail BedermanGeorge MosseFreikörperkulturDouglas Stuart's Shuggie BainJos Charles' FeeldJordy Rosenberg's Confessions of the FoxSaidiya Hartman's Wayward Lives, Beautiful ExperimentsWant to flood your feed with more ferox content? Check out http://www.jackhalberstam.com/bio/ and follow us on Instagram (@jackhalberstam @Lena_Mattheis) and Twitter (@Odo86700462 @Lena_Mattheis). Questions you should be able to respond to after listening to the podcast:1. Where does Jack see the potential in reading animation through a queer lens?2. What can masculinity be? What is it not?3. How does (im)maturity relate to queerness and binary thinking?4. In which ways does Jack see the relationship of humans to non-human animals as highly problematic? What are his thoughts on Donna Haraway?5. From this episode, what do you think Jack's definition of queerness would be?6. Please write down a few sentences or key words on what ‘wildness' is and try to think of a text that you think could be classified as wild.
[Spoiler Alert] In this episode of K-Drama School, Grace discusses the show Coffee Prince (MBC, 2007) as a queer text for both queer pleasure and queer upset. Grace cites Jack Halberstam's theory on female masculinity and Judith Butler's theory on gender as a performance in reference to Go Eun-chan's tomboyism. Grace's guest is Dr. Mark Hussey who is a Virginia Woolf scholar and now professor emeritus of Pace University's English department where Grace earned her B.A. Dr. Hussey is the author of Clive Bell and The Making of Modernism: A Biography which is newly published by Bloomsbury Press. He and Grace discuss what the purpose of reading a biography is, how to harness anxiety for productivity, what the English major is, why theory and jargon are necessary, how the fear of the future never stops, and what it takes to be a good feminist as a man. Follow @KDramaSchool on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok. Visit kdramachool.com to learn more. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/kdramaschool/support
[Spoiler Alert] In this episode of K-Drama School, Grace discusses the show Coffee Prince (MBC, 2007) as a queer text for both queer pleasure and queer upset. Grace cites Jack Halberstam's theory on female masculinity and Judith Butler's theory on gender as a performance in reference to Go Eun-chan's tomboyism. Grace's guest is Dr. Mark Hussey who is a Virginia Woolf scholar and now professor emeritus of Pace University's English department where Grace earned her B.A. Dr. Hussey is the author of Clive Bell and The Making of Modernism: A Biography which is newly published by Bloomsbury Press. He and Grace discuss what the purpose of reading a biography is, how to harness anxiety for productivity, what the English major is, why theory and jargon are necessary, how the fear of the future never stops, and what it takes to be a good feminist as a man. Follow @KDramaSchool on Instagram, Twitter and TikTok. Visit kdramachool.com to learn more.
When the 7 of Pentacles comes up in a reading it's a sign that we're worried about all the ways we might fail. But the 7 of Pentacles offers us an opportunity to turn failure into an act of rebellion and … pleasure.In this episode we discuss the relationship between the 7 of Pentacles and the Chariot card; its correspondence to Saturn in Taurus; how 7s usually portend and initiation of some kind; and analyze it all through the lens of Jack Halberstam's glorious book, THE QUEER ART OF FAILURE. We also go into a discussion of the relationship of the 7 of Pentacles to gardening; how plants teach you about love and loss; abuelita knowledge; how to recognize when a plant wants to work with you; creating refuges; how fungi create networks of intelligence; and what we should do if we know the world is ending tomorrow.Our guest this week is queer artist, herbalist, and plant lover Flora Pacha, previously known as La Loba Loca, host of the WildWeeds Podcast, teacher of feminist brujeria workshops, keeper of pigs, and tender of lands. We love them and we can't wait to introduce you! Join us.To find out more about our ACE OF PENTACLES: ABUNDANCE MAGICK WORKSHOP either scroll down or visit our website. www.betweentheworldspodcast.com/shopReferences in this episode include:Saturnalia, University of Chicago. https://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/calendar/saturnalia.htmlThe Queer Art of Failure, a book by Jack Halberstam7 of Pentacles, a poem by Marge Piercy**********************************Learn More About Our Guest Flora Pacha (formerly known as La Loba Loca)Our guest this week is queer artist, herbalist, and plant lover Flora Pacha, previously known as La Loba Loca, host of the WildWeeds Podcast, teacher of feminist brujeria workshops, keeper of pigs, and tender of lands. Visit their website: https://lalobaloca.bigcartel.com/Follow them on Instagram: @flora.pachaListen to their podcast: Wild Weeds PodcastJoin their Patreon: Flora Pacha*******************************CURRENT WORKSHOPS - ACE OF PENTACLES: ABUNDANCE MAGICKAbundance is already present, but remembering that can be a challenge in a culture that's modeled on scarcity. True abundance includes rest, love, nourishment, inspiration, security, and pleasure. In this workshop we will establish a new relationship to abundance, inspired by the natural systems of the earth and the wisdom tradition of the tarot. This workshop includes:Invocation to call in abundance whenever you want or need toA beautiful PDF including special correspondences, FAQs, deities, a reference list and moreA tarot spread for abundance3 easy abundance rituals for daily use (or whenever you need)1 expansive ritual done in the live workshop to call abundance into your life right nowAn abundance meditation you can use whenever you need to get into that state of flowAnd so much more!Anyone can join this workshop but subscribers to our coven at the Jupiter level receive the workshop with the cost of membership. If you're buying as a one off, receive 20% off your purchase if you buy before 9/6/21. CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE.Become a Between the Worlds Weird Circle Subscriber, click here.********************************** Learn More About Your Host Amanda Yates GarciaTo sign up for Amanda's newsletter, CLICK HERE.To order Amanda's book, "Initiated: Memoir of a Witch" CLICK HERE.Amanda's InstagramAmanda's FacebookTo book an appointment with Amanda go to www.oracleoflosangeles.com**********************************Original MUSIC by Carolyn Pennypacker RiggsCheck out Mind Your Practice - Carolyn's new podcast with arts consultant and author of Make Your Art No Matter What, Beth Pickens.Mind Your Practice is geared towards artists and writers looking for strategies and support to build their projects and practices (plus loving pep talks). There's even a club - “Homework Club” - which offers creative people a framework for keeping their projects and practices a priority with *actual homework* and optional accountability groups made up of other artists and writers!You can visit MindYourPractice.com for more details or listen wherever you stream Between the Worlds.**********************************Get in touch with sponsorship inquiries for Between the Worlds at betweentheworldspodcast@gmail.com.**CONTRIBUTORS:Amanda Yates Garcia (host) & Carolyn Pennypacker Riggs (producer, composer). The BTW logo collage was created by Maria Minnis (tinyparsnip.com / instagram.com/tinyparsnip ) with text designed by Leah Hayes.
In the second edition of the Audio Supplement, Jared Pence, Kelly Schairer, and I discuss The Bachelorette season seventeen, “Queering Psychoanalysis” by Jack Halberstam and Marie-Hélène Brousse, and “The Real of Sexual Difference” by Slavoj Žižek. This is a companion to the August 16th, 2021 newsletter issue #184, “A universe of radical split.”You can find Kelly on Twitter @kelibacyAudio Supplement is hosted by Miguel RiveraSpecial Guests are Jared Pence and Kelly SchairerEdited by Miguel Rivera and Joe KalickiEpisode art by Miguel RiveraSpecial thanks to Erin Gwozdz Get full access to Paradox Newsletter at miguelrivera.substack.com/subscribe
Gender and sexuality can feel natural and even immutable, but science and the lived experience of numerous humans tell us that these categories are far more variable than they may seem. At a time when dozens of states around the US have passed or are considering legislation to enforce rigid definitions of gender, queer theorist Jack Halberstam and journalist Zach Stafford discuss the fallaciousness of what scholars call the “gender binary.” Bringing an intersectional perspective, and looking at examples from women's sports, they invite journalists to speak truth to the power that is exercised, often violently, through an insistence on “normative” ideas of gender and sexuality.
Not only is the artist and businesswoman Ope Lori an expert in the politics of looking and desire, but she gets turned on by her own work. In this durational interview, Oriana Fox asks Lori about the lessons learned from making work that addresses the intersections of race and gender, and about how that has impacted her life and career. In this meandering discussion they touch upon the impact of the media and its stereotypes; the limits of the tactic of reversal towards genuine inclusion; the importance of language; guilty pleasures; cross-identification; porn; and fighting the myth of the suffering artist. They also discuss the path Lori followed in founding her very own consulting and training business PILAA (Pre-Image Learning and Action). Through it, Lori puts the expertise gleaned from her practice-based research as an artist to work for the greater good. In this way, she follows the motto coined by Jack Halberstam in Gaga Feminism: “Know the game, be the game, play the game, change the game!” If you have ever questioned the wider use of art that addresses identity politics, then look no further than Ope Lori's trailblazing work. Oriana Fox is an artist with a PhD in self-disclosure. She puts her expertise to work as the host of the talk show performance piece The O Show.Dr Ope Lori lives and works in London. She is an artist and the founder of the business PILAA (Pre-image Learning and Action) which specialises in creating inspirational visual work and training in the area of equality, diversity and inclusion. Previously, she taught at both Chelsea College of Arts and Leeds Arts University. She holds a PhD from the Transnational Art Identity and Nation Research Centre, UAL and is currently working on a book. A newly commissioned artwork by Lori will be on view in a group exhibition entitled “Care, Contagion, Community – Self & Other” at Autograph in Shoreditch opening in September 2021. Additional artists mentioned in this episode: Sadie Lee, Marcia Michael, The Golden Brown Girls (aka Indrani Ashe, Shannon Tamara Lewis and Sara Umar), Fred Wilson, Bill Viola, Virginia NimarkohBooks mentioned in this episode: Darby English 1971: A Year in the Life of Colour; Mollie Godfrey and Vershawn Ashanti Young Neo-Passing: Performing Identity after Jim Crow;and Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence.Credits: Hosted, edited and produced by Oriana FoxPost-production mixing by Stacey HarveyThemesong written and performed by Paulette HumanbeingSpecial thanks to Katie Beeson, Janak Patel, Sven Olivier Van Damme and the Foxes and Hayeses. Would you like to see your name in the credits list? In a couple of short steps, you can make that happen by supporting this podcast via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/orianafoxIf you're enjoying the series, please rate and review in your favourite podcast directories such as iTunes, Spotify or Podchaser. NB: You may need to sign in to rate and review.
In this episode, we chat to Jack Halberstam, Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University, about the relationship between resistance and invention, and why social media is even worse than we already know. He asks: Why does the state need to know your gender? Why are bodies subjected to technological recognition and how can we evade it? How are homophobia and transphobia operating under the banner of “security”, in, for example, AI used in airports? What's the glitch in Ex Machina? How has the family shifted during lockdown? and much more. Content Warning: This episode contains references to invasive and transphobic practices at the airport.
Happy Pride! By which we mean LET'S TALK KAYLOR. We're kicking off our own version of a month-long rainbow apparel section by getting knee-deep in the love affair that is Taylor Swift and Karlie Kloss. This week we're doing an overview and timeline of their relationship: from the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show to Big Sur to #kissgate, we break down the biggest moments of Kaylor, discuss public perception of their relationship, and, obviously, provide some psychoanalysis. Sidebars this week: getting scouted at Costco, Taymojis, #girlboss + #squadgoals energy disguising romance, Jack Halberstam, Kimby Kloss, and whether Taylor has read the comphet Google Doc. Find this week's visual accompaniment here and Madeline's aforementioned Gold Rush theory Tik Tok here.
See here for more info: https://bit.ly/3eWnkfIFor more episodes: patreon.com/aqnbIn this episode, at a moment in which it is difficult to think beyond the present, we consider queer notions of time, the future, and apocalypse, by speaking with Jack Halberstam, a queer theorist and Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University.Jared talks with Jack on queer notions of forgetting, futurity, and the figure of the zombie in today’s popular imagination, as explored in his books such as 2011’s ‘The Queer Art of Failure’, and most recently ‘Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire’, published last year by Duke University Press.
In this episode, hosts Katherine Troyer and Anthony Tresca discuss the 2020 horror-comedy film Freaky. Episode Highlights: We argue that while the film offers a clever and fun premise, Freaky is unfortunately--at best--a paint-by-numbers horror comedy that fails to maintain the self-awareness of Christopher Landon's other films. Looking at the ways that the film attempts to be transgressive but ultimately gets stuck in presenting rather familiar (and problematic) depictions of the monstrous Other, we talk about why perhaps the worst fate a horror film can face is to be just "ok." A Dose of Scholarship: For a deeper look into how the horror genre links issues of monstrous Otherness with gender and sexual identities, we suggest turning to Jack Halberstam's Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters. Twitter/Instagram: @NightmarePod1; YouTube: Such a Nightmare channel; Email: suchanightmare.pod@gmail.com
Mario Cesar Vilhena e Vivian Avelino-Silva conversam sobre "Vivência Queer", com Claudio Eduardo, o Crô. Formado em Letras pela Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro e doutorando pela Universidade do Texas em Austin, onde estuda retórica e escrita - sua pesquisa é focada no desenvolvimento de uma metodologia queer de pesquisa de arquivos de documentos da inquisição espanhola que levam em consideração o afeto. Indicações Cultura Transviada: "Pensamento Feminista Hoje: Sexualidades no Sul Global", livro de Heloisa Buarque de Holanda; "Repensando o Sexo e o Gênero", texto de Jack Halberstam; "Boy Erased - Uma Verdade Anulada", dirigido por Joel Edgerton; "Bichas, o Documentário", documentário dirigido por Marlon Parente.
ข้อมูลเพิ่มเติม ========== - Jack Halberstam (เกิด 1961): tenured Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature and the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Columbia University เขียนหนังสือที่คุณเทมป์นำมาพูดถึงในวันนี้ นั่นคือ Jack Halberstam, Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire, Perverse Modernities (Durham: Duke University Press, 2020). - Kent Monkman (เกิด 1965): ศิลปินแห่งชาติแคนนาดาคนแรกที่มีชาติพันธ์ุ Cree - Astrid Schrader: lecturer ที่ the Department of Sociology, Philosophy, and Anthropology at the University of Exeter, UK ซึ่งคุณเทมป์นำแนวคิด care for & care about ของเธอมาพูดถึง - Kaj Århem: ผู้เสนอมโนทัศน์ animism ในเอเชียตะวันออกเฉียงใต้ เรื่องผีที่มีลำดับชั้น . - ตัวอย่างข่าวการหลบหนีเข้าป่า: https://www.sanook.com/news/8060206/ - เรื่องมูลค่า/คุณค่าของการทำงานโดยเกรเบอร์ ซึ่งผมแปลซับไทยไว้ให้ (กด CC แล้วเลือกภาษาไทยได้ครับ): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpoJIkqEXYo - เรื่อง UBI คร่าวๆ ภาษาไทยจากกลุ่ม Care: https://voicetv.co.th/read/JwOR1wvXW - ตัวอย่างบทความด้านการแพทย์ที่ผู้ร่วมรายการเขียนไว้: https://filmclubthailand.com/film-review/hope-frozen/?fbclid=IwAR3_B91glugky_EWRHE688De_2aUHPrealW0874vE9Usms5uMiASzNxTC7E - เรื่องศาสนาผี โปรดดู: https://prachatai.com/journal/2015/02/58054 - เรื่องโรจาวาโปรดดู: http://www.dindeng.com/rojava/ - บทความของคุณเก่งกิจว่าด้วยจิตสำนึกที่เกิดขึ้น ณ ชั่วขณะของการต่อสู้: https://prachatai.com/journal/2010/03/28605 - บทความแนวทางการปฏิวัติของดินแดง: http://www.dindeng.com/revolutionary-strategy/ - หนังสือของ Foucault ที่คุณเทมป์พูดถึงคือ: Michel Foucault, ‘The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences' (New York: Vintage Books, 1973). - หนังสือของอ.ธเนศที่คุณเทมป์พูดถึงคือ: ธเนศ วงศ์ยานนาวา, ครอบครัวจินตกรรม: บทวิพากษ์ว่าด้วยชุมชน การปกครอง และรัฐ, Phim khrang thī 1 (กรุงเทพฯ: Illuminations Editions, 2018). - หนังสือว่าด้วยการกบฏในอินเดียที่ปฐมพงศ์พูดถึงคือ: รณชิต คูหา, กบฏชาวนา: มูลฐานจิตสำนึกในอินเดียยุคอาณานิคม, trans. by ปรีดี หงษ์สต้น (กรุงเทพฯ: Illuminations Editions, 2020).
This episode is in English In this episode we talk to Del LaGrace Volcano, an artist and activist based in Sweden for 15 years. Del is best known as a still photographer and has been photographing queer scenes and queer personalities & celebrities since the 1970s, mainly in San Francisco and London. They have made several photographic monographs, including The Drag King Book in collaboration with Jack Halberstam in 1999. Del appears in the documentary Venus Boyz from 2002 and have themselves made an unknown number of short movies during their up to now 40-year artistry. In fact, SAQMI is now in the process of digitizing some of Dels' movies and making them accessible for an audience. Born in California 1957, Year of the Fire Rooster. Del LaGrace Volcano is a gender variant visual artist and cultural producer working with the body and gender/sexual identity notions for both social, political and personal purposes. Volcano is considered one of the pioneers of queer photography. Their work focuses on troubling the constructs of gender, sexuality and the corporeal body as a form of public intervention and antidote to heteronormative culture. Del LaGrace Volcano studied photography at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1979 – 81 eventually gaining an MA in Photography Studies at the University of Derby in 1992. As Della Grace/Del LaGrace Volcano they produced five photographic monographs: Love Bites, 1991, an exploration of lesbian sex culture. The Drag King Book, 1999, (in collaboration with Jack Halberstam) an exploration of drag king culture in both the USA and Europe, Sublime Mutations, 2000, (foreword by Jay Prosser) is a retrospective look at Volcano's photographic work from the 1990s. Sex Works, 2005, (afterword by Beatriz Preciado) which examines the history of sexuality of queer scenes and Femmes of Power, 2008, (with Dr. Ulrika Dahl), the first photographic monograph that celebrates queer and alternative expressions of femininity in the USA and Europe. Del LaGrace Volcano homepage FILMOGRAPHY: 1977 - Nipomo Queen, 30 min, Super 8 documentary about my sister who ran for Elks Rodeo Queen. Stolen when Del left SF for London 1981. 1984 - 1984 - Year of The Rat Woman, 1998 - Pan Sexual Public Porn AKA The Adventures of Hans & Del, 12 min 1999 - A Prodigal Son, 15 min 1999 - Journey Intersex (with Cara Lavan), 25 min 2000 - The Passionate Spectator, 10 min 2005 - Gender Queer: Qu'est-Ce Que C'est? with Cara Lavan, 5:50 min 2008 - Trans Sex - Lesbian Sex Mafia, 9 min (Slide Show) FILMS/TV by others: 2000 - Sex & The City, HBO, Photographs from The Drag King Book 2002 - Kobra, SVT1 2003 - Venuz Boys by Gabriel Baur 2011 - Embarrassing Bodies: Living with Intersex, Channel 4, UK 2012 - Malou, TV4 2017 - Raised Without Gender a Vice documentary 2018 - Pirate Boys by Pol Merchan BOOKS: 1992 - Love Bites - Photographs by Della Grace 1999 - The Drag King Book, together with Jack Halberstam 2000 - Sublime Mutations 2005 - Sex Works 1978-2005 2008 - Femmes of Power - Exploding Queer Femininities together with Ulrika Dahl Credits SAQMI Play: Producers: Anna Linder and Malin Holgersson Design and code: Vincent Orback Composer: Amanda Lindgren Edited and Mixed by Malin Holgersson Voices: Kolbrún Inga Söring and Sam Message Publisher: Anna Linder SAQMI Play is produced with the support from The Swedish Arts Council and the National Archivist Ingvar Andersons Fund.
A Clash of Critics - Scholarly Criticism About A Song of Ice and Fire
In this episode we are joined by special guest Dr Tobi Evans to chat about Arya and female masculinity in Jon II. You can find Tobi at https://likedrkarlbutqueerer.wordpress.com/ or follow them on Twitter @DrTobiEvans. Mentioned in this episode: Halberstam, J. 1998, Female masculinity, Duke University Press. "Brienne and Arya: gender outlaws" (by Lo): https://lothelynx.wordpress.com/2020/08/27/brienne-and-arya-gender-outlaws/ Carroll, S. 2018, Medievalism in a Song of Ice and Fire and Game of Thrones, DS Brewer. Not a Cast Podcast (Episode 8: A GAME OF THRONES, ARYA I “Needlework”): https://notacastasoiaf.podbean.com/e/episode-8-a-game-of-thrones-arya-i-needlework/ Evans, T. 2019, "Some Knights are Dark and Full of Terror: The Queer Monstrous Feminine, Masculinity, and Violence in the Martinverse," Journal of Language, Literature and Culture, vol. 66, no. 3, pp.134–156. Also check out Jack Halberstam's blog post on Arya and Brienne in S8 of Game of Thrones: https://bullybloggers.wordpress.com/2019/05/21/a-knight-of-a-thousand-butches-by-jack-halberstam/ You can support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/tropewatchers. If you enjoyed A Clash of Critics, check out our flagship podcast, Trope Watchers, the podcast about pop culture and why it matters: tropewatchers.com. CW: A Clash of Critics frequently discusses issues such as violence, abuse, sexual assault, bigotry, and other sensitive topics.
What's the spookiest Halloween tradition of all? Critical theory! We take a look at Jack Halberstam's The Queer Art of Failure and his queer reading of stop-motion animation. We try to apply this reading to the creepiest, spookiest stop-motion filmmaking team of all time: Tim Burton and Henry Selick. That's right, Nightmare Before Christmas, Corpse Bride, Coraline, Frankenweenie and more! Happy Halloween! Check us out on Twitter @talkingtropes
La storia della butch è spesso stata vista come la storia della lesbofobia al cinema. Se in un primo tempo è stata il capro espiatorio per la rappresentazione lesbofobica, poi è stata eliminata perché fisicamente non conforme alle regole del bel corpo e della buona educazione. Ecco perché serve ripercorrere un bel tratto della cinematografia per identificare nella butch la falla e non l'ingranaggio del sistema eterosessista.Bibliografia:Jack Halberstam, "Female Masculinity", Duke University Press.Federica Fabbiani, "Sguardi che contano. Il cinema al tempo della visibilità lesbica". Iacobelli editore.Antonia Anna Ferrante, "Pelle queer maschere straight: Il regime di visibilità omonormativo oltre la televisione", Mimesis.Irene Villa, "Protagoniste invisibili. Del lesbofemminismo italiano e delle butch tra femminismo e transfemminismo", in AG About Gender.SitografiaKerry Manders, The Renegades, in The New York Timeshttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/13/t-magazine/butch-stud-lesbian.html
What is queer ecology? How do queer theory and artistic practice inform environmental activism and climate justice? How can we think decolonisation and queerness together? Victoria Sin welcomes guest host Serpentine Assistant Curator, Kostas Stasinopoulos to dive into transformation, queerness, the natural and unnatural, wild, decolonial and submerged perspectives. Together with guests Ama Josephine Budge, Macarena Gómez-Barris and Jack Halberstam they ask: “where does wildness live?” and they collectively explore questions of desire, pleasure, queer resistance and affinity within apocalyptic world making. –––––– Future Ecologies presents this episode from the Serpentine Podcast series Back to Earth – a nine part podcast series that follows artists and an art organisation developing projects, interventions and campaigns at the crossroads of art and the climate emergency. Learn more about the Serpentine Galleries at https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/ (https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/) Subscribe to the Serpentine Podcast at https://playpodca.st/serpentine (https://playpodca.st/serpentine) Support this podcast
What is queer ecology? How do queer theory and artistic practice inform environmental activism and climate justice? How can we think decolonisation and queerness together? Victoria Sin welcomes guest host Serpentine Assistant Curator, Kostas Stasinopoulos to dive into transformation, queerness, the natural and unnatural, wild, decolonial and submerged perspectives. Together with guests Ama Josephine Budge, Macarena Gómez-Barris and Jack Halberstam they ask: “where does wildness live?” and they collectively explore questions of desire, pleasure, queer resistance and affinity within apocalyptic world making. Back to Earth is supported by Outset Partners' Grant. This episode was produced by Katie Callin at Reduced Listening.
In this episode, we speak to Edmonton-based queer theatre actor, director, and educator. We discuss what makes queer artistry special, examining the traditions of the theatre, the impacts of capitalism, and Luc’s favourite musical CATS! Find Luc: https://www.instagram.com/luctellier__/ Resources & References: 1. Queer as Camp by Kenneth Kidd & Derritt Mason (https://www.fordhampress.com/9780823283606/queer-as-camp/) 2. The Queer Art of Failure by Jack Halberstam (https://www.dukeupress.edu/The-Queer-Art-of-Failure/) 3. Tiny Bear Jaws Theatre Company (https://www.tinybearjaws.com/) 4. Gender? I Hardly Know Them (https://www.instagram.com/genderihardlyknowthem/) 5. Citadel Theatre: Stuck in the House Series Vol. 11: Luc Tellier (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB5oGQ-HjUM) Instagram: @areweallmet Twitter: @areweallmet Facebook: Are We All Met? areweallmetpodcast@gmail.com Cover art by Lucy Sharpe @lucypiperart (@peaceful_lucifer) *all music used in this episode was created by Anna Atkinson on GarageBand. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/areweallmet/support
Following an incredible keynote, Jack Halberstam was joined on stage by Teddy Cook and Liz Duck-Chong for a discussion on the ways that this history and representation of trans bodies intersects with contemporary approaches to securing health equity and inclusion for trans and gender diverse people. The panel was facilitated by Associate Professor Christy Newman.
Jack Halberstam, Visiting Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University, and author of Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal, takes calls from LGBTQ+ listeners about what everyone can learn from common LGBTQ+ experiences, and what society might look like if those lessons were more universal.
To kick off Pride Month 2020, we're talking about protest and queer identity. We give a little history lesson in queer disruptive protest, we talk about Jack Halberstam's theory of queer violence, and we talk about why queer people should support disruptive protest against police brutality... because it's part of our queer DNA.
Svůj přístup queer a literární teoretik Jack Halberstam popisuje jako „nízkou teorii“. V jeho pracích se potkává popkultura se současným myšlením v oblasti genderu, trans identity nebo feminismu. Profesor Columbia University napsal knihy o ženské maskulinitě i Lady Gaga. V rozhovoru jsme řešili aktuální problémy genderové politiky, jak se proměňuje přijetí transgender osob nebo proč patří budoucnost queer teorie badatelům jiné než bílé barvy pleti.
Svůj přístup queer a literární teoretik Jack Halberstam popisuje jako „nízkou teorii“. V jeho pracích se potkává popkultura se současným myšlením v oblasti genderu, trans identity nebo feminismu. Profesor Columbia University napsal knihy o ženské maskulinitě i Lady Gaga. V rozhovoru jsme řešili aktuální problémy genderové politiky, jak se proměňuje přijetí transgender osob nebo proč patří budoucnost queer teorie badatelům jiné než bílé barvy pleti.
Joe Bob Briggs was the main character on Twitter for the horror community this week, for a homophobic article from last summer. In this episode, we talk about the Briggs discourse. some of the smart rebuttals to it. What's the usefulness of Twitter outrage? And if we can't expect more from our heroes... when is it okay to kill them? "Queer Mutants Deserve Better" from @GaylyDreadful https://www.gaylydreadful.com/blog/queer-mutants-deserve-better Books from this week's episode: How To Be an Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino "Imagined Violence / Queer Violence" by Jack Halberstam
The category of trans* takes the prefix for transitivity and couples it with the asterisk that indicates a wildcard in internet searches; it is a diacritical mark that poses a question to its prefix and stands in for what exceeds the politics of naming. To investigate trans* representation is also to propose that something within trans* representations exceeds the framing of transgenderism. By looking at trans* materials, we can see what is gained and what remains unpredictable about the popular embrace of transgender bodies, or some of them, and transgender representations.
In the sixth episode of Popaganda’s GLAMOUR season, host Carmen Rios meets up with Davida Hall from Lipstick Lobby in Los Angeles—and finds out the stories behind each shade of the feminist beauty brand’s movement-oriented products. Use the code “Bitch15” for 15 percent off your favorite feminist shade at https://thelipsticklobby.com! Share a selfie in your favorite shade with the hashtag #ProtestWithABoldLip! This episode of Popaganda is sponsored by Lewis & Clark College’s 39th annual Gender Studies Symposium in Portland, Oregon, from March 11–13. Don’t miss out on this exciting series of free lectures, workshops, and panel discussions, an art exhibit, and keynote talks by Jack Halberstam and Feminista Jones. Learn more at go.lclark.edu/gendersymp. We’ll see you on campus!
On this episode, the squad discusses the work of French New Wave film director Jean-Luc Godard and gender and queer theorist Jack Halberstam. We hone in on Godard's second film, A Woman is a Woman, and Halberstam's Female Masculinity.
The experience of trans people has burst into the mainstream in the last decade, although the struggles of gender variant people are nothing new. Jack Halberstam talks about the politics of categorization, generational differences, radical vs. single-issue politics, and anti-trans feminism. Resources: Jack Halberstam, Trans* A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability UC Press, 2018 The post The Politics of Gender Variability appeared first on KPFA.
Episodio 5: A través del tiempo Queer Con ocasión del orgullo LGBTQ+, que marcó este pasado junio el cincuenta aniversario de las revueltas de Stonewall, en este quinto episodio nos sumergimos en la ficción especulativa que explora y practica lo queer. Partimos del clásico de Le Guin La mano izquierda de la oscuridad, y de las limitaciones de esta reimaginación concreta del género, ayudadas de El pensamiento heterosexual de Monique Wittig. Repasamos genealogía urbana gay en la obra del neoyorquino Samuel Delany y trazamos vínculos entre su escritura y las reflexiones queer y descoloniales de Hiromi Goto a través de lo que el teórico Jack Halberstam denomina “tiempo queer”. Laura Lazcano nos trae ejemplos tempranos de ciencia ficción queer en el cine de los 70 y 80, el New Queer Cinema y sus exponentes, y nos cuenta cómo se refleja la transexualidad en la ficción actual. Escuchamos además algunas de las jóvenes voces bisexuales del fantástico estatal actual e indagamos en el potencial especulativo del pensamiento transfeminista hispanohablante. Referencias: Textos La mano izquierda de la oscuridad - Ursula K. Le Guin (t. Francisco Abelenda) El pensamiento heterosexual - Monique Wittig (t. Javier Sáez y Paco Vidarte) “Is Gender Necessary?” - Ursula K. Le Guin “Mayoría de edad en Karhide” (en El cumpleaños del mundo y otros relatos) - Ursula K. Le Guin (t. Estela Gutiérrez Torres) Flight from Nevèrÿon - Samuel Delany “Por siempre y Gomorra” - Samuel Delany (t. Domingo Santos / Francisco Blanco) “‘Life-Now’: James Tiptree, Joanna Russ, and the Queer Meaning of Archives.” - Isaac Fellman “Notes from liminal spaces” - Hiromi Goto “Tecnofeminismo: apuntes para una tecnología transfeminista” (en Transfeminismos: epistemes, fricciones y flujos) - Lucía Egaña Rojas Cine y televisión The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975, Jim Sharman) Liquid Sky (1982, Slava Tsukerman) Poison (1991, Todd Haynes) Nowhere (1997, Gregg Araki) Mysterious Skin (2004, Gregg Araki) Diamantino (2018, Abrantes, Schmidt) The Wild Boys (2017, Bertrand Mandico) Girls Lost (2015, Alexandra Keining) Música QueenS - THEESatisfaction Rizomas Salvajes - Las Bajas Pasiones bell’s roar - We Carry Us Bad Religion - Frank Ocean Boyfriend - Marika Hackman Gente de mierda - Putochinomaricón Thunder Thighs - Miss Eaves --- 5. saioa: Queer denboran barrena Joan den ekainean Stonewalleko matxinaden berrogeita hamargarren urtemugako LGBTQ+ ospakizunak izan direla-eta, bosgarren atal honetan, queer esparrua ikertzen eta praktikatzen duen espekulaziozko fikzioan murgilduko gara. Le Guin-en The Left Hand of Darkness lan klasikoko generoaren berrirudikapen zehatzak dituen mugetatik abiatu gara, Monique Wittig-en Pentsamendu heterosexualalanaren laguntzaz. New Yorkeko Samuel Delany-ren obrako hiriko gay genealogia berraztertuko dugu, eta loturak marraztuko ditugu haren idazketaren eta Hiromi Goto-ren hausnarketa queer eta dekolonialen artean, Jack Halberstam teorialariak "queer denbora" deitzen duenaren bidez. Laura Lazcanok 70eko eta 80ko hamarkadetako zinemako queer zientzia fikzioko lehenengo adibideak ekarriko dizkigu, New Queer Cinema eta haren adierazgarriak, eta egungo fikzioan transexualitatea nola islatzen den azalduko digu. Bestaldeko, Estatuko egungo egoerako ahots bisexual gazte batzuk entzungo ditugu, eta espainieraz adierazten den pentsamendu transfeministaren indar espekulatiboa aztertuko dugu.
On our first episode, we explore the relationship between what we wear and the politics of gender. To begin, Jack Halberstam, professor of gender studies at Columbia University, defines gender and helps contextualize it in fashion. Next, Valerie Steele, director and chief curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, shares some critical moments in history when fashion challenged traditional gender norms. To investigate whether or not fashion has the power to change people’s ideas about gender, Bhola speaks to a few gender-bending people in fashion, including Hood By Air’s Ian Isiah, musician Shamir, and Suited Magazine‘s Ash Owens. Also, Highsnobiety’s editorial director, Jian DeLeon, weighs in on the current state of heterosexual masculinity and what fashion can tells us about it. We then consider the future of gender identity through the lens of fashion by speaking to Jackie O and Mercy Kelly from The Hetrick-Martin Institute, and look outside traditional gender binaries, notably to those who identify as transgendered. Bhola speaks to Ian Alexander, best-known for playing Buck on Netflix’s The OA, to get his perspective on the trans identity. This episode of ‘Fashioning Identity’ unpacks fashion’s role in constructing – and deconstructing – gender identity, recognizes the diversity in gender, and much more. Listen to the full episode above or find it on iTunes, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
On our first episode, we explore the relationship between what we wear and the politics of gender. To begin, Jack Halberstam, a professor of gender studies at Columbia University, defines gender and helps contextualize it in fashion. Next, Valerie Steele, the director and chief curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, shares some critical moments in history when fashion challenged traditional gender norms. To investigate whether or not fashion has the power to change people’s ideas about gender, host Sachin Bhola speaks to a few gender-bending people in fashion, including Hood By Air’s Ian Isiah, musician Shamir, and Suited Magazine‘s Ash Owens. Also, Highsnobiety’s editorial director, Jian DeLeon, weighs in on the current state of heterosexual masculinity and what fashion can tell us about it. We then consider the future of gender identity through the lens of fashion by speaking to Jackie O and Mercy Kelly from The Hetrick-Martin Institute, and look outside traditional gender binaries, notably to those who identify as transgendered. Bhola speaks to Ian Alexander, best-known for playing Buck on Netflix’s The OA, to get his perspective on the trans identity. This episode of Fashioning Identity unpacks fashion’s role in constructing – and deconstructing – gender identity, recognizes the diversity in gender, and much more.
Hello, hello! Happy Spring! I'm here with another interview for you fine people. I had the opportunity to interview B'ellana Johannx aka Chloe Rose about their two upcoming chapbooks! B'ellana Johannx's gender is Rilke’s dark god: a webbed scrim made of a thousand roots drinking in silence. Also known as Chloe Rose, she/they are a fat, queer, femme, non-binary womxn-of-color living with disabilities and their cats Franz and Pepper in Tacoma, WA. Rose/Johannx has been published in The Wanderer, Dream Pop, and Aspasiology, with Pushcart and Bettering American Poetry nominations henny, so watch out! Tweet them about conlangs, antifa, witchcraft, and drag names @llanaandsuchas. If you are a faggot, you are her/their kin and they love you. May the peace of the Goddess and God be upon you. #SMIB B'ellana's website B'ellana's Twitter Writers, books, ideas, musicians mentioned: BBC News reporting on Fatbergs Cruising Utopia and Disidentifications by José Esteban Muñoz Raquel Salas Rivera Kolby Harvey In a Queer Time and Place by Jack Halberstam blackbox of butterfly goo Never Angeline Nørth, aka , aka Møss Høpe Ångel, fka Moss Angel the Undying, fka Moss Angel Witchmonstr, fka Sara June Woods, fka Sara Woods Infancy Gospel of Thomas Epimemetics / cultural mimetics: This Wired article from the 90s and also the more contemporary: Thomas Hobson and Kaajal Modi, “Communist Imaginaries and Queer Futures: Memes as Sites of Collective Imagination” coming soon as part of this anthology Beast Meridian while they sleep (under the bed another country) by Raquel Salas Rivera Cruel Fiction by Wendy Trevino Big Lucks Dream Pop Femmescapes zine The Faggots and their Friends between Revolutions by Larry Mitchell Sea-Witch by Never Angeline North Lizzo listicle about BLACKPINK "The Sound of Waves Breaking" is titled "Ghost Merkel Beat" by stanrams and made me laugh my ass off. This episode was edited and media managed by Mitchel Davidovitz
Oscar season is upon us and our fearless co-hosts Eric Newman, Medaya Ocher, and Kate Wolf bravely tender their predictions and preferences in a range of categories. There's a lotta love for Glenn Close and The Favorite; not so much for A Star is Born; respect for Roma; and a special focus on documentaries because we've interviewed the directors of many of this year's favorites (having featured last year's winner, Icarus). Medaya and Kate spoke with Sandi Tan, director of Shirkers; Eric talked to Bing Liu, director of Minding the Gap; and Morgan Neville discussed his film Won't You Be My Neighbor? with Kate and Eric; but we've chosen... to bring you a command performance of Eric and Daya's interview with Tim Wardle, director of Three Identical Strangers. Also, author Julietta Singh returns to recommend The Queer Art of Failure by Jack Halberstam, which features close readings of Pixar Films which celebrate a new generation of animated films which embrace characters, narratives, and communities that counter the traditional tropes of patriarchal, hetero-normative, heroic individualism.
Oscar season is upon us and our fearless co-hosts Eric Newman, Medaya Ocher, and Kate Wolf bravely tender their predictions and preferences in a range of categories. There's a lotta love for Glenn Close and The Favorite; not so much for A Star is Born; respect for Roma; and a special focus on documentaries because we've interviewed the directors of many of this year's favorites (having featured last year's winner, Icarus). Medaya and Kate spoke with Sandi Tan, director of Shirkers; Eric talked to Bing Liu, director of Minding the Gap; and Morgan Neville discussed his film Won't You Be My Neighbor? with Kate and Eric; but we've chosen... to bring you a command performance of Eric and Daya's interview with Tim Wardle, director of Three Identical Strangers. Also, author Julietta Singh returns to recommend The Queer Art of Failure by Jack Halberstam, which features close readings of Pixar Films which celebrate a new generation of animated films which embrace characters, narratives, and communities that counter the traditional tropes of patriarchal, hetero-normative, heroic individualism.
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New Books in the Arts and Sciences at Columbia University: a podcast featuring audio from the New Books Series at Columbia University and interviews with the speakers and authors. Trans: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variability by: Jack Halberstam In the last decade, public discussions of transgender issues have increased exponentially. However, with this increased visibility has come not just power, but regulation, both in favor of and against trans people. What was once regarded as an unusual or even unfortunate disorder has become an accepted articulation of gendered embodiment as well as a new site for political activism and political recognition. What happened in the last few decades to prompt such an extensive rethinking of our understanding of gendered embodiment? How did a stigmatized identity become so central to U.S. and European articulations of self? And how have people responded to the new definitions and understanding of sex and the gendered body? In Trans*, Jack Halberstam explores these recent shifts in the meaning of the gendered body and representation, and explores the possibilities of a nongendered, gender-optional, or gender-queer future.
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What can whale songs teach us about queer theory? Marianna Szczygielska and Adriana Qubaia-ova from CEU’s Gender Studies Department interview Eva Hayward and Jack Halberstam about their most recent works. From marine creatures in Aquariums to a rebellious cow in Poland, we discuss captivity, ferality, and wildness as they collude in shaping our human understandings of sexuality and animality. Take a listen!
This minisode is the beginning of a short thematic arc on play, and like the good feminist killjoy I am, I decided to start it off by talking about failure. Specifically, I want to talk about a brilliant book — The Queer Art of Failure, by Jack Halberstam — that turned my understanding of failure inside … Continue reading Episode 2.7 Playing, Losing, Failing
Podcast Show Notes: Episode 16 Intro: Welcome to the 16th episode of Arts Performed Podcast. I am your host Tobi. This week I am talking with Tuna and Seda of the Istanbul Queer Art Collective where they engage with the concept of success and failure and how Jack Halberstam inverts the normative concepts in his book The Queer Art of Failure. In the interview I mistakenly used Jack’s former name. Jack Halberstam is a transsexual man and academic and the edition I used to look up the theory was written in Jack’s former name. Also important to note about this episode is the bad audio. We recorded the episode in a noisy café and although I cut out the worst noise in the edit it is still very noisy. However if you are interested in performance art in Turkey and England and the fluxus movement and Jack Halberstam’s The Queer Art of Failure I urge you to persist and keep listening. Also please come along to their performance night Turkish Delight, at the Glory in Dalston on the 1st of February. It is a night of bilingual performances in English and Turkish and if their own performances are anything to go by it will be an amazing night. Outro: If you persisted to the end I think you will agree Tuna and Seda are engaging and have given me lots to think about, not only in terms of my podcast and interest in art but in my life too. The inversion of success and failure are certainly something that has had an impact on me. Please remember their performance night Turkish Delight, at the Glory where they have queer performances in Turkish and English. The next episode is with Sebastian Hua-Walker who talks about live art, the Mexican Goddess The Holiest Death, and much, much more. Sebastian is included in the review of Deep Trash at the Underworld as is The Queer Art Collective from my WordPress article Deep Trash at the Underworld blokartspace.com Istanbul Queer Art Collective Please like, comment, subscribe and share from my:twitter.com/artsperformedyoutube.cominstagram.com/artsperformedartsperformed.wordpress.comfacebook.com/artsperformedartsperformedpodcast.podbean.com
Podcast Show Notes: Episode 15 Intro: Hello and welcome to the 15th episode. I am your host Tobi. This is the second part of performance artist Richard Dedomenici dedomenici.com and artistic director of 30bird.org, Mehrdad Seyf’s interview. They continue to talk about their collaboration to get Chris de Burgh on tour in Iran, and their interdisciplinary ethic. Particularly interesting is their very different art forms that complement, as they both engage in humour and the visual but in different ways. Outro: What more can I say about their work that they haven’t said already other than to remind you of their up and coming shows. Richard will be in Lancaster with his piece, An Architecture, that continues the theme of a previous work shown in a youtube video which will be on the podcast show notes here youtube.com They will both be returning with their performance/ presentation in March at the Junction, in Cambridge, along with other artists and interdisciplinary performances. Details can be found on their websites: dedomenici.com 30bird.org next weeks episode will be with Tuna and Seda from the Istanbul Queer Art Collective where they talk about the fluxus movement of the 1960s and Jack Halberstam’s the Queer Art of Failure. We also talk about their own performances in Turkey and their performance at Deep Trash at the Underworld at the Bethnal Green Working Man’s Club. They also have a performance evening coming up at the Glory in Dalston, East London on the 1st of February called Turkish Delight, which will be an evening of Turkish and English performances facebook.com/istanbulqueerartcollective/ facebook Turkish Delight event page Please like, comment, subscribe and share from my:twitter.com/artsperformedyoutubeinstagram.com/artsperformedartsperformed.wordpress.comfacebook.com/artsperformedartsperformedpodcast.podbean.com
Black radicalism [consequently] cannot be understood within the particular context of its genesis. It is not a variant of Western radicalism whose proponents happen to be Black. Rather, it is a specifically African response to an oppression emergent from the immediate determinants of European development in the modern era and framed by orders of human exploitation woven into the interstices of European social life from the inception of Western civilization. . .Cedric Robinson, Black Marxism (79) How do we map the Black Radical tradition? How can we understand its praxis? If we are to truly to refashion the world…to make it better…to remake its institutions…to address its systemic inequities. Find justice. Seek peace. What language can we use to transmit it once we are able “see” it? What are the concepts that it will produce that will allow us to see the world differently? How can we codify the thoughts and practices in an effort to create a new vision of the world while simultaneously resisting the present? What questions do we need to ask that begins to provide insight, and foresight to muddle through the Man vs. Human conflict explored in the work of Sylvia Wynter. Aimé Césaire argues that we cannot look to Western notions of “man”, as this man has been forged out of an arrested understanding of humanity. A narrow conception which consistently depends on the systematic degradation of non-European men and women. He writes in Discourse on Colonialism: “At the very time when it most often mouths the word, the West has never been further from being able to live a true humanism—a humanism made to the measure of the world” (73). More than this…Where do we look? Fred Moten and Stefano Harney suggest that we pay attention closer attention to the undercommons. It is the space in between space that we should look to study blackness. According to Jack Halberstam in Chapter 0 of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study: “If you want to know what the undercommons wants, what Moten and Harney want, what black people, indigenous peoples, queers and poor people want, what we (the “we” who cohabit in the space of the undercommons) want, it is this – we cannot be satisfied with the recognition and acknowledgement generated by the very system that denies a) that anything was ever broken and b) that we deserved to be the broken part; so we refuse to ask for recognition and instead we want to take apart, dismantle, tear down the structure that, right now, limits our ability to find each other, to see beyond it and to access the places that we know lie outside its walls” (6). In this episode, we present a recent conversation I had with Professor Fred Moten where we explore the ideas set forth by radical thinkers ranging from anti-colonialist such as Sylvia Wynter and Aimé Césaire to scholar-activists such as W. E. B. Du Bois and Amiri Baraka. Professor Fred Moten is currently Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, where he teaches courses and conducts research in black studies, performance studies, poetics and literary theory. He is author of In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition (University of Minnesota Press, 2003); Hughson's Tavern (Leon Works, 2009); B. Jenkins (Duke University Press, 2010). Moten is also co-author, with Stefano Harney, of The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study. Our show was produced today in solidarity with the native, indigenous, and Afro-descended communities at Standing Rock; Venezuela; Cooperation Jackson in Jackson, Mississippi; Brazil; the Avalon Village in Detroit; Colombia; Kenya; Palestine; South Africa; and Ghana; and other places who are fighting for the protection of our land for the benefit of all people. Enjoy the program. Music:J Dilla--African RhythmsTribe Called Quest--Vibes and StuffA Tribe Called Red--The Virus Feat. Saul Williams & Chippewa Travellers De La Soul--Drawn ft Little Dragon
Sofia Varino talks with Jack Halberstam at the Cyborg conference at the Disruption Lab in Berlin, during which he gave a talk about the politics and ethics of human enhancement technologies. Halberstam is professor of American Studies and Ethnicity, Gender Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California and one of the most influential queer theorists today. He is the author of works like Female Masculinity, The Queer Art of Failure and Gaga Feminism and is working on a new project on the radical possibilities of “the wild” as a transgressive category. This conversation took place in the lobby of the Bethanien Kunstraum, one of Berlin’s main exhibition spaces for contemporary art, and the imposing architecture and transience of the space helped shape our conversation.
Relationship (Prestel Publishing) Male becomes female. Female becomes male. Life becomes art. Private becomes public. A major feature of the 2014 Whitney Biennial, this series of photographs that the New York Times called “extremely provocative” explores ideas of transformation both physical and psychological. It’s the story of two people in love, in a culture where the notion of gender has become more fluid and at a time when trans people have never been more accepted. As both subjects and creators of these images, Drucker and Ernst, both of whom transitioned gender, represent themselves in the midst of shifting subjectivities and identities. Collectively, these photographs, which have been compared to the work of Larry Clark, Nan Goldin, and Cindy Sherman, document the story of their romantic and creative collaboration over a period of six years. Simultaneously narrative and documentary, they touch on a host of dynamics, offering autobiography as ambiguity and unraveling identity as a construction. Praise for Relationship Documenting a six-year relationship with photos, video stills, letters and ephemera, this book is a stunning, intimate, and wholly original visual narrative by two rising artists who “put[s] queer consciousness on the front burner.” -The New York Times Zackary Drucker is an independent artist, cultural producer, and trans woman who breaks down the way we think about gender, sexuality, and seeing. She has performed and exhibited her work internationally in museums, galleries, and film festivals including the Whitney Biennial 2014, MoMA PS1, Hammer Museum, Art Gallery of Ontario, MCA San Diego, and SF MoMA, among others. Drucker is an Emmy-nominated Producer for the docu-seriesThis Is Me, as well as a Co-Producer on Golden Globe and Emmy-winningTransparent. She is a cast member on the E! docu-series I Am Cait. Rhys Ernst is a filmmaker and artist. His work investigates transgender identity in the context of larger narratives, and seeks to develop and expand the portrayal of trans lives in media. He is a Co-Producer of Amazon’s Transparent and created the title sequence for the series. Ernst was nominated for a 2015 Emmy Award for directing and producing the webseries Transparent: This Is Me, and in 2016 he teamed up with Focus Features to create the online series We've Been Around, a collection of short films on transgender pioneers. In addition to the 2014 Whitney Biennial, Ernst has shown work at Sundance, Oberhausen, and The Hammer Museum; he has won awards at Outfest, Chicago International Film Festival and the LA Transgender Film Festival; he was a Point Scholar, a Project Involve Fellow, and was awarded with the 2015 Point Foundation Horizon Award for his work on transgender representation in the media. Jack Halberstam is Visiting Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University. Halberstam is the author of five books including: Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters, Female Masculinity, In A Queer Time and Place, The Queer Art of Failure and Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal and has written articles that have appeared in numerous journals, magazines and collections. Halberstam has co-edited a number of anthologies including Posthuman Bodies with Ira Livingston and a special issue of Social Text with Jose Munoz and David Eng titled “What’s Queer About Queer Studies Now?” Jack is a popular speaker and gives lectures around the country and internationally every year. Lecture topics include: queer failure, sex and media, subcultures, visual culture, gender variance, popular film, animation. Halberstam is currently working on several projects including a book for Duke UP titled WILD THING on queer anarchy, performance and protest culture, and a short book on transgenderism titled Trans* for UC Press.
A weekly discussion on sex, sexuality and gender politics. This week, hosts Vanessa Carlisle, Danny Cruz and Chrisanne Eastwood talk about the representations of transgender people in mainstream media. Actor and trans* activist Quei Tann discuss the recent strides made in mainstream media by transgender women. Featuring an interview with Jack Halberstam, Professor of English and Director of The Center for Feminist Research at the University of Southern California.
The Laura C. Harris Series presents Jack Halberstam as part of the 2013-14 Laura C. Harris series, the theme of which is 'Feminists Ask “What If…? Halberstam's lecture, entitled 'Gaga Feminism' will discuss cultural shifts that have transformed gender and sexual politics. Halberstam is professor of English and director of The Center for Feminist Research at University of Southern California.