Podcast appearances and mentions of Karen Tongson

Authors and creators will discuss the role of TV in society historically and today, including connections to politics, queer spectatorship, and representations of race, class, and gender. David Craig is a Clinical Professor of Communication and director of the Global Media and Communication program at USC. An expert in Hollywood, Chinese, and social media industries; a television historian; an Emmy-nominated producer and television executive; and a pioneer in the field of Creator Studies at USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, his most recent books is Apocalypse Television How The Day After Helped End the Cold War. Anthony Sparks is showrunner, head writer, and executive producer of the TV drama, Queen Sugar, created by Ava DuVernay and executive produced by Oprah Winfrey and writer/producer for the Iron Mike series on Hulu. A former cast member of Broadway hit STOMP, he holds three degrees from USC (BFA, MA, and Ph.D.), where he studied Theatre, Film, Anthropology, and American History. Karen Tongson is the author of Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us, Why Karen Carpenter Matters (one of Pitchfork's best music books of 2019), and Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries. In 2019, she was awarded Lambda Literary's Jeanne Cordova Prize for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction. She directs the Mellon-funded Consortium for Gender, Sexuality, Race, and Public Culture at USC, where she is also Chair and professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies and professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity.  Moderator: Tara McPherson is the HMH Foundation Endowed Professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts and director of the Sidney Harman Academy for Polymathic Study. She is author of Feminist in a Software Lab and Reconstructing Dixie, co-editor of Hop on Pop and Transmedia Frictions, and editor of Digital Youth, Innovation and the Unexpected. She was founding editor of the pioneering multimedia journal Vectors and the lead PI of the online platform Scalar. She has received funding from the Mellon, Ford, Annenberg, and MacArthur foundations, as well as from the NEH.

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In Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us (NYU Press, 2023), Karen Tongson presents an irreverent look at the love-hate relationship between queer viewers and mainstream family TV shows like Gilmore Girls and This Is Us. After personal loss, political upheaval, and the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us craved a return to business as usual, the mundane, the middlebrow. We turned to TV to find these things. For nearly forty years, network television has produced a constant stream of “cry-along” sentimental-realist dramedies designed to appeal to liberal, heterosexual, white America. But what makes us keep watching, even though these TV series inevitably fail to reflect who we are? Revisiting soothing network dramedies like Parenthood, Gilmore Girls, This Is Us, and their late-80s precursor, thirtysomething, Normporn mines the nuanced pleasures and attraction-repulsion queer viewers experience watching liberal family-centric shows. Tongson reflects on how queer cultural observers work through repeated declarations of a “new normal” and flash lifestyle trends like “normcore,” even as the absurdity, aberrance, and violence of our culture intensifies. Normporn allows us to process how the intimate traumas of everyday life depicted on certain TV shows—of love, life, death, and loss—are linked to the collective and historical traumas of their contemporary moments, from financial recessions and political crises to the pandemic. Normporn asks, what are queers to do—what is anyone to do, really—when we are forced to confront the fact of our own normalcy, and our own privilege, inherited or attained? The fantasies, the utopian impulses, and (paradoxically) the unreality of sentimental realist TV drama creates a productive tension that queer spectators in particular take pleasure in, even as—or precisely because—it lulls us into a sense of boredom and stability that we never thought we could want or have.  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 Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us (NYU Press, 2023), Karen Tongson presents an irreverent look at the love-hate relationship between queer viewers and mainstream family TV shows like Gilmore Girls and This Is Us. After personal loss, political upheaval, and the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us craved a return to business as usual, the mundane, the middlebrow. We turned to TV to find these things. For nearly forty years, network television has produced a constant stream of “cry-along” sentimental-realist dramedies designed to appeal to liberal, heterosexual, white America. But what makes us keep watching, even though these TV series inevitably fail to reflect who we are? Revisiting soothing network dramedies like Parenthood, Gilmore Girls, This Is Us, and their late-80s precursor, thirtysomething, Normporn mines the nuanced pleasures and attraction-repulsion queer viewers experience watching liberal family-centric shows. Tongson reflects on how queer cultural observers work through repeated declarations of a “new normal” and flash lifestyle trends like “normcore,” even as the absurdity, aberrance, and violence of our culture intensifies. Normporn allows us to process how the intimate traumas of everyday life depicted on certain TV shows—of love, life, death, and loss—are linked to the collective and historical traumas of their contemporary moments, from financial recessions and political crises to the pandemic. Normporn asks, what are queers to do—what is anyone to do, really—when we are forced to confront the fact of our own normalcy, and our own privilege, inherited or attained? The fantasies, the utopian impulses, and (paradoxically) the unreality of sentimental realist TV drama creates a productive tension that queer spectators in particular take pleasure in, even as—or precisely because—it lulls us into a sense of boredom and stability that we never thought we could want or have.  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 Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us (NYU Press, 2023), Karen Tongson presents an irreverent look at the love-hate relationship between queer viewers and mainstream family TV shows like Gilmore Girls and This Is Us. After personal loss, political upheaval, and the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us craved a return to business as usual, the mundane, the middlebrow. We turned to TV to find these things. For nearly forty years, network television has produced a constant stream of “cry-along” sentimental-realist dramedies designed to appeal to liberal, heterosexual, white America. But what makes us keep watching, even though these TV series inevitably fail to reflect who we are? Revisiting soothing network dramedies like Parenthood, Gilmore Girls, This Is Us, and their late-80s precursor, thirtysomething, Normporn mines the nuanced pleasures and attraction-repulsion queer viewers experience watching liberal family-centric shows. Tongson reflects on how queer cultural observers work through repeated declarations of a “new normal” and flash lifestyle trends like “normcore,” even as the absurdity, aberrance, and violence of our culture intensifies. Normporn allows us to process how the intimate traumas of everyday life depicted on certain TV shows—of love, life, death, and loss—are linked to the collective and historical traumas of their contemporary moments, from financial recessions and political crises to the pandemic. Normporn asks, what are queers to do—what is anyone to do, really—when we are forced to confront the fact of our own normalcy, and our own privilege, inherited or attained? The fantasies, the utopian impulses, and (paradoxically) the unreality of sentimental realist TV drama creates a productive tension that queer spectators in particular take pleasure in, even as—or precisely because—it lulls us into a sense of boredom and stability that we never thought we could want or have.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/film

In Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us (NYU Press, 2023), Karen Tongson presents an irreverent look at the love-hate relationship between queer viewers and mainstream family TV shows like Gilmore Girls and This Is Us. After personal loss, political upheaval, and the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us craved a return to business as usual, the mundane, the middlebrow. We turned to TV to find these things. For nearly forty years, network television has produced a constant stream of “cry-along” sentimental-realist dramedies designed to appeal to liberal, heterosexual, white America. But what makes us keep watching, even though these TV series inevitably fail to reflect who we are? Revisiting soothing network dramedies like Parenthood, Gilmore Girls, This Is Us, and their late-80s precursor, thirtysomething, Normporn mines the nuanced pleasures and attraction-repulsion queer viewers experience watching liberal family-centric shows. Tongson reflects on how queer cultural observers work through repeated declarations of a “new normal” and flash lifestyle trends like “normcore,” even as the absurdity, aberrance, and violence of our culture intensifies. Normporn allows us to process how the intimate traumas of everyday life depicted on certain TV shows—of love, life, death, and loss—are linked to the collective and historical traumas of their contemporary moments, from financial recessions and political crises to the pandemic. Normporn asks, what are queers to do—what is anyone to do, really—when we are forced to confront the fact of our own normalcy, and our own privilege, inherited or attained? The fantasies, the utopian impulses, and (paradoxically) the unreality of sentimental realist TV drama creates a productive tension that queer spectators in particular take pleasure in, even as—or precisely because—it lulls us into a sense of boredom and stability that we never thought we could want or have.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology

In Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us (NYU Press, 2023), Karen Tongson presents an irreverent look at the love-hate relationship between queer viewers and mainstream family TV shows like Gilmore Girls and This Is Us. After personal loss, political upheaval, and the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us craved a return to business as usual, the mundane, the middlebrow. We turned to TV to find these things. For nearly forty years, network television has produced a constant stream of “cry-along” sentimental-realist dramedies designed to appeal to liberal, heterosexual, white America. But what makes us keep watching, even though these TV series inevitably fail to reflect who we are? Revisiting soothing network dramedies like Parenthood, Gilmore Girls, This Is Us, and their late-80s precursor, thirtysomething, Normporn mines the nuanced pleasures and attraction-repulsion queer viewers experience watching liberal family-centric shows. Tongson reflects on how queer cultural observers work through repeated declarations of a “new normal” and flash lifestyle trends like “normcore,” even as the absurdity, aberrance, and violence of our culture intensifies. Normporn allows us to process how the intimate traumas of everyday life depicted on certain TV shows—of love, life, death, and loss—are linked to the collective and historical traumas of their contemporary moments, from financial recessions and political crises to the pandemic. Normporn asks, what are queers to do—what is anyone to do, really—when we are forced to confront the fact of our own normalcy, and our own privilege, inherited or attained? The fantasies, the utopian impulses, and (paradoxically) the unreality of sentimental realist TV drama creates a productive tension that queer spectators in particular take pleasure in, even as—or precisely because—it lulls us into a sense of boredom and stability that we never thought we could want or have.  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 Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us (NYU Press, 2023), Karen Tongson presents an irreverent look at the love-hate relationship between queer viewers and mainstream family TV shows like Gilmore Girls and This Is Us. After personal loss, political upheaval, and the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us craved a return to business as usual, the mundane, the middlebrow. We turned to TV to find these things. For nearly forty years, network television has produced a constant stream of “cry-along” sentimental-realist dramedies designed to appeal to liberal, heterosexual, white America. But what makes us keep watching, even though these TV series inevitably fail to reflect who we are? Revisiting soothing network dramedies like Parenthood, Gilmore Girls, This Is Us, and their late-80s precursor, thirtysomething, Normporn mines the nuanced pleasures and attraction-repulsion queer viewers experience watching liberal family-centric shows. Tongson reflects on how queer cultural observers work through repeated declarations of a “new normal” and flash lifestyle trends like “normcore,” even as the absurdity, aberrance, and violence of our culture intensifies. Normporn allows us to process how the intimate traumas of everyday life depicted on certain TV shows—of love, life, death, and loss—are linked to the collective and historical traumas of their contemporary moments, from financial recessions and political crises to the pandemic. Normporn asks, what are queers to do—what is anyone to do, really—when we are forced to confront the fact of our own normalcy, and our own privilege, inherited or attained? The fantasies, the utopian impulses, and (paradoxically) the unreality of sentimental realist TV drama creates a productive tension that queer spectators in particular take pleasure in, even as—or precisely because—it lulls us into a sense of boredom and stability that we never thought we could want or have.  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 Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us (NYU Press, 2023), Karen Tongson presents an irreverent look at the love-hate relationship between queer viewers and mainstream family TV shows like Gilmore Girls and This Is Us. After personal loss, political upheaval, and the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us craved a return to business as usual, the mundane, the middlebrow. We turned to TV to find these things. For nearly forty years, network television has produced a constant stream of “cry-along” sentimental-realist dramedies designed to appeal to liberal, heterosexual, white America. But what makes us keep watching, even though these TV series inevitably fail to reflect who we are? Revisiting soothing network dramedies like Parenthood, Gilmore Girls, This Is Us, and their late-80s precursor, thirtysomething, Normporn mines the nuanced pleasures and attraction-repulsion queer viewers experience watching liberal family-centric shows. Tongson reflects on how queer cultural observers work through repeated declarations of a “new normal” and flash lifestyle trends like “normcore,” even as the absurdity, aberrance, and violence of our culture intensifies. Normporn allows us to process how the intimate traumas of everyday life depicted on certain TV shows—of love, life, death, and loss—are linked to the collective and historical traumas of their contemporary moments, from financial recessions and political crises to the pandemic. Normporn asks, what are queers to do—what is anyone to do, really—when we are forced to confront the fact of our own normalcy, and our own privilege, inherited or attained? The fantasies, the utopian impulses, and (paradoxically) the unreality of sentimental realist TV drama creates a productive tension that queer spectators in particular take pleasure in, even as—or precisely because—it lulls us into a sense of boredom and stability that we never thought we could want or have.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/communications

In Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us (NYU Press, 2023), Karen Tongson presents an irreverent look at the love-hate relationship between queer viewers and mainstream family TV shows like Gilmore Girls and This Is Us. After personal loss, political upheaval, and the devastation of the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us craved a return to business as usual, the mundane, the middlebrow. We turned to TV to find these things. For nearly forty years, network television has produced a constant stream of “cry-along” sentimental-realist dramedies designed to appeal to liberal, heterosexual, white America. But what makes us keep watching, even though these TV series inevitably fail to reflect who we are? Revisiting soothing network dramedies like Parenthood, Gilmore Girls, This Is Us, and their late-80s precursor, thirtysomething, Normporn mines the nuanced pleasures and attraction-repulsion queer viewers experience watching liberal family-centric shows. Tongson reflects on how queer cultural observers work through repeated declarations of a “new normal” and flash lifestyle trends like “normcore,” even as the absurdity, aberrance, and violence of our culture intensifies. Normporn allows us to process how the intimate traumas of everyday life depicted on certain TV shows—of love, life, death, and loss—are linked to the collective and historical traumas of their contemporary moments, from financial recessions and political crises to the pandemic. Normporn asks, what are queers to do—what is anyone to do, really—when we are forced to confront the fact of our own normalcy, and our own privilege, inherited or attained? The fantasies, the utopian impulses, and (paradoxically) the unreality of sentimental realist TV drama creates a productive tension that queer spectators in particular take pleasure in, even as—or precisely because—it lulls us into a sense of boredom and stability that we never thought we could want or have.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/popular-culture

Meet your new favourite theory podcast! Theoryish is a brilliant audio journey that may just meet all your academic needs. Paola and Hannah are an amazing team and bring you everything from an introduction to queer studies to a deep dive into a critique of #girlboss. If you're looking for a fun and relatable entry point to that particular theory you were always wondering about, come, follow me…For quality academic memes, follow @theoryish_pod on Instagram and check out @queerlitpodcast too!  References:Third ReichQueer/Disrupt https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/research/centres/queerhistory/queeringthequarantine/Nick CherrymanLinda Nochlin “Why Are There No Great Women Artists”Igor AhmedovKierkegaardSusan SontagNotes on Camp bell hooksAdebayo Quadry-AdekanbiSue LemosJennifer V. EvansMeaghan AllenJulia Kristeva's Powers of HorrorHerbert TobiasAnna HájkováMedina-Gonzalez, P. "Appropriateness, Consent, and Intergenerational Kinship: Discussions of Herbert Tobias'sManfred Schubert",New Fascisms Syllabus.https://newfascismsyllabus.com/contributions/roundtable_queer_art_history/appropriateness-consent-and-intergenerational-kinship-discussions-of-herbert-tobiass-manfred-schubert/José Esteban Muñoz's Cruising UtopiaHannah Ayres; Where Do We Reside?: Queer Space, Existences, and Future Imaginings. (Book Review) TSQ 1 November 2023; 10 (3-4): 550–552.https://read.dukeupress.edu/tsq/article/10/3-4/550/385682/Where-Do-We-Reside-Queer-Space-Existences-and?guestAccessKey=6c2ea6ad-9141-4784-b86b-e0498ad955b1 Karen Tongson https://www.hannahayres.co.uk/@Miss_HVAJack Halberstam's The Queer Art of FailurePinky and the Brain@paolaMedGonz@theoryish_pod  Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:     Why did Hannah and Paola start Theoryish? Can you relate?     Paola explains the complexity of theory as layers. What does Theoryish do to break through the layers and make theory more accessible?     How does disciplinary knowledge play into the Theoryish approach?     How do Hannah and Paola describe queer knowledge production and/or pedagogical practice?     Do podcasts help you access new knowledge?

Unearthed from our Patreon feed, here's our conversation with author, educator, and new Rock Hall voter Karen Tongson about how she filled out this year's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ballot. This show is part of Pantheon Podcasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What could be more soothing than escaping your beautiful but complex queer life by watching a bunch of straight people remodel their suburban home in a new shade of beige? Karen Tongson joins me to explain why mainstream television can be so comforting and why admitting to having watched Gilmore Girls for the fourth time can feel a bit like sharing your browser history… In this curious entanglement of norms, shame, and self-soothing, Karen also shares insights into the shifting views of what is normal and what this means for queer life – televisually as well as geographically and sociopolitically.Listen now to hear Karen speak about “surrendering to the spontaneous overflow of basic feelings” and don't forget to follow Karen on Instagram @tongsonator to keep up to date with her work.  References:Karen Tongson's Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us (2023)Karen Tongson's Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries (2011)Karen Tongson's Why Karen Carpenter Matters (2021)Karen Tongson's Empty Orchestra (forthcoming)The UltimatumThirtysomethingParenthoodTrue BloodGilmore GirlsJosé Esteban MuñozCatherine ZimmerHannah Gadsby's NanetteThe Phantom of the OperaMichael CrawfordSailor MoonTuxedo MaskGestaltThe TraitorsAlan Cumming@tongsonatorKarentongson.org  Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:     Can you define ‘normporn' and give an example of what might be a typical normporn show?     What is the ‘porn' in ‘normporn'? How does shame play into watching mainstream TV as queer escapism?     What role does grief play in relation to normporn?     Karen talks about discussions of normalcy as a throughline for all three of her currently published books. Which type of ‘normal' does each monograph discuss?     Which show do you find particularly soothing and why?

For this episode, we're joined by the incredible Karen Tongson, Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies, English, and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Why Karen Carpenter Matters and Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries. Her newest book, normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us provides theory for this episode about the beloved TV show, Gilmore Girls. We begin with a discussion of the early 2000s postfeminist Bush era that defined the early days of Gilmore Girls. Karen then offers some insight into the viewing practices of queer adults who have returned to this show en masse over the last two and a half decades since its pilot aired. We talk about the appeal of the Gilmore girls themselves, the tragedy of Lane Kim's journey into adulthood, the conservative reproductive politics that shape the show and the phenomenon of queer viewers finding both a pleasure and a shame in consuming sentimental content that showcases a fantasy of assimilation and acceptance.normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us (NYU Press) was released in November 2023 and is available now! You can find more of Karen on her two podcasts, Waiting to X-Hale and The Gaymazing Race, and on Instagram@tongsonator.We'll be back in two weeks for another episode, but until then, be sure to check out all the bonus content we have on our Patreon at Patreon.com/ohwitchplease. You can learn more about the show at ohwitchplease.ca and on our instagram at instagram.com/ohwitchplease! Want more from us? Check out our website ohwitchplease.ca.***Material Girls is a show that aims to make sense of the zeitgeist through materialist critique* and critical theory! Each episode looks at a unique object of study (something popular now or from back in the day) and over the course of three distinct segments, Hannah and Marcelle apply their academic expertise to the topic at hand.*Materialist Critique is, at its simplest possible level, a form of cultural critique – that is, scholarly engagement with a cultural text of some kind – that is interested in modes of production, moments of reception, and the historical and ideological contexts for both. Materialist critique is really interested in the question of why a particular cultural work or practice emerged at a particular moment. Music Credits:“Shopping Mall”: by Jay Arner and Jessica Delisle ©2020Used by permission. All rights reserved. As recorded by Auto Syndicate on the album “Bongo Dance”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For this episode, we're joined by the incredible Karen Tongson, Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies, English, and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Why Karen Carpenter Matters and Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries. Her newest book, normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us provides theory for this episode about the beloved TV show, Gilmore Girls. We begin with a discussion of the early 2000s postfeminist Bush era that defined the early days of Gilmore Girls. Karen then offers some insight into the viewing practices of queer adults who have returned to this show en masse over the last two and a half decades since its pilot aired. We talk about the appeal of the Gilmore girls themselves, the tragedy of Lane Kim's journey into adulthood, the conservative reproductive politics that shape the show and the phenomenon of queer viewers finding both a pleasure and a shame in consuming sentimental content that showcases a fantasy of assimilation and acceptance.normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us (NYU Press) was released in November 2023 and is available now! You can find more of Karen on her two podcasts, Waiting to X-Hale and The Gaymazing Race, and on Instagram@tongsonator.We'll be back in two weeks for another episode, but until then, be sure to check out all the bonus content we have on our Patreon at Patreon.com/ohwitchplease. You can learn more about the show at ohwitchplease.ca and on our instagram at instagram.com/ohwitchplease! Want more from us? Check out our website ohwitchplease.ca.***Material Girls is a show that aims to make sense of the zeitgeist through materialist critique* and critical theory! Each episode looks at a unique object of study (something popular now or from back in the day) and over the course of three distinct segments, Hannah and Marcelle apply their academic expertise to the topic at hand.*Materialist Critique is, at its simplest possible level, a form of cultural critique – that is, scholarly engagement with a cultural text of some kind – that is interested in modes of production, moments of reception, and the historical and ideological contexts for both. Materialist critique is really interested in the question of why a particular cultural work or practice emerged at a particular moment. Music Credits:“Shopping Mall”: by Jay Arner and Jessica Delisle ©2020Used by permission. All rights reserved. As recorded by Auto Syndicate on the album “Bongo Dance”. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kat's “Machos: Fully Loaded” guest co-host, A. C. Lamberty, returns to Feminist Frequency Radio for a special interview with returning guest Karen Tongson to discuss her brand-new book normporn: queer viewers and the tv that soothes us.Links Mentioned:Get your own copy of normporn: https://bookshop.org/p/books/normporn-queer-pleasures-in-sentimental-television-karen-tongson/19916162https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-30-guyliner-tears-and-octopusses-with-kat-spada/id1549053649?i=1000632054909Find Karen:twitter.com/inlandemperorkarentongson.orgFind A.C.:Website: https://www.aclamberty.com/On Instagram and Letterboxd at @aclambertyFind Kat:twitter.com/kat_ex_machinaFind Us:Join our PatreonOur WebsiteSubscribe to FFR on Apple PodcastsTwitterInstagramtwitch.tv/femfreq

It's Screen Drafts' 2nd annual 25th anniversary celebration! Guest commissioner Bryan Cogman takes over the show as Clay joins an illustrious GM panel, including author Karen Tongson, screenwriter Helen Shang, and development exec Thomas Grabinski, to rank the 13 best films released in the year 1998!

Hello from karaoke! This week, we bring you more Olivia Rodrigo content–with Karen Tongson, USC professor, podcast co-host, and lover of all singable musics! [28:50] Jay and Tammy* go deep with Karen on her childhood with musician parents, AzNs in California's Inland Empire, overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), transpacific music circuits, and why it's racist to pile on a twenty-year-old Pinay pop star. [3:25] But first, some takes on Hasan Minhaj's “emotionally true” standup act. (*Sorry for Tammy's absence partway, then fully halfway, through the ep… and all the water noise, lol. NY apartment life, what can you do?) In this episode, we ask: * Why are Filipinos so often accused of copycat artistry? * How does Filipino music resist the long tail of American colonization?* What makes Olivia's music so delectable (and so suburban Asian American?!)? * When is race comedy funny?For more, see: * A 2021 TTSG episode about the Inland Empire (Environmental justice, Amazon logistics, and immigrant workers, with Andrea Vidaurre) * Bruno Mars doing Pandora on SNL (at 23:50)* Jay's review of “GUTS” on behalf of Gen X dads * Karen's newest book, out this November, Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us, and an earlier exploration of her namesake in Why Karen Carpenter Matters [excerpt here]* More on Filipino performance and colonial histories in Puro Arte: Filipinos on the Stages of Empire, by Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns* Clare Malone's story on Minhaj and his slippery “emotional truths” Subscribe on Patreon or Substack to join our Discord community. You can also follow us on Instagram, TikTok, and X (Twitter), and email us at timetosaygoodbyepod@gmail.com. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit goodbye.substack.com/subscribe

Today on a Super Special Pride Edition Crossover Episode, noted Virgo  Karen Tongson of the Gaymazing Race & Waiting to X-hale joins me to talk about THE ULTIMATUM- QUEER LOVE. Stay tuned.  Karen Tongson is the author of Normporn: Television and the Spectacle of Normalcy (forthcoming 2023), Why Karen Carpenter Matters (2019), and Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries (2011). Her current book-in-progress is titled, Empty Orchestra: Karaoke, Queer Performance, Queer Theory (Duke University Press). She received Lambda Literary's Jeanne Córdova Award for Lesbian/Queer Nonfiction for her body of writing in 2019. Tongson currently chairs the department of gender and sexuality studies at USC, where she's Professor of GSS, English and American studies & ethnicity. Her writing and cultural commentary have recently appeared in Slate, NPR, The Los Angeles Review of Books, PBS NewsHour, The Los Angeles Times, The AV Club, Entertainment Weekly, and KCRW's Good Food among other venues. Tongson is co-editor of the award-winning book series, Postmillennial Pop with Henry Jenkins at NYU Press, and co-hosts two podcasts: the GenX-themed Waiting to X-Hale with Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh, and The Gaymazing Race (a queer podcast about The Amazing Race) with Nicole J. Georges. Today's episode brought to you by  Jaime Raybin, Khale McHurst, and Zella Minor-House ! If you would like to support sagittarian matters, especially producer Chris sutton, please send $5 $40000 via paypal to hornetleg@gmail.com or Hellbooks on Venmo.  Thank you for your support and we look forward to saying your name on the podcast. Producer Ponyo looks forward to it too. 

The first course of this "Eat the Rich" mini-season is served! Kat and Anita are joined by professor, podcaster, and author Karen Tongson to sink our teeth into Ruben Östlund's Oscar-nominated 2022 saga Triangle of Sadness. Tune in to find out how we think the movie's satirical look at class dynamics may (or may not) have been successful.

Gaymazing Race hosts Karen Tongson and Nicole Georges join the guys to break down how they watch their favorite show through a queer lens. Also, an LGBTQ+ museum: who wants it? And the guys dish on their ideal salads. And if you don't think Outback gets a shoutout, you're sorely mistaken! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Special guest, professor, podcaster, and prolific author Karen Tongson joins Anita and Kat for episode five of our “Cyberpunk Summer” series, where we are discussing the 1990 sci-fi action film Total Recall, from director Paul Verhoeven. Based on Philip K. Dick's 1966 short story “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale,” the movie stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as a construction worker who receives implanted memories of his time working as a spy on Mars—or is he a Martian spy whose memories of life as a construction worker were implanted?Note: Enjoy this episode of the podcast as a video at patreon.com/femfreq or on Youtube here: https://youtu.be/xM9RRHmwvEI Time Stamps:46:26 - What's your Freq Out?Karen on Rachel Bloom's Crazy Ex-Girlfriend singalongs at The Stowaway piano bar in DTLAAnita on RRRKat on Mall Stories and City of Ghosts from Elizabeth ItoLinks Mentioned:Previous Verhoeven episodes of FFR:Erotic 80s on the You Must Remember This podcast - http://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/2022/7/11/erotic-80s-archive Find Karen:https://twitter.com/inlandemperorw2xpodcast.comFind Us:Join our PatreonOur WebsiteSubscribe to FFR on Apple PodcastsSubscribe to our Star Trek PodcastTwitterInstagramtwitch.tv/femfreq (every Thursday at 6:30pm PT)

HOW DID NO ONE KNOW HE WAS WHITE!?!? Sorry, getting ahead of ourselves. This week, Jordan and Cameron discuss a movie people have been asking for again and again. 1986's Soul Man. Look, C. Thomas Howell is in black face. Period. That's the movie. But we are so very lucky to be joined by the perfect guests to discuss this train wreck, Wynter and Karen from Waiting to X-Hale!  There's so much to discuss here. Karen and Wynter discuss seeing this movie in theaters. We talk about the absurdity of "tanning pills", C. Thomas Howell and Rae Dawn Chong getting married (!) after this movie and their continued defense of the film. And the fever dream of a music video that came out with the movie.  Karen and Wynter are incredible. Truly. So smart and funny and obviously you want more from them. So follow Karen at @Inlandemperor and check out her work and books at Karentongson.org. You can find Wynter at @wyntermitchell. And find Waiting to X-Hale wherever you podcast!  As always, check us out on Twitter @white_pod and write into us at whitepeoplewontsaveyoupod@gmail.com with all of your thoughts, movie recommendations, caucacity, and more! And finally, if you'd be so kind, subscribe, rate and review wherever you get your podcasts!  See y'all next week! 

Today Nicole is joined by noted Amazing Race superfan Poulomi Saha to discuss Amazing Race 33 Episode 7 (Gently Down the Stream) , while our faithful host and executive producer Karen Tongson recuperates from Covid.  We watch the teams try Casu Marzu in Corsica, count metal fish together under the water, fake-almost-drown thanks to editing, and MORE. Tune in!  Poulomi Saha (@poulomiqsaha)  is  an Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches courses in postcolonial studies, gender and sexuality theory, and ethnic American literature. She is also the  author  of the award-winning book, An Empire of Touch: Women's Political Labor & The Fabrication of East Bengal.

Array Collective became the first Northern Irish winner of the prestigious Turner prize for their shebeen pub installation, Emma Campbell & Laura O'Connor on their win with Seán Rocks, Tara Brady & Justin MacGregor with film reviews, The Hand of God, C'Mon C'Mon & Final Account, Karen Tongson discusses her new book, Why Karen Carpenter Matters.

Summary:   “Are you allergic to the 20th century?” This week we are talking about Julianne Moore's very unsettling 1995 psychological drama Safe. Also discussed: Karen Carpenter, Mariel Buckley, and Becoming Duchess Goldblatt.    Show notes: Safe: Nowhere to Hide (Criterion)   Todd Haynes's Masterpiece “Safe” Is Now a Tale of Two Plagues (New Yorker)   Allergic to life: the Arizona residents 'sensitive to the whole world' (Guardian)   Recommendations: Andrea W.:  Why Karen Carpenter Matters by Karen Tongson (book); Mariel Buckley (music)   Andrea G.: Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (short film)    Lisa: Becoming Duchess Goldblatt: A Memoir (book)   Music credits: "Eighties Action" by Kevin MacLeod From: filmmusic.io License: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license   Theme song "Pyro Flow" by Kevin Macleod From: incompetech.com Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License   "Ghost" by Podington Bear From: Free Music Archive Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License Pop This! Links: Pop This! on TumblrPop This! on iTunes (please consider reviewing and rating us!) Pop This! on Stitcher (please consider reviewing and rating us!) Pop This! on Google PlayPop This! on TuneIn radioPop This! on TwitterPop This! on Instagram Logo design by Samantha Smith Intro voiced by Morgan Brayton Pop This! is a podcast featuring three women talking about pop culture. Lisa Christiansen is a broadcaster, journalist and longtime metal head. Andrea Warner is a music critic, author and former horoscopes columnist. Andrea Gin is a producer and an avid figure skating fan. Press play and come hang out with your new best friends. Pop This! podcast is produced by Andrea Gin.  

Start spreading the news! Dr Davy Knittle joins me for a chat about what queerness has to do with cities, why heteronormative architecture can make life difficult for queer people and queer kinship, how poets desire cityscapes, and what all of this has to do with compulsory able-bodiedness and racism. We also talk about our dogs and why we feel the local park can be a great gay space. My favourite bit? Davy reading from Eileen Myles. I think you should hit play now.Texts and people mentioned: Karen Tongson, Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries (NYU Press, 2011)Robert McRuer, “Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence” in Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities, edited by Sharon L. Snyder, Brenda Jo Brueggeman, and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson. Modern Language Association of America, 2002. 301-308. George Chauncey, “Privacy Could Only Be Had in Public': Forging a Gay World in the Streets” in Gay New York, Basic Books, 1994. 179-205. Julie Abraham, Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities (University of Minnesota Press, 2009) Trans Wellness Conference: www.transphl.org (@TransPHL)Thomas HobbesCalvin & HobbesEileen Myles, “Hot Night” in Not Me (Semiotext(e), 1991). Richard Florida, Cities and the Creative Class, (Routledge, 2005). Dionne Brand, What We All Long For (St. Martin's Griffin, 2008). Patjim Statovci, My Cat Yugoslavia, Translated by David Hackston (Pushkin Press, 2017) Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night (Simon and Schuster, 2020). One of many studies on the racial wealth gap in the US: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/02/27/examining-the-black-white-wealth-gap/Want to paint the town queer? Why not check out more of Davy's work here (https://davyknittle.squarespace.com/) and follow me on Instagram and Twitter (@Lena_Mattheis).Also, Davy was way too humble to mention this but many moons ago he had a conversation with THE Eileen Myles and you can listen to it here: http://jacket2.org/podcasts/not-me-ness-eileen-myles-and-davy-knittle. Questions you should be able to respond to after listening to this episode:1. How does Davy define the term city? Can you think of different ways to define it?2. Please give an example of heteronormative architecture or urban planning from your own life. How does this example affect queer living? How does it affect other marginalized people who do not identify as queer?3. What is Richard Florida's gay index? Why is it problematic?4. What does Davy say about the relationship between literary and urban studies?5. Can you think of an example of a queer text, film or series that depicts urbanity as central to queer life?

The new Netflix original series, The Chair, focus on the first woman of color to Chair the English Department at fictional Pembroke University. Dr. Karen Tongson (University of Southern California) can empathize with this character, played by Sandra Oh, but she is also an exceptional media critic. She talks with Matt Seybold about the reception of The Chair, its representation of literary studies, and where it fits in the history of the U.S. sitcom. For more about this episode, visit MarkTwainStudies.com/TheChair

In response to the escalating violence against the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community, Karen Tongson guest hosts this week’s Good Food, asking several women to share their stories. Tongson chairs the Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies at USC, where she teaches a Food Culture and Food Politics class.  Tongson leads a roundtable discussion with Chef Minh Phan and food writer Esther Tseng on AAPI representation, authenticity, and stereotypes within the hospitality industry. Restaurateur Lien Ta reflects on her childhood in her mother’s nail salons and the value of labor following the Atlanta shootings. Saehee Cho shares the story behind her grocery delivery initiative, Soon Mini, which blends her pursuits of food, the arts, and activism. Finally, Professor Dorinne Kay Kondo spotlights the ignorance of representing the AAPI community in cooking competition shows, something she refers to as “discomfort TV.”

A vegan who ate raw meat as a baby now finds joy in parsley. Listen to Smart Mouth: iTunes • Google Podcasts • Stitcher • Spotify • RadioPublic • TuneIn • Libsyn  Check out all our episodes so far here. If you like, pledge a buck or two on Patreon. This episode brought to you by Wünder, makers of European-style quark. Go to Wünder Creamery and enter code SMARTMOUTH for 15% off on your first order. Smart Mouth newsletter Smart Mouth IG Katherine Twitter Nicole on IG  Nicole on Twitter  The Gaymazing Race  Music: Debra by Beck  Related Episode: Filipino Food with Karen Tongson  Sources: San Francisco Chronicle  Ornaments of the earliest Upper Paleolithic: New insights from the Levant  The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Levant: C. 8000-332 BCE  Mediterranean Grains and Greens 

Dr. Karen Tongson joins Dr. J to talk about celebrity, what makes pop music "popular," karaoke queerness, our digital afterlives, and "Rachel, Jack, and Ashley Too."

Rae Lynn asks brilliant scholar Professor Karen Tongson all the burning questions in her mind about gender, pronouns, sexuality, representation and a lot of other important stuff.

Authors, professors, and professional queers, Nicole J. Georges and Karen Tongson introduce you to their new limited podcast series on The Amazing Race from an LGBTQ point-of-view. What makes the race so “gaymazing” beyond some of the storied LGBTQ teams who have competed, and in some instances even won, the race? How does TAR touch upon a queer aptitude for travel, adventure, cracking codes, and reading signs? How has the show grappled with the thorny issue of “diversity” in TV representation?  Our hosts introduce you to some of the themes and recurring segments you'll be hearing all series long while introducing newbies to The Amazing Race fundamentals. Plus, Nicole and Karen do a deep dive into some of their problematic TAR favorites, including Mirna and Charla. 

We are over the moon to have author, podcaster, and Butch Hair Quarantine co-founder KAREN TONGSON on the show!    Karen joins us to answer your advice questions, and to talk about Butch Hair Quarantine, karaoke, the Amazing Race, and our limited series podcast The GAYMAZING RACE.      Karen Tongson is Professor of English, Gender & Sexuality Studies, and American Studies & Ethnicity at USC.  You know her as the the Lambda award winning author of Why Karen Carpenter Matters, An originator of Butch Hair Quarantine, and as one half of the podcast waiting to exhale.    You can tune into The Gaymazing Race later this month wherever you get your podcasts. 

Pop culture scholar, USC professor, writer, and podcaster Karen Tongson (Pop Rocket) joins Andrew to discuss the French election, Boston Red Sox fans racist abuse on Adam Jones, tempers flaring over removal of confederate statues in New Orleans, and much more. As always, leave us a message about anything you think is racist at (323) 389-RACE.

The Hamilton and Umbrella Academy star tells us what the food's like on theatre, TV, and movie productions. Especially with all those union rules. Be sure to send Emmy your Toronto restaurant recommendations! The transcript of this episode is here. You can listen to Smart Mouth on iTunes, on Stitcher, on Spotify. Check out all our episodes so far here. If you like, pledge a buck or two on Patreon. Emmy Twitter Emmy IG Smart Mouth newsletter Smart Mouth IG Katherine Twitter Sources:  Belle's Bagels  Karen Tongson  NPR  How Stuff Works  Bon Appetit  Variety 

Co-hosts of the Waiting to X-hale podcast Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh and Karen Tongson join Bryan and Erin for this week’s Throwing Shade! They chat about living in a post-Karen world, play Yay or Nah (90s edition), and draw feminist inspiration from Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. Plus, pop culture appreciation in academia, watching Fatal Attraction with your mom, and more!   And make sure to check out Deeper Shade of Shade on Stitcher Premium, where Bryan and Erin interview their favorite friends of the show. For a free month of listening, go to stitcherpremium.com/shade and use promo code ‘SHADE’.

“Gender Reveal” (April 12, 2018) This week, Glen and Drew are joined by Karen Tongson, chair of the Gender and Sexuality Studies department at USC and the co-host of the Gen X pop culture podcast Waiting to X-Hale. We asked Karen what show she’d most like to discuss, and she chose Superstore, the current NBC ensemble comedy. Not only does it have a queer Asian lead character, but as Karen points out, there’s a lot of ambient queerness on the show, in addition to one of the more diverse casts on a sitcom today. Watch Smack the Pony, the all-female British sketch comedy show Drew is always trying to get you to watch. Lauren Ash’s performance as Scorpia on the new She-Ra is a wonderful, wonderful thing. The phenomenon of melon babies, however, is decidedly not wonderful. Buy Gayest Episode Ever shirts, totes and more on our TeePublic page. Buy Glen’s movie, Being Frank. Support us on Patreon! Follow: GEE on Twitter • Drew on Twitter • Glen on Twitter Listen: iTunes • Spotify • Stitcher • Google Play • Google Podcasts • Himalaya • TuneIn • SoundCloud And yes, we do have an official website! And we even have episode transcripts courtesy of Sarah Neal. Our logo was designed by Rob Wilson. This is a TableCakes podcast. The episode’s outro track is “Baby on Fire” by Ottomix and P.K. Seigel. (Apple Music / Spotify / Amazon Music)

Welcome to Entertainment Weekly's Untold Stories: Pride Edition. Over the course of these 4 episodes we'll be talking to some of our favorite queer entertainers about the queer legends, icons and contemporaries who've inspired them.  In this 4th and final episode, EW pays tribute to queer writers and thinkers. Russian Doll co-creator Leslye Headland reveals Fran Lebowitz's early influence, author and professor Karen Tongson dives into the queer literary world, and The Queen of the Night author Alexander Chee talks about his friend, the late poet Justin Chin. Hosted by entertainment journalist and social curator Tre'vell Anderson. Follow @EW on Twitter, @entertainmentweekly on Instagram and Facebook and go to EW.com/pride for all of Entertainment Weekly's LGBTQ+ coverage.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What are the primary affects around and through TV consumption? How has the pandemic (and the protests following the murder of George Floyd) affected the ways in which we consume and critique television? What are our embodied viewing experiences as audiences trapped at home, and how might these experiences speak to new ways of perceiving and understanding TV? What can we learn from existing fan cultures about spectatorial engagement in this time? How has the pandemic affected our collective notions of comfort and discomfort, and how does this shake out across modes of distribution, genre, and style? Guest Scholars: Hollis Griffin, Suzanne Scott, Karen Tongson, Kristen Warner; Host: Hunter Hargraves NOTE: Some episodes of this series were recorded before the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020—when a white police officer pressed his knee to Floyd's neck for 8 minutes and 46 seconds while Floyd struggled for his life—and before the protests that broke out around the country and the world condemning that despicable murder and, more broadly, police brutality and systemic racial injustice. Racism too is a pandemic—one that intersects with the COVID-19 pandemic, with African Americans at higher risk of the Coronavirus because of centuries of health, employment, and social disparities. The horrific inequalities in the economic and criminal "justice" systems—and, of course, in the media—highlight how racism itself poses an ongoing public health crisis. In the wake of this murder—along with the murders of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and so many others—we have thus broadened the podcast conversations to include discussion of television's relation to racism, injustice, oppressive policing and policies (and the protests against these) together with discussion of television's relation to COVID-19, as considering these pandemics together is, we believe, critical to understanding the state of our world and the media today.

Author Andy Greene takes us inside one of TV's greatest comedies, "The Office." Also, director Barry Sonnenfeld on making his mark in Hollywood. And writer Karen Tongson explains why Karen Carpenter matters.

Brea and Mallory talk about how to anticipate new releases! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com! Reading Glasses Merch      Links - Reading Glasses Facebook Group Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Amazon Wish List   Newsletter    Book Candle   Books Mentioned -  Catfishing on CatNet by Naomi Kritzer The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix Why Karen Carpenter Matters by Karen Tongson

This week the Queerwolves (minus Michael, who's out making his dreams come true) are joined by Wynter-Mitchell Roghbaugh and Karen Tongson of the Waiting to X-Hale podcast to talk the 1981 horror-comedy classic AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON!Plus in Tea Time, we sip on SCHITT'S CREEK, LIVING WITH MYSELF, WATCHMEN, ZOMBIELAND: DOUBLE TAP, MODERN LOVE, and PEDRO PÁRAMO!Find Karen Tongson on Twitter @inlandemperor and Instagram @tongsonatorFind Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh on Twitter @wyntermitchellFind Waiting to X-Hale on Twitter @waiting2xhalepd and Instagram @waitingtoxhalepodFind us on Twitter and Instagram: @queerwolfpodJoin our group Attack of the Queerwolf Pack on Facebook!You can follow the whole crew here...Nay: Twitter & Insta @blakkcupcake Art Insta @gaudylosangelesMichael: Twitter @michaelkenken Insta @michaeltjkennedyBrennan: Twitter @itsrainingbrens Insta @theburningclemFor longer messages, you can email us at queerwolfpodcast@gmail.com

Dave and Alonso discuss some late-August entries that range from the sublime to the ridiculous; also our listeners have a lot of opinions about the latest Tarantino movie. Subscribe (and review us) at Apple Podcasts follow us @linoleumcast on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram, you've got to learn to be the ball. Join our club, won't you? And listen to this episode for a special promotion for new or upgrading Patreon members to get a signed copy of Karen Tongson's Why Karen Carpenter Matters. And be on the lookout for free downloads this week of Patreon-only shows like LKTV, Linoleum Knife & Fork, and Linoleum Nights as part of this year's Summer (Super) Splash (Spectacular)! Dave's DVD pick of the week: ROAD HOUSE (1989) Alonso's Blu-ray pick of the week: BLUE

Writer and podcaster Karen Tongson joins Joe and Kristen to talk about the Carpenters and their Rock Hall merits. A lot of the great Carpenters stories and information from this episode are written about in further detail with insightful analysis in Karen's new book, Why Karen Carpenter Matters.

Writer and podcaster Karen Tongson joins Joe and Kristen to talk about the Carpenters and their Rock Hall merits. A lot of the great Carpenters stories and information from this episode are written about in further detail with insightful analysis in Karen's new book, 'Why Karen Carpenter Matters.'

"Are you a boy or a girl?" It's the question Karen Tongson's been asked more than any other throughout her life. When she was in grad school, following in the footsteps of countless butches before, she finally cut her hair short, leaving behind the performative version of femininity. "I finally just shed that last bit of gender trouble." "Gender is something that is fun and fluid," she asserts. The performance of it all, the reluctance to conform to historical gender norms, is just one of the many qualities that drew Karen Tongson to Karen Carpenter, the now legendary singer who died at the age of 33. Karen Tongson's new book, Why Karen Carpenter Matters, delves into the LGBTQ+ community's unlikely connection to the late singer. LGBTQ&A is hosted and produced by Jeffrey Masters. @jeffmasters1

In an effort to memorialize our lifelong teen idol Luke Perry after his untimely death last month, we've compiled some of our favorite memories of Luke, and of Dylan McKay, shared on past episodes of the podcast. Listen to clips from the original series and anecdotes from Beverly Hills 90210 fans, cast, and crew. 00:54 — Beverly Hills 90210 Executive Producer Charles Rosin 01:39 — Excerpt from Rolling Stone cover story by Jay Martel; full episode 03:10 — Santina Muha; “Stand (Up) and Deliver” 03:40 — Sasha Perl-Raver; “Spring Dance” 04:20 — Sharon Spaeth; “Things to Do on a Rainy Day” 05:12 — Benjamin; “U4EA” live show 05:44 — Natalie London; “Mexican Standoff” 09:41 — Kim Hoffman; “Wild Horses” 13:24 — Karen Tongson; “Greek to Me” 15:23 — Carol Potter, a.k.a. Cindy Walsh; “A Walsh Family Christmas” 17:08 — Beverly Hills 90210 Writer Karen Rosin; “Isn't it Romantic?” 20:35 — Dylan McKay clip retrospective Visit our new website | Support the show on Patreon | Rate & review us on iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify | Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook

Since we didn't even go to a school with a Greek system, we recruited USC Gender Studies professor and pop culture expert Karen Tongson to join us on the show to discuss the Beverly Hills, 90210 episode where Andrea meets an anti-Semitic sorority president! Karen's cultural study of Los Angeles' sprawl, Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries, is available on Amazon. She can also be heard as a guest host of the Pop Rocket podcast, and has contributed to the latest issue of the food magazine Lucky Peach. What we were drinking: Coke Zero What we were eating: pastries from Porto's Cuban bakery

Karen Tongson, Associate Professor of English and Gender Studies at University of Southern California, and the author of Rlocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries (NYU Press, 2011). on contemporary aesthetics and queer theory and karaoke technologies, techniques, and desires. Andrew Morrison-Gurza, Founder/Co-Director, Deliciously Disabled Consulting, on the invisibility and erasure of disability in society and the queer community.