Podcasts about lgbt studies

Introducing Where Have All The Gay Bars Gone? from Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness.Follow the show: Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness Did you know that between 2006 and 2016, 58% of bars, pubs, and nightclubs that catered to the LGBTQ community closed in London? Sociologist Amin Ghaziani joins Jonathan to explain this phenomena and how the queer community is adapting. The two dig deep into how the norms of the typical gay bar often exclude already marginalized folks in the LGTBQ community, the underground parties like Buttmitzvah and Femmetopia that have filled this void, and the experimental economic models these parties use to disrupt capitalism. Plus, the deep importance of uplifting queer JOY! Amin Ghaziani is Professor of Sociology at UBC, Canada Research Chair in Urban Sexualities, and co-editor of Contexts, the public-facing magazine of the American Sociological Association. Amin has written and edited 6 books and over 60 academic articles, book chapters, and essays, many of which he has published in top disciplinary and subfield journals. He's won several awards, including a Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Best Book in LGBT Studies. Amin's been featured in places like The New Yorker, Time magazine, BBC Radio 4, CBC Radio, and The New York Times, among others. His latest book “Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution” was just published in the US on March 26th. You can follow Amin on Instagram and X @amin_ghaziani. Follow us on Instagram @CuriousWithJVN to join the conversation. Jonathan is on Instagram @JVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Find books from Getting Curious guests at bookshop.org/shop/curiouswithjvn. Our senior producers are Chris McClure and Julia Melfi. Our editor & engineer is Nathanael McClure. Production support from Julie Carrillo, Anne Currie, and Chad Hall. Our theme music is “Freak” by QUIÑ; for more, head to TheQuinCat.com. Curious about bringing your brand to life on the show? Email podcastadsales@sonymusic.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices DISCLAIMER: Please note, this is an independent podcast episode not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced in conjunction with the host podcast feed or any of its media entities. The views and opinions expressed in this episode are solely those of the creators and guests. For any concerns, please reach out to team@podroll.fm.

Did you know that between 2006 and 2016, 58% of bars, pubs, and nightclubs that catered to the LGBTQ community closed in London? Sociologist Amin Ghaziani joins Jonathan to explain this phenomena and how the queer community is adapting. The two dig deep into how the norms of the typical gay bar often exclude already marginalized folks in the LGTBQ community, the underground parties like Buttmitzvah and Femmetopia that have filled this void, and the experimental economic models these parties use to disrupt capitalism. Plus, the deep importance of uplifting queer JOY! Amin Ghaziani is Professor of Sociology, Canada Research Chair in Urban Sexualities, and co-editor of Contexts, the public-facing magazine of the American Sociological Association. Amin has written and edited 6 books and over 60 academic articles, book chapters, and essays, many of which he has published in top disciplinary and subfield journals. He's won several awards, including a Lambda Literary Award Finalist for Best Book in LGBT Studies. Amin's been featured in places like The New Yorker, Time magazine, BBC Radio 4, CBC Radio, and The New York Times, among others. His latest book “Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution” was just published in the US on March 26th. You can follow Amin on Instagram and X @amin_ghaziani. Follow us on Instagram @CuriousWithJVN to join the conversation. Jonathan is on Instagram @JVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Find books from Getting Curious guests at bookshop.org/shop/curiouswithjvn. Our senior producers are Chris McClure and Julia Melfi. Our editor & engineer is Nathanael McClure. Production support from Julie Carrillo, Anne Currie, and Chad Hall. Our theme music is “Freak” by QUIÑ; for more, head to TheQuinCat.com. Curious about bringing your brand to life on the show? Email podcastadsales@sonymusic.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

“We think that we're crooked … but it is that the room is crooked.” Those words from Melissa Harris-Perry's Sister Citizen are what sent Dr. Jenn Jackson on their path to becoming a political scientist. Those words also describe what it often feels like as a Black woman, walking into a room full of stereotypes about your body, your work ethic, your attitude … everything. As a queer genderflux androgynous Black woman, Dr. Jackson has experienced all this. They share with Jeanne how and why Black feminism is different from white feminism; why they thought working for Disney was a way to survive; why it was important for them to tell a story of self-love and self-care in their new book, Black Women Taught Us; how they finally discovered who they truly were; and why it's important to find the people you love and love them back.    Jenn M. Jackson (they/them) is a genderflux androgynous Black woman, a lesbian, an abolitionist, a lover of all Black people, and an Assistant Professor at Syracuse University in the Department of Political Science. Jackson's primary research is in Black Politics with a focus on racial threat and trauma, gender and sexuality, political behavior, and social movements. Jackson also holds affiliate positions in African American Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, and LGBT Studies. They are a Senior Research Associate at The Campbell Public Affairs Institute at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, as well. Jackson is the author of the book Black Women Taught Us (Random House Press, 2024). The book is an intimate intellectual and political history of Black women's activism, movement organizing, and philosophical work that explores how women from Harriet Jacobs to Audre Lorde to the members of the Combahee River Collective, among others, have for centuries taught us how to fight for justice and radically reimagine a more just world for us all. FB: /jennmjacksonphd IG: @jennmjacksonphd TT: jennmjacksonphd

Notes and Links to Peter Coviello's Work      For Episode 224, Pete welcomes Peter Coviello, and the two discuss, among other topics, his early relationship with music and bands that led him on a circuitous route to reading and writing, favorite individual and shared writers, the ways in which fandom and passion for books and music and the like grows and cements friendships, and salient topics from the book like The Sopranos as comfort watching and bringing Peter closer to his Covid-isolated family, the tonic and “jolt” that is passionate and talented artist, Prince as of this world and totally otherworldly somehow, and the visceral pleasures that come with love of the arts and love for the people who make and enjoy these arts.      Peter Coviello is a scholar of American literature and queer theory, whose work addresses the entangled histories of sex, devotion, and intimate life in imperial modernity.    A writer of criticism, scholarship, and literary nonfiction, he is the author of six books, including Make Yourselves Gods: Mormonism and the Unfinished Business of American Secularism (Chicago), a finalist for the 2020 John Whitmer Historical Association Best Book Prize; Long Players (Penguin), a memoir selected as one of ARTFORUM's Ten Best Books of 2018; and Tomorrow's Parties: Sex and the Untimely in Nineteenth-Century America (NYU), a 2013 finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies.     His book, Vineland Reread (Columbia), was listed among the New York Times's “New and Noteworthy” titles for January of 2021. He taught for sixteen years at Bowdoin College, where he was Chair of the departments of Gay and Lesbian Studies, Africana Studies, and English, and since 2014 has been at UIC, where he is Professor and Head of English. His newest book Is There God After Prince?: Dispatches from an Age of Last Things (Chicago), was selected for The Millions' “Most Anticipated” list for 2023.    He advises work on 19th- and 20th-century American literatures and queer studies, as well as literary theory, religion and secularism, the history of sexuality, gender studies, poetry and poetics, modernism, and creative nonfiction.   Buy Is There God After Prince: Dispatches from an Age of Last Things   Peter's Website with University of Chicago   New City Lit Review of Is There God After Prince At about 3:00, Cavatelli! Italian last names! Goodfellas references! At about 5:00, Peter Coviello talks about his early relationship with the written word, and particularly how “worlds of music and imagination” got him into Rolling Stone and William Faulkner and other wonderful and catchy writing   At about 9:10, Peter highlights the “jolt” and “discovery” of young people/students and coins (?) the term “quotidian miraculousness” that comes with teaching literature  At about 10:50, Pete references the liner notes of Rage Against the Machine albums, as he and Peter discuss talking about great books and other artistic appraisals  At about 12:20, Peter responds to Pete's question about which writers have influenced him over the years, including more recent writers like Jessica Hopper and Helen Macdonald At about 15:20, Peter talks about tangential connections to David Foster Wallace At about 16:20, Peter talks about who he is reading in 2024, including Anna Burns and Sam Lipsyte At about 19:00, Peter talks about seeds for his essay collections At about 21:10, Pete and Peter nerd out about a favorite writer of Peter's and a favorite professor of Pete's At about 24:15, Peter discusses love and sorrow and the ways in which critique is intertwined with love, especially when discussing art of all types At about 25:55, The two discuss contrasts in love of art, and little victories in reading and fandom At about 28:10, Pete highlights “not nothing” and “and yet” as so crucial and telling in the book At about 29:20, Pete shouts out the book's Introduction and he and Peter fanboy again over the Wussy song mentioned in the Intro, “Teenage Wasteland” At about 31:10, The two talk about fandom and sharing great art, including Nirvana's MTV Unplugged performance At about 33:20, Peter sees grief in some well-known art and talks  At about 34:30, Peter explains what he sees as so beneficial and magic about discussions and “fights” about art At about 39:00, The two discuss the collection's title essay and the freedom and camaraderie and joy that came with Prince dance parties from 1999 Maine At about 41:00, Peter speaks to the “otherworldliness” of Prince and gives background on his greatness and iconic status and how he was also of “carnality” At about 42:30-Prince and Chappelle Show reference! At about 43:30, The two discuss lively writing that comes off as funny and/or electrifying, like that of Paul Beatty At about 46:00, The discussion revolves around the book's second essay and Pavement , especially their song “Unfair” At about 47:30, Peter connects the above song with a telling and profound and prophetic quote from Paul Beatty's Slumberland At about 48:50, Peter and Pete discuss algorithms and a chapter on a fun discussion/argument over Gladys Knight's "Midnight Train to Georgia" At about 50:00, Pete highlights Peter's complimentary writing about current songwriters and the two discuss Steely Dan as treated in the book, and the ways in which strong feelings on either side is mostly a healthy thing At about 52:50, Peter gives background on how much of the book deals with his relationship with his stepdaughters and the “adjacency” of love and sorrow and how much art At about 54:45, The two reflect on a meaningful essay about Derek Jeter's “moment in time” At about 56:15, The two discuss the three “John's” of an important chapter and the “terrible double discovery of adolescence”   At about 58:00-Third Eye Blind and Justin Bieber and Chance the Rapper and other music is discussed for aesthetic qualities and connections to Peter's relationships with his daughters At about 1:00:05, My So-Called Life is referenced in connection with father-daughter conversations At about 1:01:50, Chicago is highlighted and Anthony Wa Gwendolyn Brooks At about 1:02:40, Peter reflects on how The Sopranos' and its treatment in the book kept him close to his family in Covid lockdown At about 1:05:10, Peter gives book information and ordering information        You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch this and other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode.    I am very excited that starting in February with Episode 220 with Neef Ekpoudom and this episode, I will have one or two podcast episodes per month featured on the website of Chicago Review of Books. The audio will be posted, along with a written interview culled from the audio. 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In this edition of Madison Book Beat, host Andrew Thomas speaks with Peter Coviello on his book of essays Is There God After Prince? Dispatches from an Age of Last Things (2023, University of Chicago Press).Exuberant, effusive, rye, and incisive, this collection of essays analyze a wide range of cultural objects in order to shore up some modicum of consolation against an intractable sense of impending doom. By focusing on beloved novels, films, and songs and the joyful connections they help foster between friends, families, and lovers, Coviello argues that these attachments are small mercies that buoy us up in light of what he terms “endstrickenness.” With verve and agility, Coviello surveys a large swath of contemporary culture in an effort to rethink what literary criticism can do and to assure us that not all of contemporary life is a wasteland of broken images. Joyful reading plain and simple.Peter Coviello is the author of six books, including Make Yourselves Gods, a finalist for the 2020 John Whitmer Historical Association Best Book Prize; Tomorrow's Parties, a 2013 finalist for a Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies; and Long Players, a memoir selected as one of ARTFORUM's Ten Best Books of 2018. His newest book, Is There God After Prince?: Dispatches from an Age of Last Things, was selected as a “Most Anticipated” title by both The Millions and the Lambda Literary Review, and appeared in year-end lists for 2023 from the Chicago Tribune, the Seminary Co-op Bookstore, and elsewhere. He taught for many years at Bowdoin College and since 2014 has been at UIC, where he is Professor and Head of English.You can follow him @pcoviell.Image courtesy of University of Chicago Press

We're back with the second episode of Hot Mabel's Summer with a Pride Month interview with Professor Nancy Lewis! Why is teaching about LGBT Studies important? How has teaching this topic changed over the years? Just how much are queer people cut out of the education we receive? Listen to have these questions (and more) answered! Image credit: Delia Giandeini via Unsplash

In this episode of Audio QT, Karma Chávez talks with Professor Lisa Moore, who will be stepping down as the director of UT's LGBTQ Studies Program at the end of this semester. Lisa L. Moore is Archibald A. Hill Professor of English and Professor of Women's and Gender Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. She is the author or editor of five books, including Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes, which won the Lambda Literary Award. Karma R. Chávez is Bobby and Sherri Patton Professor and Chair in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. Follow: Karma: @queermigrations Resources: College of Liberal Arts | The University of Texas at Austin Profile for Lisa L Moore at UT Austin

A few decades ago a person named Jean Nickolaus Tretter in Little Falls, Minnesota started collecting documents and objects related to LGBT culture and communities. They were concerned those artifacts might be lost to history and with them an understanding of the history of LGBT communities. In 2000, that collection came to the University of Minnesota and it's now called the Jean Nickolaus Tretter Collection in LGBT Studies. Producer Britt Aamodt was curious about the collection and she spoke with its new curator, Aiden Bettine.

We know it's important to be ourselves, but for many of us, it's complicated.  On this week's episode of Love Space, we joined Mycall Akeem Riley to talk all things queerness, gender, style, safety, intersectionality, and self-expression.  We covered:Mycall's experience growing up as a queer Black person in the Minneapolis suburbs;How we can learn to trust ourselves, even when society seems to tell us we shouldn't; Getting clear and intentional about what we need, and setting boundaries about the people and places we choose; Dismantling hegemonic structures; Intersectionality, privilege, and the nuances of all of our various identities and experiences; Visibility, representation, and safety; “Possibility models” who can inspire new forms of expression and how we carry ourselves; Style, self-expression, and feeling powerful;Why it's time to stop commenting on people's bodies, and let people live; Mycall's hopes for the future… and more.  Mycall Akeem Riley is a liberatory inclined educator and style consultant based in Chicago, Illinois. Currently serving as the inaugural LGBTQIA+ Resource Center Coordinator for DePaul University, Mycall works to uplift and support those who hold marginalized genders or sexualities. Mycall also is an adjunct faculty in the LGBT Studies minor program. The interplay of gender identity, sexuality, and Blackness continues to be a major focus in his work. Outside of the academy, Mycall works to continue to uplift marginalized communities rather than consulting or creating.  A major focus has been the Blaq Agenda Project, a multiform project highlighting Black Queer experiences. Mycall can find joy in thrift shopping, conversations on taboo topics, artfully curated playlist, and striving for a re-imagined world.  To connect with Mycall, follow him on Instagram @mycallakeemriley.  Have you subscribed to Love Space?  Follow the show to receive new episodes as soon as they become available, and please leave a review (especially if you're enjoying the show!) ✨  To connect with us more:  @itsarynlove  and @lovespacepodcast on Instagram.  [Intro music by Coubo, vocals by Aryn]

Dr. Jenn M. Jackson (who uses the pronouns they/them) is a queer genderflux, androgynous Black woman, an abolitionist, a lover of all Black people, and an Assistant Professor at Syracuse University in the Department of Political Science. Jackson's primary research is on Black Politics with a focus on group threat, gender and sexuality, political behavior, and social movements. Jackson also holds affiliate positions in African American Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, and LGBT Studies. Jackson is the author of the forthcoming book Black Women Taught Us (Random House Press 2022). The book is an intellectual and political history of Black women's activism, movement organizing, and philosophical work. It explores how women from Harriet Jacobs to Audre Lorde and the members of the Combahee River Collective (among others) have taught us how to fight for justice and radically reimagine a more just world for us all. In this episode, Christen Smith and Jackson dive into what it means to be queer and Black. We police our bodies and genders in ways that hinder our goals of dismantling systems of gender/sexuality/race oppression. In this podcast, dr. Jackson articulates the ways in which blackness is inherently queer and how queerness gives us the vocabulary to speak our truth. Genderflux embodies what it means to love the people who are deviant, wayward, and criminal. Jackson's articulation of abolition is intertwined with their definition of genderflux. As they articulate, “how we move in our bodies and how we choose to show up, matters just as much as how we fight for folk in our communities.” Black people's sensation of threat and fear is a deeply rooted lived experience. Jackson is currently completing two book projects: Black Women Taught Us, (Random House, 2022) and Policing Blackness: How Intersectional Threat Shapes Politics ( 2023).

Constance and Jo speak with Dr. GPat Patterson, Associate Professor of English at Kent State Tuscarawas about their recent article, “Loving Students in the Time of COVID: a Dispatch from LGBT Studies.” We explore teaching as the cultivation of immersive learning experiences, why the imperative to market our disciplines as job-market training is a trap, […]

The way we talk to kids about bodies and gender is so important.When I was a kid, we didn't really talk about gender in any particular way, but it was everywhere and it was clear what the roles were. We didn't really talk about bodies either - other than what was wrong with them.I wanted to do things differently with my kids. I wanted them to have an inclusive upbringing and understanding that their bodies were theirs and that they were wonderful, powerful, and the wisest part of them.I wanted them to know that their gender and their biological sex were different and that there were all these invisible pressures and rules for them but that they didn't need to follow any of them.In early learning, whenever we want to teach kids social lessons, we turn to literature, and there was a shocking LACK of children's literature that was inclusive and body positive. I stumbled my way through trying to explain gender and bodies to my kids because I didn't really have a good resource to turn to when they were very young.This is why I'm so excited to talk to Rachel Simon.Rachel is a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist who offers therapy, gender and sexuality education, and consulting to youth, parents, families, educational faculty, professional organizations, and health professionals.She received both Masters degrees from Widener University and received her BA in Psychology and LGBT Studies from the University of Maryland. Rachel has provided training and consultation on gender, sex, and LGBTQ issues for groups in the US and abroad. She currently runs her private psychotherapy practice in Philadelphia, specializing in queer and transgender youth and young adults. Rachel is the author of the sexuality education book for children, The Every Body Book: The LGBTQ+ Inclusive Guide for Kids About Sex, Gender, Bodies, and Families.Check out the full episode to hear about:Simple ways to answer kids' questions about gender and transitioningHow to introduce gender expansiveness from an early age through play and languageTeaching kids empathy while recognizing and acknowledging differencesAdvice on boundaries, advocacy and not getting trapped by anxiety for parents and families supporting gender-expansive kidsFind out more about Rachel Simon:Rachel Simon TherapyThe Every Body Book: The LGBTQ+ Inclusive Guide for Kids about Sex, Gender, Bodies, and Families, Rachel E. Simon and Noah GrigniFind out more about Mackenzie Dunham:wildheartsociety.orgWild Heart Society on FacebookWild Heart Society on InstagramResources:Talking to Young ChildrenHow to Talk to Kids about Gender IdentityChildren Books About Gender Identity

Join Bri and Katie as they talk with Lo Denmon (Assistant Director of the KSU LGBTQ+ Center) and Graham Callahan (KSU student majoring in Theater Tech with a minor in LGBT Studies and president of Threads) about chosen names, pronouns, and why it all matters. Transcript available here Some of the resources mentioned in the episode: Rania El Mugammar's Anatomy of an Apology Pronoun Dressing Room Kent State Chosen Name Process Kent State Safe Space Series Kent State Student Legal Services Reach out to us at diversity@kent.edu or @DEIKentState across social media! Intro/Outro Music: 'Fate' by Marquice Turner

Jen Winston joins Jess and Zerlina to talk about their new book "GREEDY: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much!"

“Gender is queer for everyone,” Kathryn Bond Stockton claims in her newest book with MIT Press, Gender(s). And no matter how “normal” people try to make it, it's just strange, from the words people use to the clothes they wear. With hefty doses of wit and humor, Stockton takes readers on a fascinating, sometimes absurd journey through topics like transgender soldiers in the military, the complications of language, gender-neutral children's dolls, and even Lil Nas X. What does “opposite sex” even mean? And how do things like race and money shape gender in huge, often surprising ways? Town Hall's In the Moment podcast digs into gender, in all its puzzling glory, in our 108th Episode. Kathryn Bond Stockton is the author of many books including Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where “Black” Meets “Queer,” and The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century, both finalists for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies, and Making Out, a finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Award for memoir. She is also a Distinguished Professor of English and the inaugural Dean of the School for Cultural and Social Transformation at the University of Utah. Megan Burbank is a writer and features reporter at The Seattle Times. She was previously arts editor & senior editor at the Portland Mercury, where she specialized in politics, culture, and gender. Her writing has also appeared in The Stranger, Teen Vogue, Dance Magazine, and the Billfold, among many others. Buy the Book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/genders  Presented by Town Hall Seattle. To become a member or make a donation online click here.

“Gender is queer for everyone,” Kathryn Bond Stockton claims in her newest book with MIT Press, Gender(s). And no matter how “normal” people try to make it, it's just strange, from the words people use to the clothes they wear. With hefty doses of wit and humor, Stockton takes readers on a fascinating, sometimes absurd journey through topics like transgender soldiers in the military, the complications of language, gender-neutral children's dolls, and even Lil Nas X. What does “opposite sex” even mean? And how do things like race and money shape gender in huge, often surprising ways? Town Hall's In the Moment podcast digs into gender, in all its puzzling glory, in our 108th Episode. Kathryn Bond Stockton is the author of many books including Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where “Black” Meets “Queer,” and The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the Twentieth Century, both finalists for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBT Studies, and Making Out, a finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Award for memoir. She is also a Distinguished Professor of English and the inaugural Dean of the School for Cultural and Social Transformation at the University of Utah. Megan Burbank is a writer and features reporter at The Seattle Times. She was previously arts editor & senior editor at the Portland Mercury, where she specialized in politics, culture, and gender. Her writing has also appeared in The Stranger, Teen Vogue, Dance Magazine, and the Billfold, among many others. Buy the Book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/genders  Presented by Town Hall Seattle. To become a member or make a donation online click here.

Jessica O'Keefe is an award-winning writer, director, and producer. In 2009, Jessica and her husband, Ken O'Keefe, founded their small multi-media company Breatheasy Productions to create memorable media adventures that initiate social change. Jessica is a Theater and Film graduate from Santa Monica College and a graduate in Women's Studies and LGBT Studies from UCLA. Jessica and I discussed her films, her production company, her background, The Bechdel Test, diverse voices in film, diversity, her women's group involvement, and lots of other topics. You can check out some of her work at Who is Jane Love?. Jessica entered her experimental film, Abigail Threadless, into this year's Experimental Film Fest. It stars Charissa Barton who also choreographed the film. Simply described as "A manifesto of hope," Abigail Threadless is an introspective analysis of a woman's desire to be free to grow, explore, and become. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/experimentalfilmpodcast/support

Andrew Solomon's work has had a major impact across the world. His books have made concrete changes for the better, fostering empathy and understanding in everyone who reads them. Andrew writes on politics, culture and psychology and is an activist in LGBTQ rights, mental health, and the arts. He's a Professor of Clinical Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry) at Columbia University, a Lecturer in Psychiatry at Yale University and is a former President of PEN American Centre, and currently on their Board of Directors. He founded the Solomon Research Fellowships in LGBT Studies at Yale University and has written for publications such as The New Yorker, the London Times, and more. He's lectured widely and his TED talks have had over twenty million views.Andrew's first book was a study of Russian artists, called The Irony Tower: Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost. Then came his novel A Stone Boat that was described by Harold Bloom as ‘one of the authentic achievements in American fiction'. His memoir, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression won the 2001 National Book Award for Nonfiction, and was one of the London Times One Hundred Best Books of the Decade. Solomon's book, the bestselling Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity came out in 2012 and tells the stories of families raising exceptional children who find profound meaning in doing so. It received the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction; the Wellcome Book Prize and many more accolades. There was also a celebrated documentary based on the book. The last book Andrew published was Far and Away: How Travel Can Change the World, a collection of his international reporting, and he has also more recently published an Audible Original called New Family Values that explores how the concept of family in America today has utterly changed, though the economic and legal structures lag behind.

Join Lucy Diavolo, Jenn Jackson, Kim Kelly and Maia Wikler in conversation about climate justice and intersectional activism. ———————————————— As the political classes watch our world burn, a new movement of young people is rising to meet the challenge of climate catastrophe. An urgent call for climate justice, No Planet B: A Teen Vogue Guide to the Climate Crisis, analyzes the environmental crisis with an intersectional lens - with critical feminist, Indigenous, antiracist and internationalist perspectives. No Planet B is a guide, a toolkit, a warning and a cause for hope. Join us for a conversation with contributors from the book about the urgent struggle for climate justice. "I hope that this book embodies Teen Vogue's motto of making young people feel seen and heard all over the world. I hope that it forces their parents, communities, loved ones, friends, and—most importantly—those in power to see that the health of our planet depends on how quickly and drastically we change our behaviors. I hope it forces them all to respond." —From the foreword by Lindsay Peoples Wagner “This isn't your grandparent's environmental movement. A generation is on the move. Climate justice is young, queer, Black, Indigenous, and militant af. No Planet B demonstrates it is inexorably linked to racial justice, decolonization, and abolition. There's no turning back.”﹣Nick Estes, Red Nation ———————————————— Speakers: Lucy Diavolo is a politics editor at Teen Vogue and editor of the Haymarket Books collection No Planet B: A Teen Vogue Guide to the Climate Crisis. Originally from Ohio, she lives in Brooklyn with her banjo and a growing body of unpublished fiction. Jenn Jackson is is a queer genderflux androgynous Black woman, an abolitionist, a lover of all Black people, and an Assistant Professor at Syracuse University in the Department of Political Science. Jackson's primary research is in Black Politics with a focus on group threat, gender and sexuality, political behavior, and social movements. Jackson also holds affiliate positions in African American Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, and LGBT Studies. They are a Senior Research Associate at The Campbell Public Affairs Institute at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University, as well. Jackson is the author of the forthcoming book BLACK WOMEN TAUGHT US (Random House Press, 2022) Kim Kelly is a freelance journalist, author, and organizer based in Philadelphia. She is a labor columnist for Teen Vogue and the Baffler, and her work on labor, class, politics, and culture has appeared in the New Republic, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Columbia Journalism Review, and Esquire, among other publications. She is the author of FIGHT LIKE HELL, a forthcoming book of intersectional labor history. Follow her on Twitter @grimkim. Maia Wikler is an anthropologist, organizer, and writer whose work has appeared in Teen Vogue and VICE. She is directing a short documentary film with support from The North Face, featuring the Gwich'in women who are leading the fight to protect the Arctic Refuge. Maia was recently selected as a National Geographic Early Career Explorer to document cross-border stories about the threats to wild salmon from mining in Northern British Columbia. Originally from Philadelphia, she is currently living on Vancouver Island while pursuing a PhD in Political Ecology at the University of Victoria. Her research focuses on memory as a tool of resistance and resilience in the face of corporate abuse, specifically related to deforestation and the climate crisis. Follow her on Twitter @MaiaWikler ————————————————————— Get a copy of No Planet B: A Teen Vogue Guide to the Climate Crisis here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1518-no-planet-b Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/u8_7Sl4nOSA Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

From podcast to video, Wait! Don't Do It! has officially moved to YouTube! All the way from our nation's capital, Washington D.C., the dynamic duo, Raffi and NuNu Paris, banter, bicker and bitch in a comedic take on news today! Watch these LGBTQ-ties spill the tea on all the current, controversial, and comedic happenings in the world.Kamusta! We couldn't end SZN III of #WaitDontDoItSZN couldn't end without a bang! On this finale, NuNu Paris & Raffi welcome back (future) best-selling author Jaime Ko as he unveils his upcoming novel, Mala and the Mask of Gold.Centered on two siblings, Mala & the Mask of Gold, is a story about a quest to find the elusive Mask of Gold and explore Philippine mythology and folklore along the way. Be sure to support this iconic BIPOC LGBTQ+ novel coming soon!Jaime Martin Ko is a Filipinx immigrant, first-generation, and genderfluid college graduate from the University of Maryland where they studied Supply Chain Management, Marketing, and LGBT Studies. Jaime is a vocal advocate for the LGBTQ+ community and was awarded the Lorde-O'Leary award for their work at their university, tackling initiatives like implementing All-Gender restrooms, advocating for inclusive healthcare practices for Trans/Non-binary students, and speaking at panels educating students on LGBTQ+ terminology and issues. Outside of work, Jaime is a part of a variety of organizations like Anakbayan DC.For more updates and information from Jaime Ko visit: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/mala-the-mask-of-gold-by-jaime-martin-koStarring:@NuNuParisYall@RaffiUmanzorFollow #WaitDontDoIt on IG @waitdontdoitpodcast.Listen to the FULL episodes of this and previous seasons of Wait! Don't Do It! on Apple Podcasts & Spotify: http://linktr.ee/waitdontdoit.

In this episode, I speak with Andre Shakti, an absolute badass and sexual inspiration. Here is Andre’s bio as described on her site, IAmPoly.net…Andre Shakti is a journalist, educator, performer, activist, and professional slut. She is devoted to normalizing alternative desires, de-stigmatizing sex workers and their clients, and not taking herself too seriously. Andre wrestles mediocre white men into submission and is the weekly sex columnist for Slixa.com. In addition to her Ask Andre column, she writes about sex work, queerness and non-monogamy for Cosmopolitan, Rewire, Thrillist, MEL, Vice, Autostraddle, and more. She can frequently be found marathoning Law & Order: SVU under a chaotic pile of partners and pitbulls, and yes, she knows how problematic that show is.Andre graduated cum laude from Towson University in Maryland with a Bachelors of Science in Psychology and LGBT Studies in 2010. She worked in HIV risk assessment, harm reduction education, and community activism in Baltimore from 2008-2011, studied at San Francisco State University’s National Sexuality Resource Center (NSRC) in 2010, and graduated from San Francisco Sex Information (SFSI)’s Sex Educator Training in Fall 2013. She’s held educator and sales associate positions at sex-positive adult boutiques Sugar (Baltimore, MD) and Feelmore510 (Oakland, CA), and is one of the founding crew members of Atlanta’s Sex Down South Conference in Atlanta, GA.Whew! I met Andre at the Sex Down South Conference this past September and I was blown away by her presence after having the privilege of attending two of her workshops. I was even more blown away when she said ‘yes’ to an interview and so here we are!Our conversation covers both her personal and professional lives; her background, upbringing, areas of expertise, sexual preferences and experiences, SESTA-FOSTA, family acceptance, relationships, and on and on.***Speaking of SESTA-FOSTA, here is the article Andre refers to: https://www.businessinsider.com/fosta-sesta-anti-sex-trafficking-law-has-been-failure-opinion-2019-7I am so grateful to Andre for being so open and available for this interview [thank you again!]. If you’d like to know more about this dynamo, she is all over the internet! Here are some easy ways to follow her:Personal site: https://www.iampoly.netPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/IAmPolyamorousTwitter: https://twitter.com/AndreShaktiFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/andre.shakti/And here are some links to a few examples of her professional work:As author: https://www.them.us/story/sesta-fosta-backpage-sex-workersAs performer: https://crashpadseries.com/queer-porn/character/andre-shakti/

Mixed Girl Mane goes to college! Well, I was invited by Sierra College in Rocklin, CA to give a presentation about intersectional identity for their Spectrum Pride event. It was an amazing experience and I got to share just how weird identity is through my own intersectional identity in front of an audience. You'll learn A LOT more about me than just my Mixed-Race identity on this special episode of Militantly Mixed. I talk about #Race #MixedRace #Bisexuality #Polyamory & #Atheism so buckle up, let's get into it! Thank you to Sierra College for having me and Johnnie Terry Philosophy and LGBT Studies professor for the invitation. I can't wait to go back. * * * Produced and Edited by: Sharmane Fury Music by: David Bogan, the One - https://www.dbtheone.com/ * * * Connect with us on Twitter, Instagram, & Facebook * * * Militantly Mixed is a fan sponsored podcast, if you are enjoying the show please consider sponsoring us on Patreon or Paypal today! Thank you. This is a ManeHustle Media Podcast. Turn your side hustle into your ManeHustle.

Mixed Girl Mane goes to college! Well, I was invited by Sierra College in Rocklin, CA to give a presentation about intersectional identity for their Spectrum Pride event. It was an amazing experience and I got to share just how weird identity is through my own intersectional identity in front of an audience. You'll learn A LOT more about me than just my Mixed-Race identity on this special episode of Militantly Mixed. I talk about  #Race #MixedRace #Bisexuality #Polyamory & #Atheism so buckle up, let's get into it! Thank you to Sierra College for having me and Johnnie Terry Philosophy and LGBT Studies professor for the invitation. I can't wait to go back. * * * Produced and Edited by: Sharmane Fury Music by: David Bogan, the One - https://www.dbtheone.com/ * * * Connect with us on Twitter, Instagram, & Facebook * * * Militantly Mixed is a fan sponsored podcast, if you are enjoying the show please consider sponsoring us on Patreon or Paypal today! Thank you. This is a ManeHustle Media Podcast. Turn your side hustle into your ManeHustle.

Brian F. Harrison and Melissa R. Michelson‘s, Listen, We Need to Talk: How to Change Attitudes about LGBT Rights (Oxford University Press, 2017) is a broad interrogation of the way that public opinion is formed (or reformed) and activated, and specifically focuses on what transpired over the past fifteen years that shifted attitudes around the issue of LGBT rights. Grounded in multiple dimensions of Political Science, Political Psychology, Political Theory, Communications Studies, and LGBT Studies, Harrison and Michelson examine, through randomized experiments done in collaboration with a variety of LGBT advocacy groups, their theory of dissonant identity priming. This theory, as they note in their work, provides an understanding of the shift in acceptance of LGBT rights. The book explores the experiments that were done across the United States to test the hypothesis and determine the validity of the theory. Following the discussion of the theory itself, the grounding in political science, political psychology and political communications, and the experiment, the book also discusses how the information learned through the experiments may be put to use in politics. The book speaks to political science scholars and researchers while also addressing pracademics, activists, and advocacy groups. The authors also argue that Political Science, as a discipline, has come late to the understanding and incorporation of LBGT Studies as a legitimate dimension of the political science discipline, noting that rights of citizens denied or abrogated because of sexual orientation are still rights denied, and positioning their research within the mainstream of political science while integrating the study of rights of a group that has often been on the edges of political science scholarship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brian F. Harrison and Melissa R. Michelson‘s, Listen, We Need to Talk: How to Change Attitudes about LGBT Rights (Oxford University Press, 2017) is a broad interrogation of the way that public opinion is formed (or reformed) and activated, and specifically focuses on what transpired over the past fifteen years that shifted attitudes around the issue of LGBT rights. Grounded in multiple dimensions of Political Science, Political Psychology, Political Theory, Communications Studies, and LGBT Studies, Harrison and Michelson examine, through randomized experiments done in collaboration with a variety of LGBT advocacy groups, their theory of dissonant identity priming. This theory, as they note in their work, provides an understanding of the shift in acceptance of LGBT rights. The book explores the experiments that were done across the United States to test the hypothesis and determine the validity of the theory. Following the discussion of the theory itself, the grounding in political science, political psychology and political communications, and the experiment, the book also discusses how the information learned through the experiments may be put to use in politics. The book speaks to political science scholars and researchers while also addressing pracademics, activists, and advocacy groups. The authors also argue that Political Science, as a discipline, has come late to the understanding and incorporation of LBGT Studies as a legitimate dimension of the political science discipline, noting that rights of citizens denied or abrogated because of sexual orientation are still rights denied, and positioning their research within the mainstream of political science while integrating the study of rights of a group that has often been on the edges of political science scholarship.

Brian F. Harrison and Melissa R. Michelson‘s, Listen, We Need to Talk: How to Change Attitudes about LGBT Rights (Oxford University Press, 2017) is a broad interrogation of the way that public opinion is formed (or reformed) and activated, and specifically focuses on what transpired over the past fifteen years that shifted attitudes around the issue of LGBT rights. Grounded in multiple dimensions of Political Science, Political Psychology, Political Theory, Communications Studies, and LGBT Studies, Harrison and Michelson examine, through randomized experiments done in collaboration with a variety of LGBT advocacy groups, their theory of dissonant identity priming. This theory, as they note in their work, provides an understanding of the shift in acceptance of LGBT rights. The book explores the experiments that were done across the United States to test the hypothesis and determine the validity of the theory. Following the discussion of the theory itself, the grounding in political science, political psychology and political communications, and the experiment, the book also discusses how the information learned through the experiments may be put to use in politics. The book speaks to political science scholars and researchers while also addressing pracademics, activists, and advocacy groups. The authors also argue that Political Science, as a discipline, has come late to the understanding and incorporation of LBGT Studies as a legitimate dimension of the political science discipline, noting that rights of citizens denied or abrogated because of sexual orientation are still rights denied, and positioning their research within the mainstream of political science while integrating the study of rights of a group that has often been on the edges of political science scholarship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brian F. Harrison and Melissa R. Michelson‘s, Listen, We Need to Talk: How to Change Attitudes about LGBT Rights (Oxford University Press, 2017) is a broad interrogation of the way that public opinion is formed (or reformed) and activated, and specifically focuses on what transpired over the past fifteen years that shifted attitudes around the issue of LGBT rights. Grounded in multiple dimensions of Political Science, Political Psychology, Political Theory, Communications Studies, and LGBT Studies, Harrison and Michelson examine, through randomized experiments done in collaboration with a variety of LGBT advocacy groups, their theory of dissonant identity priming. This theory, as they note in their work, provides an understanding of the shift in acceptance of LGBT rights. The book explores the experiments that were done across the United States to test the hypothesis and determine the validity of the theory. Following the discussion of the theory itself, the grounding in political science, political psychology and political communications, and the experiment, the book also discusses how the information learned through the experiments may be put to use in politics. The book speaks to political science scholars and researchers while also addressing pracademics, activists, and advocacy groups. The authors also argue that Political Science, as a discipline, has come late to the understanding and incorporation of LBGT Studies as a legitimate dimension of the political science discipline, noting that rights of citizens denied or abrogated because of sexual orientation are still rights denied, and positioning their research within the mainstream of political science while integrating the study of rights of a group that has often been on the edges of political science scholarship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brian F. Harrison and Melissa R. Michelson‘s, Listen, We Need to Talk: How to Change Attitudes about LGBT Rights (Oxford University Press, 2017) is a broad interrogation of the way that public opinion is formed (or reformed) and activated, and specifically focuses on what transpired over the past fifteen years that shifted attitudes around the issue of LGBT rights. Grounded in multiple dimensions of Political Science, Political Psychology, Political Theory, Communications Studies, and LGBT Studies, Harrison and Michelson examine, through randomized experiments done in collaboration with a variety of LGBT advocacy groups, their theory of dissonant identity priming. This theory, as they note in their work, provides an understanding of the shift in acceptance of LGBT rights. The book explores the experiments that were done across the United States to test the hypothesis and determine the validity of the theory. Following the discussion of the theory itself, the grounding in political science, political psychology and political communications, and the experiment, the book also discusses how the information learned through the experiments may be put to use in politics. The book speaks to political science scholars and researchers while also addressing pracademics, activists, and advocacy groups. The authors also argue that Political Science, as a discipline, has come late to the understanding and incorporation of LBGT Studies as a legitimate dimension of the political science discipline, noting that rights of citizens denied or abrogated because of sexual orientation are still rights denied, and positioning their research within the mainstream of political science while integrating the study of rights of a group that has often been on the edges of political science scholarship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our guest is Jonathan Alexander. He is a Professor of English and Campus Writing Director at the University of California, Irvine, CA. Prof. Alexander is the author of Literacy, Sexuality, Pedagogy: Theory and Practice of Composition Studies and Digital Youth: emerging Literacies on the World Wide Web; co-author of Finding Out: An Introduction to LGBT Studies and Argument Now: A Brief Rhetoric; and co-editor of Role Play: Distance Learning and the Teaching of Writing and Bisexuality and Transgenderism: InterSEXions of the Others.We discuss Prof. Alexander’s chapter “‘A Real Effect on the Gameplay’: Computer Gaming, Sexuality, and Literacy,” in Cynthia Selfe and Gail Hawisher Eds., Gaming Lives in the Twenty-First Century (Hounds Mills, UK: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2007): 167-189.