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Watch the full episode here: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru401-michael-mcandrew-jen-braun RU401: ON FRONTIERS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS WITH MICHAEL MCANDREW, JEN BRAUN & SEAN CARROLL Join Rendering Unconscious Podcast at Substack for all new and archival episodes: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com Rendering Unconscious welcomes Jen Braun, Sean Carroll, and Michael McAndrew to the podcast! They're here to discuss their upcoming event “Frontiers of Psychoanalysis,” June 6th 2026 at the Denver Art Museum, 9am-3pm. Rendering Unconscious episode 401. On this episode, Jen, Michael, and Sean discuss their upcoming psychoanalytic event in Denver, “Frontiers of Psychoanalysis,” highlighting its inclusivity and the diverse backgrounds of participants. The event aims to foster discussions among clinicians, early career professionals, and non-clinicians. The organizers emphasize the importance of deinstitutionalization, the value of early career clinicians' contributions, and the need to broaden psychoanalytic perspectives. The conversation also touches upon the challenges of institutional training, including material and financial barriers, the role of desire in formation, and the potential for democratizing psychoanalysis through online education and networks. Register for “Frontiers of Psychoanalysis” by reaching out to Michael McAndrew at: mcandrew.mr [AT] gmail [DOT] com. Suggested registration fee is $70, please request sliding scale if needed. Check out related previous episodes: RU285: MICHAEL MCANDREW & PABLO LERNER ON HETERODOX PSYCHOANALYSIS RU News & Events: Join me Thursday, June 4th for The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: An Online Symposium, Freud Museum, London: https://www.freud.org.uk/event/the-queerness-of-psychoanalysis-an-online-symposium/ Sunday, June 7th, Emmalea Russo will continue her wildly popular series on poetry and psychoanalysis with REPETITION, RETURN, REBIRTH: On the psychoanalytic poetry of Cynthia Cruz and the Summer Solstice. https://www.tickettailor.com/events/renderingunconsciouscenterforpsychoanalysis/2152623 Saturday, June 13th, my Introduction to Psychoanalysis course continues! n the previous class, we reviewed Freud's later works, including Group Psychology and Civilization and its Discontents. In this next class, we'll be looking at Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and the Controversial Discussions, as well as revolutionary psychoanalysts Wilhelm Reich and Otto Fenichel. On Wednesday, June 24th, join Freudian cinephile Mary Wild for The Man Who Fell Into Himself: David Bowie's 1970s Transformations. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-man-who-fell-into-himself-david-bowies-1970s-transformations-tickets-1986912621136 All paid subscribers to RU Center for Psychoanalysis will receive the zoom links to attend these events live and the recordings will be archived at Substack. https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com Full archive of RU Center events and CLASSES HERE: https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/t/classes See RU Center SCHEDULE OF EVENTS HERE: https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/p/schedule Rendering Unconscious is also a book: Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry vols 1:1 & 1:2 (Trapart Books, 2024): https://amzn.to/4sOqSEu Thank you for being a paid subscriber to Rendering Unconscious Podcast. It makes my work possible. If you are so far a free subscriber, thanks to you too. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to gain access to all the material on the site, including new, future, and archival podcast episodes. It's so important to maintain independent spaces free from censorship and corporate influence. If you are interested in pursuing psychoanalytic treatment with me, please feel free to contact me directly: www.drvanessasinclair.net/contact/ Thank You.
Watch the full episode here: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru401-michael-mcandrew-jen-braun RU401: ON FRONTIERS OF PSYCHOANALYSIS WITH MICHAEL MCANDREW, JEN BRAUN & SEAN CARROLL Join Rendering Unconscious Podcast at Substack for all new and archival episodes: https://renderingunconscious.substack.com Rendering Unconscious welcomes Jen Braun, Sean Carroll, and Michael McAndrew to the podcast! They're here to discuss their upcoming event “Frontiers of Psychoanalysis,” June 6th 2026 at the Denver Art Museum, 9am-3pm. Rendering Unconscious episode 401. On this episode, Jen, Michael, and Sean discuss their upcoming psychoanalytic event in Denver, “Frontiers of Psychoanalysis,” highlighting its inclusivity and the diverse backgrounds of participants. The event aims to foster discussions among clinicians, early career professionals, and non-clinicians. The organizers emphasize the importance of deinstitutionalization, the value of early career clinicians' contributions, and the need to broaden psychoanalytic perspectives. The conversation also touches upon the challenges of institutional training, including material and financial barriers, the role of desire in formation, and the potential for democratizing psychoanalysis through online education and networks. Register for “Frontiers of Psychoanalysis” by reaching out to Michael McAndrew at: mcandrew.mr [AT] gmail [DOT] com. Suggested registration fee is $70, please request sliding scale if needed. Check out related previous episodes: RU285: MICHAEL MCANDREW & PABLO LERNER ON HETERODOX PSYCHOANALYSIS RU News & Events: Join me Thursday, June 4th for The Queerness of Psychoanalysis: An Online Symposium, Freud Museum, London: https://www.freud.org.uk/event/the-queerness-of-psychoanalysis-an-online-symposium/ Sunday, June 7th, Emmalea Russo will continue her wildly popular series on poetry and psychoanalysis with REPETITION, RETURN, REBIRTH: On the psychoanalytic poetry of Cynthia Cruz and the Summer Solstice. https://www.tickettailor.com/events/renderingunconsciouscenterforpsychoanalysis/2152623 Saturday, June 13th, my Introduction to Psychoanalysis course continues! n the previous class, we reviewed Freud's later works, including Group Psychology and Civilization and its Discontents. In this next class, we'll be looking at Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, and the Controversial Discussions, as well as revolutionary psychoanalysts Wilhelm Reich and Otto Fenichel. On Wednesday, June 24th, join Freudian cinephile Mary Wild for The Man Who Fell Into Himself: David Bowie's 1970s Transformations. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-man-who-fell-into-himself-david-bowies-1970s-transformations-tickets-1986912621136 All paid subscribers to RU Center for Psychoanalysis will receive the zoom links to attend these events live and the recordings will be archived at Substack. https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com Full archive of RU Center events and CLASSES HERE: https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/t/classes See RU Center SCHEDULE OF EVENTS HERE: https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/p/schedule Rendering Unconscious is also a book: Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry vols 1:1 & 1:2 (Trapart Books, 2024): https://amzn.to/4sOqSEu Thank you for being a paid subscriber to Rendering Unconscious Podcast. It makes my work possible. If you are so far a free subscriber, thanks to you too. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to gain access to all the material on the site, including new, future, and archival podcast episodes. It's so important to maintain independent spaces free from censorship and corporate influence. If you are interested in pursuing psychoanalytic treatment with me, please feel free to contact me directly: www.drvanessasinclair.net/contact/ Thank You.
Multidisciplinary artist Maxi Glamour has shared their storytelling prowess through songwriting, drag and queer-friendly events by way of their Faeded series. Recently, they have completed “Faeded: The Opera” which premieres June 5 at the Contemporary Art Museum in partnership with the Pulitzer Arts Foundation. Glamour gives us a peek into their motivations to write their first opera, the evolution of Faeded over the years and their take on how “queerness” transcends sexual orientation.
Ob wegen eurer Herkunft, eurer Queerness oder eurer Religion: Fast alle fühlen sich irgendwo zugehörig. Kostas und Melissa haben euch gefragt: In welchen Communities fühlt ihr euch wohl - und wo nicht? Unser Podcast-Tipp: Wissen mit Johnny https://www.ardsounds.de/sendung/wissen-mit-johnny/urn:ard:show:5c94752475c8acfc/
Eine Rezension zum Buch „Denn dein ist die Liebe“ ist überschrieben mit dem Satz: „Liebevoller kann man der Homophobie evangelikaler Kreise nicht Paroli bieten!“ Wenn das mal nicht spannend klingt. Verfasst hat dieses Buch nämlich die Gästin der aktuellen Hossa-Folge: Flora Montán ist Autorin und lebt in Bremen. Und sie hat eine Roman-Reihe geschrieben, deren Handlungen eben dort spielen. Genauer gesagt im Kirchen- und Gemeindeumfeld Bremens. Im Gespräch mit Jay, Marco und Gofi erzählt sie, wie sie auf die Idee kam eine Liebesgeschichte zu erfinden, in der sich ein konservativer Pastor, der durch seine homophobe Äußerungen auffällt, in eine Person verliebt, die ihr Christsein so ganz anders lebt als er selbst und inwieweit Figuren und Plot möglicherweise auf echten Begebenheiten und Personen basieren, die in letzter Zeit in Bremen für Aufsehen sorgten. Außerdem geht es um Happy-Ends und Utopien und wie das Erzählen von Geschichten uns dabei helfen kann, uns eine bessere Welt, im Großen, wie im Kleinen, vorstellen zu können. Und um Geschichten aus dem Mikrokosmos einer Kirchengemeinde - von Fusionsangst bis Kirchenasyl und Aktivismus. Ein spannender und persönlicher Talk über Glaube, Queerness und die Liebe, die alles überwindet. Noch ein Hinweis in eigener Sache: Natürlich wird HOSSA TALK immer kostenlos bleiben! Allerdings macht Deine Spende es uns leichter möglich, den Podcast zu produzieren und trotzdem unseren finanziellen Verpflichtungen nachzukommen. Das kann ein einmaliger Betrag sein, aber auch ein kleiner regelmäßiger Betrag. Egal wie Du Dich entscheidest: Wir sind für jede Hilfe sehr, sehr dankbar! Informationen dazu findest Du hier: https://hossa-talk.de/spenden/
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Eurovision, Queerness, and Christianity with Lisa-Jayne Lewis! Lisa-Jayne is one of the most sought after Eurovision & Junior Eurovision Song Contest specialist broadcasters in the UK, and also contributes to other TV and social commentary with her additional expertise in end-of-life and post-mortem empowerment and the intersectionality of queer identities and Christian faith. An ordained minister who served as a chaplain at the World Trade Center in New York following the attacks of 9/11, she regularly presents 'Thought For the Week' on BBC Hereford and Worcester. Cat and Lisa sat down on a rainy day in London to chat through all things eurovision, community, queerness, politics, and Christianity.
Aljosha Muttardi war jahrelang die Hälfte von „Vegan ist ungesund" - einem der größten deutschen Vegan-YouTube-Kanäle. Heute ist er Arzt, Buchautor und spricht so offen über ADHS, Imposter-Syndrom und das Ende mit Gordon wie nie zuvor. Diese Folge ist ein langes, ehrliches Gespräch über sein neues Buch „Gut wird's hier nicht mehr, aber besser", über Tierschutz, Queerness, Privilegien und warum er heute weniger über Veganismus postet als früher. Freut euch auf Real Talk mit @Aljosha_
IT'S BEEN A WEEK!!! Lizz and Moji have been chugging Imodium the last seven days as they follow the twists and turns of the Fifth Circus Court ruling that created a federal ban and put the mail distribution of the abortion pill mifepristone on the chopping block. Between Sam Alito giving us a week of reprieve to dial back our panic to 23/7 and the FDA assessing the fate of abortion medication using a debunked “study” (really just a forced-birth fever dream scribbled on fishwrap), we were already hanging by a thread. Then Oklahoma decided to do the absolute most by funneling money to FAKE clinics. So yeah, you're gonna need an emotional support drink, spliff, snack, or whatever survival instincts you have left for this episode. GUEST ROLL CALL: We had to call in backup for this one! We are joined by Michigan-based OGBYN PA-C, Author, and Creator, Nikki Sapiro Vinckier – the ultimate reproductive health sherpa! Nikki is going to talk about her new book, “We Deserve More,” her latest citizen-led repro win in Michigan, and guide us through EVERYTHING that is happening to access to medication abortion right now. Can we still get pills? How do we get pills? What pills can we still get? Will Sam Alito give me pills? WE NEED ANSWERS, AND NIKKI IS DELIVERING! PLUS! THE ONE AND ONLY, RaeShanda Lias is here and queeeeer, babay! The absolutely fabulous Digital Creator & Diversity Advocate joins the Buzzkills to fill our joy cups back up by making us laugh, reminding us that Black queer love is indeed thriving, talking to us about clapping back online, her new podcast, and checking the board about RFK Jr. being absolute trash. You're welcome. Times are heavy, but knowledge is power, y'all. We gotchu. OPERATION SAVE ABORTION: You can still join the 10,000+ womb warriors fighting the patriarchy by clicking HERE for past Operation Save Abortion trainings, your toolkit, marching orders, and more. HOSTS: Lizz Winstead IG: @LizzWinstead Bluesky: @LizzWinstead.bsky.social Moji Alawode-El IG: @Mojilocks Bluesky: @Mojilocks.bsky.social SPECIAL GUESTS: Nikki Sapiro Vinckier IG: @NikkiVinck Bluesky: @NikkiVinck.bsky.social RaeShanda Lias IG: @RaeShanda_Lias / @itsreallyverysimplepodcast TikTok: @shopaif GUEST LINKS: Nikki's Website BUY: Nikki's New Book, “We Deserve More: Why Reproductive Healthcare Is Broken And What You Can Do About It” Take Back Trust RaeShanda's Website RaeShanda's TikTok NEWS DUMP: Secret Service Officer Arrested for Indecent Exposure in Miami After Trump Golf Event Member of Trump's Secret Service Arrested Senate Committee Approves Bill to Pay Out-Of-State Groups With Oklahoma Choosing Childbirth Southwest Airlines Finally Pays Flight Attendant Nearly $1 Million After 9-Year Abortion Case Louisiana Says Men Are Spiking Women's Drinks With Abortion Pills. There's Scant Evidence of That. Josh and Erin Hawley's ‘Love Life Initiative' Signals a New Phase of the Antiabortion Fight With Legal Briefs In, Supreme Court Weighs Telehealth Access for the Abortion Pill Facebook Took Down Lizz's Post Talking About Abortion TROLL JOSH HAWLEY'S HOTLINE: (202) 224-6154 EPISODE LINKS: ADOPT-A-CLINIC: Choices Rising 6 DEGREES: Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy to Run Amok in ‘Hocus Pocus 3' SUBSTACK: Abortion Access Front Operation Save Abortion Expose Fake Clinics BUY AAF MERCH! EMAIL your abobo questions to The Feminist Buzzkills AAF's Abortion-Themed Rage Playlist FOLLOW US: Listen to us ~ FBK Podcast Instagram ~ @AbortionFront Bluesky ~ @AbortionFront TikTok ~ @AbortionFront Facebook ~ @AbortionFront YouTube ~ @AbortionAccessFront TALK TO THE CHARLEY BOT FOR ABOBO OPTIONS & RESOURCES HERE! PATREON HERE! Support our work, get exclusive merch and more! DONATE TO AAF HERE! ACTIVIST CALENDAR HERE! VOLUNTEER WITH US HERE! ADOPT-A-CLINIC HERE! GET ABOBO PILLS FROM PLAN C PILLS HERE! When BS is poppin', we pop off! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
A2 THE SHOW #612Afeef Nessouli is a Lebanese-American journalist whose work explores politics, identity, and conflict across the Middle East, with a strong focus on queer voices and marginalized communities. In this episode, he shares personal insights shaped by living through the Lebanon war and reporting from places like Gaza—unpacking Lebanon's political crises, sectarian divisions, and the influence of external powers. He also reflects on the human realities of conflict, from resilience and survival to corruption and displacement, while challenging common narratives around queerness in the region and highlighting the power of unity, dialogue, and resistance.
Linea Maja Ernsts Debütroman wurde von der dänischen Presse als Adaption von Shakespeares "Ein Sommernachtstraum" gefeiert.
In dieser Folge wird's persönlich, politisch und erstaunlich hoffnungsvoll. Ricarda spricht mit Aljosha Mutardi über sein neues Buch „Gut wird's hier nicht mehr, aber besser“ und darüber, wie man in einer Welt voller Überforderung trotzdem nicht komplett zynisch wird. Es geht um verlorene Koffer kurz vor der Buchpremiere, internalisierte Queerfeindlichkeit, Leistungsdruck, Social Media und die Frage, warum Menschen sich so schnell angegriffen fühlen, wenn es um Gleichberechtigung geht. Ricarda erzählt offen von Hassnachrichten nach ihrer Haltung gegen rechtsextreme Plattformen und davon, wie sehr ihr der aktuelle gesellschaftliche Diskurs zusetzt. Gemeinsam sprechen die beiden über:Weltschmerz und Ohnmachtsgefühleechte Narrative und das sogenannte „Overton-Fenster“Privilegien, Angst und gesellschaftliche Spaltungwarum Veränderung oft mit Selbstreflexion beginntGendern, Queerness und verlernte Vorurteiledie Sehnsucht, einfach nur geliebt zu werdenwarum Hoffnung keine naive Idee ist, sondern ArbeitAußerdem erklärt Aljosha, warum echte Begegnungen mehr verändern können als jede Kommentarspalte und weshalb es manchmal schon reicht, zuzuhören, statt sofort recht haben zu wollen. Spoiler: Es wird tief, lustig, traurig und zwischendurch geht's natürlich auch um Rossmann-Unterwäsche nach einem DB-Kofferdrama.
Send us Fan MailLife is customizable! I know that society tries to pretend that it isn't, but the truth is, you get to choose! And in this episode of Dem Bois Podcast, my guest Wenjamin Nguyen-Gilmore drives that point home. Wenjaman is a queer business boy and retired runway model, and today we discuss Wen's journey of gender identity, the challenges faced in the modeling industry, and the importance of community and education in understanding diverse identities. We talk:8:10 - Exploring gender identity 25:35 - Modeling career and its challenges39:08 - Understanding autism and gender identity42:25 - The importance of education and empathy51:38 - The need for cultural understanding and acceptance1:06:20 - Traveling and self-discoveryEpisode References:VocaloidHatsune MikuTransguy SupplyAuston BjorkmanMutt (movie 2023)Gia (TV movie 1998)Dem Bois Podcast Ep. 72 - Autism, Queerness, Parenting and Family Dynamics with SchereéyaRead more about Wenjamin in their bio below:Retired runway model, queer business boy-wonder, and cat father to the stars. How does one juggle between parenthood, being in college for 3 degrees, and a job working with autistic kids? Insane, yes, but not impossible. Wenjamin is a trans-nonbinary, multilinguist of colour on the rise to get their doctorate, here to give advice on queer social mobility, as well as navigating life's hardships from everyday struggles to geosociopolitical levels of intersectionality.@heywenjamin on IGCelebrate 10 years of Dem Bois Inc.!2026 marks ten years of Dem Bois Inc. To honor this milestone, we invite you to join our 10 for 10 campaign by giving $10 a month to help sustain the care, leadership, and visibility that trans men of color deserve.Your support helps build a future rooted in care, visibility, and possibility.Donate today!Donate today to support Transmasc Gender Affirming Grants and Community Wellness Packages for Trans Men of Color!The Visibility = Possibility™️ Merch is here! - Not just merch, but a movement! Dem Bois Community Voices Facebook Group is a safe, moderated sanctuary where trans men of color can connect authentically, discuss podcast episodes, share powerful experiences, and build support networks. Dem Bois YouTube Channel! - @demboisinc - Exclusive content you won't find anywhere else!
Du kjenner kanskje til memen «the gay cousin», men om du ikke vet hva det er – frykt ikke, for det lærer du i så fall i denne episoden. Jens Elwyn og Mar Valo diskuterer hvorvidt de selv er «the gay cousin», eller «det skeive søskenbarn» på norsk, og de deler også sine personlige meninger om denne sangomsuste stereotypen.
In this episode of '15 Mins of Fame,' we review Melbourne Theatre Company's 2026 staging of Tennessee Williams's The Glass Menagerie, a memory play sharpened with a contemporary, queer-tinged edge. The episode examines how direction, design and standout performances bring fresh life to this American stage classic, reminding us why Williams's work still matters over 80 years later. More Info: https://linktr.ee/noelanderson If you've got a show, a story, or a spark of an idea, get in touch — you might be my next guest.
Visste du at skeiv ensomhet faktisk er en ting? Men... hva er egentlig skeiv ensomhet, og er det annerledes enn «typisk» ensomhet? Hvordan kan det utspille seg? Hvordan motvirker man skeiv ensomhet, og er det noen som kan hjelpe deg?Tja, du må nesten høre på denne episoden for å få svar på disse spørsmålene. Med mindre du vil undersøke temaet på egenhånd da, naturligvis, men da går du glipp av historier fra virkeligheten som du ikke kan finne noe annet sted enn i akkurat denne episoden! Men et lite hint til «er det noen som kan hjelpe meg?»-delen: den informasjonen finner du også i denne episodebeskrivelsen (rett under dette avsnittet)
Hvilke fremkomstmidler er skeive? Hvilke fremkomstmidler er streite? Hva er twink death? Når dør en twink? Få svar på dette – OG MER – i denne flotte episoden av Lobbyen, hvor lobbyist Mar Valo har fått med seg ikke én, men TO(!!) gjester, nemlig Edvin og Anja (som er kjærester). Det blir også gjort noen tapre forsøk på å finne nye betydninger av allerede eksisterende forkortelser og akronymer. Klarer de å motstå fristelsen til å si «pussy» hver gang det er en p? Og som om ikke dette var nok å prate om, så mimres det jammen også tilbake til tidligere (skeive og streite) konsertopplevelser.
Veronica Fusaro vertritt die Schweiz beim ESC 2026 mit „Alice", einem Song mit einer eindringlichen Message. Marco und Simon haben mit ihr über ihren Beitrag, ihr Album und ihre Musik gesprochen. Außerdem war Sonja beim Presse-Event von "Eurovision in Concert" in Amsterdam dabei und hat vier Interviews mitgebracht: Sarah Engels (Deutschland), Linda Lampenius & Pete Parkkonen (Finnland), Cosmó (Österreich), Leléka (Ukraine), Alexandra Căpitănescu (Rumänien) und Delta Goodrem (Australien). Die Schweiz war 2025 noch Gastgeber des Eurovision Song Contest 2025, nun muss das Teilnehmerland in Wien wieder im Semifinale an. Veronica Fusaro vertritt die Schweiz im zweiten Semifinale mit „Alice", einem Alternative-Pop-Song mit Rockeinflüssen und einer eindringlichen Message: Alice lebt nicht im Wunderland, sondern in einer Realität, in der Grenzen unter dem Deckmantel von Zuneigung überschritten werden. Marco und Simon haben mit Veronica Fusaro gesprochen. Sie hat noch immer Lucio Corsi auf der Playlist. Ihre Lieblingserinnerung ist der "Rise Like A Phoenix-Moment", wie sie es nennt. Ihr Lieblingssong der ESC-Geschichte ist "Nel blu, dipinto di blu" von Domenico Modugno. Außerdem war Sonja beim Presse-Event der Eurovision in Concert in Amsterdam dabei – der größten Pre-Party des ESC-Universums, die trotz des Boykotts des niederländischen Senders AVROTROS stattgefunden hat. Sie hat vier Interviews mitgebracht: von Sarah Engels (Deutschland), Linda Lampenius & Pete Parkkonen (Finnland), Cosmó (Österreich), Leléka (Ukraine), Alexandra Căpitănescu (Rumänien) und Delta Goodrem (Australien). Die vollständigen Interviews findet ihr wie immer auf ihrem Youtube-Kanal Bleistiftrocker.de. Die kleine Song Contest Geschichte am Schluss hat dieses Mal Alkis. Außerdem: Unsere Ausstellung „United by Queerness" im QWIEN, Ramperstorffergasse 39, 1050 Wien, läuft noch bis 24. Mai – mit erweiterten Öffnungszeiten in der ESC-Woche. Creators: Marco Schreuder & Alkis Vlassakakis & Sonja Riegel & Simon GraserMerci Chérie Online:www.MerciCherie.atFacebook: MerciCheriePodcastInstagram: mercicherie.atTikTok: @merci_cherie_podcastbluesky: @mercicherie.atBitte bewertet uns und schreibt Reviews, wo immer ihr uns hört.
Es ist wieder so weit: es zwischenfunkt!!!Heute geht es um einen ganz besonderen Ort für viele Menschen in Frankreich zwischen Lyon und Dijon, an den jährlich tausende junge Menschen aus aller Welt kommen: es geht um Taizé.Vielleicht kennt ihr die Lieder aus Taizé oder habt noch nie davon gehört.Taizé möchte für all diese Menschen ein Zuhause sein. Dazu gehören natürlich (so wie überall sonst) queere Menschen und Menschen, die mit Queerness überhaupt nichts anfangen können.Wenn ihr Euch fragt, wie es queeren Menschen vor Ort in dieser Gemeinschaft geht, dann seid ihr hier genau richtig!Taizé Homepage: taize.fr/deTaizé Instagram: instagram.com/taizeIhr wollt nach Taizé fahren: https://register.taize.fr/registration/meeting.xhtml?jfwid=4d3366e456fb7b011ff39fbd0c17:0Zwischenraum Homepage: zwischenraum.net Zwischenraum Instagram: instagram.com/zwischenraum.evFeedback & Anregungen gerne immer an podcast@zwischenraum.net
Flo und Nadine starten endlich mit Heated Rivalry und tauchen direkt in die ersten Kapitel von Game Changer ein. Schon im Prolog wird klar, dass Shane und Ilya nicht nur auf dem Eis Rivalen sind. Zwischen heimlichen Begegnungen, ziemlich intensiven Machtspielchen und jeder Menge unausgesprochener Gefühle entsteht eine Dynamik, die deutlich komplizierter ist als im ersten Band der Serie.Die beiden sprechen über schwule Scham im Profisport, das Leben als ungeouteter NHL Spieler und warum Rivalität manchmal gefährlich nah an Anziehung liegt. Nebenbei gibt es persönliche Lesegeständnisse, spontane Theorien und die große Frage, warum diese Geschichte sofort so süchtig macht. Zwei Eishockeystars, die sich hassen sollten und trotzdem nicht voneinander lassen können.Für alle, die BookTok lieben: Bei uns geht es nicht nur um Twilight und Game Changer, sondern auch andere Bücher, Serien, Games und alles, was Popkultur, Queerness und Bücherherzen höherschlagen lässt.Hier geht es zu unserem Discord-BuchclubHier könnt ihr uns über Steady unterstützen: Bei Steady unterstützenGame Changer (Band 1): https://tidd.ly/4aTNygu (Werbung/Afiiliate)Heated Rivalry (Band 2) https://tidd.ly/4ptXlxd (Werbung/Afiiliate)Tough Guy (Band 3) https://tidd.ly/4l4NNrR (Werbung/Afiliate)Common Goal (Band 4) https://tidd.ly/4l9WCkw (Werbung Afiliate)Role Model (Band 5) https://tidd.ly/4aU34Zr (Werbung Afiliate)The Long Game (Band 6) https://tidd.ly/4sv4LlH (Werbung Afiliate)Die Wut, die bleibt https://tidd.ly/4r54LrC (Werbung/Afiliate)Report der Magd (Band 1) https://tidd.ly/49v6tvH (Werbung/Afiiliate)Die Zeuginnen (Band 2) https://tidd.ly/3Lu5Tq2 (Werbung/Afiiliate)Folge uns doch gerne auch auf instagram: @zweifreundinnen_undeinbuch Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In deutschen Kirchen erstarken erzkonservative Gruppen, die sich modern inszenieren, aber strikt gegen Reformen, Queerness und Selbstbestimmung stehen - unterstützt von Geldgebern und Bischöfen, mit spaltenden Folgen für Gemeinden und Gläubige.
Klær og stil kommuniserer mer enn mange kanskje tror og tenker over, men mange skeive, særlig kjønnsskeive, har et veldig bevisst forhold til hvordan utseende påvirker hvordan vi blir oppfattet og behandlet av menneskene rundt oss. I denne episoden har lobbyistene Iben og Mio fått besøk av gjest Stian, og disse magiske mulletmusketerene analyserer sin egen stil i forhold til kjønnsidentitet, estetikk og samfunnsnormer. Har du lyst til å høre mer om disse teamene kan du også høre på episode
Get your Beducated pleasure map: https://beduc.at/pd2618-august Cat had an unexpected sexual awakening while working in a sex positive, female-gaze-centered environment. Eager to delve into exploration, she came up with a film idea that took a sexy turn and revealed a lot about her identity. Check out Ersties: https://ersties.com/ Sign up for August's free email list for occasional updates: https://substack.com/@augustmclaughlin IG: @GirlBonerMedia FB: @MyGirlBoner TT:: @augustmclaughlin.gb augustmclaughlin.com/girlboner patreon.com/girlboner Save $15 at Crave! Elegant, woman-designed jewelry and toys: https://lovecrave.com/august
Paul Mescal und Josh O'Connor spielen ein schwules Liebespaar, Alexander Skarsgård einen BDSM-Biker, und überhaupt scheinen viele der jüngsten männlichen Hollywood-Stars die Nähe zu Queerness nicht mehr zu scheuen – mit Timothy Chalamet gelang einem der erfolgreichsten von ihnen der Durchbruch mit einer queeren Rolle. Till Kadritzke, Hannah Pilarczyk und Jan Künemund fragen sich, was es damit auf sich hat und gehen in die Männer-Diskussion: Worin unterscheiden sich Hollywoods junge Stars von früheren Generationen? Kommen wir mit Labels wie soft masculinity oder hot rodent boyfriends weiter? Und was bedeutet es, dass schwule Rollen für straighte Schauspieler kein Risiko mehr sind, sondern auch zur Ressource werden können? Daneben steigen wir etwas tiefer in die Besprechung der aktuellen Kinofilme The History of Sound und Pillion ein und lassen auch den aktuellen Hype um die Serie Heated Rivalry nicht außen vor.Abonniert unseren Podcast in euren Podcatchern und lasst uns gern eine Bewertung da. Unterstützen könnt ihr uns bei Steady Auch über Feedback und Vorschläge freuen wir uns: podcast@critic.deUnd so geht es durch die Folge:(00:00:00) Begrüßung und Auftaktdiskussion(00:05:43) O'Connor, Mescal, Chalamet: Aktuelle Star-Männlichkeiten(00:13:06) Kleiner Exkurs in die Popmusik(00:16:30) Die Driver-Gosling-Generation(00:19:09) The History of Sound(00:29:29) Pillion(00:38:00) Straighte Stars und queere Filme(00:40:41) Heated Rivalry und seine Zuschauerinnen(00:45:28) Schlussfragen(00:49:34) Letzte HinweiseWo die Filme sehen?Pillion läuft seit dem 26. März in den deutschen Kinos, The History of Sound seit dem 9. April. Klickt auf die Filmtitel für eine Übersicht, in welchen Kinos die Filme zur Zeit laufen.Erwähnte TexteDevin Gordon: "Hollywood Is Desperate for Movie Stars. This Year, the Cavalry Arrived." (NY Times)Serena Smith: "All anyone wants is a hot rodent boyfriend" (Dazed)"The New Leading Man In Hollywood" (Sheerluxe)Melissa Anderson über Pillion (4Columns)Weitere EmpfehlungenCritics at Large: "Heated Rivalry, Pillion, and the New Drama of the Closet" (The New Yorker Podcast)Nadira Goffe: "Luca's Boys" (Slate)C. C. Simmons: "'The History of Sound' and the Queery of Everything" (Substack)Diskussion über Pillion auf LetterboxdLetzte HinweiseThe Gay Divorcee auf DailyMotion (Pining-Dialog bei 34:30)Ben Shattuck: The History of Sound (Dussmann)Follow UsFolgt Till Kadritzke auf Facebook, Bluesky und InstagramLest Hannah Pilarczyk beim SpiegelLest Jan Künemund beim Tagesspiegel
"Ser du meg? Ja, du ser på meg, men ser du meg? Egentlig?"Skeiv synlighet er viktig, men kan man egentlig være synlig som noe ingen vet hva er?Lobbyist Mio tar dere med på en (liten) tankestrøm om å være ikkebinær i en binær verden.
Hvor langt ned i helvete befinner vi oss? Hvordan kan Emil unngå å bli lest som gay på byen? Og hva kan Maria (og alle andre) fokusere på for å distrahere seg fra stress og overveldelse i hverdagen? Dette er noen av spørsmålene lobbyistene Emil, Mio og Maria besvarer i denne chille og koselige onsdagsepisoden av Lobbyen.
Faith isn't always a fixed thing. In this episode, multidimensional artist Avery Youma joins me to explore queerness, spirituality, and the ongoing process of becoming. We get into belief systems, the courage it takes to question them, and the quiet, often tender work of redefining faith on your own terms — with touches of divine femininity and plantcestry along the way. This one is an invitation to find what truly aligns.
(00:35) Der rumänisch-ungarische Komponist György Kurtág hat im Februar seinen 100. Geburtstag gefeiert. Das Theater Basel feiert ebenfalls, mit der Schweizer Erstaufführung von Kurtágs einziger Oper «Fin de partie». Weitere Themen: (05:55) Wo sich Kunst und Landwirtschaft die Hand reichen: Kunstmuseum Thun zeigt Ausstellung «Fabrice Hyber. L'artiste agriculteur». (10:06) Dreizehn grüne Städte gehen mit gutem Beispiel voran: Basler Sachbuchautorin Claudia Acklin macht mit «Grüne Städte: Wo die Transformation bereits gelingt» eine Städtereise ins Grüne. (14:41) Sachbuch «Und jetzt queer! Lesen jenseits der Norm» zeigt auf, dass «Queerness» in vielen Literaturklassikern schon vorhanden war.
Send us Fan MailConnection is like a light in a dark space. The more light there is, the brighter the room becomes. And the more trans men of color connect with each other, the bigger our families become. In this episode of Dem Bois Podcast, my guest, award-winning author KB Brookins, shares their journey of navigating identity, writing, and family dynamics. We discuss the importance of visibility and connection, the nuances of Black womanhood and manhood, the precarity of these identities, and the significance of diverse representation in literature. We talk:09:05 - Understanding gender and self-discovery21:14 - Advice for navigating queerness and family34:22 - The journey of writing a memoir44:36 - Exploring freedom through poetry55:18 - Trans News That Doesn't SuckEpisode References:1946 (movie)Dearborn (book) By Ghassan ZeineddineErin In The MorningAutostraddleLGBTQ NationLearning to Shut Out the Noise with Ja'Mel Ashely WareRead more about KB in their bio below:KB Brookins is the author of three books, including Pretty (2024), winner of the Lambda Literary Award in Transgender Nonfiction. They are an ACLU of Texas Artist-in-Residence and a Black Mountain Institute Shearing Fellow at UNLV. @earthtokb on Instagram, TikTok, and SubstackTrans News That Doesn't SuckFreedom House Celebrate 10 years of Dem Bois Inc.!2026 marks ten years of Dem Bois Inc. To honor this milestone, we invite you to join our 10 for 10 campaign by giving $10 a month to help sustain the care, leadership, and visibility that trans men of color deserve.Your support helps build a future rooted in care, visibility, and possibility.Donate today!Donate today to support Transmasc Gender Affirming Grants and Community Wellness Packages for Trans Men of Color!The Visibility = Possibility™️ Merch is here! - Not just merch, but a movement! Dem Bois Community Voices Facebook Group is a safe, moderated sanctuary where trans men of color can connect authentically, discuss podcast episodes, share powerful experiences, and build support networks. Dem Bois YouTube Channel! - @demboisinc - Exclusive content you won't find anywhere else!
Send us Fan MailToday's guest is Zoë Bean, tattooer, artist, and general curator of beautiful oddities in South Orange, New Jersey. She co-owns Keepsake Studios and Keepsake Collectables with her partner, Sweetie, blending tattoos, antiques, and pressed botanicals into something entirely her own. She's also the artist behind my alligator-and-bird back piece. We talk about our Baba Yaga vibes, the pros and cons of overalls, the liminal space of pain, and ask the question, what exactly is girl cold.Leave a message through the Speaker Box. Share an observation about getting older, identity shifts, health, or whatever strange realization has been keeping you up at night — or ask me a question you'd like answered on the show. Keep it short, and your message may be played on the AGECRAFT After Dark Podcast!Leave your message for the Speaker Box here.Watch this episode on YouTube here. To learn more about Zoe, you can find her here.For more AGECRAFT content, join the Substack here. To work with Julia and/or learn more about her, go here. CBDMD website here.Use code julia_g_wellness to get 15% off Episode SponsorBe one of the helpers! SUBSCRIBE to this podcast on APPLE PODCASTS or SPOTIFY and leave us a review on APPLE PODCASTS.
Ist das wirklich "nur" eine Dom-Com? In "Pillion" unterwirft sich der schüchterne Colin dem dominanten Biker Ray. Der für Janick beste Film des letzten Jahres, ist jetzt endlich in Deutschland angelaufen. Wie werden Queerness, Subkultur, Erotik und Transgression hier verhandelt? Was wurde aus der Buchvorlage übernommen und was nicht? Das und mehr diskutieren Lucas und Janick in dieser Folge. Unterstützt CUTS gerne für exklusive Folgen auf https://steadyhq.com/cuts
In this special episode recorded during our recent visit to Austria we take you on a tour of Vienna as the city prepares to host this year's contest.Alongside Vienna Tourism guide Gerd Brandstaetter we learn more about the city's incredible history, while we also visit the scenes of some of Eurovision's most memorable moments in the Austrian capital city.Find out more by visiting Vienna Tourism's website, download the ivie app, and learn more about the “United by Queerness” exhibition.This year we're delighted to be teaming up with the Europarty app to help you bring even more enjoyment to this year's Eurovision season.You can click here to purchase your tickets for the London Eurovision Festival.Click this link to sign up to The Euro Trip + on Patreon for just £4.99 a month.Follow us on Twitter, Instagram & TikTok or email hello@eurotrippodcast.com, and find us online at eurotrippodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In dieser Folge von „Ganz offen gesagt“ diskutiert Stefan Lassnig mit den Hosts des Song Contest-Podcasts "Merci Chérie", Alkis Vlassakakis und Marco Schreuder, wie der Eurovision Song Contest von einer technischen Fernsehexperimentierbühne zu einem hochpolitischen europäischen Großereignis wurde. Anhand der ESC-Geschichte von den 1950er-Jahren bis heute zeigen sie, wie sich Kalter Krieg, Prager Frühling, Zypern-Konflikt, Jugoslawienkrieg, russische Angriffe auf Georgien und die Ukraine, sowie der Gaza-Krieg im Wettbewerb und in den Teilnahmeentscheidungen der Länder niederschlagen. Die Gäste erklären, warum der ESC offiziell „unpolitisch“ bleiben muss, aber in Wahrheit ständig von Weltpolitik, Boykotten, Senderregeln und medienpolitischen Entscheidungen der EBU beeinflusst wird – etwa beim Ausschluss Russlands und Belarus oder beim Umgang mit Libanon und China. Großen Raum nimmt die queere Geschichte des ESC ein: von früh queercodierten Chansons wie „Nous les amoureux“ über Drag-Momente, AIDS-Stille und Life Ball bis zu Páll Óskar, Dana International, Marija Šerifović, Conchita Wurst und der Ausstellung „United by Queerness“ in Wien. Sie sprechen über ESC als „Familienshow“ und queeren Safe Space, über Voting-Blöcke, kulturelle Märkte und nationale Rivalitäten, die mehr mit Popkultur als mit „Freunderlwirtschaft“ zu tun haben, und darüber, wie Social Media und TikTok das ESC-Publikum verjüngt haben. Die Runde diskutiert das Spannungsfeld zwischen Inklusion und Ausschluss: Soll man autoritäre Staaten und homofeindliche Regime aus Prinzip ausschließen oder sie gerade über den ESC mit queerer Sichtbarkeit und kulturellem Austausch konfrontieren? Zum Schluss verraten Alkis und Marco ihre Favoriten für Wien – mit Siegchancen für Finnland, persönlichen Sympathien für Griechenland und einem soliden Platz im oberen Mittelfeld für Österreichs „Cosmó“ – und empfehlen ESC-Fans ihren Podcast „Merci Chérie“ und die Ausstellung „United by Queerness“ als Vertiefung. Links zur Folge: Podcast "Merci Chérie" Ausstellung "United by Queerness" Buch "Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest" von Dejan Vuletic (Amazon) Podcastempfehlung der Woche: "Braune Kinderzimmer" Wir würden uns sehr freuen, wenn Du "Ganz offen gesagt" auf einem der folgenden Wege unterstützt:Werde Unterstützer:in auf SteadyKaufe ein Premium-Abo auf AppleKaufe Artikel in unserem FanshopSchalte Werbung in unserem PodcastFeedback bitte an redaktion@ganzoffengesagt.atTranskripte und Fotos zu den Folgen findest Du auf podcastradio.at
RU386: ANNA FISHZON ON THE IMPOSSIBLE RETURN: PSYCHOANALYTIC REFLECTIONS ON BREAST CANCER, LOSS & MOURNING https://renderingunconscious.substack.com/p/ru386-anna-fishzon-on-the-impossible Rendering Unconscious welcomes Dr. Anna Fishzon back to the podcast! She's here to talk about her new book, The Impossible Return: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Breast Cancer, Loss, and Mourning (Routledge, 2025) https://amzn.to/4b4RGKh Rendering Unconscious episode 386. In this episode, we discuss Anna's new book, The Impossible Return: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Breast Cancer, Loss, and Mourning (Routledge, 2025), which explores personal and broader themes of loss, including the impact of cancer and bodily changes. Anna shares her experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer in 2017, and the subsequent treatments, surgeries, and reconstruction she underwent. The book integrates personal narrative with theoretical rigor, addressing topics ranging from bodily assault and aging to anxiety and hypochondria to radiation and Chernobyl to the Lacanian concept of the sinthome. We discuss the broader applicability of psychoanalytic thinking both personally and professionally, as well as more globally. Anna describes the challenges of writing and marketing such a book, and shares her thought about writing on melancholia next. Anna Fishzon, PhD is a psychoanalyst in private practice and an interdisciplinary scholar in New York City. She has taught courses on Russian history, psychoanalysis, literature, and gender and sexuality at Williams College, Columbia University, and Duke University, USA. She is the author of The Impossible Return ~ Psychoanalytic Reflectons on Breast Cancer, Loss, and Mourning (2025) and Fandom, Authenticity, and Opera: Mad Acts and Letter Scenes in Fin-de-Siècle Russia (2013). She is co-editor (with Emma Lieber) of The Queerness of Childhood: Essays from the Other Side of the Looking Glass (2022), as well as many scholarly articles and book chapters. She is member, supervisor and faculty at the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) in New York and Fellow of the International Psychoanalytic Association. Check out previous episode(s) with this guest: RU292: ANNA FISHZON & EMMA LIEBER ON THE QUEERNESS OF CHILDHOOD & REMEMBERING UNICORNS News & events: This Saturday, March 14th, join me for the next installment of An Introduction to Psychoanalysis: https://rucenterforpsychoanalysis.substack.com/p/next-up-we-must-not-talk-astrology Then Thursday, April 2nd join me in welcoming Dr. Owen Hewitson for Unconscious Generational Transmission: A Psychoanalytic Perspective" https://www.tickettailor.com/events/renderingunconsciouscenterforpsychoanalysis/2099148 Rendering Unconscious is also a book series: Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry vols 1:1 & 1:2 (Trapart Books, 2024): amzn.to/3N6XKIl The song at the end of this episode is "This Night was Special (featuring Little Annie)" from the album "Infiltrate" by Vanessa Sinclair and Pete Murphy: petemurphy.bandcamp.com/album/infiltrate-21 Infiltrate has been featured on the latest episode of Radio Panik! www.radiopanik.org/emissions/l-etr…eeform-hemline/ Enjoy! Thank you for being a paid subscriber to Rendering Unconscious Podcast. It makes my work possible. If you are so far a free subscriber, thanks to you too. Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to gain access to all the material on the site, including new, future, and archival podcast episodes. It's so important to maintain independent spaces free from censorship and corporate influence. If you are interested in pursing psychoanalytic treatment with me, please feel free to contact me directly: www.drvanessasinclair.net/contact/ Thank You.
durée : 00:03:07 - Le Regard culturel - par : Zoé Sfez - Dans son premier long-métrage documentaire, Antoine Vazquez observe Benoît dans la campagne périgourdine. Cinq ans de vie quotidienne révèlent comment exister et créer du lien là où les espaces et représentations sont rares, et où le désir rencontre l'hostilité.
durée : 00:03:07 - Le Regard culturel - par : Zoé Sfez - Dans son premier long-métrage documentaire, Antoine Vazquez observe Benoît dans la campagne périgourdine. Cinq ans de vie quotidienne révèlent comment exister et créer du lien là où les espaces et représentations sont rares, et où le désir rencontre l'hostilité.
In this episode, Faithlynn sits down with Dr. Jac, a queer Doctor of Eastern Traditional Medicine, to explore the intersection of queerness, healing, and holistic care. They dive into acupuncture for aesthetics, digestion, and hormones, unpack how Traditional East Asian Medicine views feminine energy, and discuss what it means to practice medicine through a compassionate, queer-informed lens.Jac website https://www.driftnaturalmedicine.comJac IG https://www.instagram.com/dr.jacmedeiros/?hl=enTremella beauty dessert soup recipe https://yina.co/blogs/wellness-guide/tremella-snow-fungus-soup#:~:text=IngredientsIlia mascara https://iliabeauty.com/products/limitless-lash-lengthening-mascaraErewhon soup https://ship.erewhon.com/products/organic-chicken-vegetable-soupJapanese osmanthus incense https://nipponkodostore.com/products/kayuragi-osmanthus-40-sticks?variant=40866220114085&country=US¤cy=USD&utm_medium=product_sync&utm_source=google&utm_content=sag_organic&utm_campaign=sag_organic&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=17511545650&gbraid=0AAAAAD2WUoR_eQg--8UcVhjqUZ9jk4u6Z&gclid=Cj0KCQiA5I_NBhDVARIsAOrqIsYefC7U54zSRcg98B7lcUx7fUeMkYXekwJzuU_Y3HI_qlGz3lcp49saApysEALw_wcBFollow our socials!Faithlynn Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/faithlynngianna/For The Femmes Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@forthefemmesFor The Femmes Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/forthefemmespodcast/For The Femmes Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@ForTheFemmesPodcastThis episode is rooted in personal experiences, opinions, and perspectives. While some situations may reflect real events, no names are mentioned and any identifying details have been changed or removed to protect privacy. The content is not intended to harm, defame, or target anyone. All statements shared reflect the speaker's personal views and should not be taken as absolute fact. Listener discretion is advised.Please note: Faithlynn is not a professional interviewer. For The Femmes is grounded in open, honest conversation, not a formal interview format - and should be experienced as such.
We are back after quite a pause! Our last episode was in June 2025, and host Adam James Cohen shares about the reason for the pause plus brief discussion about why we're returning now amidst everything going on in our world.The bulk of today's episode is Adam guiding listeners who are interested in space to check-in on their queer healing journey. Adam created a FREE PDF reflection guide: "THIS QUEER YEAR: A New Year Reflection Guide for LGBTQ+ Adults Healing From Anti-Queerness" which you can download here. Today's episode is an audio companion to this guide, inviting listeners to reflect on the 6 key areas supportive of helping LGBTQ+ adults heal from the impacts of having grown up queer in an anti-queer world. More episodes are coming soon. If you are interested in being a future guest on the show, guest submissions are currently open. Visit https://www.secondadolescencepod.com/beaguest to submit your interest!For more, visit www.secondadolescencepod.com or @secondadolescence (IG)
In this episode, we explore what it means to stay human in a time of collective trauma. We talk about messiness as a core part of being alive, how purity culture and rigid systems disconnect us from our bodies, and why agency, consent, and clear yeses and nos are essential forms of resistance. Together, we unpack how supremacy shapes therapy, relationships, and identity — especially through individualism, whiteness, and disembodiment — and imagine more liberating ways of practicing care, connection, and community. The conversation weaves personal reflection, cultural critique, and somatic wisdom, inviting listeners back into their bodies, their grief, and their shared humanity.Subverting Supremacy Culture in our Practice: Part 2Friday, January 30, 20262:00 PM 4:00 PMVIRTUALhttps://www.shelterwoodcollective.com/events/subverting-supremacy-culture-in-our-practice-part-2Working with people means navigating power, race, and trauma.This workshop will help you notice supremacy culture in the room and resist it. Due to the way Christian nationalism works in the US we create space to engage Christian supremacy and its manifestations of racialized heteronormativity that affects all bodies — regardless of religious or non-religious status. You will learn embodied, relational tools to strengthen your practice and reduce harm. Danielle S. Rueb Castillejo (she/her), Psychotherapist, Activist, Community Organizer; Jenny McGrath (she/her), Psychotherapist Writer, Author, Body Movement Worker; Abby Wong-Heffter, (she/her), Psychotherapist Teacher, Attachment Specialist; Tamice Spencer-Helms, (she/they), Author, Theoactivist, Non-Profit Leader are collaborating to create a generative learning space for therapists, social workers, educators, organizers, spiritual leaders, healthcare providers, and community practitioners. Together we will work with the ways supremacy culture shows up somatically, relationally, and structurally in helping professions. We will examine how dissociation, fragmentation, and inherited oppression narratives shape our work, and develop practices to interrupt these patterns.This workshop addresses diversity and cultural competence by:Examining how supremacy culture impacts Black, Indigenous, and People of Color differently than white-bodied practitioners. Naming cultural, historical, and intergenerational forces that shape power dynamics in clinical and community settings. Offering embodied, relational, and trauma-informed tools to practitioners working across racial, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic differences. Developing the capacity to recognize and intervene in oppression harm while maintaining therapeutic integrity and accountability. Participants will engage in reflective dialogue, somatic exercises, case-based examples, and guided exploration of their own positionality. The intent is not perfection but deepening collective responsibility and expanding our capacity to resist supremacy culture inside our practice and in ourselves. The workshop is designed to meet the Washington Department of Health requirement for two hours of health equity continuing education (WAC 246-12-820).The Blackfoot Wisdom that Inspired Maslow's HierarchyBy Teju Ravilochan, originally published by Esperanza Projecthttps://www.resilience.org/stories/2021-06-18/the-blackfoot-wisdom-that-inspired-maslows-hierarchy/ Danielle (00:05):Be with you. Yeah. Well, it seems like from week to week, something drastically changes or some new trauma happens. It reminds me a lot of 2020.Jenny (00:15):Yeah. Yeah, it really does. I do feel like the positive in that is that similar to 2020, it seems like people are really looking for points of connection with one another, and I feel like there was this lull on Zoom calls or trainings or things like that for a while. People were just burned out and now people are like, okay, where in the world can I connect with people that are similar to me? And sometimes that means neighbors, but sadly, I think a lot of times that means people in other states, a lot of people that can feel kind of siloed in where they are and how they're doing right now.Danielle (00:56):Yeah, I was just thinking about how even I have become resistant to zoom or kind of tired and fed up and then all of a sudden meeting online or texting or whatever feels safer. Okay. Again.About? Just all the shit and then you go out in the real world and do I messed that up? I messed that up. I messed that up. I think that's part of it though, not living in perfection, being willing to be really messy. And how does that play out? How does that play out in our therapeutic practices?Jenny (01:50):Yeah, totally. I've been thinking a lot about messiness lately and how we actually come into the world. I think reveling often in messiness for anyone that's tried to feed a young child or a toddler and they just have spaghetti in their hair and everything's everywhere. And then we work so hard to tell kids, don't be messy. Don't be messy. And I'm like, how much of this is this infusion of purity culture and this idea that things should be clean and tidy? That's really actually antithetical to the human experience, which is really messy and nuanced and complicated. But we've tried to force these really binary, rigid, clean systems or ways of relating so that when things inevitably become messy, it feels like relationships just snap, rather than having the fluidity to move through and navigate,Danielle (02:57):It becomes points of stop or I can't be in contact with you. And of course, there's situations where that is appropriate and there might be ways I can connect with this person in this way, but maybe not on social media for instance. That's a way that there's a number of people I don't connect with on social media intentionally, but am willing to connect with them offline. So yeah, so I think there's a number of ways to think about that. I think just in subverting supremacy, Abby and I talked a lot about consent and how also bringing your own agency and acknowledging your yeses and your nos and being forthcoming. Yeah, those are some of the things, but what are you and Tamis going to touch on?Jenny (03:47):I'd be curious to hear what you think inhibits somebody's agency and why? Because I thought that was so great. How much you talked about consent and if you were to talk about why you think that that is absent or missing or not as robust as it could be, what are your thoughts on that?Danielle (04:06):Well, sometimes I think we look in our society to people in power to kind of play out fantasies. So we look for them to keep checking in with us and it, it goes along with maybe just the way the country was formed. I talked a little bit about that this week. It was formed for white men in power, so there was obviously going to be hierarchical caste system down from there. And in each cast you're checking with the powerful person up. So I think we forget that that plays out in our day-to-day relationships too.(04:44):And I think it's a hard thing to acknowledge like, oh, I might have power as a professional in this realm, but I might enter this other realm where then I don't have power and I'm deferring to someone else. And in some ways those differences and those hierarchies serve what we're doing and they're good. And in other ways I think it inhibits us actually bringing our own agency. It's like a social conditioning against it, along with there's trauma and there's a lot of childhood sexual abuse in our country a lot. And it's odd that it gets pinned on immigrants when where's the pedophiles? We know where some of them are, but they're not being pursued. So I think all of these dynamics are at play. What do you think about thatJenny (05:32):When you talk? It makes me think about something I've just learned in the last couple years, which is like Maslow's hierarchy of needs, which has been turned into this pyramid that says you need all of these things before you can be self-actualizing. What is actually interesting is that Mazo sort of misappropriated that way of thinking from the Blackfoot nation that he had been living and researching, and the Blackfoot people were saying and have been saying and do say that they believe we come into the world as self-actualized. And so the culture and the community is designed to help that sovereign being come into their full selves.(06:20):And so actually the way that the pyramid was created was sort of the antithesis of what the Blackfoot people were trying to communicate and how they were living. But unfortunately, white psychology said, well, we can't acknowledge that this was from indigenous people, so we're going to whitewash it. We're going to say that Maslow created it and it's going to be wrong, basically. And I'm just thinking about the shift of if we view people and water and plants and animals and planets as sovereign, as beings that have self-actualizing agency, then of course we're going to probably want to practice consent and honoring them. Whereas if we view the world and people as these extractive things and objects, we're going to feel entitled to take what we want or what we feel like we deserve.Danielle (07:32):I'm not surprised though that we've extracted that hierarchy of needs from somewhere because as I write about, I've been writing a lot as I think about moral injury and what's happened to our society and how trauma's become a weapon, like a tool of empire in white bodies to use them as machinery, as weapons. One of the things I've thought a lot about is just this idea that we're not bodies, we're just part of the machine.(08:03):So then it would make sense to make a form, here's your needs, get this shit done so you can keep moving.Jenny (08:12):Totally. We just started watching Pluribus last night. Do you know what this is?(08:24):Is this really interesting show where there's this virus that comes from outer space and it makes everyone in the world basically a hive mind. And so there's immediately no wars, no genocide, nothing bad is going on,(08:43):Nobody is thinking for themselves except for this one woman who for whatever reason was not infected with the virus.(08:52):And it's so interesting and it's kind of playing with this idea of she is this white woman from America that's like, well, we should be able to think for ourselves. And everyone else is like, but wars are gone. And it's really interesting. I don't know where the show's going to actually go, but it's playing with this idea of this capitalistic individuation. I'm my own self, so I should be able to do that. And I know this, it's this place of tension with I am a sovereign being and I am deeply interconnected to all other beings. And so what does agency look like with being responsible to the people I'm in relationship with, whether I know them or not,Danielle (09:42):What is agency? I think we honor other people by keeping short accounts. I don't think I've done a good job of that much in my life. I think it's more recent that I've done that. I think we honor other people by letting them know when we're actually find something joyful about what our encounter with them or pointing out something loving. And I think we honor our community when we make a clear yes or clear no or say I can't say yes or no. Why can I tell you yes or no at a later date when we speak for ourselves, I think we give into our community, we build a pattern of agency. And I think as therapists, I think sometimes we build the system where instead of promoting agency, we've taken it away.Jenny (10:35):Yeah, I agree. I agree. I think I was just having a conversation with a supervisee about this recently. I who has heard a lot of people say, you shouldn't give your clients psychoeducation. You shouldn't give them these moments of information. And I was like, well, how gatekeeping is that? And they were having a hard time with, I've heard this, but this doesn't actually feel right. And I do think a lot of times this therapist, it's like this idea that I'm the professional, and so I'm going to keep all of this information siloed from you where I think it's ethical responsibility if we have information that would help things make more sense for our clients to educate them. And I often tell my clients in our first session, my job is to work myself out of a job. And unfortunately, I think that there's a lot in a lot of people in the therapy world who think it's their job to be someone's therapist forever. And I think I'm like, how do we start with, again, believing in someone's agency and ability to self-actualize and we just get to sort of steward that process and then let them go do whatever they're going to do.Danielle (11:54):I think that also speaks to can therapy change? I think the model I learned in graduate school has revolved a lot around childhood trauma, which is good. So glad I've been able to grow and learn some of those skills that might help me engage someone. I also think there's aspects I think of our society that are just missing in general, that feel necessary in a therapeutic relationship like coaching or talking from your own personal experience, being clear about it, but also saying like, Hey, in these years this has happened. I'm not prescribing this for you, but this is another experience. I think on one hand in grad school, you're invited to tell your story and know your story and deal with counter transference and transference and try to disseminate that in some sort of a blank way. That's not possible. We're coming in with our entire identity front and center. Yeah, those are just thoughts I have.Jenny (12:59):Yeah, I think that's so good. And it makes me think about what whiteness does to people, and I think a lot of times it puts on this cloak or this veneer of not our fullest truest selves. And I don't even think that white people are often conscious that that's what we're doing. I remember I am in this group where we're practicing what does it look like to be in our bodies in cross-racial experiences? And there's a black woman in my cohort that said, do you ever feel separate from your whiteness? Can you ever get a little bit of space from your whiteness? And I was like, honestly, I don't feel like I can. I feel like I'm like Jim Carrey in the mask, where the more I try to pull it off, the more it snaps back and it's like this crustacean that has encapsulated us. And so how do we break through with our humanity, with our messiness to these constraints that whiteness has put on us?(14:20):Oh, tomorrow. Oh my gosh. So I'm going to do a little bit of a timeline of Jenny's timeline, my emotional support timeline. I told Tamis, I was like, I can get rid of this if you don't think it's important, but I will tell you these are my emotional support timelines. And they were like, no, you can talk about 'em. So I'm just doing two slides on the timeline. I have dozens of slides as Danielle, but I'm just going to do two really looking at post civil rights movement through the early two thousands and what purity culture and Christian nationalism did to continue. What I'm talking about is the trope of white womanhood and how disembodied that is from this visceral self and organism that is our body. And to me is going to talk about essentially how hatred and fear and disgust of the black queer body is this projection of those feelings of fear, of shame, of guilt, of all of those things that are ugly or disavowed within the system of Christian nationalism, that it gets projected and put on to black bodies. And so how do we then engage the impact of our bodies from these systems in our different gendered and sexual and racial locations and socioeconomic locations and a million other intersectional ways? As you and Abby talked about the power flower and how many different parts of our identity are touched by systems of oppression and power(16:11):And how when we learn to move beyond binary and really make space for our own anger, our own fear, our own disgust, our own fill in the blank, then we are less likely to enable systems that project that on to other bodies. That's what we're going to be talking about, and I'm so excited.Danielle (16:32):Just that, just that NBD, how do you think about being in your body then on a screen? There's been a lot of debate about it after the pandemic. How do you think about that? Talking about something that's so intimate on a screen? How are you thinking about it?Jenny (16:52):Totally. I mean, we are on a screen, but we're never not in our bodies. And so I do think that there is something that is different about being in a room with other bodies. And I'm not going to pretend I know anything about energy or the relational field, but I know that I have had somatic work done on the screen where literally my practitioner will be like, okay, I'm touching your kidney right now and I will feel a hand on my kidney. And it's so wild. That probably sounds so bizarre, and I get it. It sounds bizarre to me too, but I've experienced that time and space really are relative, I think. And so there is something that we can still do in our shared relational space even if we're not in the same physical space.(17:48):I do think that for some bodies, that actually creates a little bit more safety where I can be with you, but I'm not with you. And so I know I can slam my computer shut, I can walk out of the room, I can do whatever I need to do, whether I actually do that or not. I think there sometimes can be a little bit of mobility that being on the screen gives us that our bodies might not feel if we are in a shared physical space together. And so I think there's value and there's difference to both. What about you?Danielle (18:25):Well, I used it a lot because I started working during the pandemic. So it was a lifeline to get clients and to work with clients. I have to remind myself to slow down a lot when I'm on the screen. I think it's easier to be more talkative or say more, et cetera, et cetera. So I think pacing, sometimes I take breaks to breathe. I used to have self-hate for that or self-criticism or the super ego SmackDown get body slammed. But no, I mean, I try to be down to earth who I would prefer to be and not to be different on screen. I don't know that that's a strategy, but it's the way I'm thinking about it.Jenny (19:20):As someone who has co-lead therapy spaces with you in person, I can say, I really appreciate your, and these things that feel unrushed and you just in the moment for me, a lot of times I'm like, oh yeah, we're just here. We don't have to rush to what's next. I think that's been such a really powerful thing I've gleaned from co-facilitating and holding space with you.Danielle (19:51):Oh, that's a sweet thing to say. So when you think about subverting supremacy in our practices, us as therapists or just in the world we are in, what's an area that you find yourself stuck in often if you're willing to share?Jenny (20:12):I think for me and a lot of the clients that I work with, it is that place of individualism. And this is, I think again, the therapy model is you come in, you talk about your story, talk about your family of origin, talk about your current relationships, and it becomes so insular. And there is of course things that we can talk about in our relationships, in our family, in our story. And it's not like those things happen in a, and I think it does a disservice, and especially for white female clients, I think it enables a real sense of agency when it's like, I'm going through the hardest thing that anyone's ever gone through. And it's like, open your eyes. Look at what the world is going through you, and we and us are so much more capable than white womanhood would want you to assume that you are. And so I think that a lot of times for white women, for a lot of my work is growing their capacity to feel their agency because I think that white patriarchal Christian capitalistic supremacy only progresses so long as white women perform being these damsels that need rescue and need help. And if we really truly owned our self-actualizing power, it would really topple the system, I believe.Danielle (21:53):Yeah, I mean, you see the shaking of the system with Renee, Nicole Goode. People don't know what to do with her. Of course, some people want to make her all bad, or the contortions they do to try to manipulate that video to say what they wanted to say. But the rattling for people that I've heard everywhere around her death and her murder, I think she was murdered in defense of her neighbors. And that's both terror inducing. And it's also like, wow, she believed in that she died for something she actually believed in.Jenny (22:54):Yeah. And I were talking about this as well in that of course we don't know, but I don't know that things would've played out the same way they played out if she wasn't clearly with a female partner. And I do think that heteronormativity had a part to play in that she was already subverting what she should be doing as a white woman by being with another woman. And I think that that is a really important conversation as well as where is queerness playing into these systems of oppression and these binary heteronormative systems. And this is my own theory with Renee, Nicole. Good. And with Alex, there is something about their final words where Nicole says, I'm not mad at you. And Alex says, are you okay? And my theory is that that is actually the moment where something snapped for these ice agents because they had their own projection on what these race traders were, and they probably dehumanized them. And so in this moment of their humanity intersecting with the projection that these agents had, I think that induced violence, not that they caused it or it was their(24:33):But I think that when our dehumanizing projections of people are interrupted with their humanity, we have a choice where we go, wait, you are not what I thought you were. Or we double down on the dehumanization. And I think that these were two examples of that collision of humanity and projection, and then the doubling down of violence and dehumanization(25:07):Yeah. It makes me think of, have you seen the sound of music?(25:13):So the young girl, she has this boyfriend that turns into a Nazi. There's this interaction towards the end of the film where he sees the family. He has this moment facing the dad, and he hasn't yet called in the other Nazis. And the dad says to him, you'll never be one of them.(25:36):And that was the moment that he snapped. And he called in the other guards. And I think it's making a point that there's something in these moments of humanity, calling to humanity is a really pivotal moment of are you going to let yourself be a human or are you going to double down in your allegiance to the systems of oppression? And so I think that what we're trying to invite with subverting supremacy is when we come to those moments, how do we choose humanity? How do we choose empathy? How do we choose kindness? And wait, I had this all wrong rather than a doubling down of violence. I don't know. Those are my thoughts. What do you think? Well,Danielle (26:27):I hadn't thought about that, but I do know that moment in sound of music, and that feels true to me, or it feels like, where do you belong? A question of where do you belong? And in the case of Alex and Nicole, I mean, in some sense the agents already knew they didn't belong with them, but to change this. But on the other hand, it feels like, yeah, maybe it is true. It just set off those alarm bells or just said like, oh, they're not one of us. Something like that.(27:19):It's a pretty intense thought. Yeah. My friend that's a pastor there in Minneapolis put out a video with Jen Hatmaker yesterday, and I watched the Instagram live of it this morning, and she talked about how she came home from the protest, and there were men all over her yard, in the neighbor's yard with machine guns. And she said they were trying to block her in, and they came up to her car and they had taken a picture of her license plate, and they're like, roll down your window. And she's like, why? And they're like, I gave you an order. She's like, but why? And then they took a picture of her face and they're like, now you have us in your database. And she's like, I'm not rolling down my window. Because when the last person did that, you shot him in the face(28:03):And she said they got out of their car and parked. And the neighbor who, I dunno why they were harassing her neighbor, she described him as a white male, but he was standing there and he was yelling at them to leave. And she said, at this time, there was like 50 neighbors out, like 50 people out on the street. And the ice van stopped, ran back, tackled him, slammed his face into the ice, beat him up, and then threw him in the back of the car and then dropped him off at the hospital or released him or something. And he had to go get wound care. And I guess just thinking about that, just the mere presence of white people that don't fit. I wonder if it's just the mere presence.Jenny (28:59):Yeah, yeah. Well, I think part of it is exposing the illusion of whiteness and this counterfeit collaboration that is supposed to mean based on melanin, that if you have this lack of melanin, this is how you're supposed to perform. And I'm really grateful that we have people with less melanin going, no, I would not that we want to die, but if my choice is to die or to give up my soul, I don't want to give up my soul.(29:50):I feel my heart pounding. It's scary. And I think there's also grief in the people I love that are choosing to not have a soul right now, to not allow space for their soul that are choosing to go into numbness and to bearing their head in the sand and to saying, we just need to have law and order. And I believe that they were made for so much more than that.(30:46):It is painful. I mean, it doesn't go(30:55):No, no. I've been watching a lot of sad movies lately because they helped me cry. One of the things that I loved when I was in Uganda was there was people who were professional whalers(31:12):They would be hired to come into funerals or ceremonies and just wail and grieve and move the group into a collective catharsis. And I really think our bodies need catharsis right now because there's so much we're taking in. There's so much we're moving through. And I think this is part of the system of white Christian supremacy, is that it has removed us from cultural practices of making guttural sounds together, of riving together, of dancing and shaking and screaming, and these things that I think our bodies really need individually and collectively. What are you doing in your body that feels even like 2% supportive with what we're navigating?Danielle (32:08):I don't know. I honestly, I've had a bad week or bad couple weeks, but I think I try to eat food that I know will taste good. That seems really silly, but I'm not eating anything I don't like.(32:27):That. Yeah, that's one thing. Yesterday I had a chance to go work out at 12 like I do every day, and I just noticed I was too fatigued, and so I just canceled. I called it in and ate lunch with someone and just, I didn't talk much, but they had a lot to say. So that was fine with me, hung out with someone. So I think, I don't know, I guess it was a hitting two needs for me, human face-to-face connection and also just actual food that tastes good to me.(33:09):Yeah. Well, so you're going to put that Maslow resource need in the chat or in the comments. Are you going to send it to me so I can put it in the(33:21):And then if people want to sign up for tomorrow and listen to you and Tamis, is that still a possibility?Jenny (33:26):It is, yeah. They can sign up, I think, until it's starting. So I don't know for sure. You should sign up for today, just by today, just in case. Yeah, I'll send you that link too. Well, first I guess I would have to believe that there was or is an actual political dialogue taking place that I could potentially be a part of. And honestly, I'm not sure that I believe that.
This week, Liberty and Patricia discuss Burn Down Master's House, Vigil, Fair Game, and more! Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, Apple Podcasts, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Keep track of new releases with Book Riot's New Release Index, now included with an All Access membership. Click here to get started today! Books Discussed On the Show: I Identify as Blind: A Brazen Celebration of Disability Culture, Identity, and Power by Lachi with Tim Vandehey Black Public Joy: No Permit or Permission Required by Jay Pitter Burn Down Master's House by Clay Cane Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall, Hugo Martínez Fair Game: Trans Athletes and the Future of Sports by Ellie Roscher and Anna Baeth He/She/They: How We Talk about Gender and Why It Matters by Schuyler Bailar The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports by Michael Waters Currencies of Cruelty: Slavery, Freak Shows, and the Performance Archive by Danielle Bainbridge Forever for the Culture: Notes from the New Black Digital Arts Renaissance by Steven Underwood Mattering: The Secret to a Life of Deep Connection and Purpose by Jennifer Breheny Wallace A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing by Alice Evelyn Yang The Bone Setter's Daughter by Amy Tan Vigil by George Saunders I Don't Know What You Know Me From: Confessions of a Co-Star by Judy Greer The Seven Daughters of Dupree by Nikesha Elise Williams Escape! by Stephen Fishbach Sister Svangerd and the Not Quite Dead by K. J. Parker Rooting Interest: An 831 Stories Romance by Cat Disabato The Ghost Network by Catie Disabato Big Fan by Alexandra Romanoff Black Dahlia: Murder, Monsters, and Madness in Midcentury Hollywood by William J Mann Dear Debbie by Freida McFadden The Big M: 13 Writers Take Back the Story of Menopause by Lidia Yuknavitch To Ride a Rising Storm (Nampeshiweisit, #2) by Moniquill Blackgoose Paper Cut by Rachel Taff For a complete list of books discussed in this episode, visit our website. This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
What happens when you come out online—and thousands of people decide they're done with you?In this episode, Alix & Kayla unpack cancel culture, internet outrage, and the emotional, financial, and personal fallout of coming out publicly. From losing 50,000 followers to navigating homophobia disguised as “wellness,” they explore why the internet struggles with nuance, change, and coexistence—and why scrolling past the beans might save us all.This is a raw, thoughtful conversation about queerness, yoga culture, social media power, cancel culture, and learning how to live outside the echo chamber.00:00 – Intro: married, queer, and back online02:10 – Cancelable or not? Internet apology culture05:15 – Cancel culture vs real accountability07:45 – Allegations, platforms & public judgment12:50 – Cancel culture fatigue & social currency14:30 – Coming out online & losing 50,000 followers18:40 – COVID, internet culture & rising hostility22:45 – “Colonizer,” “predator,” and wellness backlash25:05 – Is social media a workplace? Queerness at work32:20 – Why follower loss still matters38:30 – Yoga, religion & spiritualized homophobia43:00 – Inclusivity with an asterisk47:00 – The Bean Soup Theory & online outrage52:15 – Echo chambers, empathy & coexistence01:04:00 – Who's the problem? Public figures & politics#QueerPodcast #CancelCulture #LGBTQPodcast #InternetCulture #ComingOutOnline #WellnessIndustry #QueerVoices #YogaCulture #SocialMediaTalk #WivesNotSistersConnect with us on social media: IG: @wivesnotsisterspod | TikTok: @wivesnotsisterspod | Youtube: @wivesnotsisterspod Follow our hosts on Instagram: @kaylalanielsen @alix_tucker You can also watch our episodes on Youtube at youtube.com/@wivesnotsisterspod!
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How do we compare across languages, media, and histories, all without flattening differences? And what might Hong Kong teach us about doing comparison differently? Alvin K. Wong examines these and other questions in Unruly Comparison: Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone (Duke UP, 2025), a wide-ranging and thought-provoking study of queerness in Hong Kong. Bringing together Sinophone literature, independent and commercial cinema, documentary films, and visual art, the book asks how Hong Kong's queer productions might help us rethink the work of comparison itself. Rather than treating Hong Kong as a marginal or derivative space — a space defined by British colonialism, China-centrism, or global capitalism — this book approaches the city as a site of methodological possibilities. The key concept the book advances, “unruly comparison,” replacing neat equivalences and stable categories with incommensurability and transnational connections and linking Hong Kong to other places, times, and queer spaces across the Sinophone. Theoretically deft, the book is filled with a wide range of fascinating material, including work by filmmakers including Wong Kar-wai, Scud, and Fruit Chan; transnational and transgender visual cultures; documentaries about Southeast Asian domestic workers and queer intimacies; and poetry about language and precarity. This book will appeal to those interested in queer theory, Hong Kong studies, Sinophone studies, and comparative approaches. Listeners should also check out Alvin Wong's co-edited volume Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies(Routledge, 2020) and the Society of Sinophone Studies webpage (of which Alvin is currently chair!). 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
How do we compare across languages, media, and histories, all without flattening differences? And what might Hong Kong teach us about doing comparison differently? Alvin K. Wong examines these and other questions in Unruly Comparison: Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone (Duke UP, 2025), a wide-ranging and thought-provoking study of queerness in Hong Kong. Bringing together Sinophone literature, independent and commercial cinema, documentary films, and visual art, the book asks how Hong Kong's queer productions might help us rethink the work of comparison itself. Rather than treating Hong Kong as a marginal or derivative space — a space defined by British colonialism, China-centrism, or global capitalism — this book approaches the city as a site of methodological possibilities. The key concept the book advances, “unruly comparison,” replacing neat equivalences and stable categories with incommensurability and transnational connections and linking Hong Kong to other places, times, and queer spaces across the Sinophone. Theoretically deft, the book is filled with a wide range of fascinating material, including work by filmmakers including Wong Kar-wai, Scud, and Fruit Chan; transnational and transgender visual cultures; documentaries about Southeast Asian domestic workers and queer intimacies; and poetry about language and precarity. This book will appeal to those interested in queer theory, Hong Kong studies, Sinophone studies, and comparative approaches. Listeners should also check out Alvin Wong's co-edited volume Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies(Routledge, 2020) and the Society of Sinophone Studies webpage (of which Alvin is currently chair!). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/east-asian-studies
How do we compare across languages, media, and histories, all without flattening differences? And what might Hong Kong teach us about doing comparison differently? Alvin K. Wong examines these and other questions in Unruly Comparison: Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone (Duke UP, 2025), a wide-ranging and thought-provoking study of queerness in Hong Kong. Bringing together Sinophone literature, independent and commercial cinema, documentary films, and visual art, the book asks how Hong Kong's queer productions might help us rethink the work of comparison itself. Rather than treating Hong Kong as a marginal or derivative space — a space defined by British colonialism, China-centrism, or global capitalism — this book approaches the city as a site of methodological possibilities. The key concept the book advances, “unruly comparison,” replacing neat equivalences and stable categories with incommensurability and transnational connections and linking Hong Kong to other places, times, and queer spaces across the Sinophone. Theoretically deft, the book is filled with a wide range of fascinating material, including work by filmmakers including Wong Kar-wai, Scud, and Fruit Chan; transnational and transgender visual cultures; documentaries about Southeast Asian domestic workers and queer intimacies; and poetry about language and precarity. This book will appeal to those interested in queer theory, Hong Kong studies, Sinophone studies, and comparative approaches. Listeners should also check out Alvin Wong's co-edited volume Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies(Routledge, 2020) and the Society of Sinophone Studies webpage (of which Alvin is currently chair!). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies
How do we compare across languages, media, and histories, all without flattening differences? And what might Hong Kong teach us about doing comparison differently? Alvin K. Wong examines these and other questions in Unruly Comparison: Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone (Duke UP, 2025), a wide-ranging and thought-provoking study of queerness in Hong Kong. Bringing together Sinophone literature, independent and commercial cinema, documentary films, and visual art, the book asks how Hong Kong's queer productions might help us rethink the work of comparison itself. Rather than treating Hong Kong as a marginal or derivative space — a space defined by British colonialism, China-centrism, or global capitalism — this book approaches the city as a site of methodological possibilities. The key concept the book advances, “unruly comparison,” replacing neat equivalences and stable categories with incommensurability and transnational connections and linking Hong Kong to other places, times, and queer spaces across the Sinophone. Theoretically deft, the book is filled with a wide range of fascinating material, including work by filmmakers including Wong Kar-wai, Scud, and Fruit Chan; transnational and transgender visual cultures; documentaries about Southeast Asian domestic workers and queer intimacies; and poetry about language and precarity. This book will appeal to those interested in queer theory, Hong Kong studies, Sinophone studies, and comparative approaches. Listeners should also check out Alvin Wong's co-edited volume Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies(Routledge, 2020) and the Society of Sinophone Studies webpage (of which Alvin is currently chair!). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/film
How do we compare across languages, media, and histories, all without flattening differences? And what might Hong Kong teach us about doing comparison differently? Alvin K. Wong examines these and other questions in Unruly Comparison: Queerness, Hong Kong, and the Sinophone (Duke UP, 2025), a wide-ranging and thought-provoking study of queerness in Hong Kong. Bringing together Sinophone literature, independent and commercial cinema, documentary films, and visual art, the book asks how Hong Kong's queer productions might help us rethink the work of comparison itself. Rather than treating Hong Kong as a marginal or derivative space — a space defined by British colonialism, China-centrism, or global capitalism — this book approaches the city as a site of methodological possibilities. The key concept the book advances, “unruly comparison,” replacing neat equivalences and stable categories with incommensurability and transnational connections and linking Hong Kong to other places, times, and queer spaces across the Sinophone. Theoretically deft, the book is filled with a wide range of fascinating material, including work by filmmakers including Wong Kar-wai, Scud, and Fruit Chan; transnational and transgender visual cultures; documentaries about Southeast Asian domestic workers and queer intimacies; and poetry about language and precarity. This book will appeal to those interested in queer theory, Hong Kong studies, Sinophone studies, and comparative approaches. Listeners should also check out Alvin Wong's co-edited volume Keywords in Queer Sinophone Studies(Routledge, 2020) and the Society of Sinophone Studies webpage (of which Alvin is currently chair!). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/chinese-studies
Queerness remains one of the most stigmatized and overlooked aspects of Holocaust history, often erased due to the lingering homophobia of survivors. People Without History Are Dust: Queer Desire in the Holocaust (U Toronto Press, 2025) challenges this silence, weaving together compelling stories of German, Dutch, Czech, and Polish Jewish Holocaust victims and survivors – including Anne Frank, Molly Applebaum, Margot Heuman, and Gad Beck – whose experiences help illuminate the hidden history of queerness in a time of genocide. Drawing on extensive archival research, this groundbreaking book uncovers the lives of those who were doubly marginalized, not only persecuted as Jews but also as queer individuals. In doing so, it confronts the ways in which history has excluded or minimized their experiences, urging us to question normative accounts of the Holocaust. By shedding light on these long-overlooked stories, People Without History Are Dust deepens our understanding of identity, survival, and memory, reminding us why an inclusive and complex approach to history is essential – not just for the sake of the past, but in service to the present and the future as well. 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
For this week's Sewers of Paris, I'm chatting with four Oz superfans about their intense connections to films like The Wizard of Oz, books like Return to Oz, and adaptations like Wicked. These conversations are all part of my new video about Oz and queer culture that just went live on YouTube — check that out at YouTube.com/mattbaume . In this episode, you'll hear from writer and artist Terry Blas about his childhood traveling between Idaho and Mexico, which felt very similar to Dorothy's journey; you'll hear from writer Josh Trujillo about his youthful obsession to Oz collectibles; from YouTuber Emma McMahon about the positive lessons she picked up from Wicked, before she even knew she needed to hear them; and Oz scholar Dee Michel about his surprising historical discoveries about Oz and queer culture.Dee Michel: https://www.deemichel.info/Josh Trujillo: https://www.joshtrujillo.com/Terry Blas: https://terryblas.com/Emma McMahan: https://www.mcmahan.media/ Emma's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@mediaprocessingchannel/Watch Emma's video about Wicked's stage-to-screen adaptation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWZ1nB1mNy0
“The more we look into social structures, the more many of us realize we don't fit into them," says So Mayer, author of the new book Bad Language, "So each phrase or set of vocabulary is another piece of that dismantlement.” We discuss finding vocabulary for oneself, coming out as a speech act, growing up under Section 28, busting through oppression and shame, and joyous listening.Content note: in the episode we refer to sexual abuse or crimes against consent, and to suicide, but we do not go into any detail about these things, or describe any experiences. Also there are some category A and B swears.Visit theallusionist.org/disobedience for more information about So's work and today's topics, plus a transcript of the episode.Support the show at theallusionist.org/donate and as well as keeping this independent podcast going, you also get behind-the-scenes info about every episode; livestreams with me reading from my ever-growing collection of dictionaries, and the charming and nurturing Allusioverse Discord community, where among daily sharing of thoughts and amusements, we're watching The Princess Bride, the current season of Great Canadian Baking Show, and Game of Wool.This episode was produced by me, Helen Zaltzman, on the unceded ancestral and traditional territory of xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Martin Austwick. Download his own songs at palebirdmusic.com and on Bandcamp, and listen to his podcasts Song By Song and Neutrino Watch.Find the Allusionist at youtube.com/allusionistshow, instagram.com/allusionistshow, facebook.com/allusionistshow, @allusionistshow.bsky.social… If I'm there, I'm there as @allusionistshow. Our ad partner is Multitude. If you want me to talk compellingly about your product, sponsor an episode: contact Multitude at multitude.productions/ads. This episode is sponsored by:• Squarespace, your one-stop shop for building and running your online forever home. Go to squarespace.com/allusionist for a free trial, and get 10 percent off your first purchase of a website or domain with the code allusionist.• Home Chef, meal kits that fit your needs. For a limited time, Home Chef is offering Allusionist listeners fifty per cent off and free shipping on your first box, plus free dessert for life, at HomeChef.com/allusionist.• Rosetta Stone, immersive and effective language learning. Allusionist listeners get 50% off unlimited access to all 25 language courses, for life: go to rosettastone.com/allusionist.• Uncommon Goods, which sells thousands of one-of-a-kind gifts. To get 15% off your next purchase, go to UncommonGoods.com/allusionist.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.