Podcasts about Xine

Dating isn't just about crafting the perfect profile; it's about doing the inner work to uncover your beliefs, build your self-worth, and own your power. If you believe there are no good men out there, or that you have to prove yourself to be “good enough,” that energy will reflect in the connections you attract.   In this week's episode, Xine and I talk aboutHow your mindset will set the tone of the kind of connections that you will attractHow being your authentic self is a magnet in attracting quality connectionsWhat are the kind of limiting beliefs that are going to block you from aligning with yourself and othersHow dating is a mutual alignment and not about proving oneself If you would like to connect with Kim on a complimentary discovery call and see how you can work with her, book your call here - https://calendly.com/talk-to-kim/unleash-your-unapologetic-power-now Kim will be having an in-person couples retreat soon and if you want to get more information about it, you can sign up to be part of the information waitlist and be one of the first few people who will get more details on the retreat!  Sign up here: https://get-your-sexy-back.myflodesk.com/phoenix-rising-retreats  About the guest ❤️Xine La Fontaine is a Spicy Love Coach helping ambitious women find and keep healthy love! Get to know Xine more through her socials...Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/lovecoach.xinexo/  Blogcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/3z2qPY7hQZ5nLGjMlBLrCO?si=f3bb9dde0ba84a52  Website: https://www.xinelafontaine.com/  —----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Follow Kim below and continue the convo!  Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=569755109  Instagram -   https://www.instagram.com/get_your_sexy_back_coach/    Website - https://getyoursexyback.ca/Private FB Group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/2251812558445958/   

Professor Philip Schofield discusses queer aesthetics and the idea of a racialised panoptic gaze with Dr Xine Yao, the co-director of qUCL and an expert on American literature in the Department of English. They dig into the archive of bestselling, but now forgotten, American novels, and tease out the ways in which the biggest issues of the 19th century still resonate in everyday life today. Host: Professor Philip Schofield (Director of the Bentham Project, UCL) Guest: Dr Xine Yao (Department of English, UCL) Commissioners: Professor David Docherty OBE & Dr Paul Ayris (Pro-Vice-Provost LCCOS: Library, Culture, Collections and Open Science, UCL) Director: Justin Hardy (IOE - Culture, Communication & Media, UCL) Producer: Stevie Doran Date: 28 October 2024 Duration: 32:27

We sit with Miriam Robern to talk about her new product Emporium of the Speaking Lands, the nature of equipment in Cortex, and what's next for Keystone. Primary Site: http://miriamrobern.com/  Storefront: http://miriamrobern.itch.io/  Emporium Specifically: https://miriamrobern.itch.io/keystone-emporium  Arcanist's Toolkit by Riley Routh: https://rileyrouth.itch.io/the-arcanists-toolkit  Xine: http://xine.ink/  Cortex Prime Official Website: www.cortexrpg.com Cortex Prime Community Discord: https://discord.gg/8DPvsyKk5u All our social media links: https://linktr.ee/PrimedbyCortex  Have a question? Email us at pbcpodcast@d20radio.com Artwork for the logo was done by June Austin, whose tabletop related work can be found here: crimsonparcel.tumblr.com

This episode of Pod45 discusses our recent Gestures of Refusal cluster, co-edited by Sarah Bernstein and Yanbing Er. Contemporaries co-editor Francisco Robles sat down to chat about the cluster (as well as broader questions and themes it suggests) with Sarah and Yanbing, alongside Akwugo Emejulu, who contributed the essay "Ambivalence as Misfeeling, Ambivalence as Refusal" to the cluster, and Xine Yao, whose writing doesn't feature in the cluster but whose work and thought on (dis)affect, (un)feeling, and refusal articulates closely related concerns. Pod45 host and Contemporaries co-editor Michael Docherty also provides some information on how you can stay informed about Contemporaries and Post45 more generally in the event that Twitter, currently our primary means of circulating our clusters, disappears in a cloud of billionaire hubris. You can read Gestures of Refusal, and sign up for our newsletter, at post45.org now. Guests Dr. Yanbing Er (@eryanbing), Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of English Language and Literature, National University of Singapore Dr. Sarah Bernstein, Lecturer in Scottish Literature and Creative Writing, University of Strathclyde Dr. Akwugo Emejulu (@akwugoemejulu), Professor of Sociology, University of Warwick Dr. Xine Yao (@xineyaophd), Lecturer in American Literature to 1900, University College London Akwugo's Fugitive Feminism (Silver Press 2022) and Xine's Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America (Duke UP 2021) are out now. Production This episode was produced by Michael Docherty and co-produced by Gunner Taylor, with logistical co-ordination by Francisco Robles and music by Michael Docherty.

What significance does homeopathy play in epidemics? In this episode, we'll discuss Jeremy's new children's book, which will be released before the end of the year. We'll also talk about his outstanding work in homeopathy, how homeopathy is evolving and being very helpful in pandemics, the mandemics, vaccine injuries, and what homeopathic proving truly teaches us. Jeremy Sherr is the founder of Homeopathy for Health in Africa (HHA), and has been treating people with HIV/AIDS in Tanzania since 2008. Jeremy began his homeopathic studies in 1980 at the College of Homoeopathy, London, and simultaneously completed a degree in Acupuncture at the International College of Oriental Medicine. In 1986 he founded the Dynamis School, the longest running post-graduate homeopathy course in the world. Jeremy has taught and lectured in over 30 countries and is responsible for the proving (testing) of 35 new homeopathic remedies. He has published numerous articles and books, including The Dynamic Methodology of Homoeopathic Provings and Dynamic Materia Medica of Syphilis, which are all homeopathic bestsellers and are used as textbooks in many schools. Jeremy was awarded a Fellowship by the Society of Homeopaths in 1991 and both Medicina Alternativa and Pioneer University have awarded him a Ph.D. He is a member of the North American Society of Homeopaths, the Israeli Society for Classical Homeopathy, an honorary professor at Yunan Medical College, Kunming, China, and an associate Professor at University Candegabe, Argentina. Check out these episode highlights: 03:11 - First introduction to homeopathy 07:31 - Books that's good for kids 14:42 - The philosophy of epidemics 16:24 - Synthesizing an epidemic's symptoms into a single concept 22:15 - Why modern medicine can't cure AIDS 23:51 - Adapting homeopathic software to the modern world 25:54 - How homeopathy is adapting to epidemics 31:08 - The third big epidemic - mandemic 32:40 - Vaccine injuries as an epidemic 42:20 - Why is treating a mandemic more difficult than a pandemic 55:44 - The seven R 57:27 - A professional homeopath must be involved in proving 01:00:02 - What does homeopathic proving teach us 01:01:58 - The best remedy for infertility 01:08:16 - The downside of perfection 01:18:50 - Jeremey's poem called Homeo-shamanism Connect with Jeremy https://homeopathyforhealthinafrica.org/ https://www.dynamis.edu/ Here is the link to have access to a huge selection of Jeremy's work https://www.patreon.com/JEREMYSHERR Connect with Liz liz@dynamis.edu Support the Homeopathy Hangout Podcast by making a $5 once-off donation at www.buymeacoffee.com/hangout   Join my Homeopathy Hangout Podcast Facebook community here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/HelloHomies   Here is the link to my free 30-minute Homeopathy@Home online course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vqBUpxO4pZQ&t=438s   Upon completion of the course - and if you live in Australia - you can join my Facebook group for free acute advice (you'll need to answer a couple of questions about the course upon request to join): www.facebook.com/groups/eughom

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What is unfeeling? According to today's guest, Xine Yao, unfeeling includes “a broad range of affective modes, including withholding, disregard, growing a thick skin, refusing to care, opacity, numbness, dissociation, inscrutability, frigidity, insensibility, obduracy, flatness, insensitivity, disinterest, coldness, heartlessness, fatigue, desensitization, and emotional unavailability.”  In short, Xine argues in a new book from Duke University Press, titled Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America, “people who are disaffected break from affectability and present themselves as unaffected” (11). Xine is a Lecturer of English before 1900 at University College London. Xine is a BBC Radio 3/AHRC New Generation Thinker and the co-host of the PhDivas Podcast which focuses on social justice and academia across the STEM/Humanities divide. Disaffected is an urgent book that examines how sentimentality was (and is) a part of the political architecture of white supremacy and governmentality—and the forms of unfeeling that writers of color used (and continue to use) to roil that architecture. John Yargo holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His specializations are early modern literature, the environmental humanities, and critical race studies. His dissertation explores early modern representations of environmental catastrophe, including The Tempest, Oroonoko, and the poetry of Milton. He has published in Studies in Philology, The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, and Shakespeare Studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

What is unfeeling? According to today's guest, Xine Yao, unfeeling includes “a broad range of affective modes, including withholding, disregard, growing a thick skin, refusing to care, opacity, numbness, dissociation, inscrutability, frigidity, insensibility, obduracy, flatness, insensitivity, disinterest, coldness, heartlessness, fatigue, desensitization, and emotional unavailability.”  In short, Xine argues in a new book from Duke University Press, titled Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America, “people who are disaffected break from affectability and present themselves as unaffected” (11). Xine is a Lecturer of English before 1900 at University College London. Xine is a BBC Radio 3/AHRC New Generation Thinker and the co-host of the PhDivas Podcast which focuses on social justice and academia across the STEM/Humanities divide. Disaffected is an urgent book that examines how sentimentality was (and is) a part of the political architecture of white supremacy and governmentality—and the forms of unfeeling that writers of color used (and continue to use) to roil that architecture. John Yargo holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His specializations are early modern literature, the environmental humanities, and critical race studies. His dissertation explores early modern representations of environmental catastrophe, including The Tempest, Oroonoko, and the poetry of Milton. He has published in Studies in Philology, The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, and Shakespeare Studies. 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

What is unfeeling? According to today's guest, Xine Yao, unfeeling includes “a broad range of affective modes, including withholding, disregard, growing a thick skin, refusing to care, opacity, numbness, dissociation, inscrutability, frigidity, insensibility, obduracy, flatness, insensitivity, disinterest, coldness, heartlessness, fatigue, desensitization, and emotional unavailability.”  In short, Xine argues in a new book from Duke University Press, titled Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America, “people who are disaffected break from affectability and present themselves as unaffected” (11). Xine is a Lecturer of English before 1900 at University College London. Xine is a BBC Radio 3/AHRC New Generation Thinker and the co-host of the PhDivas Podcast which focuses on social justice and academia across the STEM/Humanities divide. Disaffected is an urgent book that examines how sentimentality was (and is) a part of the political architecture of white supremacy and governmentality—and the forms of unfeeling that writers of color used (and continue to use) to roil that architecture. John Yargo holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His specializations are early modern literature, the environmental humanities, and critical race studies. His dissertation explores early modern representations of environmental catastrophe, including The Tempest, Oroonoko, and the poetry of Milton. He has published in Studies in Philology, The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, and Shakespeare Studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/history

What is unfeeling? According to today's guest, Xine Yao, unfeeling includes “a broad range of affective modes, including withholding, disregard, growing a thick skin, refusing to care, opacity, numbness, dissociation, inscrutability, frigidity, insensibility, obduracy, flatness, insensitivity, disinterest, coldness, heartlessness, fatigue, desensitization, and emotional unavailability.”  In short, Xine argues in a new book from Duke University Press, titled Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America, “people who are disaffected break from affectability and present themselves as unaffected” (11). Xine is a Lecturer of English before 1900 at University College London. Xine is a BBC Radio 3/AHRC New Generation Thinker and the co-host of the PhDivas Podcast which focuses on social justice and academia across the STEM/Humanities divide. Disaffected is an urgent book that examines how sentimentality was (and is) a part of the political architecture of white supremacy and governmentality—and the forms of unfeeling that writers of color used (and continue to use) to roil that architecture. John Yargo holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His specializations are early modern literature, the environmental humanities, and critical race studies. His dissertation explores early modern representations of environmental catastrophe, including The Tempest, Oroonoko, and the poetry of Milton. He has published in Studies in Philology, The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, and Shakespeare Studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

What is unfeeling? According to today's guest, Xine Yao, unfeeling includes “a broad range of affective modes, including withholding, disregard, growing a thick skin, refusing to care, opacity, numbness, dissociation, inscrutability, frigidity, insensibility, obduracy, flatness, insensitivity, disinterest, coldness, heartlessness, fatigue, desensitization, and emotional unavailability.”  In short, Xine argues in a new book from Duke University Press, titled Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America, “people who are disaffected break from affectability and present themselves as unaffected” (11). Xine is a Lecturer of English before 1900 at University College London. Xine is a BBC Radio 3/AHRC New Generation Thinker and the co-host of the PhDivas Podcast which focuses on social justice and academia across the STEM/Humanities divide. Disaffected is an urgent book that examines how sentimentality was (and is) a part of the political architecture of white supremacy and governmentality—and the forms of unfeeling that writers of color used (and continue to use) to roil that architecture. John Yargo holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His specializations are early modern literature, the environmental humanities, and critical race studies. His dissertation explores early modern representations of environmental catastrophe, including The Tempest, Oroonoko, and the poetry of Milton. He has published in Studies in Philology, The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, and Shakespeare Studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

What is unfeeling? According to today's guest, Xine Yao, unfeeling includes “a broad range of affective modes, including withholding, disregard, growing a thick skin, refusing to care, opacity, numbness, dissociation, inscrutability, frigidity, insensibility, obduracy, flatness, insensitivity, disinterest, coldness, heartlessness, fatigue, desensitization, and emotional unavailability.”  In short, Xine argues in a new book from Duke University Press, titled Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America, “people who are disaffected break from affectability and present themselves as unaffected” (11). Xine is a Lecturer of English before 1900 at University College London. Xine is a BBC Radio 3/AHRC New Generation Thinker and the co-host of the PhDivas Podcast which focuses on social justice and academia across the STEM/Humanities divide. Disaffected is an urgent book that examines how sentimentality was (and is) a part of the political architecture of white supremacy and governmentality—and the forms of unfeeling that writers of color used (and continue to use) to roil that architecture. John Yargo holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His specializations are early modern literature, the environmental humanities, and critical race studies. His dissertation explores early modern representations of environmental catastrophe, including The Tempest, Oroonoko, and the poetry of Milton. He has published in Studies in Philology, The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, and Shakespeare Studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/american-studies

What is unfeeling? According to today's guest, Xine Yao, unfeeling includes “a broad range of affective modes, including withholding, disregard, growing a thick skin, refusing to care, opacity, numbness, dissociation, inscrutability, frigidity, insensibility, obduracy, flatness, insensitivity, disinterest, coldness, heartlessness, fatigue, desensitization, and emotional unavailability.”  In short, Xine argues in a new book from Duke University Press, titled Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America, “people who are disaffected break from affectability and present themselves as unaffected” (11). Xine is a Lecturer of English before 1900 at University College London. Xine is a BBC Radio 3/AHRC New Generation Thinker and the co-host of the PhDivas Podcast which focuses on social justice and academia across the STEM/Humanities divide. Disaffected is an urgent book that examines how sentimentality was (and is) a part of the political architecture of white supremacy and governmentality—and the forms of unfeeling that writers of color used (and continue to use) to roil that architecture. John Yargo holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His specializations are early modern literature, the environmental humanities, and critical race studies. His dissertation explores early modern representations of environmental catastrophe, including The Tempest, Oroonoko, and the poetry of Milton. He has published in Studies in Philology, The Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, and Shakespeare Studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Xine Yao joined us to discuss their book, Disaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America. https://www.dukeupress.edu/disaffected https://www.redpepper.org.uk/subscribe/

Let's talk about feelings, unfeelings, boundaries, and emotional labour! How do we build solidarities beyond what Black feminist Audre Lorde calls 'the master's house'? In part 2, PhDiva Liz chats to Xine about her book Disaffected and how her own positionality as a Chinese diasporic queer person led to how she navigates a feminist approach to feeling and unfeeling that is mindful of comparative racialization. They talk about 19th-century anti-Asian and anti-Black racisms alongside their own experiences of these racisms today. How do we build solidarity? How do we avoid the exploitation of our emotional resources? What kind of work can we do if we recognize -- and are critical about -- all research is secretly 'me-search'? Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/phdivaspodcast DISAFFECTED won the Duke UP Scholars of Color First Book Prize. For a 30% discount use the code E21YAO on the following sites North America: www.dukeupress.edu/disaffected UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific: www.combinedacademic.co.uk/97814780148…isaffected/ You can read the intro for free here: www.dukeupress.edu/disaffected

So much and yet so little has changed for women of colour since the 19th century... PhDivas Liz and Xine discuss Xine's first book DISAFFECTED. Xine shares the challenges of writing a monograph (a fancy academic term for research book). Chapter 4 is kind of an homage to Liz: it discusses Black feminist approaches to STEM in the nineteenth century by analyzing a novel by a major Black woman writer alongside the writings of the first two Black American women to receive medical degrees. Liz and Xine delve into the everyday life strategies of disaffection, care, and uncaring that persist in the archive and in our everyday lives. Support us on Patreon! www.patreon.com/phdivaspodcast DISAFFECTED won the Duke UP Scholars of Color First Book Prize. For a 30% discount use the code E21YAO on the following sites North America: www.dukeupress.edu/disaffected UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781478014836/disaffected/ You can read the intro for free here: www.dukeupress.edu/disaffected

If the master's tools can never dismantle the master's house, what can we build instead? Since emotional labour is racialized and gendered, what if minoritized people say 'no'? Listen to several brilliant WOC scholars discuss PhDiva Xine's new book DISAFFECTED: each of them was given a chapter of the book to respond to in order to give the audience a sense of the overall argument as well as a chance for each scholar to discuss their own research. 170+ people attended from around the world! 0:00 to 6:15 Xine's overview of the event and Christine Okoth's introduction 6:15 to 26:50 Xine reads a section of DISAFFECTED's argument 26:51 to 38 Chapter 1: white sentimentalism, unsympathetic Blackness, and Herman Melville's Benito Cereno Respondent: Christine A Okoth (King's College London) is working on a brilliant manuscript that will revolutionize ecocriticism: _Race and the Raw Material: Black Aesthetics as Extractive Form_ 38:10 to 53:04 Chapter 2: on Black-Indigenous counterintimacies, science, and global revolution in Martin R. Delany's work Respondent: Rianna Walcott (King's College London) who researches Black women's identity formation in digital spaces. She co-founded projectmyopia.com which promotes inclusion in academia and decolonised curriculums. She co-edited The Colour of Madness, an anthology about BAME mental health. www.riannawalcott.com and @rianna_walcott on Twitter 53:05 to 1:02:35 Chapter 3: on queer frigidity, medical science, the limits of white feminism, and the subgenre of (white) women doctor novels Respondent: Lara Choksey (UCL) who works on STS, critical race and decolonial studies with particular interest in speculative fiction. She is the author of Narrative in the Age of the Genome: Genetic Worlds (Bloomsbury 2021). https://www.bloomsbury.com/.../narrative-in-the-age-of.../ 1:03:50 to 1:13:35 Chapter 4: on Black women doctors, transformative love, and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper's Iola Leroy Respondent: Jade Bentil (Oxford) is a Black feminist historian whose first book REBEL CITIZEN uses oral history interviews to explore the lived experiences of Black women who migrated to Britain after WW2. Forthcoming from Allen Lane. https://www.jadebentil.com/ 1:13:31 to 1:26:25 Chp 5: Oriental inscrutability, Chinese diaspora, the first Asian North American woman writer Sui Sin Far Respondent: KerryMackereth(@CambridgeGender) works on racialization of AI, AsAm studies; co-host of @TheGoodRobot1 @KerryMackereth on Twitter 1:26:30 Coda: Toward a Disaffected Manifesto Beyond Survival. PhDiva Xine highlights respondent Lucia Lorenzi who was unable to attend. Lucia trained as a Canadianist and trauma theorist, working on how artists and writers use silence to reshape, resist, reimagine experiences of violence. Their artwork is featured on the cover of the book! @empathywarrior on Twitter and Instagram DISAFFECTED won the Duke UP Scholars of Color First Book Prize. For a 30% discount use the code E21YAO on the following sites North America: https://www.dukeupress.edu/disaffected UK, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific: https://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/9781478014836/disaffected/ You can read the intro for free here: https://www.dukeupress.edu/disaffected Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/phdivaspodcast

Warm up your tarot deck and trim your undercut: Dr Xine Yao (UCL) is here to tell you all about femme invisibility, politics of unfeeling, queerness and race, occult queer practices, fashion and queer coding, ugly feelings, and so much more. Xine talks about her research on queerness and race in 19th century America, about race and professions in literary history, but also about her experience of working on these subjects in a Canadian versus a British context. If you want to think about queerness and race, or if you would like to learn about the subversive potential of unfeeling, hit play!Selected works by Xine (http://christineyao.com) :PhDivasDisaffected: The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling in Nineteenth-Century America https://www.dukeupress.edu/disaffected “Femmes in Science: Queer Erasure and the Politics of Dress in Nineteenth Century America.” Gender in American Literature and Culture. Eds. Jennifer Harris and Jean Lutes. Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2021. “The Craft: QTPOC Tarot in Mariko Tamaki and Jillian Tamaki's Skim.” Q&A: Voices from Queer Asian North America. Eds. Kale B. Fajardo, Alice Y. Hom, and Martin F. Manalansan. Temple University Press, forthcoming 2021.Concepts, texts and people mentioned:#NoDAPLIdol No MoreSara Ahmed's The Cultural Politics of EmotionJules Gill-Peterson's Histories of the Trans ChildSianne Ngai's Ugly FeelingsSara Ahmed's Feminist KilljoyGloria AnzaldúaAudre LordeMartin ManalansanSianne Ngai's Our Aesthetic Categories/Theory of the GimmickSusan SontagInvertJane AustenBildungsromanJames BarryRadclyffe Hall's Well of LonelinessElizabeth Phelps' Doctor ZayMammy tropeLGBTQIA2S+QTBIPOCMariko and Jillian Tamaki's SkimDusk II OnyxReady for (a) reading? Follow Xine (@XineYaoPhD) and me (@Lena_Mattheis) on Twitter!Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:1.What does Xine mean by ‘unfeeling'?2.List some prejudices attached to being femme. Why are they harmful?3.Please look up Sianne Ngai and try to write a brief definition of ‘ugly feelings'.4.How does Xine describe the respective (literary) histories of the white woman doctor and the black woman doctor?5.What does Xine mean by ‘frigidity' in this context?6.We talk about the undercut as an element of queer fashion. Can you think of other queer fashion moments? What do they say about sexuality and gender?7.In how far is tarot a queer practice?

Have you watched Netflix's The Chair? Join PhDivas Liz and Xine as they talk about all the uncomfortable resonances between their experiences as women of colour in academia and the short 'comedy' series starring Sandra Oh. (Yes, Xine even had a student describe her as 'if Sandra Oh were an academic.') They discuss antiblackness, model minority failings, sabotage, emotional labour, and sympathies with student activists and beleagured staff. Support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/phdivaspodcast For another great take on The Chair, see Koritha Mitchell's CNN piece: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/26/opinions/the-chair-sandra-oh-netflix-protagonist-mitchell/index.html

In this episode, Elizabeth Duquette (Gettysburg College) and Stacey Margolis (University of Utah) discuss their experiences as co-editors of J19, the flagship journal of C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists. In a recording of the live Q&A event from April 29, 2021, Crystal Donkor (SUNY New Paltz) asks the outgoing editors questions about the intellectual challenges and pragmatics of shaping research in the field of nineteenth-century American studies. For more information on the current call for new J19 editors please visit https://www.c19society.org/call-for-editors. Proposals are due by June 15, 2021. This episode was produced by Christine "Xine" Yao (University College London) and Doug Guerra (SUNY Oswego). Full transcript available here: http://bit.ly/C19PodcastS04E05. You can contact Betsy Duquette and Stacey Margolis to learn more about co-editing J19 or submitting to the journal: eduquett@gettysburg.edu / s.margolis@utah.edu

Springtime is the season of success for a few... and rejection for the majority. PhDivas Liz and Xine revisit the perennial topic of the many, many forms of rejection in academia -- from grants, students, programmes -- as early career scholars and attentive to disparities of power. Failure isn't only personal, but can be structural especially for BIPOC academics: is the problem with your individual proposal or is it a broader institutional issue? What is at stake? 'Branding' and the academic equivalent of being influencers are necessities for junior and minoritized academics, but this doesn't necessarily translate to economic security. Liz and Xine also discuss codeswitching how they present their research to potentially hostile audiences/strangers. Support us on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/phdivaspodcast

2021 has been a rough start for the PhDivas. Liz and Xine recorded this in the week after the white supremacist insurrection at the US Capitol -- and then somehow we had to go about academic 'business as usual.' So here the PhDivas discuss the conflicts between our exhaustion, our new curious status as inspirations, the start of term, the resumption of our research, the continued cruelties of academia as institution. All contributing to this delayed launch! You can support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/phdivaspodcast

In this weeks episode we chat to Matt Martin, head curator at Photobook Cafe, Founder of The Photocopy Club and a photographer in his own right. We chat to Matt about his love of Xine culture and methods and ideas for self publishing that are relevant to all photographers. The chat is packed with loads of great resources for anyone interesting in setting off down this road and you'll find all the links in the show notes. Eneloop rechargeable AA batteries Tom's Camera battery charging station Tether tools d-tap adapter No plastic sleeves the website and here is their book The rather splendid Clint Davis promo and the slightly bonkers Action Figure promo by Jen Lennartsson Photobook Cafe and Rapid Eye The Miniclicks photo talks that started life in Brighton The Photocopy Club - Matt's concept which has gone from strength to strength The amazing work of French visual artist JR Alan McFetridge - wildfires - https://alan-mcfetridge.com/ London book arts - a great resource for learning about book binding Publishing software - Affinity Publisher - a great alternative to Adobe InDesign Some of the printers that Matt mentions in London: XYZ Calvert printers Hato Press Inky little fingers Mixam Newspaper Club CLP Chris Killip The Last Ships publication from Pony Box American Xerography in Colour by Matt Martin - a project Matt shot across America. Available to purchase on Matt's website. Resource for 2nd hand photography books - Oxfam books Matt's desert Island Photobook: The Photobook a History - Volumes I The Photobook a History - Volumes II The Photobook a History - Volumes III Matt's desert Island Camera: Nikon FM2 + 50mm

Xine Yao, The Cultural Politics of Unfeeling: Considering Race and Affect From Below by Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto

**Dark Indulgence 09.13.20 Industrial | EBM | Dark Techno Mixshow by Scott Durand : This week featuring brand new music from Codex Empire | Konkurs | Endzustand | Maedon | Cartartsis | Capsules of energy | Rojinski ft Xine | Axkan | Kontain | Civil Hate | Matte blvck | Angel Karel & more. Please remember to repost and favorite to help spread the new music!** https://www.mixcloud.com/scottdurand/dark-indulgence-091320-industrial-ebm-dark-techno-mixshow-by-scott-durand-djscottdurandcom/ Custom Intro Opener Konkurs - Brain Bleeding In Silence - Vacuous MATTE BLVCK - Bare (Vaughn Avakian Extended Remix) obsessive | discipline - Closed-Circuit Suspicion Civil Hate - WorldStorm (Mechanical Moth Remix) Capsules of Energy - The Entity Luca dell'Orso - Constriction Back From The Wave - Speak With The Devil Rojinski ft Xine - At Night (ft. Xine) Vektor 9 - Ostkreuz Nekra Damage - Pressure Catartsis - Press (Ōtone repress) Moodyboy, Essio - Call My Name Re-aktiv - Verführer (2.0 Version) Sina XX & Munsinger - Diktator Sequenz (Sarin Remix) Angel Karel - Has Received Pain For Pleasure (Istigkeit Punitive Remix) Bassler Disconnect - Body parts in the house Armageddon Dildos - Destruction (Inertia Subkultura Mix) Maedon - Pandemonium Codex Empire - Tribenode AXKAN - Berlin (Manni Dee London Mix) Rown - 9 Sabotage Members - By Fear We Act Snatchers - Dead Bodies Kontain - Your Job Is To Make Art (Kander Remix) Hel:nosce - Anima Mundi (Henyox Remix) Endzustand - Hass Korcs - Sight And Hook//Syndrome Belfegor

**Dark Indulgence 09.13.20 Industrial | EBM | Dark Techno Mixshow by Scott Durand : This week featuring brand new music from Codex Empire | Konkurs | Endzustand | Maedon | Cartartsis | Capsules of energy | Rojinski ft Xine | Axkan | Kontain | Civil Hate | Matte blvck | Angel Karel & more. Please remember to repost and favorite to help spread the new music!** https://www.mixcloud.com/scottdurand/dark-indulgence-091320-industrial-ebm-dark-techno-mixshow-by-scott-durand-djscottdurandcom/ Custom Intro Opener Konkurs - Brain Bleeding In Silence - Vacuous MATTE BLVCK - Bare (Vaughn Avakian Extended Remix) obsessive | discipline - Closed-Circuit Suspicion Civil Hate - WorldStorm (Mechanical Moth Remix) Capsules of Energy - The Entity Luca dell'Orso - Constriction Back From The Wave - Speak With The Devil Rojinski ft Xine - At Night (ft. Xine) Vektor 9 - Ostkreuz Nekra Damage - Pressure Catartsis - Press (Ōtone repress) Moodyboy, Essio - Call My Name Re-aktiv - Verführer (2.0 Version) Sina XX & Munsinger - Diktator Sequenz (Sarin Remix) Angel Karel - Has Received Pain For Pleasure (Istigkeit Punitive Remix) Bassler Disconnect - Body parts in the house Armageddon Dildos - Destruction (Inertia Subkultura Mix) Maedon - Pandemonium Codex Empire - Tribenode AXKAN - Berlin (Manni Dee London Mix) Rown - 9 Sabotage Members - By Fear We Act Snatchers - Dead Bodies Kontain - Your Job Is To Make Art (Kander Remix) Hel:nosce - Anima Mundi (Henyox Remix) Endzustand - Hass Korcs - Sight And Hook//Syndrome Belfegor

**Dark Indulgence 09.13.20 Industrial | EBM | Dark Techno Mixshow by Scott Durand : This week featuring brand new music from Codex Empire | Konkurs | Endzustand | Maedon | Cartartsis | Capsules of energy | Rojinski ft Xine | Axkan | Kontain | Civil Hate | Matte blvck | Angel Karel & more. Please remember to repost and favorite to help spread the new music!** https://www.mixcloud.com/scottdurand/dark-indulgence-091320-industrial-ebm-dark-techno-mixshow-by-scott-durand-djscottdurandcom/ Custom Intro Opener Konkurs - Brain Bleeding In Silence - Vacuous MATTE BLVCK - Bare (Vaughn Avakian Extended Remix) obsessive | discipline - Closed-Circuit Suspicion Civil Hate - WorldStorm (Mechanical Moth Remix) Capsules of Energy - The Entity Luca dell'Orso - Constriction Back From The Wave - Speak With The Devil Rojinski ft Xine - At Night (ft. Xine) Vektor 9 - Ostkreuz Nekra Damage - Pressure Catartsis - Press (Ōtone repress) Moodyboy, Essio - Call My Name Re-aktiv - Verführer (2.0 Version) Sina XX & Munsinger - Diktator Sequenz (Sarin Remix) Angel Karel - Has Received Pain For Pleasure (Istigkeit Punitive Remix) Bassler Disconnect - Body parts in the house Armageddon Dildos - Destruction (Inertia Subkultura Mix) Maedon - Pandemonium Codex Empire - Tribenode AXKAN - Berlin (Manni Dee London Mix) Rown - 9 Sabotage Members - By Fear We Act Snatchers - Dead Bodies Kontain - Your Job Is To Make Art (Kander Remix) Hel:nosce - Anima Mundi (Henyox Remix) Endzustand - Hass Korcs - Sight And Hook//Syndrome Belfegor

Lecturer Yao explains how masks are an expression of commitment to the collective good

Why do we talk about our immune systems using the language of warfare? Let's discuss immunity from two perspectives that may seem very different: biomedical engineering and biopolitics. In this episode PhDivas Liz and Xine educate each other about their disciplinary knowledge of what "immunity" means. Cells at Work! is a recent anime about what goes on in the human body: Liz explains the science behind their portrayal of viruses and immune processes. Xine talks about how political and legal immunity came before our knowledge of the immune system by drawing upon Ed Cohen's A Body Worth Defending. Bonus: PhDiva Liz's genius comparisons between immune system functions and social media platforms! Cells at Work is on Netflix. Cohen's book is available from Duke University Press. Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/phdivaspodcast

Who is seen as the disease or the diseased? Psychologist Charissa Cheah received RAPID grant funding from the National Science Foundation to study the forms of anti-Chinese racism from COVID-19 and their impact on Chinese-American individuals, families, and communities. PhDivas Liz and Xine discuss with Professor Cheah the politics and histories around racial identification health in research and how people, especially immigrants or international students, understand their own racial positioning. Race conscious research is necessary: the media is finally recognizing the disproportionate mortality rate among African Americans. However, Professor Cheah discusses how such research can be distorted to eugenic ends to blame Black people as a distraction from structural racism. More on Professor Cheah's NSF grant: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/uomb-rts030520.php Support PhDivas on Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/phdivaspodcast

Xine La Fontaine talks about how pleasure activation increases our time spent think and feeling with the glass half full that is healthy for the body and psyche, how to awakening greater levels of pleasure brings to the surface all the reasons we weren't experiencing them in the first place, and the importance of trauma-awareness for everyone in care-based professions and how sexual empowerment can become an incredible tool for those is service-based realms. #sexperttalks #sexpert #traumaawareness #pleasure #femalesexuality #conscioussexuality Bio: Xine is a Somatic Ritualist, Sensual Embodiment for Coaches on a Mission. With more than 20 years of personal development, a Certification as a Tantric Sex, Love & Relationship Coach as well as Shamanic ritual training, Xine blends the beauty of traditional tools with modern somatic researched practices that empower women and coaches to build confidence and increased resiliency from the inside out! Her trauma-aware approach and sexy embodiment rituals guide Coaches to become more deeply connected and in love with their Sensual and Sexual natures. This breathes new life into their bodies, coaching practice and business. FB Group: Sexy, Free & Making Sh*t Happen: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sexyfreemakingithappen/ Website: http://TheSensualRevolution.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mlle_xine/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/XineLaFontaine Interviewer: Samra Suskic-Basic alchemycoaching.org

Christine  lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and, although busy, is always looking for new friends, community, and activity partners! If you'd like to get in touch, the best way is to send her a Facebook message or friend request (https://www.facebook.com/Xine.story) You may also email her at christineastory@gmail.com for a slower response. Also @RainyDayMondays on Instagram This was recorded at Desire Riviera Maya in Cancun. My sweetheart and I were there with the folks from Life on the SwingSet for a little event they call “Swingset takes Desire.” Desire is a swinger resort in Cancun Mexico that is taken over by a group of what I think of as freaks and queers: poly, swinger, kinky, queer, sex positive folks. Some new folks, lots of returners. I interviewed several people and this is one of those. They are a bit out of recording order because of various logistics like getting people’s bios and so on so ignore all that. These were recorded with my iPhone so I’ve done my best with the sound quality. Also the episode references Nomy Lamm – queer, fat icon. Who happens to be one of the fat queers that I also connected with in another place in Fat community. I met met Nomy at https://nolose.org/ I reached out to her to see if she wanted to comment and this is what she said: “hi briana! this sounds amazing. my website is www.nomyteaches.com. you could also mention that I'm the creative director for Sins Invalid - sinsinvalid.org. also if people want access to the first issue of my zine (released in 1993!) here is a link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxM9mTeuGlNaUm5ScUtDNkVXc0k/view?usp=sharing “ So now you can reach out to Nomy and her work and see what a bad ass she is too! Also she’ll hopefully be on an upcoming episode and you can hear her yourselves! Now on to the show snippets! How did you become sex positive? Christine: Oh, I was always a horny little slut. On her partner struggling: not being able to communicate well meant that he didn't have the words to describe how he felt or really to identify it so it was hard to talk about. “Actually all, all of my partners are, are queer men currently, but, um, so he, he's, his main interest is in, in guys like sexually. But he's a varsity cuddler!” On Bi men “There were a lot of men putting their mouths in a lot of places. And we like that!” Queerness and queer invisibility and seeing internalized homophobia. “You know, we didn't know you were queer. We thought you were straight. And he's just like. Well, I have the purple bead, I have the rainbow necklace, I have the rainbow bead. My toenails are painted rainbow. My fingernails are painted. I'm wearing ladies' flip flops. More do I have to do?” We give a lot of love to bi men! “You don't have to be 100% love your body to, to use it in a way that's pleasurable” Also @RainyDayMondays on Instagram

What happens when a biomedical engineer and a literary studies scholar set out to produce a podcast about academia, culture, and social justice across the STEM/humanities divide? That’s exactly what the guests on this episode—Elizabeth Wayne and Christine "Xine" Yao—have been doing for the past four and a half years with PhDivas. In episode 104 of Imagine Otherwise, host Cathy Hannabach interviews Elizabeth Wayne and Christine "Xine" Yao about what it’s like to produce an academic podcast as a form of public scholarship, the transnational and discipline-specific ecology of activism, why the future of academia is public engagement, and how building spaces for folks to thrive is how Liz and Xine imagine otherwise.   TRANSCRIPT AND SHOW NOTES: https://ideasonfire.net/104-elizabeth-wayne-christine-yao

How do we evaluate the value of our work? PhDivas is finally launching a Patreon in order to sustain this project. Liz and Xine decided to sit down and record why it has taken them so long to put this together. (Awkwardness!) Sometimes we are so used to giving free labour to our institutions and our field of study that, combined with imposter syndrome, it is hard to ask for the support we need to continue that work. For some of us even the act of asking for any form of support is terrifying because of the fear of rejection -- so it feels safer not to try at all. Stop procrastinating and put the same faith you have in others into yourself! Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/phdivaspodcast We appreciate your follows, ratings, and reviews!

Live at Desire - Xine - Have Pleasure Now!  Christine  lives in the San Francisco Bay Area and, although busy, is always looking for new friends, community, and activity partners! If you'd like to get in touch, the best way is to send her a Facebook message or friend request (https://www.facebook.com/Xine.story) You may also email her at christineastory@gmail.com for a slower response. Also @RainyDayMondays on Instagram This was recorded at Desire Riviera Maya in Cancun. My sweetheart and I were there with the folks from Life on the SwingSet for a little event they call “Swingset takes Desire.” Desire is a swinger resort in Cancun Mexico that is taken over by a group of what I think of as freaks and queers: poly, swinger, kinky, queer, sex positive folks. Some new folks, lots of returners. I interviewed several people and this is one of those. They are a bit out of recording order because of various logistics like getting people’s bios and so on so ignore all that. These were recorded with my iPhone so I’ve done my best with the sound quality. Also the episode references Nomy Lamm – queer, fat icon. Who happens to be one of the fat queers that I also connected with in another place in Fat community. I met met Nomy at https://nolose.org/ I reached out to her to see if she wanted to comment and this is what she said: “hi briana! this sounds amazing. my website is www.nomyteaches.com. you could also mention that I'm the creative director for Sins Invalid - sinsinvalid.org. also if people want access to the first issue of 'i'm so fucking beautiful' (released in 1993!) here is a link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxM9mTeuGlNaUm5ScUtDNkVXc0k/view?usp=sharing “ So now you can reach out to Nomy and her work and see what a bad ass she is too! Also she’ll hopefully be on an upcoming episode and you can hear her yourselves! Now on to the show snippets! How did you become sex positive? Christine: Oh, I was always a horny little slut. On her partner struggling: not being able to communicate well meant that he didn't have the words to describe how he felt or really to identify it so it was hard to talk about. “Actually all, all of my partners are, are queer men currently, but, um, so he, he's, his main interest is in, in guys like sexually. But he's a varsity cuddler!” On Bi men “There were a lot of men putting their mouths in a lot of places. And we like that!” Queerness and queer invisibility and seeing internalized homophobia. “You know, we didn't know you were queer. We thought you were straight. And he's just like. Well, I have the purple bead, I have the rainbow necklace, I have the rainbow bead. My toenails are painted rainbow. My fingernails are painted. I'm wearing ladies' flip flops. More do I have to do?” We give a lot of love to bi men! “You don't have to be 100% love your body to, to use it in a way that's pleasurable” Also @RainyDayMondays on Instagram

Job security, unequal pay, excessive workloads, gender and racial inequality: this is the state of academia everywhere. How do we push for change when institutions don't want to? In the UK the University and College Union is on STRIKE to fight for the soul of the university and that means PhDiva Xine is too. Xine interviews Dr. Francesca Brooks about the history and demands behind the strike as well as the tactics and lived experience from the perspective of precarity. If you are elsewhere in the world, may you learn something useful from this struggle! You can show your solidarity by donating to the union's fighting fund which provides financial support for those going without pay, with emphasis on the most vulnerable: https://www.ucu.org.uk/fightingfund Or you can join the #digitalstrike by not posting about any work that benefits your institutional employer during this time. Use #UCUStrike #UCUStrikesBack, reshare this information about the strike widely! https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/nov/07/university-staff-dont-want-to-strike-for-fair-pensions-and-pay-but-were-being-forced-to

it's time for a wellness check! PhDivas Liz and Xine talk about getting sick while navigating challenges as new faculty in STEM and the humanities -- and adulting. What are our new privileges and limitations on our research and advocacy? It's also a wellness check for the health of academia. Just because you are well does not mean the system is working! And enjoy the discussion of Avatar: The Last Airbender aka the greatest show of all time. Check in with yourself and those around you. As we have to remind ourselves, just because it is the final push of the semester and year doesn't mean you should push yourself to breaking... To learn more about the protests on Mauna Kea against the Thirty Meter Telescope, see Keolu Fox and Chanda Hsu Prescod-Weinstein's article: https://www.thenation.com/article/mauna-kea-tmt-colonial-science/

More about PhDiva Liz's new job! What happens to your personal life when you get that coveted academic job and have to move away? We advance in our careers but family advance in age. Liz and Xine talk about how the academic job market affects dating and family. How are we treated professionally and socially if we are single versus coupled academics?

How does looking back to a time before institutionalization and medicalization affect how we think about disability today? What would it mean to "crip" the classics? These are some of the questions answered by Professors Benjamin Reiss (Emory University), Ellen Samuels (UW Madison) and Sari Altschuler (Northeastern University) as they speak with Ittai Orr (Yale University) about the study of what Reiss calls the "disability cultures" of the 19th century. Making the case that such cultures deeply influenced what we now think of as mainstream American history and literature, they share their exciting research on Emerson, Thoreau and Fuller's ethics of care, the afterlives of nineteenth-century freakshows on the internet, and the impact of raised type and blind education on The Scarlet Letter, and they identify exciting new areas of study yet to be fully explored. This episode was produced by Ittai Orr with major support from Christine "Xine" Yao, Kristie Schlauraff, and Dan Kubis of the University of Pittsburgh Humanities Center. Episode transcript: https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/ca9039_4354c64b8ed0444fb5e7716b76434633.pdf

Why are the PhDivas interested in tarot cards and the art of divination? PhDivas Liz and Xine separately delved into tarot: this is their first full conversation about their practices of self-care. The classic Western deck has been reimagined by disenfranchised peoples. Xine draws from her research about the importance of QTPOC tarot, especially the Asian American Tarot and Dusk || Onyx Melanated Tarot for the African diaspora. Liz the scientist challenges the dichotomy between tarot, forms of belief, and STEM. They talk skepticism, the Queen of Swords card, the Death card. How do we care for ourselves as scholars, as vulnerable people in this world? Will you try out a new practice of self care you might be skeptical about after this episode? Asian American Tarot by the Asian American Literary Review: https://aalr.binghamton.edu/special-issue-on-asian-american-mental-health/ Dusk II Onyx Melanated Tarot by Courtney Alexander: https://dust2onyx.com/ For an easy introduction check out the free Golden Tarot app. Little Red Tarot is a queer feminist tarot website with lots of tutorials: www.littleredtarot.com Asali Earthworks curates and reviews QTPOC tarot decks: https://www.asaliearthwork.com/tarot-of-the-qtpoc/

Here come the trolls! Degrees, peer-reviewed publications, respect in the field -- markers of academic respectability do not shield scholars, especially BIPOC women, when people don't want to hear what we have to say. Remember PhDiva Xine's naivete in our previous episode? A month after recording, she tweeted a critique about Asian American appropriation of Blackness tied to the erasure of antiBlack, antiLatinx racisms when the media takes the Harvard affirmative action case as solely about anti-Asian sentiment. And then the racist and race traitor tweets began. PhDiva Liz interviews Xine about coming under attack from both alt-right white supremacists and MRAsians (men's rights activists Asians). When should we become concerned about backlash? How can we protect ourselves? We talk practical tips from friends and our previous episodes. Apologies for some audio quality issues -- Xine had packed her equipment since she was moving to London just a few days later! Image from Xine's research at the American Antiquarian Society Earlier episode with Drs. Carrie Mott and Daniel Cockayne on alt-right attacks after the Washington Post raised the profile of their research: https://soundcloud.com/phdivas/politicsofcitation

From ABD to the verge of becoming faculty: PhDivas Liz and Xine have been doing this podcast for 3 years strong! We had no idea what impact, good or bad, this might have on our lives as junior scholars. In this episode we reflect upon public scholarship from scicomm to public humanities to TED Talks. We're proud to build a public stage to help raise other women in academia -- and you can join in too! (Enjoy Xine’s naivete before listening to part 2.) Images taken from a gif by Libby VanderPloeg: https://giphy.com/gifs/cute-feminist-girlpower-3o7abBphHJngINCHio

PhDiva Xine is moving to London, England as a #NewProf! Liz and Xine catch up after an exhausting spring to talk about Xine's new position as Lecturer at University College London, differences between STEM and humanities public outreach, illusions of meritocracy -- and complicated feelings to kind cliches. "I always knew you would make it." "Are you excited?"

What do you do when you don't go looking for a book-- it comes and finds you instead? That's what happened to Jean Lee Cole (Loyola University Maryland) when she ran into the words of H.M.T. in the pages of the Christian Recorder. It took nearly ten years, but H.M.T. eventually got his way. The story behind Freedom's Witness: The Civil War Correspondence of Henry McNeal Turner (West Virginia UP, 2013) is a story about periodical research, African American print culture, and history's refusal to keep silent. The episode was written and produced by Jean Lee Cole. Post-production help from Christine "Xine" Yao. Background music from www.bensound.com used under a Creative Commons License

How can we empower teen girls of color? PhDivas Liz and Xine talk to Eden and Ellisa Oyewo about how their C.O.R.E. work supports girls in those formative years before university. These sisters from Indiana collaborate from different cities and careers (engineering vs. fashion) to create and run C.O.R.E. (Creating Opportunity to Reach Empowerment), an online magazine and on-site programming at schools to bring career resources, financial planning, fashion tips, and relationship advice catered to girls of color 12-18. We talk about the struggles of girlhood and it turns out even the PhDivas have things to learn from C.O.R.E.! C.O.R.E. Magazine: http://thecorereader.com/ You can also find them on Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest!

800,000 undocumented young people in the US will be endangered if the DACA(Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program ends. PhDivas Liz and Xine interview DREAMer Dory Castillo, an amazing undergrad furthering children's science education who hopes to become a physicist herself. But because of her undocumented status, she has to live with the threat of deportation to a country she's never even visited. From Dory's dreams about studying fluid mechanics and her love of teaching, we turn to discussing issues of respectability, immigration, and the many, many misconceptions about undocumented immigrants, particularly the DREAMers. We support the DREAMers because they are #HeretoStay. Help to defend DACA: https://unitedwedream.org/

What happens when your project fails? Dr. Erica Pratt, researcher at University of Texas MD Cancer Medical Center, talks about the bias against discussing negative results in science and the struggle to succeed as a nontraditional student. If you aren't what people expect a scientist to look like AND are rather modest, you need mentors to go the extra mile as coaches. We discuss Erica's trajectory from her undergrad at Carnegie Mellon, which required all undergrads in the new biomedical engineering to have a second engineering major *just to be safe*, to her current postdoc work on liquid biopsy in pancreatic cancer. Liz, Xine, and Erica talk about evaluation beyond traditional metrics, morbid humor, depression, perfectionism, and pet peeves about science in popular media. Learn more about Erica's work here: https://pratted.wordpress.com/ Follow her on Twitter: @pratt_ed

It’s here! The first official episode! Join me as I talk cut-creases, deadlifting, and ill-advised teenage atheism with academic and podcaster Xine Yao. If you want more to read/listen to on these topics, here are some suggestions: Check out Virgie Tovar’s Take the Cake column on Ravishly  Learn more about What We Mean When We … Continue reading Episode 1.1 Eyeliner & Astrology with Xine Yao

Summer vacation: when academics look forward to spending quality time... working on their research. Over the "holiday" weekend Liz and Xine talk about structuring their time and the unexpected emotional labour that comes when you do take a "break" only to frantically play catch-up on your personal life. We discuss the idea of breaks in a wider sense as well: figuring out strategic vulnerability, burning out because of social media, allowing ourselves to ask for help. How can we take a break from high expectations and over-achievement?

If you survived the academic job market, what comes next? Xine catches up with Dr. Nadia Chernyak who will be tenure-track at UC Irvine in the Cognitive Science department. Nadia does amazing research on cognitive and moral development in children, but as it turns out, nothing truly prepares you to be a #newprof. What is involved in setting up a lab, which could be described as running your own small startup?