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LGBTQ+ Studies
Interviews with scholars of LGBTQ+ Studies about their new books.
November 14, 2024
Ruth Vanita
A Slight Angle (India Viking: 2024), the newest novel from Indian writer Ruth Vanita, is a story about love. Difficult love–her six characters are gro…
November 13, 2024
Kissing Girls on Shabbat
Growing up in the Hasidic community of Brooklyn’s Borough Park, Sara Glass knew one painful truth: what was expected of her and what she desperately w…
November 4, 2024
Sex: Jewish Positions
Freelance curator Joanne Rosenthal joins Jana Byars to talk about Sex: Jewish Positions (Hirmer, 2024) and its concomitant exhibition at the Jewish mu…
November 1, 2024
The Reparative Impulse of Queer Young Adult Literature
The Reparative Impulse of Queer Young Adult Literature (Routledge, 2024) is a provocative meditation on emotion, mood, history, and futurism in the cr…
October 31, 2024
Digital Intimacies
Queer men's cultures of intimacy have long been sites of fierce contestation. Indeed, debates have raged for decades over issues such as monogamy, saf…
October 29, 2024
Digital Masquerade
Digital Masquerade: Feminist Rights and Queer Media in China (NYU Press, 2023) offers a trenchant and singular analysis of the convergence of digital …
October 19, 2024
Unsettling Sexuality
Jeremy Chow and Shelby Johnson set out, their new collection, Unsettling Sexuality: Queer Horizons in the Long Eighteenth Century (University of Delaw…
October 16, 2024
Psychoanalytic Defense Mechanisms in James Baldwin’s "Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone"
This podcast describes a short history of a man who did something we’ve lost in America. That man was James Baldwin who insisted on telling the truth.…
September 26, 2024
Words Like Water
After China officially “decriminalized” same-sex behavior in 1997, both the visibility and public acceptance of tongzhi, an inclusive identity term th…
September 14, 2024
The Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland
Mary McAuliffe is a historian and lecturer in Gender Studies at UCD. Her latest publications include (is The Diaries of Kathleen Lynn co-authored with…
September 12, 2024
Lesbian Poetry in the Philippines
Lesbian poetry as a form of socio-political praxis in the Philippine context. This episode’s guest argues that lesbian writing – by lesbians and about…
September 7, 2024
It’s My Party
It’s My Party: Tat Ming Pair and the Postcolonial Politics of Popular Music in Hong Kong (Palgrave Macmillan 2024) is unique in focusing on just one b…
September 6, 2024
Me and My House
The last sixteen years of James Baldwin's life (1971–87) unfolded in a village in the South of France, in a sprawling house nicknamed “Chez Baldwin.” …
September 3, 2024
Batman and the Joker
In Batman and The Joker: Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture (Routledge, 2020), Chris Richardson presents a cultural analysis of the ways gender, i…
September 2, 2024
Red Hot + Blue
John Garrison's Red Hot + Blue (33 1/3 Series) (Bloomsbury, 2024) is a meditation on music's capacity to find us, transform us, and help us make sen…
August 27, 2024
Poor Queer Studies
In Poor Queer Studies: Confronting Elitism in the University (Duke UP, 2020), Matt Brim shifts queer studies away from its familiar sites of elite edu…
August 27, 2024
Born This Way
Scholars often narrate the legal cases confirming LGBTQ+ rights as a huge success story. While it took 100 years to confirm the rights of Black Americ…
August 25, 2024
In the Shadow of Diagnosis
In the mid-twentieth century, American psychiatrists proclaimed homosexuality a mental disorder, one that was treatable and amenable to cure. Drawing…
August 25, 2024
Maid to Queer
Maid to Queer: Asian Labor Migration and Female Same-Sex Desires (Hong Kong UP, 2021) is the first book about Asian female migrant workers who develop…
August 24, 2024
Before Lawrence v. Texas
In 2003, in a ruling that bordered on poetic, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in Lawrence v. Texas that sexual behavior between consenting…