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| “Queering Desire” with Róisín Ryan-Flood and Amy Tooth Murphy | 15 Oct 2024 | 00:53:50 | |
Femme theory, bisexual butches, racy footnotes – the brand-new edited collection Queering Desire has it all. The brilliant editors, Róisín Ryan-Flood and Amy Tooth Murphy, join me for a chat about what the book means to them and how challenging and rewarding interdisciplinary research on lesbians and sapphics can be. They dive into the multi-faceted contributions and how they matter to queer culture today and also generously share their personal experience in collecting the many gems that make up Queering Desire. Follow @roisinryanflood and @queerlitpodcast on Instagram to learn more! References: Holding Hands: Experiences of shame, pride and protest among LGBT relationship partners Centre for Intimate and Sexual Citizenship https://www.essex.ac.uk/centres-and-institutes/intimate-and-sexual-citizenship Notches Esther Newton Sally Munt Anne Lister Les Feinberg Billie Eilish Charli XCX Eleanor Medhurst Sarah Joy Ford Susan Stryker Rosalind Gill Kimberley Mather Mie Astrup Jensen El. Reid-Buckley Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalaki Liz Millward Marie Lou Duret Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain # Ken Plummer Agnes Ella Ben Hagai Dominique Adams-Santos Skala Eressos Sappho Sadie Lee Libro Levi Bridgeman’s The Butch Monologues Jack Halberstam’s Female Masculinities Ladies of Llangollen José Esteban Muñoz K. Allison Hammer Gay’s The Word Esther Newton’s My Butch Career Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold Patricia Highsmith’s Carol (The Price of Salt) The Talented Mr Ripley Andrew Scott Alfred Hitchcock Strangers on a Train Lillian Faderman’s Surpassing the Love of Men Grace Ellis’ Flung out of Space Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
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| “Queering French Fairy Tales” with Mélie Boltz Nasr | 01 Oct 2024 | 00:31:36 | |
Get ready, queer language enthusiasts and trans literature francophiles! In another spontaneous recording from Lesvos, Mélie Boltz Nasr aka May tells us all about their genderbending fairy tale collection for adult readers. We also speak about feminist fonts, French grammar and how queering language is not just an activist aim but also a beautiful creative practice. To learn more about May, follow them on Instagram and check out @queerlitpodcast while you’re there. References: Skala Eressos Sappho Contes D’Un Autre Bois https://www.editions-ixe.fr/catalogue/contes-dun-autre-bois/ Charles Perrault Grimm brothers Walt Disney Hassan Abdulrazzak’s Laila Pines For The Wolf https://medium.com/@abdulrazzak/laila-pines-for-the-wolf-3710e81ebbd0 Éditions iXe Bye Bye Binary https://typotheque.genderfluid.space/fr @bye.byebinary BBB Baskervvol Glyph Alpheratz Ursula Le Guin “Is Gender Necessary? Redux” https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ursula-k-le-guin-is-gender-necessary-redux Aesop Lettre Aux Copaines https://lettre-aux-copaines.kessel.media/posts Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
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| “Narrating Palestine” with Nora Parr | 11 Jun 2024 | 00:41:31 | |
Narratives can help us make sense of trauma – but what if these trauma narratives do not fit into preconceived structures of storytelling? Nora Parr joins me to speak about the role of narrative in trauma, in mental health and in understanding national, cultural and individual identity construction. Nora talks about how Palestinian literature forges its own narratives, why Palestinian literary history has so often been made invisible, and what genre conventions have to do with all of this. Learn more about Nora’s work by following @noraehp on Instagram! References: Novel Palestine: Nation through the Works of Ibrahim Nasrallah (2023) by Nora Parr Susan Lanser Narrative Conference (ISSN) https://www.thenarrativesociety.org/2024-conference-1 The Palestine Trauma Centre https://www.palestinetraumacentre.uk/ Nakba Road to Beersheva by Ethel Mannin (to see how some Arab critics received her work see this translation in the Journal of Arabic Literature https://doi.org/10.1163/1570064x-12341510) Bab al-Shams (trans. as Gate of the Sun) by Elias Khoury Children of the Ghetto series https://rayaagency.org/book-author/khoury-elias/ Don’t Look Left: Diary of a Genocide by Atef Abu Saif, translated and published by Comma Press in Manchester Ellipses (the first instance that really got Nora thinking is addressed in chapter 4 of the book Novel Palestine, page 77 has an image of the ellipses in question!) https://luminosoa.org/site/books/10.1525/luminos.168/read/?loc=001.xhtml This article looks the problem of ‘eloquent silence’ from a different angle. https://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/ep/0003/2018/229/7792/ Minor Detail by Adania Shibli J.M. Coetzee (writing on this is in a forthcoming chapter in Teaching Politically from Fordham Uni press, eds May Hawwas and Bruce Robbins) https://www.gazapassages.com/ https://www.instagram.com/wizard_bisan1/ https://www.instagram.com/motaz_azaiza/ https://www.instagram.com/omarherzshow/ The Tale of a Wall by Nasser Abu Srour Maya Abu Al-Hayat Memory of Forgetfulness by Mahmoud Darwish Maria Sulimma Trees for the Absentees by Ahlam Bsharat Rights4Time https://rights4time.com/nora-parr/ Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
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| “Trans Childhood” with Jules Gill-Peterson | 12 Oct 2021 | 00:53:10 | |
Warning! This episode will turn you into a Jules Gill-Peterson (University of Pittsburgh) super fan -- if you are not one already. Jules talks about her research on the long and rich history of trans childhood, reflects on the construction of childhood (and its harmful implications) in Western Imperialist contexts and also shares some of her new work on DIY transitions. In addition to talking about some of her favourite children in the trans archives, Jules speaks about her own experience as a researcher and about the production of self-knowledge. Turns out: labels aren’t everything and they surely aren’t everything they’re made out to be. Works and People mentioned: Jules Gill Peterson’s Histories of the Transgender Child “Dissociation as Trans Method II” https://sadbrowngirl.substack.com/p/dissociation-as-trans-method-ii?justPublished=true Joanne Meyerowitz Susan Stryker Rousseau’s Émile, or On Education Magnus Hirschfeld Kathryn Bond Stockton’s Making Out Female Mimics Leslie Feinberg’s Transgender Warriors (and Stonebutch Blues) Find out more about the incredible Jules on her website (https://www.jgillpeterson.com/) or on Twitter (@gp_jls). Or, you know, find much less interesting content here (@Lena_Mattheis) on Instagram or Twitter. Questions you should be able to respond to after listening: 1. Why does Jules think that the concept of childhood is potentially more revelatory to think about than a definition of transness? How do trans children subvert hierarchies established through Western ideas of childhood? 2. Why are children unknowable? What does ‘unknowable’ mean? 3. How is the idea of childhood and immaturity used in a colonial context or to justify incarceration? 4. What does Jules mean when she says that “we really overinflate the power of signs”? 5. Have you ever known something about yourself despite not having a word to describe it? Can you think of an example for this from queer literature? 6. How can our perspective as literary studies scholars help us reflect on the production of self-knowledge? | |||
| “Queer Cities“ with Davy Knittle | 28 Sep 2021 | 00:44:24 | |
Start spreading the news! Dr Davy Knittle joins me for a chat about what queerness has to do with cities, why heteronormative architecture can make life difficult for queer people and queer kinship, how poets desire cityscapes, and what all of this has to do with compulsory able-bodiedness and racism. We also talk about our dogs and why we feel the local park can be a great gay space. My favourite bit? Davy reading from Eileen Myles. I think you should hit play now. Texts and people mentioned: Karen Tongson, Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries (NYU Press, 2011) Robert McRuer, “Compulsory Able-Bodiedness and Queer/Disabled Existence” in Disability Studies: Enabling the Humanities, edited by Sharon L. Snyder, Brenda Jo Brueggeman, and Rosemarie Garland-Thomson. Modern Language Association of America, 2002. 301-308. George Chauncey, “Privacy Could Only Be Had in Public': Forging a Gay World in the Streets” in Gay New York, Basic Books, 1994. 179-205. Julie Abraham, Metropolitan Lovers: The Homosexuality of Cities (University of Minnesota Press, 2009) Trans Wellness Conference: www.transphl.org (@TransPHL) Thomas Hobbes Calvin & Hobbes Eileen Myles, “Hot Night” in Not Me (Semiotext(e), 1991). Richard Florida, Cities and the Creative Class, (Routledge, 2005). Dionne Brand, What We All Long For (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2008). Patjim Statovci, My Cat Yugoslavia, Translated by David Hackston (Pushkin Press, 2017) Zeyn Joukhadar, The Thirty Names of Night (Simon and Schuster, 2020). One of many studies on the racial wealth gap in the US: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2020/02/27/examining-the-black-white-wealth-gap/ Want to paint the town queer? Why not check out more of Davy’s work here (https://davyknittle.squarespace.com/) and follow me on Instagram and Twitter (@Lena_Mattheis). Also, Davy was way too humble to mention this but many moons ago he had a conversation with THE Eileen Myles and you can listen to it here: http://jacket2.org/podcasts/not-me-ness-eileen-myles-and-davy-knittle. Questions you should be able to respond to after listening to this episode: 1. How does Davy define the term city? Can you think of different ways to define it? 2. Please give an example of heteronormative architecture or urban planning from your own life. How does this example affect queer living? How does it affect other marginalized people who do not identify as queer? 3. What is Richard Florida’s gay index? Why is it problematic? 4. What does Davy say about the relationship between literary and urban studies? 5. Can you think of an example of a queer text, film or series that depicts urbanity as central to queer life? | |||
| "Postcolonial Queerness" with Shamira Meghani | 14 Sep 2021 | 00:53:49 | |
In this episode, Dr Shamira Meghani (Cambridge University) talks to me about queerness and caste, about how imperialism shapes gender, about why people associate Islam with unfreedom, and about how literature can help us understand more about all of these intersections. They also explain what sexual dissidence means and why a tabloid newspaper suggested that the university that started the first MA programme on sexuality in Britain needed to be ‘disinfected’… Fascinating stuff and lots to think about! Give it a listen! Books, people and terms mentioned: Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence (University of Sussex, founded in 1991) Jonathan Dollimore’s Sexual Dissidence Alan Sinfield Anne McClintock’s Imperial Leather: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest Rabindranath Tagore’s The Home and the World Indian Penalty Code, 1860 The Criminal Law (Amendment) Bill, 2018 Hijra Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai’s Same-Sex Love in India: Readings in Indian Literature Endogamy B. R. Ambedkar Bhramin Dalit Laws of Manu (Manu-smriti) R. Raj Rao’s The Boyfriend Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses Ackley Bridge (Channel 4) Akwaeke Emezi’s Freshwater Ogbanje Ben Okri’s The Famished Road POSE Mj Rodriguez Oh, hi! Still reading? Then why not follow me on Instagram and Twitter (@Lena_Mattheis). See you there! Questions you should be able to respond to after listening to this episode: 1. What is sexual dissidence? 2. How does imperialism relate to gender and sexuality? 3. What does queerness have to do with caste? What is caste? 4. Which non-binary genders are mentioned in this episode? 5. Why can it be problematic to think of other groups of people as unfree? Please try to think of further examples for this harmful ascription. | |||
| “Wildness, Masculinity and Swimming Pools” with Jack Halberstam | 31 Aug 2021 | 00:56:28 | |
How do you get from wild theory all the way to wild swimming? By taking a deep dive with Prof Jack Halberstam (Columbia University) of course! Jack takes us where the wild things crawl and on the way, we discuss masculinities, the creative powers of failure, our difficult relationships to non-human animals, nudity and queer bodies, queerness, colonialism and capitalism, and, naturally, our favourite swimming pools. We also dip into some great queer texts, including but by no means limited to: gay falconry novels, animation films, eco-critical writing and non-binary theory. Works by Jack mentioned: The Wild Beyond: Music, Architecture and Anarchy (forthcoming) Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire (Duke UP, 2020) Trans*: A Quick and Quirky Account of Gender Variance (University of California Press, 2018) “Unbuilding Gender: Trans* Anarchitectures In and Beyond the Work of Gordon Matta-Clark” (Places Journal, October 2018) Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender, and the End of Normal (Beacon Press, 2012) The Queer Art of Failure (Duke UP, 2011) Female Masculinity (Duke UP, 1998) Other texts, people and concepts mentioned: Pinky and the Brain Paul Preciado’s potentia gaudendi (Testo Junky) Jane Bennett’s vitality (Vibrant Matter) Sigmund Freud’s Civilization and its Discontents Helen MacDonald’s H is for Hawk T.H. White’s The Goshawk (ferox) T.H. White’s The Once and Future King Glenway Wescott Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince J.A. Baker’s The Peregrin Rachel Carson’s The Silent Spring Donna Haraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto Colin Dayan’s With Dogs at the Edge of Life Gail Bederman George Mosse Freikörperkultur Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain Jos Charles’ Feeld Jordy Rosenberg’s Confessions of the Fox Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments Want to flood your feed with more ferox content? Check out http://www.jackhalberstam.com/bio/ and follow us on Instagram (@jackhalberstam @Lena_Mattheis) and Twitter (@Odo86700462 @Lena_Mattheis). Questions you should be able to respond to after listening to the podcast: 1. Where does Jack see the potential in reading animation through a queer lens? 2. What can masculinity be? What is it not? 3. How does (im)maturity relate to queerness and binary thinking? 4. In which ways does Jack see the relationship of humans to non-human animals as highly problematic? What are his thoughts on Donna Haraway? 5. From this episode, what do you think Jack’s definition of queerness would be? 6. Please write down a few sentences or key words on what ‘wildness’ is and try to think of a text that you think could be classified as wild. | |||
| "Disability and Queerness" with Chris Mounsey | 17 Aug 2021 | 00:49:09 | |
In this episode, Prof Chris Mounsey (University of Winchester) takes us on a wild ride: from meeting French philosophers as an undergrad, to the other day when construction workers gave him admiring verbal feedback for his (awesome) tattoos. And guess what, both of these encounters have to do with queerness and disability, or variability – the term Chris prefers. We talk about everything from passing as able-bodied or straight to why sexually explicit novels are so important. Although in the episode, I was rudely unable to remember his name, we also talk about Ryan O’Connell and his Netflix series Special. Chris then shares some important insights on the ‘curative narrative’ and provides some steamy book recommendations. Give it a listen! Scholars and Books mentioned: Queer People Conference (with Caroline Gonda) VariAbility Conference Foucault’s History of Sexuality Peculiar Bodies Book Series Teresa Michals’s Lame Captains and Left-Handed Admirals: Amputee Officers in Nelson’s Navy Peter Radford’s Women Athletes of Early Modern Britain (forthcoming) Routledge Advances in the History of Bioethics Book Series Van Rensselaer Potter’s definition of Bioethics Jean-François Lyotard Luce Irigaray’s Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche (Amante Marine) Jacques Derrida David Hume John Maxwell Nicholas Saunderson Edward Carpenter Virginia Woolf T.S. Eliot Penelope Aubin’s The Life and Amorous Adventures of Lucinda (1721) Priscilla Pointon Thomas Gills Ryan O’Connell’s Special Rosemarie Garland Thomson, “A Habitable World: Harriet McBryde Johnson’s ‘Case for My Life.’” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 30, no. 1 (Winter 2015): 300–306. Peter Singer’s “Ethics and Disability” John Rechy’s Numbers (1964) and City of Night (1963) Chris’s work: Sight Correction: Vision and Blindness in Eighteenth-Century Britain The Idea of Disability in the 18th Century Developments in the Histories of Sexualities: In Search of the Normal,1600-1800 (Ed. with Carolina Gonda) Queer People: Negotiations and Expressions of Homosexuality, 1700-1800 You want more, more, more? Why not check out Chris’s very own music at https://bearfffbear.bandcamp.com/ and follow me on Instagram and Twitter (@Lena_Mattheis). Questions you should be able to respond to after listening: 1. At one point, Chris says that “variability enshrines uniqueness”. What does this mean? What is variability? 2. What are the three elements that Chris uses to describe variability? 3. What does Chris dislike about the term ‘disability’? What does that have to do with binary thinking? 4. How do queerness and variability intersect in Chris’ thinking? 5. What is the role of literature in studying queerness and variability? | |||
| "Bisexuality, Identity and Queer Families" with Lizzie Reed | 03 Aug 2021 | 00:48:28 | |
Dr Elizabeth Reed (University of Southampton) is a cultural sociologist doing exciting research on bi-erasure, media representation and queer life-building. In this episode, Lizzie explains why bi relationships can be so difficult to describe, where we might need new language and where we might not, what and who queer families identify with and (most importantly) what soup dragons have to do with all of this. If that gets you curious, or if you’ve ever defined your identity using a wine metaphor, this one is for you. Texts, Series and People mentioned: Modern Family The Fosters Mae Martin’s Feel Good Lewis, S. (2018). International Solidarity in reproductive justice: surrogacy and gender-inclusive polymaternalism. Gender, Place & Culture, 25(2), 207-227. The Clangers Becky Chambers’s Wayfarers Series Schitt’s Creek Brian K Vaughan and Fiona Staples’s graphic novel series Saga Work by Lizzie mentioned: Reed, E. (2020). Lesbian, bisexual and queer motherhood: crafting radical narratives and representing social change through cultural representations. In Imagining Motherhood in the Twenty-First Century Routledge. Reed, E. (2018). The heterogeneity of family: responses to representational invisibility by LGBTQ parents. Journal of Family Issues, 39(18), 4204-4225. https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X18810952 Hayfield, N., Campbell, C., & Reed, E. (2018). Misrecognition and managing marginalisation: Bisexual people’s experiences of bisexuality and relationships. Psychology & Sexuality, 9(3), 221-236. Wood, R., Litherland, B., & Reed, E. (2020). Girls being Rey: ethical cultural consumption, families and popular feminism. Cultural Studies, 34(4), 546-566. You want to build a queerer life? Start by following Lizzie (@ReedLizzie) and me (@Lena_Mattheis) on Twitter. Questions you should be able to respond to after listening: 1. Which terms does Lizzie mention in addition to biphobia? How are they distinct? 2. What is queer methodology? 3. How does Lizzie study queer families and media representation? 4. In what form does Lizzie study Rey Skywalker and girlhood? 5. Why does Lizzie think queer families relate to cultural texts are not explicitly queer? | |||
| “Sappho, Cats and Pubic Hair” with Mara Gold | 20 Jul 2021 | 00:51:34 | |
A delightful episode with Mara Gold (St Hilda’s College, Oxford), aka the Sapphic Scholar, who talks to me about Sappho (duh…), homosociality, queer college life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, lesbian love letters and surprise pubic hair in the queer archives. Mara is a historian, knows her way around Ancient Greece and Egypt, she works on and in museums, and get this: she has even worked as an archaeologist in the field. Best of all, Mara brings a refreshing and entertaining Sapphic perspective to everything she does – including this here podcast. Please note that the sound quality isn’t great but it gets better throughout the episode. Apologies! People, texts and places mentioned: Sappho V&A Museum Pitt Rivers Museum HD Elizabeth Bishop Katherine Mansfield Michael Fields Mary Barnard Anne Carson (fragment 168b translation) Eve Sedgewick Kossofsky Henry Thornton Warton Sharon Marcus. Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England. Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2007. If These Walls Could Talk 2 Need more Sappho on your socials? Follow Mara and me on Instagram and Twitter (@sapphic_scholar/@Lena_Mattheis). Questions you should be able to respond to after listening: 1. What is homosociality? 2. Why does Mara study women‘s educational environment? How are colleges Sapphic? 3. Why does Sappho become so important at this particular point in time (end of 19th, beginning of 20th century)? 4. Which functions does Sappho serve in the queer community? 5. Could you comment on the reception history of Sappho’s work? What made this complicated? | |||
| "The Internet and Queer Literature" with Daniella Gáti | 06 Jul 2021 | 00:46:17 | |
In this episode, Dr Daniella Gáti (Brandeis University) explains why the internet is queer, how gaming and the form of the vignette relate to queerness and why we should (or should not) watch Queer Eye. If you're intrigued by the notion of queerness as a a 'blob', give this a listen. Scholars mentioned in this episode: Whitney Pow Bo Ruberg Lee Edelman Jack Halberstam Sara Ahmed (“What’s the Use”, Feminist Killjoy Blog, @SaraNAhmed) Jen Jack Gieseking (“A Queer New York”, “The Gender, Sexuality, & Space Reading List”, http://jgieseking.org/) Judith Butler Films, books, series, magazines and social media mentioned: Qlit (https://qlit.hu/en/home/) Autostraddle (https://www.autostraddle.com/) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: “The Danger of a Single Story” (https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story?language=en) @herstorycats Anna Pulley: “The Lesbian Sex Haiku Book (with Cats!)” Sarah Waters: “Affinity” and “Tipping the Velvet” “Queer Eye” JVN (@jvn, @curiouswithjvn) Laverne Cox: “Free Cece” Learn more about Daniella's work here: https://dgati.github.io/ and follow us on Twitter here: @gati_daniella and here: @Lena_Mattheis. Questions you should be able to respond to after listening: 1. What is electronic literature? 2. What is a vignette? 3. What do you think Daniella means by “media-archeological approach”? 4. What does Daniella say about definitions of queerness? 5. How does queerness relate to fragmentation (in texts) and glitches (in games)? 6. When speaking about Whitney Pow’s work, Daniella explains that it is in the nature of archives to erase transness. Why do you think that could be? Can you think of an example? | |||
| "Queer Narratives" with Sue Lanser | 22 Jun 2021 | 00:43:56 | |
Prof Susan Lanser (Brandeis University) joins me for this one – what an honour! Sue is one of the architects of narratology and has conducted groundbreaking research on queer women, lesbians and the Sapphic (among 500 other things and while being completely humble, charming and wonderful). In this episode, she provides insights on queerness in history, literature, culture and narrative form. She also talks about her research on Israeli-Palestinian narratives and, of course, about her brilliant book “The Sexuality of History”. Texts, films and authors mentioned: Gérard Genette Valerie Traub Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan The Living Handbook of Narratology (Hamburg University) Sami Adwan and Dan Bar-On’s “Side by Side: Parallel Histories of Israel-Palestine” “Kiss Me Kosher” Isaac de Benserade’s “Iphis and Ianthe” (1634, after Ovid) Poetry of Katherine Phillips Djuna Barnes’ “Ladies Almanack” Ocean Vuong’s “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” Sue’s scholarly work mentioned: (with Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan) "Narratology at the Checkpoint: The Politics and Poetics of Entanglement." Narrative 27.3 (2019): 245-269. "Queering Narrative Voice." Textual Practice 32.6 (2018): 923-937. (with Shlomith Rimmon-Kenan) "Israeli–Palestinian narratives and the politics of form: reading Side by Side." European Journal of English Studies 20.3 (2016): 310-325. "Gender and Narrative." Handbook of Narratology. De Gruyter, 2014. 206-218. https://www.lhn.uni-hamburg.de/node/86.html The Sexuality of History: Modernity and the Sapphic, 1565-1830. University of Chicago Press, 2014. "Speaking in Tongues: Ladies Almanack and the Language of Celebration." Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies (1979): 39-46. Want to find out more about Queer Lit and who I will speak to next? Find me on Twitter (@Lena_Mattheis) or check out pictures of my home office pets on Instagram (lena_mattheis). Questions you should be able to respond to after listening: 1. What is the relationship between Feminism and Queer Studies? 2. What does Sue think about the relationship of content and form in literature? 3. Is there such a thing as queer form? 4. According to Sue, which century is ‘the’ century of the word lesbian? 5. Why is it important to think, not just about the history of sexuality, but also about the sexuality of history? 6. Why is the year 1928 particularly significant in queer literature? | |||
| "Queer Screens" with Olu Jenzen | 08 Jun 2021 | 00:50:41 | |
Dr Olu Jenzen (University of Brighton) joins me for this episode on queer screens: from the silver screen, to the small screen to the smartphone screen. We talk about queer film and series, visual activism, digital queer spaces and, guess what, we even talk about queer teeth. Olu does incredible work for and with young trans people, researches their use of social media and also shares her insights on lesbian doppelgangers and queer sensibility in contemporary film and series. Since I am not quite as eloquent as Olu, I mention “technomachismo” when we talk about gendered and racial data bias. As you may have guessed, I meant to say technochauvinism. Olu’s research mentioned (a lot of it is open access): The Aesthetics of Global Protest: Visual Culture and Communication (edited by Aidan McGarry, Itir Erhart, Hande Eslen-Ziya, Olu Jenzen, Umut Korkut) “The symbol of social media in contemporary protest: Twitter and the Gezi Park movement” (Aidan McGarry, Itir Erhart, Hande Eslen-Ziya, Olu Jenzen, Umut Korkut) “Trans youth and social media: moving between counterpublics and the wider web” “Queer teeth: exploring traumatic health legacies” “Revolting doubles: radical Narcissism and the trope of lesbian Doppelgangers” Series mentioned: Pose Lena Waithe’s Twenties Transparent Gentleman Jack Filmmakers mentioned: Matthew Hellett Campbell X Oska Bright Film Festival (Queer Freedom, Love Bites) https://oskabright.org/ Book mentioned: Douglas Stuart’s Shuggie Bain Questions you should be able to respond to after listening: 1. What is visual activism? 2. Why is the motif of the doppelganger relevant to queer studies? Can you think of an example of a doppelganger in literature or film? 3. What does Olu say about the connection between Otherness and queerness? 4. What does it mean to do participant-led research? 5. Why are online platforms biased? How does this affect queer life and, in particular, black trans people? 6. What does Olu mean by queer sensibility? | |||
| “Lesbian Fashion History” with Eleanor Medhurst | 28 May 2024 | 00:50:16 | |
Did you know that lesbians sporting sportswear is a queer tradition dating back centuries? Or that 1910s Japanese lesbians liked to don a yukata to send subtle signals about their gender identity and sexual orientation? My favourite foremost expert in lesbian fashion history, Eleanor Medhurst, is gracing the podcast with a return performance, sharing her vast knowledge about all of these topics and more. Listen now to learn all about how queer and gendernonconforming people dressed through the ages and follow @dressingdykes and @queerlitpodcast on Instagram to stay up-to-date and to book your tickets for Ellie’s book tour! References: @dressingdykes Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion https://dressingdykes.com/ Lesbian Lives Conference Anne Lister Sarah Wingrove Queen Christina of Sweden Radclyffe Hall The Well of Loneliness Crufts Female Husbands Jen Manion Sappho Meiji Era Seitō Sexology Hiratsuka Raichō Otake Kōkichi Yukata Kimono Queering Desire: Lesbians, Gender and Subjectivity Amy Tooth Murphy Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home “Ring of Keys” Roots Lesbian Fashion Gillian Anderson Cameron Esposito Queery (podcast) Lesbian Chique k.d. lang Vanity Fair The L Word The Queery (Brighton) The Feminist Bookshop Freya Marske’s The Last Binding Trilogy Kristen Stewart Happiest Season Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
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| "Black Trans Narratives" with LaVelle Ridley | 25 May 2021 | 00:49:29 | |
I get to chat with LaVelle Ridley (University of Michigan) about her doctoral research on black trans life narratives in this one and I must say, she’s a tonic. From important observations on the role of storytelling in political and community activism to the deeply personal process of healing that appropriate representation can initiate, LaVelle covers it all. She’s a scholar, an activist, a pisces (hell, yes!), a creative writer, a mermaid, and an absolute delight to talk to. Don’t miss this one; it’s fun! Texts and people mentioned: Paradise on the Margins: Lessons and Dreams from Trans Women of Color https://www.paradiseonthemargins.com/ Atargatis https://mermaidsuk.org.uk/ Susan Stryker Maggie Nelson’s “The Argonauts” Janet Mock’s “Redefining Realness” (2014) and “Surpassing Certainty” (2017) CeCe McDonald Toni Newman Venus Di'Khadijah Selenite Laverne Cox and Jac Gares’ “FREE Cece!” Ridley, LaVelle. "Imagining Otherly: Performing Possible Black Trans Feminist Futures in Tangerine." TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly 6.4 (November 2019): 481-490. LaKisha Simmons “Tangerine” Mya Taylor Kiki Rodriguez Mj Rodriguez POSE Kai Cheng Thom’s “Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars” Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” https://lavelleridley.wixsite.com/mysite Need more queer stuff on your socials? Follow LaVelle and me on Twitter (@lridley16/@Lena_Mattheis) and Instagram (academicfish/lena_mattheis). Questions you should be able to respond to after listening: 1. What is life narrative? Can you think of an example for this from literature or film? 2. Where does LaVelle locate the role of storytelling and self narrating? How does it intersect with activism? 3. Which poet does LaVelle quote when she speaks about ‘containing multitudes’? Why is this poet relevant in this context? 4. Why is it productive to trouble genre distinctions? What is a genre? 5. Why does LaVelle find it important to be personal in her research? What does this mean to her? | |||
| "Queer Muslims" with Alberto Fernández Carbajal | 18 May 2021 | 00:46:28 | |
Dr Alberto Fernández Carbajal (University of Roehampton) tells me all about their insightful book Queer Muslim Diasporas in Contemporary Literature and Film (2019) in this episode. We cover their favourite reads and learn what a Muslim perspective can teach us about queerness. This kind of research is all about changing perspectives and fostering understanding, so I do hope you will be understanding when it comes to the sound of Alberto’s beautiful scarf that I was unable to remove from the audio entirely… Check out Alberto's book here: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526128102/ Scholars and concepts mentioned: John McLeod’s Life Lines: Writing Transcultural Adoption https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/life-lines-writing-transcultural-adoption-9781472590404/ Lena Mattheis’s Translocality in Contemporary City Novels https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030666866 James Procter’s Diaspora Sara Ahmed’s Queer Phenomenology Abraham B. Weil’s Trans*versality Ibn al-'Arabi’s Imaginal Novels and films mentioned: Abdellah Taïa’s Salvation Army Hanif Kureishi’s My Beautiful Laundrette/The Buddha of Suburbia Ian Iqbal Rashid‘s A Touch of Pink Ferzan Özpetek's Hamam’s The Turkish Bath (Steam in the US) Shamim Sarif's I Can't Think Straight Sally El Hosaini's My Brother the Devil Rolla Selbak's Three Veils Rabih Alameddine: Koolaids/The Hakawati Randa Jarrar's A Map of Home Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts Audrey Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name Guess what? Alberto is on Twitter (@AlbyFCarbajal), as am I (@Lena_Mattheis). Questions you should be able to respond to after listening: 1. Why is it important to think postcolonial and queer perspectives together? 2. What does ‘diaspora’ mean and why is it central to Alberto’s research? 3. What does intersectionality mean here? 4. What is the white saviour? 5. What does Alberto say about Muslim storytelling? | |||
| "Lesbian* Modernists" with Diana Souhami | 04 May 2021 | 00:43:03 | |
In this episode, Diana Souhami explains how Modernism was fundamentally shaped by lesbians* and queer people. We talk about how Sylvia Beach published Joyce’s "Ulysses" when no publisher would touch it, how Bryher financed penniless artists who then became the crème de la crème of Modernism, how H.D. arguably wrote better imagist poetry than Pound, and which lesbian love affairs resulted in the most enticing scandals. Diana, who I may or may not have heard being referred to as Lesbian Royalty, has written an entire book about this: "No Modernism without Lesbians" (2020). From Paris salons of the early 20th century to fighting the patriarchy in the history books and syllabi of the 21st century, Diana covers it all. Authors and books mentioned: Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness Sappho Natalie Barney Getrude Stein Bryher H.D. Sylvia Beach James Joyce’s Ulysses T.S. Eliot’s The Wasteland Ezra Pound F. Scott Fitzgerald Ernest Hemingway Virginia Woolf’s Orlando Vita Sackville-West Violet Trefusis’ Broderie Anglaise Oscar Wilde Dolly Wilde Janet Flanner Publishers mentioned: Contact Editions Shakespeare and Company Visual artists mentioned: Picasso Matisse Cezanne The Fauves Diana Souhami’s books mentioned: Gluck, 1895-1978: Her Autobiography No Modernism Without Lesbians Alice and Gertrude Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter Find out more about Diana here: https://dianasouhami.com/ If you’re looking for more lesbian content, follow @DianaSouhami on Twitter and check out @Lena_Mattheis as well. “Silence is the biggest enemy of women* and lesbian women*. […] If you don’t exist, you can’t be any trouble.” (Diana Souhami in this episode) Questions you should be able to respond to after listening: 1. Why were people such as Natalie Barney so inspired by Sappho? Why go back all the way to Ancient Greek poetry? 2. Why was Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness banned? 3. Why, according to Diana, would Modernism not have happened without lesbians*? 4. Why was Sylvia Beach “intrinsic to Modernism”? 5. What is a lavender marriage? 6. Which Paris salons were important for queer women and Modernist artists and why? | |||
| "Pronouns" with Ashley Thornton | 08 Apr 2021 | 00:39:46 | |
In this episode, I am talking to Ashley Thornton (Brighton University) about epicene pronouns and gender-inclusive language. Ashley is a corpus linguist working on singular they in English, Spanish and Russian and has some insights on the history of gender-neutral pronouns as well. The scholars (and Twitter accounts) referenced in this episode are: Olu Jenzen @DrOluJenzen Charlotte Stormbom Laura Hekanaho @LHekanaho Joshua Paiz (their account's private) @JMPaiz_PhD Kris Knisley @krisknisely Kirby Conrod @kirbyconrod Dennis Baron @DrGrammar Ute Gabriel and Pascal Gygax And while you're at it, follow Ashley (@AR_Thornton) and Lena (@Lena_Mattheis) as well or check out @queerlitpodcast on Instagram! Questions you should be able to respond to after listening: 1. What are epicene pronouns? How are they used? 2. What are neopronouns? 3. Is using singular they a recent trend? 4. How does Ashley research the use of singular they? In which languages and contexts? 5. How does research in corpus linguistics work? 6. Why is singular they important for the queer community? | |||
| "Queer Kings and Trans Histories" with Kit Heyam | 07 Apr 2021 | 00:52:13 | |
In this episode, Dr Kit Heyam (Northumbria University) shares wonderful tidbits from trans and non-binary histories, talks about their book on queer king Edward II and is generally delightful and clever. Kit also talks about how they approach queering history, the intersections of literary studies and historical research and their favourite contemporary queer reads, such as "The Lauras" by Sara Taylor, "My Autobiography of Carson McCullers" by Jenn Shapland or "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin. Other texts we talk about: "Edward II" by Christopher Marlowe "The Reputation of Edward II, 1305-1697: A Literary Transformation of History" by Kit Heyam (https://www.aup.nl/en/book/9789463729338/the-reputation-of-edward-ii-1305-1697) "The Roaring Girl" by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker Marjorie Rubright' article "Transgender Capacity in Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton's The Roaring Girl (1611)', Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 19.4 (2019), 45-74 "Trumpet" by Jackie Kay "Middlesex" by Jeffrey Eugenides "Girl, Woman, Other" by Bernardine Evaristo "Little Fish" by Casey Plett Why not follow Kit (@krheyam) and Lena (@Lena_Mattheis) on Twitter and read more about Kit's work as a scholar and activist here: https://kitheyam.com/. Questions you should be able to respond to after listening: 1. How do the study of literature and of history intersect in Kit’s work? 2. Why is it difficult to label historical figures as trans, lesbian or gay? What does Kit do instead? 3. What does Kit say about authorship and contemporary queer literature? 4. The central aim of Kit’s work is to show that transness and queerness are not ‘new’. Why do you think this is important? | |||
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| 100 Episodes! | 21 May 2024 | 00:24:42 | |
Can you believe this is our 100th episode? Listen now to hear about some listeners’ favourite episodes, about future plans for the podcast and about how the cats are feeling these days. References: https://ko-fi.com/queerlit Karen Tongson Normporn Susan Stryker Cate Sandilands Kew Gardens Elizabeth Freeman Diane Watt Briona Simone Jones Yesterqueer’s Holigays Out and Wild https://www.outandwild.co.uk/ Alison Bechdel Alex Iantaffi Kai Cheng Thom Sara Ahmed Alexis Pauline Gumbs Mo Moulton Alberto Poza Questions I still have:
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| “Normporn and Queer Imaginaries” with Karen Tongson | 14 May 2024 | 00:54:15 | |
What could be more soothing than escaping your beautiful but complex queer life by watching a bunch of straight people remodel their suburban home in a new shade of beige? Karen Tongson joins me to explain why mainstream television can be so comforting and why admitting to having watched Gilmore Girls for the fourth time can feel a bit like sharing your browser history… In this curious entanglement of norms, shame, and self-soothing, Karen also shares insights into the shifting views of what is normal and what this means for queer life – televisually as well as geographically and sociopolitically. Listen now to hear Karen speak about “surrendering to the spontaneous overflow of basic feelings” and don’t forget to follow Karen on Instagram @tongsonator to keep up to date with her work. References: Karen Tongson’s Normporn: Queer Viewers and the TV That Soothes Us (2023) Karen Tongson’s Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries (2011) Karen Tongson’s Why Karen Carpenter Matters (2021) Karen Tongson’s Empty Orchestra (forthcoming) The Ultimatum Thirtysomething Parenthood True Blood Gilmore Girls José Esteban Muñoz Catherine Zimmer Hannah Gadsby’s Nanette The Phantom of the Opera Michael Crawford Sailor Moon Tuxedo Mask Gestalt The Traitors Alan Cumming @tongsonator Karentongson.org Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
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| “Trans in Translation” with Alberto Poza | 30 Apr 2024 | 00:17:52 | |
Have you read the iconic Taiwanese novel The Membranes by Chi Ta-Wei? If so, in which language? Alberto has crafted the fabulous Spanish translation of this beautifully genderweird text and joins me to speak about the opportunities and challenges the highly gendered structures of Spanish offer for this. If you have ever wondered which pronoun or gendered inflection to use for a cyborg and what language might best describe a trans machine, this is the episode for you. Learn more about Alberto’s work on Instagram @aiweip or on Twitter (@Albertop_p) and consider giving @queerlitpodcast a follow as well. References: Queer and Trans Philologies Diane Watt Chi Ta-Wei’s The Membranes Ari Larissa Heinrichs Queer Ecologies and Environmental Writing (module) https://lenamattheis.files.wordpress.com/2023/12/module-handbook-queer-ecologies.pdf Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun Jack Halberstam Paul Preciado Alana Portero’s Bad Habit (La Mala Costumbre, 2023) Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
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| “Knight as a Gender” with Mabel Mundy | 16 Apr 2024 | 00:14:43 | |
If you could pick a gender, any gender, which one would that be, and why would it 1000% be knight? In this special minisode, I get to answer that question with Mabel Mundy, who shares fascinating insights into the genderfuckery of chivalric romance and crossdressing knights. Tune in now, to learn more about why gender ambiguity clearly is, and has always been, super hot, and how this plays out in Edmund Spenser and Philip Sidney’s writing. If you too are picturing Brienne of Tarth at the bathhouse when hearing about Britomart, follow @queerlitpodcast on Instagram and let me know in the comments. To learn more about Mabel’s work, follow her on Twitter at @mabelcjmundy. A big, big thank you to the brilliant team of Queer and Trans Philologies at Cambridge University for creating this space! References: Petition: https://www.change.org/p/support-our-surrey-campaign? This is not an isolated issue! See this list of current large-scale UK HE redundancies: https://qmucu.org/qmul-transformation/uk-he-shrinking/ https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/39800/#call-for-papers Queer and Trans Philologies University of Cambridge CRASSH @crasshlive (Instagram) Crossdressing Genderfuckery Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene Sir Philip Sidney’s Arcadia Margaret Cavendish’s The Covenant of Pleasure Chivalric Romance Britomart Malecasta Bradamante Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso Diane Watt The Redcrosse Knight Una Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
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| “Gendered Bodies and Narrative Form” with Chiara Pellegrini | 02 Apr 2024 | 00:45:15 | |
How does a queer, trans or intersex body take shape in a narrative? Dr Chiara Pellegrini is here to help us better understand how narrative form, point of view, and embodiment interact in contemporary storytelling – whether that be in novels, short stories or reality TV. We speak about problematic narrative tropes of trans narration, such as the ‘gender reveal’, but also about how some narrative voices protect their characters from voyeuristic intrusions. I’m also absolutely fascinated by Chiara’s take on Barbie. Don’t delay, listen today! To learn more about Chiara’s work, follow her on Twitter @chiarapg4 and, while you’re at it, stay in touch with the podcast on Instagram @queerlitpodcast. References: Pellegrini, Chiara. Trans Narrators: First-Person Form and the Gendered Body in Contemporary Literature. Edinburgh University Press, 2025. Gillis, Stacy and Chiara Pellegrini (eds.) The Cultural Politics of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. Special Issue of Feminist Theory 25.4 (2024). Mejeur, Cody and Chiara Pellegrini (eds.) Trans/forming Narrative Studies. Special Issue of Narrative 32.2 (2024). Pellegrini, Chiara. ‘Anticipating the Plot: Overdetermining Heteronormative Destiny on the Twenty-First- Century Screen’, Textual Practice (2022): 1-23. Pellegrini, Chiara. ‘“Declining to Describe”: Intersex Narrators and Textual Visibility’. Interdisciplinary and Global Perspectives on Intersex. Ed. Megan Walker (Palgrave, 2022): 49-64. ISSN International Society for the Study of Narrative https://www.thenarrativesociety.org/2024-conference-1 Narrative for Social Justice https://www.thenarrativesociety.org/n4sj Jay Prosser’s Second Skins Travis Alabanza’s None of the Above Calvin Gimpelevic’s Invasions: Stories Susan Lanser “Queering Narrative Voice” Textual Practice 32.6 (2018) Sara Taylor’s The Lauras Jordy Rosenberg’s Confessions of the Fox Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex Marquis Bey’s Black Trans Feminism Hida Viloria - Born Both: An Intersex Life (Hachette 2017) Hannah Gadsby’s The Gender Agenda Dahlia Belle (the comic Lena mentions) Cody Mejeur Casey Plett and Cat Fitzpatrick’s Meanwhile, Elsewhere The Ultimatum Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
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| Humanities under Threat | 19 Mar 2024 | 00:27:15 | |
https://surrey-ucu.org.uk/category/news/ https://www.instagram.com/supportsurreysll/?hl=en https://www.change.org/p/support-our-surrey-campaign? This is not an isolated issue! See this list of current large-scale UK HE redundancies: https://qmucu.org/qmul-transformation/uk-he-shrinking/ IG: @supportsurreysll Twitter/x: @SaveSurreySLL https://universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreates/#:~:text=EnglishCreates%20is%20a%20campaign%20to,literature%2C%20language%20and%20creative%20writing @queerlitpodcast queerlitpodcast@gmail.com | |||
| “Feeling Bad” with Hil Malatino | 05 Mar 2024 | 00:50:13 | |
Despite the title, this episode contains a generous amount of laughter, because it is just that enjoyable to talk to Hil Malatino, brilliant author of Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad (2022). Hil has published groundbreaking work on trans and intersex stories and histories and, in this most recent monograph, draws our attention to the complexities of trans affect. In order to explore emotions such as numbness, fatigue, envy and rage, Hil consults literary texts as well as performance art, so of course I make Hil talk about my new favourite performance art obsession Cassils, alongside Casey Plett and Kai Cheng Thom. Tune in now to learn about all of these fascinating people, about human dolphin communication, about the manifold uses of ketamine, and about Xena and Subaru. Find Hil on Instagram @gay_vague and everywhere else @HilMalatino and follow the podcast @queerlitpodcast on Instagram. References: Hil Malatino’s Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad (UP Minnesota, 2022) Hil Malatino’s Trans Care (2020) Hil Malatino’s Queer Embodiment (2019) Katy Steinmetz “The Transgender Tipping Point” (2014) https://time.com/135480/transgender-tipping-point/ Casey Plett CeCe McDonald Cassils’ ‘Monument Push’ and ‘Becoming an Image’ Sandra Harding’s strong objectivity Autotheory Kai Cheng Thom’s Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars Paul Preciado Susan Stryker Marina Abramovic Institute Tiresias Sam Tenorio Reed Erickson The Human Potential Movement Isaac Fellman’s Dead Collections Sarah Schulman’s Girls, Visions and Everything Dorothy Allison’s Two or Three Things I Know for Sure Bastard Out Of Carolina Mo Moulton Xena: Warrior Princess WGS South https://wgssouth.org/ Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
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| “Hijab Butch Blues” with Lamya H. | 20 Feb 2024 | 00:39:03 | |
How often do you get to chat with the author of your major literary obsession and learn something about queer storytelling at the same time? I cannot believe I actually got to sit down with @lamyaisangry to talk about their brilliant novel Hijab Butch Blues, their essay writing and the queer future, which, according to Lamya, will be weird AF. Listen now, to hear about queer readings of the Quran, gender expression at the gym, new coming out narratives, and Lamya’s queer writing ancestors. Not to be missed! References: Lamya H. “A Fragile Dance: Queer Brown Futures (Or Lack Thereof).” Autostraddle, 23 April 2015. https://www.autostraddle.com/a-fragile-dance-queer-brown-futures-or-lack-thereof-284789/ Leslie Feinberg’s Stone Butch Blues Audre Lorde’s Sister Outsider Zami "A Litany for Survival" Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina Cavedweller Stone Wall Award American Library Association https://www.lamyah.com/ Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
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| “Lifting Off in Lesvos” with Karen McLeod | 24 Sep 2024 | 00:22:26 | |
Guess who I ran into on the beautiful island of Lesvos: Karen McLeod, author of the amazing memoir Lifting Off. Karen sat down with me at Ohana Saloon, a queer-owned beach bar in Skala Eressos, and told me about her performance art, about working as aircrew as a queer woman, experiences with addiction, and about a new Lesvos-related book she is just starting to write… Warning for the noise-sensitive: you will be able to hear the ocean, the wind, and the many, many lesbians. Learn more about Karen’s work on Instagram @therealkarenmcleod and see @queerlitpodcast for our newest episodes. References: Out and Wild Barbara Brownskirt Lifting Off In Search of a Missing Eyelash Muswell Press The Bookseller Crow Cindy Sherman Section 28 Polari Shirley Valentine The Short Tall Letter https://karenmcleod.substack.com/ Julia Darling’s Crocodile Soup Jackie Kay Stella Duffy Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
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| “Nonbinary History and Queer Kinship” with Mo Moulton | 06 Feb 2024 | 00:45:23 | |
This episode is all about both/and: both trans and queer history, both kinship and relationships, both the past and the present. Mo Moulton, our illustrious guest this fortnight, is an expert in all of them. Mo is a historian of community, who is particularly interested in nonbinary methods to approach gender nonconforming figures of the past. In this episode, Mo talks about a queer and trans desire for kinship with the past, about chosen families, and (my favorite bit) about dogs and the trans experience. If I were you, I would listen right now and follow @queerlitpodcast and @movin_on_out on IG. References: Moulton, Mo. Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women . Hachette UK, 2019. Moulton, Mo. ““Both Your Sexes”: A Non-Binary Approach to Gender History, Trans Studies and the Making of the Self in Modern Britain.” History Workshop Journal 95 (Spring 2023) Moulton, Mo. “Dogs in the Picture: Restoring the Queer History of the Irish Family.” History of the Family (forthcoming 2024) Getting Curious Harlan Weaver, Bad Dog: Pit Bull Politics and Multispecies Justice (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2021) “Queer Pets” with Sarah Parker and Hannah Roche https://www.spreaker. com/episode/queer-pets-with-sarah-parker-and-hannah-roche--47535404 Dorothy Stokes Jules Gill-Peterson C. Riley Snorton Hil Malatino Dorothy L. Sayers Muriel St Clare Byrne Edward Carpenter's The Intermediate Sex Urning Deadloch Questions you should be able to respond to after listening: 1. What constitutes a nonbinary approach to history? 2. Which three scholars does Mo refer to when they talk about beginning their research on the history of gender? 3. Mo explains that historians often apply the category of gender while speaking about the past while, at the same time, being very careful about not anachronistically using terms such as lesbian or trans. What does Mo think about this? Do you agree? 4. We use two terms that you may or may not be familiar with: 'rainbow washing' and the 'pink pound.' Please look them up and think about whether you have ever encountered an example of one of them. 5. What does Mo say about the perception of radical or transgressive identities? Do you agree? What are your thoughts on this? | |||
| “The Shape of Sex” with Leah DeVun | 23 Jan 2024 | 00:41:15 | |
Nonbinary Jesus. Did that get your attention? If so, this episode is for you. Historian extraordinaire Leah DeVun joins me to talk about the pre-modern history of nonbinary gender, about intersex brides, transitioning saints and what terms such as androgyne and hermaphrodite might tell us about conceptions of sex, gender and sexuality. Leah explains how thinking about nonbinary gender was and is a way of interrogating what it means to be human. Join us for this journey into nonbinary history and religion and, if you just can’t get enough, follow @ldevun (IG), @DevunLeah (Twitter) and @queerlitpodcast on Instagram. References: The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to Renaissance (Columbia UP, 2021) TSQ special issue: Trans*historicities, co-edited by Leah DeVun and Zeb Tortorici (2018) Resemblance (2022-) https://www.leahdevun.com/resemblance Lamya H.’s Hijab Butch Blues Gladstone’s Library Trans/Formations (SCM Press, 2009) Androgyne Hermaphrodite Judith Butler’s Who’s Afraid of Gender Eleanor Rykener Rolandina Ronchaia Berengaria Castelló of Castelló d'Empúries Joseph of Schönau Genesis P-Orridge Throbbing Gristle Psychic TV Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
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| “Trans Future Fiction” with Kit Schuster | 09 Jan 2024 | 00:39:26 | |
How can we imagine a trans future? Kit Schuster joins me to talk about how transgression in fiction can help us think new futures. We speak about trans, nonbinary and gendernonconforming characters, norms and settings in science fiction, but Kit also stresses that their definition of trans is not limited to gender. Instead, Kit invites us to have our queer minds blown in all kinds of ways by future fictions but also by Gothic and horror texts. Apologies for the audio quality! Sometimes, a podcaster needs to improvise… If you enjoyed this episode, why not follow @officialkitschuster and @queerlitpodcast on Instagram, where you can also learn more about all the great stuff Freiburg University is doing: @engsemfreiburg and @fs.anglistik.freiburg. References: “From Gothic Heroines to Monstrous Prom Queens: Gender Horror in Dracula and Jennifer’s Body,” Rethinking Gothic Transgressions of Gender and Sexuality New Directions in Gothic Studies. ed. Sarah Faber and Kerstin-Anja Münderlein. Routledge, 2024. Queer Second Cities https://queersecondcities.wordpress.com/ Queer Perseverance https://www.anglistik.uni-freiburg.de/events/topicweeks Jennifer’s Body Dracula Rivers Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts Afrofuturism Generationship Posthumanism Frankenstein Susan Stryker Torey Peters’ Detransition, Baby! Cael Keegan Julian K. Jarboe’s Everyone on the Moon is Essential Personnel and “I AM A BEAUTIFUL BUG!” The Murderbot Diaries Amal El-Mohtar’s How To Lose The Time War “One-Sided Relationships with Elaine Auyoung” How to Read Podcast Homo Sapiens Chappel Roan’s The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess and “Red Wine Supernova” Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
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| The queerest thing you did in 2023: Part Two | 26 Dec 2023 | 00:24:25 | |
The queerest thing you did in 2023: Part Two Are you ready for 2024? I absolutely am not but to prepare for another queer year, I listen to more of your voice notes and I give you what you probably have not been waiting for: the queerest thing I did this year. References: ListenQueer https://listenqueer.wordpress.com/ Kit Schuster Jack Jen Gieseking American Studies Meeting Lindsey Freeman Trans Community Run Mr Samo London LGBTQ+ Community Centre Clea DuVall Tugce Kayaal Heather Love Justin Torres’ Blackouts Whitechapel Gallery Nicole Eisenman Susan Stryker Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
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| Yesterqueer's Holigays | 19 Dec 2023 | 00:20:20 | |
We're revisiting a holigay chat from two years ago, talking to a wonderful friend about how hard the festive season can be for queer and trans people. CW: grief, death, trauma, religion, violence, antiqueerness, antitransness, family trauma | |||
| The queerest thing you did in 2023: Part One | 12 Dec 2023 | 00:30:38 | |
It’s here! It’s here! The Queer Lit end-of-year special has arrived and it comes in two parts. One you’ll get now and the other we’ll save for Christmas Eve. Tune in to hear me gush about all the lovely messages I received and listen to this year’s Queer Lit guests talk about their supergay highlights of 2023. References: Maria Sulimma Queer Perseverance https://www.anglistik.uni-freiburg.de/events/topicweeks Queer Second Cities https://queersecondcities.wordpress.com/ Jan Wilm The Argonauts Joan Didion White Elephant Happiest Season Out and Wild Out on the Page Elizabeth Chakrabarty’s Lessons in Love and Other Crimes WeirdoMess Market New House Art Space The Common Press The Queery London LGBTQ Centre Katherine Hubbard Diane Watt SGS MSc https://www.surrey.ac.uk/postgraduate/sex-gender-and-sexualities-msc I, Joan The Globe Kai Minosh Pyle Trans*temporal kinship Queer Christmas quiz to download here: https://lenamattheis.wordpress.com/teaching/ Grace Ellis’ Flung Out of Space Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt Carol Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
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| Queer Space Special: “Gay’s The Word” with Erica Gillingham | 05 Dec 2023 | 00:23:31 | |
This extraordinary queer space special makes all my dreams come true: I get to hang out with Erica Gillingham in the basement of Gay’s The Word! Sitting between towering stacks of books and boxes of GTW archival material that goes back all the way to the birth of this magnificent LGBTQ+ bookshop in January 1979, Erica shares some highlights of the turbulent and inspiring history of GTW. She also talks about what is happening in queer publishing right now and shares some of her favourite queer YA and romance authors. Hearing Erica speak about the way in which GTW and its magnificent team of booksellers hold space for our community is truly magical and if I could live in that basement forever, I absolutely would. All I want for Queermas is for you to follow @gaysthewordbookshop, @ericareadsqueer and @queerlitpodcast on Instagram! References: Rosa Guy’s Ruby (1976) Pride (2015) Ernest Hall Oscar Wilde Bookshop (New York City) Gay Socialists Icebreakers Lesbian Discussion Group (LDG) Gay and Disabled Group Black Gay Group Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM) Mark Ashton Housman’s Black Lesbian Discussion Group Ace Reading Group Jim MacSweeney Uli Lenart Common Press London LGBTQ Centre Section 28 Laura Kay Justin Meyers Alexis Hall Lily Lindon Emily Danforth’s The Miseducation of Cameron Post Malinda Lo Isabel Waidner’s Corey Fah Does Social Mobility and We Are Made of Diamond Stuff Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
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| “Two-Spirit Kinship” with Kai Minosh Pyle | 28 Nov 2023 | 00:39:25 | |
What can you do when the language for who you are doesn’t exist yet? Kai Minosh Pyle’s answer: write gorgeous poetry about it! In this episode, Kai reads one of their multilingual pieces, but they also talk about the benefits of using words that ‘kind of’ fit, and about finding trans*temporal kinship with Two-Spirit ancestors in creative writing and scholarly research. Kai introduces us to some less well-known figures from Indigiqueer history, they talk about the challenges of teaching Two-Spirit writing and they even (possibly) coin a new term right here in this episode! If you are excited at the prospect of finding out what Indigitrans might mean, don’t delay – listen today! References: Pyle, Kai, and Danne Jobin. "Transgender, Two-Spirit and Nonbinary Indigenous Literatures: An Introduction." Transmotion 7.1 (2021): 1-9. Anishinaabe Métis Louise (Wzawshek) Potawatomi Ozaawindib Ralph Kerwineo “The Midwest is a Two-Spirit Place” Sweeter Voices Still Trans*temporal kinship Lisa Tatonetti Jas Morgan Wahkohtowin Aiyyana Maracle’s A Journey in Gender Ojibwe Michif Keguro Macharia T4T Jenzen, Olu. "Revolting Doubles: Radical Narcissism and the Trope of Lesbian Doppelgangers." Journal of Lesbian Studies 17.3-4 (2013): 344-364. Indigitrans Joshua Whitehead Arielle Twist Muxe Lukas Avendaño Jenny Davis Alex Wilson Gary Bowen Leslie Feinberg Whess Harman’s Salmon Journey https://www.whessharman.com/comics Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
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| “Second Wave Trans Feminism” with Emily Cousens | 14 Nov 2023 | 00:42:33 | |
You may think that second wave feminism and trans activism are mutually exclusive but guess what: there is actually a whole lot of diversity in second wave feminist theory, writing, activism and print culture. Emily Cousens has done lots of archival research to highlight trans thinking and the way it has informed and shaped second wave feminism. Listen to our conversation to learn more about the grassroots movements, trans newsletters and gendernonconforming thinkers that make the second wave trans. References: Emily Cousens’ Trans Feminist Epistemologies in the US Second Wave (Palgrave, 2023) University of Victoria Archives GLBT Historical Society San Francisco Digital Transgender Archive https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/ Louise Lawrence Archive San Francisco Ms Bob Davis Virginia Prince Transvestia Foundation for Full Personality Expression (FPE) STAR Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries Black Lives Matter Sisters Uncut Combahee River Collective Foucault Barbara Smith Judith Butler Maxine Wolf Lesbian Avengers Dyke March DressingDykes (Eleanor Medhurst) https://dressingdykes.com/2022/03/25/clothing-culture-at-the-lesbian-conference/ Tri Sigma Heterosexual Crossdresser’s Society Robert Stoller John Money Kate Millet Gayle Rubin Margo Schulter Meg-John Barker Leslie Feinberg Beth Elliott Sandy Stone Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
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| How queer was your year? | 09 Nov 2023 | 00:01:54 | |
If you would like to be a part of the Queer Lit winter tradition, let me know about the queerest thing you did this year and/or any queer winter/holiday traditions and reading recommendations by the end of November. Can't wait to hear from you at queerlitpodcast@gmail.com! | |||
| “Before We Were Trans” with Kit Heyam | 17 Sep 2024 | 00:36:40 | |
Kit Heyam’s amazing history of gender nonconformity across the globe is a dazzling journey into the intricacies of trans history and if it’s not your favourite book already, it will be after listening to this episode. Learn why Kit particularly enjoyed writing about Edo Japan, what they discovered about intersex history and who their favourite person to write about was. We also have a discussion about how biological sex has always been a difficult thing to define and, drumroll, Kit even tells me what their next book will be about… Grab your earphones, start listening, and follow @kitheyamwriter and @queerlitpodcast on Instagram to learn more. References: Kit Heyam’s Before We Were Trans (2022) Kit Heyam’s The Reputation of Edward II, 1305-1697 (2020) Igbo Edo Japan Shunga Wakashū Sexology Thomas/Thomasine Hall Roberta Cowell Meg-John Barker Princess Seraphina Blake Gutt Iphis and Ianthe Harlan Weaver’s Bad Dog: Pit Bull Politics and Multispecies Justice (2011) Mo Moulton Hijra Jessica Hinchy Jules Gill-Peterson @kitheyamwriter Sara Taylor’s The Lauras Ada Palmer’s Terra Ignota The Iliad Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
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| Spooky Special: "Trans-fixing Media” with Cáel Keegan | 31 Oct 2023 | 00:44:33 | |
We’re so done with scary trans villains and monsters – or are we? Cáel Keegan explains why we might be able to learn lessons about trans liberation from Buffalo Bill and why The Silence of the Lambs, upon its release, was actually protested for homophobia. Cáel speaks about transfixing and spellbinding media, from The Matrix to Buffy to video games. Dark Willow makes an appearance. Not to be missed. References: Keegan, Cáel M. Lana and Lilly Wachowski. University of Illinois Press, 2018. Keegan, Cáel M. "Emptying the future: Queer melodramatics and negative utopia in Buffy the Vampire Slayer." Queer Studies in Media & Popular Culture 1.1 (2016): 9-22. Keegan, Cáel M. "Getting disciplined: What’s trans* about queer studies now?." Journal of homosexuality 67.3 (2020): 384-397. Keegan, Cáel M., Laura Horak, and Eliza Steinbock. "Cinematic/trans*/bodies now (and then, and to come)." Somatechnics 8.1 (2018): 1-13. Orange is the New Black The Matrix The Silence of the Lambs Hannibal Lecter Jodie Foster Homonormativity Mads Mikkelsen Anthony Hopkins Will Graham Buffalo Bill Dark Willow Soldier’s Girl Hil Malatino Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism Judith Butler’s Panicked Mimesis McKenzie Wark’s Gamer Theory Work in Progress Abby McEnany Theo Germaine They/Them Edie Fake’s Gaylord Phoenix Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
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| VINTAGE Fear Lit: “Queerness and Race in Gothic and Horror” with Maisha Wester | 24 Oct 2023 | 00:47:48 | |
Get the garlic, sprinkle the holy water, but please, leave the antiqueer racism out of my Gothic romance! Dr Maisha Wester (Sheffield/Indiana University) explains why Horror films are so interesting to study, what Brexit has to do with Zombies, why King Kong film posters reveal blatant racism, and why ghosts are not always gay but most definitely queer. Lusty lesbian vampires, Cat People (are those the same?), spiders, sharks, and Supernatural fan fiction: this episode has everything the tell-tale heart could want. Texts, Films and Stories mentioned: Dracula King Kong Le Fanu’s Carmilla Julia Kristeva’s Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection Family Guy The Perfection Roderick Ferguson’s The Nightmares of the Heteronormative The Hottentot Venus Raw Cat People I walked with a Zombie Ganja & Hess Arachnophobia Jaws Tendai Huchu’s The Library of the Dead The Amityville Horror Teju Cole’s Open City Octavia Butler’s “Bloodchild” Supernatural The Haunting of Bly Manor Not scared enough? Follow Maisha (@maishawester) and me (@queerlitpodcast) on Instagram. Questions you should be able to respond to after listening: 1. In what ways are horror narratives and motifs political? 2. Why are queerness and race frequently negotiated in Gothic and horror stories? 3. Why are vampires often coded as queer? Which example for this does Maisha give? Do you have a favourite vampire? 4. What is the abject? What is Other(ing) in literary studies? 5. Open question: What do you think about the role of fear in the representation of queerness and race? | |||
| “Realness, Loss and Underdogs” with Heather Love | 17 Oct 2023 | 00:46:32 | |
It’s time to be real. In this episode with queer studies luminary Heather Love, it’s all about what you find, what you feel, what you knooooow(-ah) to be real. We talk about feeling and looking backward while shifting paradigms, about the semiprivate space of the queer classrooms, about the entanglements of queer, trans and disability studies and so much more. Tune in now and follow @queerlitpodcast on Instagram for more realness and reading recs. References to Heather’s work: Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2007. 2023 Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Memorial Lecture in Gender + Sexuality Studies by Heather Love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU6bT2ZtNlA “Assessing Critique, Scholarly ‘Habits,’ Queer Method and ‘Turns’: An Interview with Heather Love.” In Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, ed. Salla Peltonen and Marianne Liljeström 1.1 (Autumn 2017). “Gyn/Apology: Sarah Orne Jewett’s Spinster Aesthetics.” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance. ESQ 55.3-4 (Winter 2009): 305-334. “Safe.” American Literary History 25.1 (Spring 2013): 1-12. Special issue on second books, ed. Gordon Hunter. Other references: Davy Knittle Paris is Burning Cheryl Lynn’s “To Be Real” Susan Stryker’s “My Words to Victor Frankenstein” (GLQ, 1994) Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein Jacques Derrida Jean-Paul Sartre Judith Butler’s Gender Trouble Alison Kafer’s Feminist Queer Crip Tobin Siebers Rachel Carroll Susan Stryker’s “More words about ‘My words to Victor Frankenstein’.” (GLQ, 2019) Audre Lorde’s “The Uses of Anger” William Wordsworth: “Overflow of powerful feelings [...] recollected in tranquillity” Ellen Rooney. “A Semiprivate Room.” (Differences, 2002) Paolo Freire Herb Kohl bell hooks Patricia Highsmith’s The Price of Salt Carol Grace Ellis’ Flung Out Of Space Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
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| “The Coast is Queer” with Sarah Boira and Vedrana Velickovic | 03 Oct 2023 | 00:23:43 | |
Have you asked yourself lately: What could I do to make my October really super extra queer? Sarah Boira and Vedrana Velickovic have THE festival for you. Listen to this episode to learn all about The Coast is Queer, the UK’s first LGBTQIA+ literary festival that celebrates all texts queer. Some of the events to get excited about: a panel on queer Ukraine, an event about invisible identities, a zine making workshop with lots of participation and plenty of partying with performance poets and open mic nights! Find out more on Instagram (@coastisqueerfest) or on the festival website. Everything is happening (and it really sounds like it’s happening) from 12-15 October at the Attenborough Centre for Creative Arts in Brighton. References: https://coastisqueer.com/ New Writing South https://www.newwritingsouth.com/ Marlborough Productions https://marlboroughproductions.org.uk/ Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence https://www.sussex.ac.uk/research/centres/centre-for-study-of-sexual-dissidence/ Okechukwu Nzelu’s Here Again Now Johanna Hedva’s “Sick Woman Theory” and “Why It’s Taking So Long” https://topicalcream.org/features/sick-woman-theory/ https://topicalcream.org/features/why-its-taking-so-long/ Questions you should be able to respond to after listening: 1. If you could curate a panel for a queer lit festival, who would you invite and what would the topic be? 2. What does ‘literature’ mean for Sarah and Vedrana? What is your definition of literature? 3. Sarah and Vedrana talk about queering the form of the festival. What does that entail? 4. Which author that you heard about in this episode are you looking up? | |||
| “Black Feminist Lessons” with Alexis Pauline Gumbs | 19 Sep 2023 | 00:50:30 | |
This episode takes us deep, deep into the queer ocean. Alexis Pauline Gumbs submerges us in Black feminist thought, takes us on a deep dive into queer creativity, and, most importantly, allows us to rethink our breathing through gills, lungs, mouths, and bills. Listen now to learn about how Audre Lorde, June Jordan and M. Jacqui Alexander have influenced Alexis Pauline’s work and why marine mammals play such a central part in her writing. Follow @alexispauline and @queerlitpodcast on Instagram and a mystical manatee will visit you in a dream. References to Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ work: Undrowned M Archive Dub Spill Revolutionary Mothering Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde (2024) Other references: Auburn Avenue Research Library Black Panther Party Elaine Brown’s A Taste of Power Audre Lorde June Jordan Helen Oyeyemi’s The Opposite House Ada Gay Griffin Michelle Parkerson A Litany for Survival: The Life and Work of Audre Lorde Briona Simone Jones Dub Sylvia Wynter Combahee River Collective Barbara Smith Julie Otsuka’s The Buddha in the Attic M. Jacqui Alexander’s Pedagogies of Crossing I Am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities Audre Lorde’s The Black Unicorn Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
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| "Queer Ecologies and Mulberries" with Cate Sandilands | 05 Sep 2023 | 00:43:17 | |
Did you know that yew trees can (and do) change sex? And that many trees are nonbinary? Genderqueer greenery is only one of the fascinating (tree) topics this conversation branches off into. If you want to em-bark on a journey into queer ecologies, this is the sapisode for you. Cate talks about leafing through the herbal archives at Kew Gardens, the role of storytelling in understanding ecologies, and about discovering female forests. Tune in now and everything will be coming up roses – or mulberries. References: Cate Sandilands’ The Good-Natured Feminist Cate Sandilands’ Rising Tides: Reflections for Climate Changing Times Cate Sandilands’ “Mulberry Intimacies and the Sweetness of Kinship” (Ecologies of Gender) Kew Gardens Queer Nature https://www.kew.org/kew-gardens/whats-on/queer-nature Jamaica Osorio K-Ming Chang’s Bestiary Rosanna McLaughlin’s Sinkhole: Three Crimes Callum Angus’ A Natural History of Transition Joshua Whitehead’s Making Love with the Love King James I Alexis Shotwell’s Against Purity Oriana Schwarzenshuber Vin Nardizzi Fortingall Yew https://storyingclimatechange.com/ Sarah Orne Jewett Willa Cather Radclyffe Hall’s The Well of Loneliness Diana Souhami Vita Sackville-West’s The Land Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s Undrowned and M Archive Shani Mootoo’s Cereus Blooms At Night Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
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| “Queerness in the USSR” with Rustam Alexander | 22 Aug 2023 | 00:48:44 | |
What did queer life look like in Soviet Russia? Rustam Alexander has written two whole books about gay oppression in Russian history and is here to share what they learned in the archives, from diaries, and from doctors’ records. From the revolution to the ‘gay propaganda’ law of 2013, Rustam talks about the state and the history of Russian queerness. We discuss gay activism, the medicalisation of queerness and a very curious shift in legislation… CW: homophobia, medicalisation of queerness, conversion therapy, aversion therapy References: Regulating Homosexuality in Soviet Russia, 1956-91 (Manchester UP, 2021) Red Closet: The Hidden History of Gay Oppression in the USSR (Manchester UP, 2023) Russia’s Gay Propaganda Law (2013) Dan Healey’s Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia Harry Whyte Stalin Tsarist Regime Bolsheviks Russian Revolution GULAG Doctor Goland Dennis Altman’s Homosexual Oppression and Liberation Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
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| “Queer Second Cities and Serial Bisexuality” with Maria Sulimma | 08 Aug 2023 | 00:49:13 | |
A dog walks into a lesbian bar. I am not sure there is a punchline but there is definitely a podcast episode here. Listen to this chat with my lovely friend and colleague Maria to hear about the conference we will be hosting together, about queerness and/in the city, about seriality and sexuality, and about Maria’s fascinating take on TV and identity. Follow @queerlitpodcast on Instagram and help us answer the question of all questions: Berlin or Cologne? References to Maria’s work: City Scripts: Narratives of Postindustrial Urban Futures. Co-edited with Barbara Buchenau and Jens Martin Gurr, the Ohio State University Press (2023). “Surviving the City: Zombies, Run! and the Horrors of Urban Exercise.” Playing the Field II: American Studies, Video Games, and Space, edited by Dietmar Meinel. De Gruyter, 2022. 223-240. Gender and Seriality: Practices and Politics of Contemporary US Television. Edinburgh: University Press, 2021. “Defined by Distance: The Roadtrip and Queer Love in Alice Isn’t Dead.” Special Issue “Feminism, Gender, and Podcast Studies,” edited by Julia Hoydis. Gender Forum 77 (2020): 69-89. http://genderforum.org/1596-2/ Die anderen Ministerpräsidenten – Geschlecht in der printmedialen Berichterstattung über Berufspolitik. Berlin: LIT Verlag, 2014. Other references: https://queersecondcities.wordpress.com/ queersecondcities@gmail.com ALUS https://blogs.helsinki.fi/hlc-n/ Zombies, Run! Lieven Ameel (et al) Literary Second Cities Scott Herring’s Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism Jack Halberstam Metronormativity Stuart Hall Raymond Williams Angela McRobbie How To Get Away With Murder The Hundred Maria San Filippo’s The B Word House Spiral Gendering Ben Robbins James Baldwin’s Another Country (1962) The Last Black Man in San Francisco Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
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| “The Queer Middle Ages” with Diane Watt | 25 Jul 2023 | 00:35:26 | |
We know that queer and trans people have always been around, but how do you go about finding them? Diane Watt is here to show us how it’s done: all you need is lesbian methodology, queer philology, and tiny curtains. Intrigued? Tune in to learn more and to listen to Diane and I discuss shared butch lesbian and transmasculine histories, lesbian nuns, and medieval dildos. If this all sounds too good to be true, you can make sure that Diane is a real (and really awesome) person by checking @Diane_Watt on Twitter or @medievalist.on.the.run on Instagram. @queerlitpodcast is there too. References: Diane Watt, Corinne Saunders (2023) Women and Medieval Literary Culture. Cambridge University Press. R Magnani, Diane Watt (2018) “Towards a Queer Philology,” Postmedieval: A Journal of Medieval Cultural Studies 9:3, 252-268. Diane Watt (2017) “A Fragmentary Archive: Migratory Feelings in Early Anglo-Saxon Women’s Letters,” Journal of Homosexuality 64:3, 415-429. N Giffney, MM Sauer, D Watt (2011) The Lesbian Premodern. Palgrave MacMillan. Diane Watt (2007) Medieval Women's Writing: Works by and for Women in England, 1100-1500. Polity Press. Diane Watt (2003) Amoral Gower. University of Minnesota Press. Diane Watt (1997) Secretaries of God. D.S. Brewer. Margery Kempe Margaret Paston Eleanor Rykener Susan Lanser’s The Sexuality of History Judith Bennett Lesbian-like Roberta Magnani Elizabeth Freeman Temporal drag Iphis and Ianthe John Gower’s Confessio Amantis Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales Christopher Ricks Lara Farina St Albans Psalter Christina of Markyate How To Read Podcast https://www.howtoreadpodcast.com/andrew-albin-sounds-medieval-books/ M.W. Bychowski “Trans Textuality: Dysphoria in the Depths of Medieval Skin” https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41280-018-0090-6 Duke Humfrey’s Library Bodleian Library Huon of Bordeaux The Museum of Sex Objects Julian of Norwich Anne Lister’s Diaries Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:
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| “Out and Wild” with Elizabeth Chakrabarty | 11 Jul 2023 | 00:15:28 | |
Join @DrNChakrabarty and I in the magic teapot at @OutandWildlgbtq to talk about reading in queer spaces, writing about race hate crimes, and community at queer events. We also reflect on academic structures and queer encounters, critical race theory and cultural differences in talking about race. It was such a pleasure running into Elizabeth again and if you’re not a fan already, you will be after listening to this! CW: racism, race hate crimes References: Elizabeth Chakrabarty’s Lessons in Love and Other Crimes https://elizabethchakrabarty.com/ https://outandwild.co.uk/ https://www.postcolonial-participation.hhu.de/en/ Questions may want to reflect on after listening:
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