Swerve South

Join Jaime, Theresa, and special guest Hilary Coulson for this week’s episode of Swerve South! Hilary is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Mississippi and has a joint appointment with the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies and the History Department. In this episode, Hilary shares her route to academia, her research on prisons, and new pathways and questions for schol...

Welcome to this week’s edition of Swerve South! Join Jaime and Theresa as they take a deep dive into a troubling sociological phenomenon: the obsession with women’s terror. In this revealing discussion, our hosts examine films that left them unsettled in their formative years and analyze the implications for our broader culture. This is a relatable and informative episode that will make you think...

Welcome to Swerve South! Join your hosts Jaime and Theresa as they welcome special guest Nancy Balach to the program. This episode is packed with great conversation about the power of music, collaboration, and feminism! First, you’ll hear a little bit about Nancy’s background which helps lay the groundwork for her career path as the founder of the Living Music Resource (LMR). Nancy pioneered the L...

If you love all things Louisa May Alcott , you will love this edition of Swerve South! Join hosts Theresa and Jaime as they analyze the latest Little Women (2019) film and share information about Alcott, her life, and the parallels of her writing with her own experiences. In this episode, Jaime and Theresa share their experiences reading Little Women and how film adaptations have enriched or disap...

Welcome to Swerve South! This week the hosts delve into their religious backgrounds and discuss some of the ways their religious upbringing informed their decisions to pursue gender studies. Do you have a pervasive fear of the devil? What are your thoughts on patriarchy and how does this relate to theology? You will ask these questions and dive into some buried thoughts that will help you consider...

In this episode of Swerve South, Jaime is joined by Baker Rogers who is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Georgia Southern University. Jaime had some time to check in with Baker who is at the University of Mississippi to speak at the first annual Trans Summit! Listen to Jaime and Baker discuss the complexities of growing up in religiously conservative spaces, discovering self through college,...

Welcome to a special episode of Swerve South! Join Jaime for an inspirational conversation with Civil Rights Activist and founder of Southerners on New Ground, Mandy Carter. In this episode, Mandy tells a bit of her fascinating life story and offers a history lesson through the lens of her life and work for 50 years in Civil Rights movements. In addition to an exceptional history lesson, you’ll al...

Welcome to this week’s episode of Swerve South! Once again, we have a special and exciting episode to share. This week, we are thrilled to introduce the “ Invisible Histories Project ” with professors Amy McDowell of Sociology, Jessica Wilkerson of History and Southern Studies, and our host, Jaime Harker of English and the Isom Center. Join us for a discussion about queer spaces in the South, how...

Welcome to Swerve South! Join your host Jaime Harker for a discussion with special guest Samantha Allen, award winning journalist and author of Real Queer America: LGBT Stories from Red States.   In this episode, Jaime and Samantha dish on their Mormon upbringing and how it impacted their journeys of self-realization within the queer community. Samantha’s path from the buttoned-up and gender rigid...

Welcome to a special edition of Swerve South! This week, our episode begins with a little history and appreciation for those who paved the way for our generation of women’s and gender scholars. Theresa and Jaime start the episode with a little background on events hosted by the Sarah Isom Center for Women’s and Gender Studies to scaffold a discussion with Chócola , a Latinx band out of Charlotte,...

Join your host Jaime Harker as she sips the tea with Karen Tongson and Wynter Mitchell-Rohrbaugh in a tell-all session about the life, legacy, and demise of their beloved Podcast, Pop Rocket. Karen and Wynter delve into the gendered and racial dynamics of their parent company’s decision to disband the production of Pop Rocket and share how they created a strong bond and resolve to forge on with th...

Join Jaime and Theresa for a fun conversation about the influence of 80’s pop culture, badass female rock stars, gender, and rebellion in their lives. Get an inside look at the power of music for Theresa who grew up in a punk rock space and another outlook from Jaime regarding the power of punk rock in a suburban setting for a teenager trying to break free. In this episode, we hear some first-hand...

Welcome to Swerve South! Join your hosts, Jaime Harker and Theresa Starkey, director and co-director of the Sarah Isom Center for Women and Gender Studies at the University of Mississippi as they introduce their new adventure in podcasting. Swerve South is a non-mainstream look at the world through the lens of the rebellious, unexpected, radical space of the Deep South. In this introductory episod...