FQT Podcast

In this episode, the second on this year's theme, Care for the Future, Gwendolyn Beetham and Tamir Williams speak with Hil Malatino about his books Trans Care and Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad. Malatino discusses how his work on care draws from and expands upon the genealogy of feminist work on care ethics and why we should examine not only the positive, but also the negative affect...

This episode recognizes the fortieth anniversary of two landmark publications for BIPOC queer feminist writing,  This Bridge Called My Back  and  But Some of Us Are Brave —volumes whose foundational insights on the mutual formation of gender, sexuality, race, class, ability, environment, slavery, and colonialism have often been excluded from queer theory's traditional genealogies. As part of the C...

This episode is a celebration of k.d.lang's album Ingénue, which was released 30 years ago this month on January 1 st 1992. In conversation with scholar Mairead Sullivan and the admin from the Instagram account Canada.gov.ca, this month's ep covers lesbian politics, Alberta, butch vocality, lang's song writing credit on a Rolling Stones song, lang's showmance with Madonna, and even a little chat a...

December's ep features a conversation with Karma Chávez about her new book The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance out now from University of Washington Press. The book tracks how the early years of the AIDS pandemic in the United States saw the development of rhetorical strategies built on alienizing logics that redefined understandings of citizenry, migration, belonging, and quaran...

What are deviance studies and what does deviance have to do with queer theory? In season 2 episode 2 of Gender Jawn , Heather Love talks about her new book Underdogs: Social Deviance and Queer Theory, tells us how microsociology informs queer method, why it's still all about negative affect, where shame and stigma fit into genealogies of queer theory, and how sexy deviance and sad deviance can't b...

In May's episode of Gender Jawn Anthea Butler discusses her new book about the history of evangelicalism in the U.S., how evangelical faith is politically leveraged as a powerful voting block, and why evangelicals vote overwhelmingly for politicians who do not practice what evangelicals preach. She exposes the practices of white evangelical racism in so-called color-blind Christianity to demonstra...

This episode offers an overview of the campaign for Penn to participate in a PILOT program with the city of Philadelphia. As a nonprofit, Penn is not required to pay property taxes, which provide a substantial part of the funding for the Philadelphia public school district. Members of Penn for PILOTs Mary Summers, Akira Drake Rodriguez, and Amy Offner make the case for why Penn should make payment...

Stay tuned for our first episode with artist & scholar David Chavannes, the first ever Alice Paul Center Graduate Artist in Residence