Queer Lit

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Queer Lit is a podcast about LGBTQIA+* literature and culture. In each episode, literary studies researcher Lena Mattheis talks to an expert in the field of queer studies. Topics include lesbian literature, inclusive pronouns and language, gay history, trans and non-binary novels, intersectionality and favourite queer films, series or poems.

New episode every other week!

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“Knight as a Gender” with Mabel Mundy

Apr 15 2024 14 mins  
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 th

“Gendered Bodies and Narrative Form” with Chiara Pellegrini

Apr 01 2024 45 mins  
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 abou

Humanities under Threat

Mar 19 2024 27 mins  
https://surrey-ucu.org.uk/category/news/https://www.instagram.com/supportsurreysll/?hl=enhttps://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: @supportsurreysllTwitter/x: @SaveSurreySLLhttps://universityenglish.ac.uk/englishcreates/#:~:text

“Feeling Bad” with Hil Malatino

Mar 04 2024 50 mins  
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 or

“Hijab Butch Blues” with Lamya H.

Feb 19 2024 39 mins  
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 readin

“Nonbinary History and Queer Kinship” with Mo Moulton

Feb 05 2024 45 mins  
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 quee

“The Shape of Sex” with Leah DeVun

Jan 22 2024 41 mins  
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 gen

“Trans Future Fiction” with Kit Schuster

Jan 08 2024 39 mins  
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

The queerest thing you did in 2023: Part Two

Dec 25 2023 24 mins  
The queerest thing you did in 2023: Part TwoAre 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: ListenQueerhttps://listenqueer.wordpress.com/ Kit SchusterJack Jen GiesekingAmerican Studies MeetingLindsey Free

Yesterqueer's Holigays

Dec 18 2023 20 mins  
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