Gender Jawn

Nov 15 2024 36 ep. 38 mins 34
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Podcast of the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer and Transgender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, hosted by associate director Che Gossett

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Critical Humanities: A Conversation with Paul Gilroy

Nov 15 2024 41 mins  
In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Paul Gilroy, who is Professor of the Humanities and Founding Director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism & Racialisation at University College London. Professor Gilroy's scholarship has been globally influential, especially his books There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack(1987), The Black Atlant

Amy Tobin on Feminist Art History

Nov 12 2024 38 mins  
In this episode, FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Amy Tobin, University of Cambridge Associate Professor in the History of Art and Curator of Contemporary Programmes, at Kettle’s Yard, about feminist art history, feminist art curation, coalitional politics and her book, Women Artists Together Art in the Age of Women's Liberation (Yale UP, 2023), as well as her 2014

The Antisocial and its Afterlives: Austin Svedjan and John Paul Ricco

Oct 31 2024 37 mins  
In this episode, FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Austin Svedjan, doctoral student and Hamilton-Law Graduate Fellow in the Department of English at Penn, and John Paul Ricco, professor of Art History at the University of Toronto, about their co-edited special issue of the journal Postmodern Culture, which is freely available online. Song credit: "If You Can't Help Me"

Glorious Bodies And Early Modern Trans Studies with Professor Colby Gordon

Oct 23 2024 40 mins  
In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with scholar Colby Gordon, who is associate professor in Department of Literatures in English at Bryn Mawr College, about early modern trans studies and theology, and his exciting new and first book, Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature (University of Chicago, 2024). Song credit (-30sec): "My Enemies ar

The Specter of Materialism: a Conversation with Petrus Liu

Oct 10 2024 25 mins  
In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with professor Petrus Liu, who is professor of Chinese & Comparative Literature and of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Boston University. Professor Liu is the author of Queer Marxism in Two Chinas (Duke University Press, 2015) and The Specter of Materialism: Queer Theory and Marxism in the Age of the Beijing Cons

Touching Through the Archive: a Conversation with Zackary Drucker

Sep 30 2024 37 mins  
In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with multimedia artist, director, and producer Zackary Drucker about her archival work on and connection to Flawless Sabrina, about being attuned to the spiritual realm, and her prodigious work in TV & film -- especially her co-directed Sundance award-winning and Emmy nominated HBO original documentary film The Stroll (2023)

Enforced In/Visibility: Beeta Baghoolizadeh on Racial Slavery and Historical Memory in Iran

Sep 10 2024 39 mins  
In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Dr. Beeta Baghoolizadeh. Dr. Baghoolizadeh is a historian and an Associate Research Scholar at Princeton University, in the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies. Gossett speaks with Dr. Baghoolizadeh about her book The Color Black: Enslavement and Erasure in Iran (Duke University Press, March 2024)

Bad Education: Lee Edelman on the Fantasy of Social Order

Aug 21 2024 37 mins  
In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Lee Edelman, Fletcher Professor of English Literature at Tufts University, about the continued resonance and influence his book No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (Duke UP, 2004) and about his newest work Bad Education: Why Queer Theory Teaches Us Nothing (Duke UP, 2022). Edelman discusses his theorization of q

The Risk it Takes to Bloom: a conversation with Raquel Willis

Aug 06 2024 24 mins  
In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett talks with Black trans activist and writer Raquel Willis about Black trans liberationist movements, intersectionality, Black feminism(s), growing up in the South, and her new book, The Risk It Takes to Bloom: On Life and Liberation (St. Martin Press, 2023).

Poems on Fire: Nava Mau on Finding the Language of Filmmaking

Jun 24 2024 23 mins  
In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett talks with filmmaker, actress and cultural worker Nava Mau. Nava Mau recently received the 2024 Critics Choice Association's “Breakthrough Performance” Award for Television (Limited Series) for her role in the Netflix hit series Baby Reindeer. Nava Mau was the lead actor and director, and co-producer for the short film Waking H