12: Trans is Not New: Gender in Writing

In this episode of the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast, scholar and author C. Riley Snorton and author T Fleischmann discuss intersections of gender, race, and their own writing with hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell.

Readings for the Episode:

·       Nobody is Supposed to Know: Black Sexuality on the Down Low by C. Riley Snorton

·       Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by C. Riley Snorton

·       Syzygy, Beauty: An Essay by T. Fleischmann

·       Time is the Thing the Body Moves Through by T. Fleischmann

·       Epistemology of the Closet by Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

·       Death of the PostHuman: Essays on Extinction by Claire Colebrook

·       Scenes of Subjection by Saidiya V. Hartman

·       Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book by H.J. Spillers

·       Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs

·       Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom by William and Ellen Craft

·       “What people fail to realize is…” A Twitter Thread by Nikole Hannah-Jones 

·       Felix Gonzalez-Torres

·       Histories of the Transgender Child by Julian Gill-Peterson

·       “Why Does Obama Scold Black Boys?” by Derecka Purnell

Guests:

·       C. Riley Snorton

·       T Fleischmann

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