New Books in LGBTQ+ Studies

Exploring gender transition through literature and psychoanalysis, the podcast discusses how individuals resist medicalization for pleasure and freedom. It highlights the historical context of gender transition, challenges cultural misrepresentations, and examines techniques of giving and receiving pleasure in transition narratives.

Exploring the concept of queer time in various contexts, the podcast discusses disrupting linear time norms, societal pressures of time constraints, love and waiting in lines, word connotations, and friendship in a cartoon setting, ending with expressions of gratitude and farewells.

Exploring the life of a man from Louisiana to Europe to Virginia, serving as a naval officer and art dealer. Reflecting on growing up gay in the deep south, journaling experiences, and challenges finding a publisher. Discussing identity struggles in the navy, societal changes, and gratitude within the LGBT community.

In this podcast, Susan Stinson discusses her award-winning novel 'Martha Moody,' a speculative western focusing on a love story between Amanda and Martha. The topics include self-publishing, themes of love and fatness in fiction, and the shift to online book events in 2020. The conversation highlights the challenges of publishing, the impact of storytelling on body image, and ends with a warm farewell and book recommendation.

Writer Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore discusses their latest book exploring gender, sexuality, and friendship in a world enforcing norms. Topics include 90s San Francisco queer communities, writing process in corrupt spaces, urban landscapes impacting desire, societal norms, and resilience of queer friendships amid gentrification.

Srila Roy discusses feminist and queer politics in neoliberal India, exploring the impact of global funds on social development and NGOs. She highlights the co-optation of women's rights struggles and the vitalization of queer activism. Roy traces changes in feminist governmentality entangled in transnational neoliberalism, showcasing the interplay between activist governance and queer feminist governmentality in shaping contemporary feminisms.

Activist and author Julia Serano discusses societal sexualization, gender perception, and LGBTQ+ stereotypes. She explores the harms of sexualization, challenges stereotypes, and offers ways to create a sex-positive future. The podcast delves into the impacts on marginalized groups, the transition from male to female identity, stigma faced by LGBTQ+ individuals, and the importance of breaking away from traditional sexual scripts.

Alvin J. Henry delves into reinterpreting African American novels to showcase a new model of Black queer selfhood, rejecting liberal humanism's subjectivity. From early 20th-century authors experimenting with self-formation to Nella Larsen fully rejecting subjectivity, the discussion highlights the struggle against antiblack racism and the emergence of 'Black queer flesh' as a collective and fluctuating selfhood.

Leyla Jagiella, a trans Muslim, shares her journey living among a third-gender community in Pakistan and India. Topics include the evolution of gender terms, colonialism's impact on trans identity, nuances of identity, the intersections of Islam and transness, and the complexities of LGBTQI rights in political contexts.

Poet and scholar Jack Parlett discusses the cultural significance of Fire Island, exploring its rich LGBTQ+ history, the literary connections to figures like James Baldwin and Frank O'Hara and the evolving dynamics of gender expression and body image in the gay community on the island.