The Architect Behind the Scenes: Urvashi Vaid and the Politics of Coalition
For decades, Vaid helped shape LGBTQ political strategy in the United States in ways that went considerably deeper than policy positions or campaign tactics. Her leadership at organizations, including...
17 Kesä 15min
Weekend Update: The $60 Million Birthday Boy
So this weekend, Donald Trump celebrated turning 80 by throwing himself a UFC fight card on the lawn of the White House. Not metaphorically. Literally. A 5,000-seat temporary arena, complete with an o...
15 Kesä 6min
Pink Patriarchy: Pride Edition - The Good Queers and the Bad Whores
There is a particular kind of progressive politics that loves queer people right up until queer survival becomes inconvenient. You can see it everywhere once you recognize the pattern. Organizations c...
12 Kesä 11min
The Lesbian Feminist Who Refused to Abandon Sex Workers: Pat Califia and the Politics of Sexual Dissent
One of the strangest recurring patterns inside institutional feminism is how efficiently it forgets the women who challenged its boundaries most aggressively. Not accidentally forgets - the forgetting...
10 Kesä 13min
Pink Patriarchy: Pride Edition: Pride in Pastels - How Queer Liberation Got Sanitized
This episode examines how corporate branding and institutional sponsorship have sanitized Pride, erasing its origins in criminalization, survival economies, and radical queer resistance. It highlights...
5 Kesä 8min
The Lesbian Feminist Who Refused to Abandon Sex Workers: Pat Califia and the Politics of Sexual Dissent
One of the strangest recurring patterns inside institutional feminism is how efficiently it forgets the women who challenged its boundaries most aggressively. Not accidentally forgets - the forgetting...
3 Kesä 13min
When Numbers Lie: How Data Keeps Harmful Policy Alive
This episode exposes how easily activity-based metrics—arrests, rescues, and operations—are presented as proof of success while ignoring real outcomes for affected people. It traces the feedback loop ...
29 Touko 4min
What Is Carceral Feminism?
Carceral feminism is a branch of feminist politics that relies primarily on policing, prosecution, incarceration, and other punitive state mechanisms as the main tools for addressing gender-based viol...
27 Touko 14min
