Vanessa Carlisle, "Take Me with You" (Running Wild, 2021)
Today I talked to Vanessa Carlisle about her new book Take Me with You (Running Wild, 2021). Kindred Powell's youth is marked by a secret that her white mother and Black father kept from her. After he...
21 Maj 20211h 6min
L. Ayu Saraswati, "Pain Generation: Social Media, Feminist Activism, and the Neoliberal Selfie" (NYU Press, 2021)
Social media has become the front-and-center arena for feminist activism. Responding to and enacting the political potential of pain inflicted in acts of sexual harassment, violence, and abuse, Asian ...
19 Maj 20211h 8min
T. Sanders et al., "Paying for Sex in a Digital Age: US and UK Perspectives" (Routledge, 2020)
Providing one of the first comprehensive, cross-cultural examinations of the dynamic market for sexual services, this book presents an evidence-based look at the multiple factors related to purchasing...
10 Maj 20211h 17min
Dilara Yarbrough, "Nothing About Us Without Us: Reading Protests against Oppressive Knowledge Production as Guidelines for Solidarity Research" (2019)
Today I talked to Dilara Yarbrough about her article "Nothing About Us Without Us: Reading Protests against Oppressive Knowledge Production as Guidelines for Solidarity Research," published in the Jou...
6 Maj 20211h 6min
Katie Cruz, "The Work of Sex Work: Prostitution, Unfreedom and Criminality at Work" (2020)
Dr Katie Cruz contributed a chapter titled "The Work of Sex Work: Prostitution, Unfreedom and Criminality at Work" to the book Criminality at Work (Oxford UP, 2020). In this podcast, Dr Cruz talks abo...
30 Apr 20211h 3min
Nikki Lane, "The Black Queer Work of Ratchet: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the (Anti)Politics of Respectability" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019)
Nikki Lane's The Black Queer Work of Ratchet: Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the (Anti)Politics of Respectability (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019) enters as a corrective to the tendency to trivialize and (mis...
29 Apr 20211h 13min
Mytheli Sreenivas, "Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India" (U Washington Press, 2021)
Beginning in the late nineteenth century, India played a pivotal role in global conversations about population and reproduction. In Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India (University of ...
28 Apr 20211h 11min
Iván Monalisa Ojeda, "Las Biuty Queens: Stories" (Astra House, 2021)
Drawing from his/her own experience as a trans performer, sex worker, and undocumented immigrant, Iván Monalisa Ojeda chronicles the lives of Latinx queer and trans immigrants in New York City. Whethe...
27 Apr 20211h 1min
