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Back to SearchNostalgia Trap - Episode 327: Laugh Lines w/ Carrie Conners
Carrie Conners is a poet, writer, and professor of English at LaGuardia Community College; her latest book Laugh Lines: Humor, Genre, and Political …
3 years, 10 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 326: The Cult of the Gun w/ Daniel Chard
Daniel Chard is a professor of history at Western Washington University whose work focuses on social movements, power, and political violence. His la…
3 years, 10 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 325: All of God's Money w/ Jason P. Woodbury
Writer, musician, and fellow Wilco-head Jason P. Woodbury returns to talk with me about the 20th anniversary of the band's eerily prophetic album Ya…
3 years, 10 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Livestream 5.11.22: Field of Opportunity w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper (PREVIEW)
This week Justin and I talk about the idea of "fragile capitalism" in the context of the big crypto collapse, Peloton's hilarious demise, baby formul…
3 years, 11 months ago
Gender Trap - Episode 2 : The Autopsy of Jane Roe (PREVIEW)
The impending demise of Roe v. Wade occupies our attention this week, as Yasmin narrates some key moments in the wider history of abortion politics o…
3 years, 11 months ago
Gender Trap - Episode 1: Into the Gender Trap
Gender Trap is an all-new podcast series with me (David Parsons) and Yasmin Nair attempting to move the conversation forward on gender and sexuality …
3 years, 11 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Livestream 5.4.22: Heartburn w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper (PREVIEW)
What else could we talk about today? Justin and I go dead alien/queer Marx on the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade leak, and reflect on the idea of "slidi…
3 years, 11 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 324: Body Drop w/ Brian Oliu
Brian Oliu is a writer and teacher whose latest book, Body Drop: Notes on Fandom and Pain in Professional Wrestling, takes an intensely personal, of…
3 years, 11 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Livestream 4.27.22: My Country is the World w/ Justin Rogers-Cooper (PREVIEW)
So is Biden gonna cancel these student loans or what? On this week's livestream, Justin and I talk about liberals fleeing Elon Musk's Twitter (lol),…
3 years, 11 months ago
Nostalgia Trap - Episode 323: Bloody Red Sun of Fantastic L.A. w/ Justin Farrar (PREVIEW)
Justin Farrar's first appearance on the show was a dense journey through the history of rock music and American counterculture, and it got me thinkin…
3 years, 11 months ago