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How Punk Broke the Binary
Episode 3
When singer Debbie Harry helped form Blondie in 1974 she developed a unique stage persona to front the band. Though she may have appeared to fans as …
1 year, 4 months ago
Gender Crisis N.Y.C.
Episode 1
In the premiere episode of Soundscapes N.Y.C., host Ryan Purcell talks with celebrated writer Lucy Sante about the landscape of gender logics within …
1 year, 4 months ago
Jade Elizabeth French, "Modernist Poetics of Ageing: The Late Lives and Late Styles of Mina Loy, Djuna Barnes, and H.D." (Oxford UP, 2025)
Episode 683
What happens when the 'modern woman' ages? Modernist Poetics of Ageing (Oxford University Press, 2025) answers this question by being the first book-…
1 year, 4 months ago
Sarah Gold McBride "Whiskerology: The Culture of Hair in Nineteenth-Century America" (Harvard UP, 2025)
Episode 682
Hair is always and everywhere freighted with meaning. In nineteenth-century America, however, hair took on decisive new significance as the young nat…
1 year, 4 months ago
Maya J. Berry, "Defending Rumba in Havana: The Sacred and the Black Corporeal Undercommons" (Duke UP, 2025)
Episode 681
In Defending Rumba in Havana: The Sacred and the Black Corporeal Undercommons (Duke University Press, 2025), anthropologist and dancer Maya J. Berry …
1 year, 4 months ago
Claire Pierson, "Women's Troubles: Gender and Feminist Politics in Post-Agreement Northern Ireland" (Manchester University Press, 2025)
Episode 680
How do feminist movements develop and organise in ethno-nationally divided societies? How does this challenge our understandings of contemporary four…
1 year, 4 months ago
Amin Ghaziani, "Long Live Queer Nightlife: How the Closing of Gay Bars Sparked a Revolution" (Princeton UP, 2024)
Episode 679
In this exhilarating journey into underground parties, pulsating with life and limitless possibility, acclaimed author Amin Ghaziani unveils the unex…
1 year, 4 months ago
Yasmine Motawy, "Children’s Picture Books and Contemporary Egyptian Society" (AUC Press, 2025)
Episode 677
Children’s picture books are some of the most transparently ideological materials available to parents and educators, and as cultural objects they ar…
1 year, 4 months ago
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, "Misbehaving at the Crossroads: Essays and Writings" (Harper, 2025)
Episode 678
The New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-nominated author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois and The Age of Phillis makes her nonfiction …
1 year, 4 months ago
Trans Technologies
Episode 676
How can technology creates new possibilities for transgender people? How do trans experiences, in turn, create new possibilities for technology?
Tran…
1 year, 4 months ago