After their time as philosophy undergrads gorging on cheap wine and bread, co-hosts cosima bee concordia and Aurora Laybourn reunite almost a decade later for Drunk Church, a podcast haunting the liminal spaces between anti-fascist theory and religious eroticism.
Named for a gathering of queers where art, drink, and communion were shared outside of the confines of formal institutions, Drunk Church seeks to transgress, subvert, and blaspheme the religious for our own pleasure and thriving. In a world that feels like it’s ending and with fascism ascendant, how do we to build shared ritual, meaning, and narrative on our own terms? Come get drunk on the blood of God!
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After their time as philosophy undergrads gorging on cheap wine and bread, co-hosts cosima bee concordia and Aurora Laybourn reunite almost a decade later for Drunk Church, a podcast haunting the liminal spaces between anti-fascist theory and religious eroticism.
Named for a gathering of queers where art, drink, and communion were shared outside of the confines of formal institutions, Drunk Church seeks to transgress, subvert, and blaspheme the religious for our own pleasure and thriving. In a world that feels like it’s ending and with fascism ascendant, how do we to build shared ritual, meaning, and narrative on our own terms? Come get drunk on the blood of God!
Get access to full bonus episodes, an exclusive RSS feed, and more by subscribing our Patreon!Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
In our penultimate discussion on "Hatred of Sex", we do something literally no one in the history of the world has done before: we call Freud problematic!! That being said, we also look at how Davis and Dean's brilliant take of Freud's concept of the unconscious degenitalizes and unbinds sex, allowing pleasure to move around the body in ways that do not look so different from the understandings and practices of leatherfolk. We focus in on the system that seems to love hatred of sex the most—the security state—tracing how it functions to perpetuate carcerality by co-opting the efforts of feminists and other activists to confront harm within our legal system. Helped along by regressive patriarchal forces with much less good intentions, bureaucracies of risk tighten and the most marginalized are cracked down on even more than they already were. Davis and Dean write, "this scrambling messiness of sex can never be entirely covered over by hating it—or for that matter by trying to love it", and we concur—we're here to get dirty.
Show notes:
"Hatred of Sex" by Oliver Davis and Tim Dean
"Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personalities and the Sciences of Memory" by Ian Hacking
"Studies on Hysteria" by Freud & Breuer
"Case Histories I: 'Dora' and 'Little Hans' " by Freud
"Governmentality" by Tania Murray Li
"Histories of the Transgender Child" by Jules Gill-Peterson
You're Wrong About, "The Victims' Rights Movement"
Gretchen Felker-Martin's Twitter Thread
Intro song is "Bless You" by the Ink Spots
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