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Feminist Professor

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13 hours ago

In this episode, we will launch the first of three conversations on masculinities with Dr. Suzanne Ashworth. We will discuss why masculinities should be understood as plural even though our culture seems to ignore all but the most dominant and idealized version of it. We will also discuss boyhood and the ways in which mainstream culture begins to ‘boy’ our boys in the direction of emotional indifference and cruelty. Throughout the three-part series, we will constantly return to the questions: what does masculinity feel? And what more might masculinity feel? SHOW NOTES The following texts were cited in this episode: Masculinities (R.W. Connell): https://www.ucpress.edu/books/masculinities/paper Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men (Michael Kimmel): https://www.amazon.com/Guyland-Perilous-World-Where-Become/dp/0060831359 Deep Secrets: Boys’ Friendships and the Crisis of Connection (Niobe Way): https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674072428 Perverse Feelings: Poe and American Masculinity (Suzanne Ashworth): https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/perverse-feelings-9781978798533/

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In this episode, we will launch the first of three conversations on masculinities with Dr. Suzanne Ashworth. We will discuss why masculinities should be understood as plural even though our culture seems to ignore all but the most dominant and idealized version of it. We will also discuss boyhood and the ways in which mainstream culture begins to ‘boy’ our boys in the direction of emotional indifference and cruelty. Throughout the three-part series, we will constantly return to the questions: what does masculinity feel? And what more might masculinity feel? SHOW NOTES The following texts were cited in this episode: Masculinities (R.W. Connell): https://www.ucpress.edu/books/masculinities/paper Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men (Michael Kimmel): https://www.amazon.com/Guyland-Perilous-World-Where-Become/dp/0060831359 Deep Secrets: Boys’ Friendships and the Crisis of Connection (Niobe Way): https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674072428 Perverse Feelings: Poe and American Masculinity (Suzanne Ashworth): https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/perverse-feelings-9781978798533/

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Feminist Professor

S2, E4 On Masculinities

In this episode, we will launch the first of three conversations on masculinities with Dr. Suzanne Ashworth. We will discuss why masculinities should be understood as plural even though our culture seems to ignore all but the most dominant and idealized version of it. We will also discuss boyhood and the ways in which mainstream culture begins to ‘boy’ our boys in the direction of emotional indifference and cruelty. Throughout the three-part series, we will constantly return to the questions: what does masculinity feel? And what more might masculinity feel? SHOW NOTES The following texts were cited in this episode: Masculinities (R.W. Connell): https://www.ucpress.edu/books/masculinities/paper Guyland: The Perilous World Where Boys Become Men (Michael Kimmel): https://www.amazon.com/Guyland-Perilous-World-Where-Become/dp/0060831359 Deep Secrets: Boys’ Friendships and the Crisis of Connection (Niobe Way): https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674072428 Perverse Feelings: Poe and American Masculinity (Suzanne Ashworth): https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/perverse-feelings-9781978798533/

1 day ago

37 minutes 50 seconds

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S2 E3, On LGBTQ Equity and Personhood

DESCRIPTION In this episode, we will complete our discussion of selected policy objectives in Project 2025. This week, the focus is on LGBTQ equity and personhood. Project 2025 is consistently invested in diminishing or denying the personhood of LGBTQ individuals, and it details the legal, political, and economic levers that will help normalize this. We discuss the loss of legal protections as well as the right to non-discrimination, the assumption that gay marriage and family are defective versions of what is biologically and morally desirable, the effort to relabel the trans person as potential political extremist and terrorist, and the conflation of LGBTQ-supportive materials with pornography.

1 month ago

27 minutes 9 seconds

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S2 E2, On the Endgame of Project 2025, Contraception

In this episode, we will continue our close look at the key objectives of Project 2025. This time, we will focus on the plan to restrict and deny access to both contraception and emergency contraception. More contraceptive forms (i.e. hormonal birth control, IUDs) have been reframed as abortifacients, or drugs and devices designed to terminate pregnancy. They do not terminate pregnancy; they prevent pregnancy. But Project 2025 is intent on erroneously redefining them so that they can be folded into larger efforts to regulate and ban abortion. Listen to hear more about how this is—and will—happen.

1 month ago

24 minutes 56 seconds

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S2, E1 On the Endgame of Project 2025: Abortion

As the second season of Feminist Professor launches, we begin a multi-episode and closer examination of Project 2025. In this first episode, we focus on the larger plan to regulate, obstruct, and ultimately end the provision of abortion services in the United States.

2 months ago

36 minutes 22 seconds

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S2, E1 On the Endgame of Project 2025, Abortion

DESCRIPTION As the second season of Feminist Professor launches, we begin a multi-episode and closer examination of Project 2025. In this first episode, we focus on the larger plan to regulate, obstruct, and ultimately end the provision of abortion services in the United States. SHOW NOTES You can find a PDF of the Project 2025 Mandate for Leadership at https://static.heritage.org/project2025/2025_MandateForLeadership_FULL.pdf You can find the Project 2025 Tracker at https://www.project2025.observer/en The mentioned article, ‘Education Policy Reforms Are Key Strategies for Increasing the Married Birth Rate’ (Jay Greene and Lindsey Burke) can be found here: https://www.heritage.org/education/report/education-policy-reforms-are-key-strategies-increasing-the-married-birth-rate

2 months ago

36 minutes 22 seconds

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Season 1, Episode 16: On the Politics of Rest

In this episode, we discuss the important political and personal necessity of rest. Because we live in a grind culture that insists on incessant productivity and normalizes exhaustion, we have lost the capacity to define and defend rest. Thanks to Tricia Hersey’s work in Rest is Resistance, this episode describes how we are damaged by the ‘cult of urgency and busyness’ and how we might begin to reimagine the radical potential of learning how to rest.

4 months ago

21 minutes 52 seconds

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Season 1, Episode 15: On Resilience

Podcast Available On: Apple Spotify Featuring: Dr. Tammy Birk Show Notes: In this episode, we are going to examine the shortcomings and liabilities of resilience. We will discuss the ways in which resilience—as a social expectation and psychological ideal—can obscure the need for structural change and block larger forms of resistance. Resilience can easily become […]

5 months ago

14 minutes 14 seconds

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Season 1, Episode 14: On Trans Athletes

In this week’s episode, I was fortunate to sit down for a longer discussion about trans athletes and gender in sport with Dr. Kristy McCray, a sports sociologist and Professor in Otterbein’s Health and Sport Sciences Department. This episode is twice as long as my solo episodes, but it is well worth the time (even […]

6 months ago

53 minutes 1 second

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Season 1, Episode 13: On the Fear of Gender

This week’s episode looks more closely at the increasingly normalized ‘fear of gender’ and the many ways that it is leveraged to reinforce the ‘biological reality of sex.’ The fear of gender, in many ways, is the fear of gender self-determination, or the right of a person to decide their own gender identity rather than […]

6 months ago

24 minutes 33 seconds

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Season 1, Episode 12: On the “Truth of Biological Sex”

We will continue exploring the assumptions that underlie ‘woke gender ideology.’ This particular episode will focus on the purported ‘biological reality of sex’ as defined by the Trump administration’s Executive Order ‘Defending Women from Gender Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government.’ More specifically, we will explore how a scientifically inaccurate understanding of biological sex is leveraged in anti-gender and anti-trans political efforts.

7 months ago

22 minutes 12 seconds

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Season 1, Episode 11: On Woke Gender Ideology

In this episode, we begin to discuss the new rhetoric of ‘woke gender ideology’ and the way that it is weaponized in the current political climate. We pay special attention to the concepts of ‘wokeness’ and ‘ideology’ this week; next week, we will focus entirely on the vilification of gender. This episode also discusses how to allow for despair without falling into paralysis and what active hope might make possible.

7 months ago

28 minutes 44 seconds

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Season 1, Episode 10: On Preparing for Trump 2.0 Part 2

This episode continues the conversation of last week, Preparing for Trump 2.0. In it, eighteen speakers from the larger podcast community share brief and powerful insights into what they are doing differently or refusing to do in this volatile political climate.

9 months ago

35 minutes 38 seconds

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Season 1, Episode 9: On Preparing for Trump 2.0

In this episode, we consider how we might differently approach the second presidency of Donald Trump. How can we guard against overwhelm and dysregulation? How can we direct our energy and attention to meaningful projects rather than fall into another extended outrage cycle?

9 months ago

22 minutes 1 second

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Season 1, Episode 8: On Trans Panic

In this episode, we discuss the rise in trans panic, or the cultivation of widespread anxiety and fear at the very fact of trans existence. We talk about the ways in which trans panic serves particular political ends as well as underscores the phantasmatic nature of gender. Using gender affirming care as an example, we consider how much trans panic relies on fictitious stories about gender and ignores the lived realities of trans youth specifically.

10 months ago

20 minutes 38 seconds

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Season 1, Episode 7: Gender, Sexuality, and Gen Z

In this episode, we discuss the shifting gender and sexual identities and practices of Generation Z. At least one in five members of Gen Z identify as LGBTQ, so they are the largest demographic of LGBTQ persons in the United States. We hear from various Gen Z voices in this episode and consider what their […]

11 months ago

27 minutes 23 seconds

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Season 1, Episode 6: On Misogyny

In this episode, we will discuss different ways of understanding the motives of misogyny, or what is more commonly understood as the hatred of women, as well as examine the upsurge in misogynist rhetoric in the 2024 Presidential election.

11 months ago

21 minutes 44 seconds

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Season 1 Episode 5: On Patriarchal Logics

In this week’s episode, we will approach patriarchy as a social system that overvalues maleness and masculinity at the same time it devalues femaleness and femininity. We will talk about the ‘logics’ of patriarchy that not only attempt to justify the system as inevitable and good but also encourage men to fear the judgment and reprisal of other men. In the last part of the episode, we will consider a handful of examples from the 2024 Presidential campaign that demonstrate the ways in which men police the masculinity of other men to defend patriarchal power.

1 year ago

22 minutes 4 seconds

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Season 1, Episode 4: On Becoming a Problem

In this episode, we turn to the work of Sara Ahmed to better understand how we become a problem for others when we expose or name a problem. Podcast Available On: Apple Spotify Featuring: Dr. Tammy Birk Show Notes: In this episode, I relied on the critical work of Sara Ahmed and cited three of […]

1 year ago

13 minutes 46 seconds

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Season 1, Episode 3: On Anger

This episode focuses on the political usefulness of anger, especially as an appropriate and ethical response to injustice and mistreatment. We consider how anger is sanctioned for some groups rather than others, examine reasons that women might fear, deny, or suppress their anger to avoid conflict, and discuss the various ways that the expression of […]

1 year ago

21 minutes 8 seconds

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Season 1, Episode 2: On Silence

This episode explores some of the anxieties and fears that keep us silent or unwilling to speak. Why do we think silence protects us when it doesn’t make us any less afraid? Let’s consider what Audre Lorde can teach us. Podcast Available On: Apple Spotify Featuring: Dr. Tammy Birk Show Notes: In this episode, I […]

1 year ago

17 minutes 20 seconds