Gender Jawn

In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University, Jack Halberstam about his latest book, Wild Things: The Disorder of Desireand his prolific writing in queer theory, trans studies and cultural studies.

This episode includes a musical clip from "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak as narrated by Tammy Grimes.

In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with the luminary and accomplished filmmaker, director and producer Lilly Wachowski. Lilly Wachowski discusses some her most influential and heralded films, such asThe Matrix, which she co-directed and filmed with her sister, filmmaker Lana Wachowski, as well as recent work she has been involved in either writing, directing and/or producing such as the Netflix seriesSense8, and also the Showtime seriesWork in Progress, created by Abby McEnany and Tim Mason. Lilly Wachowski discusses trans politics, and the power of art to transform, forge bonds of solidarity, and create convivial spaces.

In this episode (recorded fall 2023) FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Judith Butler, who is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature, and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. Butler discusses their now published bookWho's Afraid of Gender?(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024), their extensive scholarship, including on the politics of loss and mourning, grief and grievance.

In this episode of the Gender Jawn podcast, FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with poet, professor and "intellectual cabaret" performer extraordinaireWayne Koestenbaum about his conception of "fag ideation," queer theory, art, poetics, and Koestenbaum's rich body of work. Also discussed is Koestenbaum's newest book of poetry, Stubble Archipelago just recently published by Semiotexte Press. Koestenbaum closes the interview by reading a selection fromSubble Archipelago, a poem titled "#34 [Two quartered radishes], currently featured in The Yale Review.

In this episode Che Gossett, associate director of The Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies, speaks with UC Davis assistant professor in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Christoph Hanssmann about his bookCare Without Pathology: How Trans- Health Activists Are Changing Medicine (University of Minnesota Press, 2023). Professor Hanssman discusses transnational trans health and justice organizing and trans histories of medicine.

In this episode FQT Associate Director Che Gossett speaks with William Lampson Professor of Theater and Performance Studies, Professor of American Studies and African American Studies at Yale University: Tavia Nyong'o. Nyong'o is the author of The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (University of Minnesota Press, 2009), and most recently, Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life (NYU Press, 2018). Gossett speaks with Nyong'o about blackness, queerness, the Zora Neale Hurston inspired concept of "angular sociality," and the role of what Nyong'o terms -- extending psychoanalytic interventions -- "critical ambivalence." Writers and/or works referenced: James Baldwin and Audre Lorde "Revolutionary Hope: A Conversation between James Baldwin and Audre Lorde" (1984) http://theculture.forharriet.com/2014/03/revolutionary-hope-conversation-between.html Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism (Duke University Press, 2011), On the Inconvenience of Other People (Duke University Press, 2022) Samuel Delany, The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village (University of Minnesota Press, 1988) Erica R. Edwards Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership (University of Minnesota Press, 2012) Zora Neale Hurston, Mules and men ( New York: Perennial Library, 1935), Their Eyes Were Watching God (Amistad, Harper Perennial, 1937), Baracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (Amistad, Harper Perennial Reprint, 2018) Cindy Patton, Inventing AIDS (Routledge Press, 1990), Globalizing AIDS (University of Minnesota, 2002) Rustin (film, 2023) Eve Sedgwick, Epistemology of the Closet (UC Berkeley Press, 1990), Touching Feeling (Duke University Press, 2003) Jackie Stacey, "Wishing Away Ambivalence," Feminist Theory, 2014, Vol. 15(I) 39-49 Antonio Viego, Dead Subjects: Towards a Politics of Loss in Latino Studies (Duke University Press, 2007)

In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with philosopher Brian Massumi, whom is professor of communication at the University of Montreal, about affect studies, critical theory, the work of Gilles Deleuze and Alfred North Whitehead, and process philosophy. Massumi is the author of Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation(Duke UP, 2002) and most recently, Couplets: Travels in Speculative Pragmatism (Duke UP, 2021), as well as many other texts, several co-written with his companion in art and thought, Erin Manning, professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University (Montreal).

In this episode FQT Center associate director Che Gossett speaks with trans historian and John Hopkins University professor Jules Gill-Peterson, author of Histories of the Transgender Child(University of Minnesota Press, 2018), which received a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction and the Children’s Literature Association Book Award. Gill-Peterson is also the author of A Short History of Trans Misogyny (Verso Press, 2024). Gill-Peterson speaks about both of these texts and also in process work on DIY trans community care.

In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Yale University Professor Daphne Brooks about her newest book,Liner Notes: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound (Harvard UP, 2021) -- winner of the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame -- about Black feminist archives, music history, and Beyonce's brilliance.

Music Credits:

Koko by Charlie Parker (1945)
I Wish it Would Rain by The Temptations (1967)
I Want You Back by The Jackson 5 (1969)
The Way We Were by Barbra Streisand (1987)
I Write the Songs by Barry Manilow (1977)
Let's Stay Together by Al Green (1972)
I'll Be Around by the Spinners (1972)
Oh Bondage! Up Yours! by X-Ray Spex (1977)
London Calling by The Clash (1979)
Message in a Bottle by The Police (1979)
There Stands a Bluebird by Zora Neale Hurston (1936)
Lawdy Lawdy Blues by Ida Cox (1961)
Don't Hurt Yourself by Beyonce (2016)

In this interview Che Gossett speaks with Maggie Nelson -- poet, writer, 2016 MacArthur fellow, and professor of English at the University of California -- about her newest book, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (Random House, 2021) and many other works of poetry and prose. Also mentioned in the episode are poets and writer Eileen Myles and poet and NYU professor, Fred Moten.