In Bed With The Right
by The Clayman Institute for Gender Research
Welcome to In Bed With the Right, the new podcast from the Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Hosts Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub welcome a range of scholars and critics to analyze right wing ideas about gender, sex and sexuality – and to plumb the ways in which these ideas persist in and shape our present moment.
Copyright: Clayman Institute 2023
Episodes
Episode 13: The Cursties with Michael Hobbes
1h 32m · Published2023 was a year rich in truly cursed discourses, In Bed With the Right has already analyzed many of them. In this episode — our first annual CURSTIES — your able hosts (with guest Michael Hobbes) analyze a few that have fallen through the cracks, and vote for the most cursed discourse of the year!
Episode 12: The Morehouse Man with Saida Grundy
59m · PublishedFounded in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, Morehouse College in Atlanta remains one of the most elite HBCUs. As Prof. Saida Grundy argues, the all-male college also sheds light on gender conservatism, Black masculinity and the politics of respectability.
Episode 11: Homocons
1h 18m · PublishedTogether with their guest, historian Samuel Hueneke, Moira and Adrian delve into the history of the homocons. Gay (and sometimes, very sometimes, lesbian) conservatives. Toggling between the beginnings of the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, the gay marriage fracas of the early aughts and today's anti-trans panics, they ask: is this an invariant of queer public life? Or is there a history and tradition here?
Episode 10: Nietzsche and his Heirs
45m · PublishedMoira and Adrian continue their earlier discussion of the thought and influence of Friedrich Nietzsche — morality and the critique of metaphysics, antisemitism and anti-feminism.
Episode 9: Marriage Boosters with Rebecca Traister
1h 1m · PublishedEvery few years, it seems, a set of academics and pundits discovers marriage as a panacea for a host of social ills — poverty, unhappiness, social cohesion, research assistants. Moira, Adrian and their guest, New York Magazine writer Rebecca Traister, are less-than-excited to report it’s back and just as threadbare as ever. But this time — since this is the 2020s — with a dollop of “this is something the woke left doesn’t want us to talk about”. A long conversation about feminism, capitalism, anti-feminism, the neocons, data and vibes.
Episode 8: Nietzsche
1h 8m · PublishedEpisode 7: The “Transsexual Empire” with Susan Stryker
1h 15m · PublishedOften considered the ur-text of trans-exclusionary feminism, Janice Raymond’s “The Transsexual Empire” came out in 1979, but rehearses a bunch of tropes you could just as well get off JK Rowling’s Twitter feed. In their conversation with historian Susan Stryker, Moira and Adrian explore the very specific milieu from which Raymond and her book emerged — a radical lesbian feminist theology deeply disappointed with the Catholic Church.
Episode 6: Perverts, Creeps and Priests!
1h 46m · PublishedEpisode 5: Crisis of Masculinity
1h 14m · PublishedMoira leads Adrian through the endless discourse about the "crisis of masculinity" -- where it comes from, what has motivated it in the past, and why we're having it again. Together, the two of them take a long tour de dudes: from Silicon Valley to Mike Pence's bedroom, from the Old West to Jordan Peterson's couch. What is the unique state of emergency that men find themselves in? Is it real? And why is it -- once again -- supposed to be feminism's fault?
Episode 4: Fag Hag with Moira and Adrian
1h 19m · PublishedIn Bed With The Right has 24 episodes in total of non- explicit content. Total playtime is 26:42:11. The language of the podcast is English. This podcast has been added on July 30th 2023. It might contain more episodes than the ones shown here. It was last updated on June 2nd, 2024 07:40.