Prankster Art and the Temporary Services Project
We take a look at Joesph Hassert’s “The Library Project and the Gift of Prankster Art” in the latest issue of Text and Performance Quarterly. We also mentioned some additional images that were not included in the original publication. Find…
Academic Drag and the Queer Project
We change it up a bit this week and interview co-authors Alyssa Samek and Theresa Donofrio about their article, “‘Academic Drag’ and the Performance of the Critical Personae: An Exchange on Sexuality, Politics, and Identity in the Academy” in Women’s…
Orgasmology
This week we have a very interesting interview with Annamarie Jagose, author of Orgasmology. We talk queer theory, political agency, and of course – orgasms. It’s a bit NSFW, so…wear headphones.
Leaning, Interviewing, and Qualitative Research
This week we turn towards the new issue of Qualitative Inquiry. Check out our discussion of the ethics of teaching qualitative interviewing in Hoskins and White’s “Relational Inquiries and the Research Interview: Mentoring Future Researchers.”
Big Brother and Gay Representation
In this episode we talk through Ragan Fox’s article “You are Not Allowed to Talk about Production”: Narratization on (and off) the Set of CBS’s Big Brother“. There is lots of interesting stuff here, from production details to Fox’s analysis…
The Gift of Freedom
In this episode we talk with Mimi Thi Nguyen, author of The Gift of Freedom about the relationship between refugees, empire, and postcoloniality.
LGBT Performance and Queer Neoliberalism
This episode centers on Sara Warner’s book, Acts of Gaiety: LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure. We discuss queer neoliberalism, Valerie Solanas, performance zaps, and much more. It’s an interesting discussion for anyway invested in queer theory or performance…
Our Lord has Come
In this episode we talk through Joshua Gunn’s provocative analysis of Mel Gibson’s The Passion of Christ. Gunn’s QJS article, Maranatha utilizes genre criticism to examine how the violence within The Passion can be seen as pornographic. It’s a piece…
Interview with Mingé and Zimmerman
This week we are talking with Jeanine Mingé and Amber Zimmerman about their book Concrete and Dust: Mapping the Sexual Terrains of Los Angeles. We talk through issues of authethnography, voice, and the innovative ways the authors worked with found…