03.16.2018 - By Andy Crank & Elizabeth Stockton
Unbelievably, Doug Jones won! But how did we get Roy Moore??? Elizabeth talks the history of sexual consent, bringing in Harriet Jacobs and how "consent" is racialized. Andy reminds us of marital rape in Gone with the Wind and "white southern exceptionalism" in To Kill a Mockingbird. And, of course, the crisis of the humanities.