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By Emma Austin and Eva Espenshade
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The podcast currently has 25 episodes available.
Life has been busy but we came out of hibernation to release this fall reading list! We'll be back in a few weeks with more episodes.
Show notes:
Books-
Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, by Andrea Lawlor
How to do Nothing, by Jenny Odell
Females, by Andrea Long Chu
Once and Future Feminist, edited by Merve Emre
A Certain Hunger, by Chelsea G. Summers
Podcasts-
Novara FM
You're Wrong About - Online Shopping
Articles of Interest
TV Shows-
I May Destroy You, written/directed by Michaela Coel
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, directed by Laura Poitras
In the FINAL episode of porn month, we interview Maggie MacDonald, a 4th year PhD student who studies the platformization of porn. We talk porn platforms, deepfakes, and anti-sex work policy in Canada.
To read all the articles discussed in this episode, head to Maggie's website: https://www.internetmaggie.com
Check out the Maggie's Toronto Sex Work Action Project here: https://www.maggiesto.org
Gender Troubles will be taking a little break over the summer to rest and write more great episodes! Thanks for listening and we'll be back in September with lots more content <3
Emma and Eva talk about the sex wars (also known as the porn wars), a time in the 1980s when debates on sexuality, pornography and kink dominated the feminist conversation.
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reading list:
Diary of a Conference on Sexuality
Pleasure and danger : exploring female sexuality (Gayle Rubin's "Thinking Sex" starts on page 267)
Against Sadomasochism: A Radical Feminist Analysis
Off our backs, "towards a politics of sexuality"
Juggling : a memoir of work, family, and feminism
Explanation of the Dworkin-MacKinnon Ordinance
Dworkin's "Against the Male Flood" and MacKinnon's "Only Words
From Pompeii to Pornhub, Eva & Emma discuss the long history of porn.
Show notes:
https://www.filmsite.org/sexinfilms1.html
https://www.proquest.com/openview/31a0431f5269893f8a5632a062bf0a46/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750
https://susannapaasonen.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/01pornification23-32.pdf
https://monoskop.org/images/e/e7/Williams_Linda_Hard_Core_Power_Pleasure_and_the_Frenzy_of_the_Visible.pdf
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/how-the-internet-changed-porn-201674/
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/30/internet-porn-says-more-about-ourselves-than-technology
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/06/16/the-shady-secret-history-of-onlyfans-billionaire-owner/?sh=1b1496085c17
Staying power: The mainstreaming of the hard -core pornographic film industry, 1969–1990 Johnson, Stephen Patrick. University of Maryland, College Park ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2009. 3359387.
https://archive.org/details/historyofpornogr0000unse/page/2/mode/1up?view=theater
We kick off Porn Month with a conversation with Kyla Hewson and Kristen Pue, of the podcast Pullback! Pullback investigates the ethical issues behind everyday goods and services. Kyla and Kristen help us work through the issues around the ethical consumption of pornography. What does it look like to be an ethical porn consumer? What are the best ways to directly support porn creators? Is OnlyFans like farm-to-table cuisine? Listen now to find out.
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The book we discuss, "Porn Work: Sex, Labor and Late Capitalism" can be found here
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This episode, we talk through our thoughts about the leaked Supreme Court draft decision on Roe v. Wade.
Readings and Recommendations
Interrupting Criminalization, Abortion Decriminalization is Part of the Larger Struggle Against Policing and Criminalization
Reproaction, Understanding and Advocating for Self-Managed Abortion
Plan C, A Guide to Abortion Pills Online
Evan Greer, digital security thread
Caroline Duble, resource thread
Melissa Gira Grant, The Real Fight for Abortion Rights Is Not in the Courts or Congress
Jenny Brown, Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now (free ebook)
Science Vs, The Abortion Underground
5-4 Podcast, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health: The End of Roe
K. Adetoyin, No More Coat Hanger Imagery tiktok
Some lists of Abortion Funds: here, here, here, and here
This week, Eva and Emma talk about surrogacy. They discuss different feminist perspectives on the topic and consider how we can expand the definitions of "parenthood" and "family" beyond the nuclear model.
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READING LIST:
Anita L. Allen, "The Black Surrogate Mother"
Elizabeth S. Scott, "Surrogacy and the Politics of Commodification"
Radiolab, "Birthstory"
Angela Davis, "Surrogates and Outcast Mothers: Racism and Reproductive Politics in the Nineties"
Katherine B. Lieber, "Selling the Womb: Can the Feminist Critique of Surrogacy Be Answered?"
Barbara Katz Rothman, "Reproductive Technologies and Surrogacy: A Feminist Perspective"
Sophie Lewis, "Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family" \
Sophie Lewis, "What is Family Abolition?"
"Baby M" Surrogate Mother who fought for custody, video
Cover image: Louise Bourgeois, "The Family" (2007)
What's postmodern feminism? In this episode we desperately try to answer that question!
Show notes:
"Explainer: What is Postmodernism" by David Palmer, 2014
Artland "What is Dadaism?"
"On Judith Butler & Performativity" by Sarah Salih, 2007
Feminist thought : a comprehensive introduction" by Rosemarie Tong, 1989
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 3. Feminist Postmodernism
Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, 1999.
Eva and Emma talk about the male gaze, from its origins in feminist film criticism to how the concept gets used today. They also discuss what is often left out from the discourses around the male gaze... (hint: it's capitalism) and also get interrupted by Emma's lovey, loud cat!
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READING LIST:
Big Mama, tiktok
Issues in Feminist Film Criticism (includes 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' and 'Women and Representation')
Janell Hobson, 'Viewing in the Dark: Toward a Black Feminist Approach to Film'
Caroline Evans and Lorraine Gamman, 'The Gaze Revisited, or Reviewing Queer Viewing'
John Berger, 'Ways of Seeing' show and book
Laura Mulvey, 'Afterthoughts on ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’'
Guerrilla Girls, archive
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 'The Female Gaze' video series
Molly Moss, 'thoughts on a queer gaze'
Eliza McDonough, 'Radical Queer Gazes'
In this episode, Eva & Emma discuss the history of gender discrimination within the Canadian Indian Act, and the Indigenous women who have been fighting to overturn this sexism since the 1960's.
Show notes:
Indigenous authors and organizations:
Other sources:
The podcast currently has 25 episodes available.