Join Heidi Schumacher and Ellen Jarosz as they interview artist and activist Lydia Emily, exploring the relationship between art and politics alongside intersectional identities and resistance, the focus of much of her work.  

See more information about Lydia Emily, see this episode’s website or Lydia Emily’s website.  

Read a transcript of this episode. 

Thanks to Kayla Wilkins for production assistance, and to SmallPox for our theme music! 

Edited by Ellen Jarosz 

Learn more:  

• CSUN Queer Studies Program  
• CSUN University Library  
• Circa Queer Histories Festival

Join Heidi Schumacher and Ellen Jarosz as they interview Dr. Jeremy Yoder about his 2019 Slate column “A New Age of Gay Genomics Is Here. Are We Ready for the Consequences?” and his follow-up blog post from 2024, “What do we know about the genetics of “born this way?” — and how does it help us to know it?” 

To see more information about Jeremy, visit this episode's ⁠website⁠.       

Read a transcript of this episode.    

Thanks to Kayla Wilkins for production assistance, and to SmallPox for our theme music!    

Edited by Ellen Jarosz    

Learn more:    

• CSUN Queer Studies Program  
• CSUN University Library  
• Circa Queer Histories Festival  

More Reading: 

• Andrea Ganna, et al. “Large-Scale GWAS Reveals Insights into the Genetic Architecture of Same-Sex Sexual Behavior,” Science 365, Iss. 6456 (30 August 2019). DOI: 10.1126/science.aat7693. Freely available to the public at the project’s website: https://geneticsexbehavior.info/.
• Joanna Wuest. Born This Way: Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement. Chicago: University of Chicago Pres, 2023. Find it in your local library | Buy a copy
• Lulu Miller. Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life. New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2021. Find it in your local library | Buy a copy

Join Heidi Schumacher and Ellen Jarosz as they interview Dr. Adrian Valadez about her recent article “Bisexuals’ Implicit Associations about Bisexuality: Measurement Design and Development.” 

To see more information about Adrian, visit this episode's ⁠website⁠.       

Read a transcript of this episode.    

Thanks to Kayla Wilkins for production assistance, and to SmallPox for our theme music!    

Edited by Ellen Jarosz 

Learn more:    

• CSUN Queer Studies Program 
• CSUN University Library
• Circa Queer Histories Festival 

More Reading: 

• Robyn Ochs and Sarah E. Rowley, eds. Getting Bi: Voices of Bisexuals Around the World. Boston, MA: Bisexual Resource Center, 2009. Find it in your local library | Buy a copy 
• Robyn Ochs and H. Sharif Williams, eds. Rec-og-nize: the Voices of Bisexual Men: an Anthology. Boston, MA: Bisexual Resource Center, 2014. Find it in your local library | Buy a copy 
• Western Psychological Association, 2025 Convention Information 
• Association for Psychological Science, 2025 APS Annual Convention Information 
• American Psychological Association, APA 2025 Conference Information 

Other Recommendations:  

• Victoria Monet
• Kehlani
• adrienne maree brown. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds. Chico, CA: AK Press, 2017. Find it in your local library | Buy a copy
• adrienne maree brown and Janine De Novais. Loving Corrections. Chico, CA: AK Press, 2024. Find it in your local library | Buy a copy

Join Heidi Schumacher and Ellen Jarosz as they interview Dr. David Leitch about his recent article “Toward a Culture of Care and Consent.”    

To see more information about Dave, visit this episode's ⁠website⁠.      

Read a transcript of this episode.   

Thanks to Kayla Wilkins for production assistance, and to SmallPox for our theme music!   

Edited by Ellen Jarosz   

Learn more:   

• CSUN Queer Studies Program   
• CSUN University Library  
• Circa Queer Histories Festival  

More Reading:  

• Elizabeth Brake. Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Find it in your local library | Buy a copy 
• Joseph J. Fischel. Screw Consent: A Better Politics of Sexual Justice. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019. Find it in your local library | Buy a copy 
• Catharine A. MacKinnon. Women’s Lives, Men’s Laws. Cambridge, MA: Belknap, 2007. Find it in your local library | Buy a copy 
• Ronald C. Den Otter. In Defense of Plural Marriage. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. Find it in your local library | Buy a copy 
• Carole Pateman. The Sexual Contract. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2018. Find it at your local library | Buy a copy 
• Amia Srinivasan. The Right to Sex. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021. Find it in your local library | Buy a copy 
• Jonathan Turley. “An Unholy Union: Same Sex Marriage and the Use of Governmental Programs to Penalize Religious Groups with Unpopular Practices,” in Douglas Laycock, et al, eds. Same-Sex Marriage and Religious Liberty: Emerging Conflicts. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. Find it in your local library | Buy a copy 
• Williams, D.J., et al. “From ‘SSC’ and ‘RACK’ to the ‘4Cs’: Introducing a New Framework for Negotiating BDSM Participation.” Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality 17 (2014). https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271854517_From_SSC_and_RACK_to_the_4Cs_Introducing_a_New_Framework_for_Negotiating_BDSM_Participation 

Join Heidi Schumacher and Ellen Jarosz as they interview Dr. Luis Esparza about his recent article published in Border-Lines, “Desde La Preferia de La Milpa: Testimonios de Joteria Rural de Los Ranchos y Pueblos del Sur de Mexico.” 

To learn more information about Luis, visit this episode's ⁠website⁠.  

Read a transcript of this episode. 

Thanks to Kayla Wilkins for production assistance, and to SmallPox for our theme music! 

Edited by Ellen Jarosz.

Learn more:  

• CSUN Queer Studies Program  
• CSUN University Library 
• Circa Queer Histories Festival 

More Reading:

• Guillermo Núñez Noriega, Just Between Us: An Ethnography of Male Identity and Intimacy in Rural Communities of Northern Mexico. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona Press, 2014. Find it at your local library | Buy a copy 
• Works by Xamuel Bañales Find them at your local library 
• Works by Anita Tijerina-Revilla Find them at your local library | Buy copies
• Richard S. Trexler, Sex and Conquest: Gendered Violence, Political Order, and the European Conquest of the Americas. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997. Find it at your local library | Buy a copy
• Michael Roy Hames-Garcia, Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011. Find it at your local library | Buy a copy
• Works by Peter Herman Sigal Find them at your local library
• Federico Garza Carvajal. Butterflies Will Burn: Prosecuting Sodomites in Early Modern Spain and Mexico. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2021. Find it at your local library | Buy a copy

Recommended Films, Series, and more: 

• Dance of the 41 (Netflix) 
• The Secret of the River (Netflix) 

Join Heidi Schumacher and Ellen Jarosz as they interview Dr. Jacob Lau about his co-authored introductory essay for Out of the Ordinary, titled “In His Own Way, In His Own Time.”  

To see more information about Jacob, visit this episode's website.

Read a transcript of this episode.

Thanks to Kayla Wilkins for production assistance, and to SmallPox for our theme music!  

 Edited by Ellen Jarosz  

Learn more:  

• CSUN Queer Studies Program
• CSUN University Library
• Circa Queer Histories Festival

More Reading:  

• Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka. Out of the Ordinary: A Life of Gender and Spiritual Transitions. Jacob Lau and Cameron Partridge, Eds. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017. Find it in your local library | Buy a copy
• “One From the Vaults,” in Tourmaline, et al. Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017. Find it in your local library | Buy a copy. 
• Cameron Awkward-Rich. The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment. Durnam, NC: Duke University Press, 2022.  Find it in your local library | Buy a copy 
• José Ignacio Cabezón. “Epilogue.” Sexuality in Classical South Asian Buddhism. Sommerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2017. Find it in your local library | Buy a copy 

Other Recommendations

• Valentine’s Day Special, One From the Vaults (Apple Podcasts) 
• Disclosure (Netflix) 
• Framing Agnes (Prime) 
• No Ordinary Man (Prime) 
• Heather María Ács 
• Kit Yan 

Welcome to season 2 of Remnants of Resistance! In this trailer, we'll introduce ourselves and give a brief preview of what's to come this season.

Read a transcript of this episode.

Thanks to our production assistant Kayla Wilkins, and to SmallPox for our theme music!

Edited by Ellen Jarosz.

Learn more:

• CSUN Queer Studies Program
• CSUN University Library
• Vern and Bonnie Bullough Collection on Sex and Gender
• CIRCA Queer Histories Festival

Join the Queer Studies faculty and students who researched and hosted each episode of this limited podcast series for a discussion about their experiences using archives for the project, and Q&A with our live audience.  

Read a transcript of this episode. 

Huge thanks to all our episode hosts!  

Thanks also to Kate Ridgewell for production assistance, and to SmallPox for our theme music!  

Edited by Ellen Jarosz. 

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Join Heidi Schumacher, Kate Ridgewell, and Loreal Wimberly as they dive deep into the arrest of 40 people attending a 1976 fundraiser in Los Angeles for the Gay and Lesbian Community Service Center in an undercover LAPD operation. 

Special note: This episode contains excerpts from a police report that are graphic descriptions of nudity, bodies, and sex acts. 

See the sources discussed in this episode at https://library.csun.edu/SCA/Peek-in-the-Stacks/circa-schumacher.  

Read a transcript of this episode. 

Special thanks to our interviewees Miss Mara, Dr. Nic Ramos from Drexel University, and Dr. Robert O. Self from Brown University; and our voice actors, Julia Amstutz, Malakai Jones, Corrin Popick, Kohlton Rippee, and Frank Wimberly. 

Thanks also to research and production assistants Kate Ridgewell and Loreal Wimberly, and to SmallPox for our theme music!  

Edited by Loreal Wimberly and Ellen Jarosz. 

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Join graduate student Jennifer Sams with Dr. Danielle Spratt from CSUN’s English department as they discuss the subversive nature of queering archival documents and reflect on the impact of queer theory in written work through discussion with distinguished guest speakers from the CSUN English faculty. 

See the sources discussed in this episode at https://library.csun.edu/SCA/Peek-in-the-Stacks/circa-spratt. 

Read a transcript of this episode. 

Thanks to Kate Ridgewell for production assistance, and to SmallPox for our theme music!  

Edited by Danielle Spratt and Ellen Jarosz. 

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