In his latest book, Gay Rights and Moral Panic Fejes offers a glimpse into the lived experiences and media perceptions of gays and lesbians in the 1960s-1970s.

(And listen for a special song by Anita Bryant herself!)

In this episode we examine Gorsevski & Butterworth’s recent piece in QJS. They discuss some little known facts about Ali as a powerful rhetor. Check it out!

In this podcast we chat about Karma Chavez’s article, Counter-Public Enclaves and Understanding the Function of Rhetoric in Social Movement Coalition Building. Check out our talk about coalitional subjectivity and the gaps in social movement research.

This week we are interviewing Jason Del Gandio, author of Rhetoric for Radicals: A Handbook for 21st Century Radicals. In this podcast we talk about radical actors, agency, and how rhetoric is a part of contemporary social movements.

In this episode we discuss French & Brown’s It’s All Your Fault: Kenneth Burke, Symbolic Action, and the Assigning of Guilt and Blame to Women. We chat about the power of symbolic agency on women’s bodies and the effects (or lack) of agency.

This week we are talking with Dr. Larry Grossberg about his new book Cultural Studies in the Future Tense. In the interview Dr. Grossberg shares what he thinks is up with cultural studies scholarship today including reductionism and how to remedy it with radical contextuality.

Here is the Chronicle article we discussed in the announcement.

In this episode we review Richard K. Popp’s recent article in CSMC, “Visual Culture, Public Space, and Piety in Focus on the Family’s Citizen Magazine.” We chat about our own histories with Focus on the Family and Popp’s insightful discourse analysis.

In this podcast we chat with Robin E. Jensen about her new book Dirty Words: The Rhetoric of Public Sex Education, 1870-1924. We found the book to be an eye-opening read into the intersections of sex education and the politics of race, class, and gender. Let us know what you think!

In this second installment we work through the various contributions to the Engaged Scholarship forum in the latest QJS. While we don’t agree with everything in the forum, we offer some of the highlights. Check it out.

In part one of our two part series discussing the Quarterly Journal of Speech’s latest Forum on Engaged Scholarship we chat about the forum generally and work through the introduction. Check it out, and let us know what you think!