The Critical Lede

Check out our discussion of Karma Chávez’s article in the latest edition of Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies. With a lively discussion of immigration, activism, and scholarship, this one is a must-listen.

Chávez is also co-founder of the Queer Migration Research Network. Check it out!

Here are the links to the statements/organizations mentioned in the article:

The Family, Unvalued statement is linked here.

The Queers for Economic Justice statement is posted in full here.

Also, check out the sites two other organizations mentioned: Wingspan and Coalición de Derechos Humanos.

In this podcast we chat about Ayo Adeduntan’s lead article in the most recent Text and Performance Quarterly, “Yoruba Hunter and the Sin of Narrative Performance.” We talk about method, magical realism, and everything in between. Check it out!

Also, in the announcements part of the podcast we mentioned Women & Language and their call for alternative scholarship. Check out that very interesting call here.

Finally, if you or someone you love is publishing a book in 2010-2011 and you think it might make for a great TCL interview, give us a shout!

In this podcast we do our second author interview. We think you’ll dig it. There is lots of talk about identity, Anzaldúa, performance ethnography and more!

Here is a link to Diversi & Moreira’s book.

Also, here is a link to the RoseChron discussion we mentioned.

Check out our discussion of Moreman & McIntosh’s article in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies.

Also, we are still looking for people to record bumpers for us. Are you interested?

Check out our discussion of Crick & Gabriel’s Rhetoric and Society Quarterly article, “The Conduit Between Lifeworld and System: Habermas and the Rhetoric of Public Scientific Controversies.”

And don’t forget to submit those book reviews!

In this podcast we chat about Wendy Atkins-Sayre’s Western Journal of Communication article, “Articulating Identity: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and the Animal/Human Divide.”

In the podcast we also mentioned some images that are relevant to the article but not included in the final published form.

Here are examples of ads that blur the lines.

A few video examples, including one that was pulled after 9/11.

Our next review is of Shane Aaron Miller’s work in April 2010 Text and Performance Quarterly. Girls in wrestling, performativity, and bodies...oh my!

In this podcast we also announce our call for book reviews.

Check it out and remember…let us know what you think.

What is auto-archeology? It is an ethnographic method developed by Ragan Fox in his recent Text and Performance Quarterly piece, “Tales of a Fighting Bobcat an ‘Auto-archeology’ of Gay Identity Formation and Maintenance.” We have some opinions on it and would love to hear yours in the comments.

Also, check out Ragan’s post about his article on his blog.

Oh, and it’s our 10th episode! We have made it this far!

In this podcast we discuss Kevin Healey’s Cultural Studies Critical Methodologies article, “For a Culture and Political Economy of the Prophetic: Critical Scholarship and Religious Politics After the 2008 Election.”

Also, take a second and check out Kevin’s blog Kritik.

Check out our conversation about this critical look at how journalism disciplined sexuality in Victorian journalism.