The Critical Lede

Interview with Marlon Bailey on Butch Queens Up in Pumps

Dr. Mindy Chateauvert discusses her new book, Sex Workers Unite: From Stonewall to Slutwalk with Greg Mitchell and Alison Roach.

Greg interviews Prof. Liza Johnson about her new movie Hateship Loveship, starring Kristin Wiig, Nick Nolte, Guy Pearce and Hailee Steinfeld.  They talk feminism, failed normativity, and updating/adapting Alice Munro's masterpiece.

Harry Gilbert and I thoroughly spoil the new film, Under the Skin.

In this episode, Lee Edelman & Lauren Berlant discuss their new dialogic book, Sex, or the Unbearable (Duke University Press).

After a long winter break, we are back and starting off the semester with an interview with Erica Lorraine Williams, author of Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements, now available from University of Illinois Press!

Today we talk to Johannes and Jason from Black and Pink, the organization dedicated to supporting the LGBTQ community in prison and working towards ending the prison industrial complex.

To become a pen pal with someone currently incarcerated and/or learn more about the awesome things this organization is doing visit : http://www.blackandpink.org/

We discuss Palestine, Israel and pinkwashing with Sarah Schulman.

We talk with Margot Weiss (Wesleyan) about BDSM, pleasure and neoliberalism in her new book Techniques of Pleasure: BDSM and the Circuits of Sexuality.