Where the Wild Things Are: A conversation with Jack Halberstam
Gender Jawn
In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University, Jack Halberstam about his latest book, and his prolific writing in queer theory, trans studies and cultural studies. This episode includes a musical clip from "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak as narrated by Tammy Grimes.
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On Making Art: A Conversation with Lilly Wachowski
Gender Jawn
In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with the luminary and accomplished filmmaker, director and producer Lilly Wachowski. Lilly Wachowski discusses some her most influential and heralded films, such as The Matrix, which she co-directed and filmed with her sister, filmmaker Lana Wachowski, as well as recent work she has been involved in either writing, directing and/or producing such as the Netflix series Sense8, and also the Showtime series Work in Progress, created by Abby McEnany and Tim Mason. Lilly Wachowski discusses trans politics, and the...
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Who's Afraid of Gender? A Conversation with Judith Butler
Gender Jawn
In this episode (recorded fall 2023) FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Judith Butler, who is Distinguished Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature, and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley. Butler discusses their now published book Who's Afraid of Gender? (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024), their extensive scholarship, including on the politics of loss and mourning, grief and grievance.
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Stubble Archipelago: Interview with Wayne Koestenbaum
Gender Jawn
In this episode of the Gender Jawn podcast, FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with poet, professor and "intellectual cabaret" performer extraordinaire about his conception of "fag ideation," queer theory, art, poetics, and Koestenbaum's rich body of work. Also discussed is Koestenbaum's newest book of poetry, just recently published by Semiotexte Press. Koestenbaum closes the interview by reading a selection from Subble Archipelago, a poem titled ", currently featured in The Yale Review.
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Care Without Pathology: Christoph Hanssmann on the Politics of Trans Care
Gender Jawn
In this episode Che Gossett, associate director of The Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies, speaks with UC Davis assistant professor in Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies Christoph Hanssmann about his book Care Without Pathology: How Trans- Health Activists Are Changing Medicine (University of Minnesota Press, 2023). Professor Hanssman discusses transnational trans health and justice organizing and trans histories of medicine.
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Afro-Fabulations: A Conversation with Tavia Nyong'o
Gender Jawn
In this episode FQT Associate Director Che Gossett speaks with William Lampson Professor of Theater and Performance Studies, Professor of American Studies and African American Studies at Yale University: Tavia Nyong'o. Nyong'o is the author of The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (University of Minnesota Press, 2009), and most recently, Afro-Fabulations: The Queer Drama of Black Life (NYU Press, 2018). Gossett speaks with Nyong'o about blackness, queerness, the Zora Neale Hurston inspired concept of "angular sociality," and the role of what Nyong'o...
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Process and Virtuality: An Interview with Brian Massumi
Gender Jawn
In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with philosopher Brian Massumi, whom is professor of communication at the University of Montreal, about affect studies, critical theory, the work of Gilles Deleuze and Alfred North Whitehead, and process philosophy. Massumi is the author of Parables for the Virtual: Movement, Affect, Sensation (Duke UP, 2002) and most recently, Couplets: Travels in Speculative Pragmatism (Duke UP, 2021), as well as many other texts, several co-written with his companion in art and thought, Erin Manning, professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts...
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Against Effacement: Jules Gill-Peterson on histories of the trans child and histories of trans misogyny
Gender Jawn
In this episode FQT Center associate director Che Gossett speaks with trans historian and John Hopkins University professor Jules Gill-Peterson, author of Histories of the Transgender Child (University of Minnesota Press, 2018), which received a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Nonfiction and the Children’s Literature Association Book Award. Gill-Peterson is also the author of A Short History of Trans Misogyny (Verso Press, 2024). Gill-Peterson speaks about both of these texts and also in process work on DIY trans community care.
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Liner Notes for the Revolution The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound
Gender Jawn
In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Yale University Professor about her newest book, (Harvard UP, 2021) -- winner of the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame -- about Black feminist archives, music history, and Beyonce's brilliance. Music Credits: Koko by Charlie Parker (1945) I Wish it Would Rain by The Temptations (1967) I Want You Back by The Jackson 5 (1969) The Way We Were by Barbra Streisand (1987) I Write the Songs by Barry Manilow (1977) Let's Stay Together by Al Green (1972) I'll Be Around by the Spinners (1972) Oh...
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Genres of Freedom: A Conversation with Maggie Nelson
Gender Jawn
In this interview Che Gossett speaks with Maggie Nelson -- poet, writer, 2016 MacArthur fellow, and professor of English at the University of California -- about her newest book, On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint (Random House, 2021) and many other works of poetry and prose. Also mentioned in the episode are poets and writer Eileen Myles and poet and NYU professor, Fred Moten.
info_outlineThis episode offers an overview of the campaign for Penn to participate in a PILOT program with the city of Philadelphia. As a nonprofit, Penn is not required to pay property taxes, which provide a substantial part of the funding for the Philadelphia public school district. Members of Penn for PILOTs Mary Summers, Akira Drake Rodriguez, and Amy Offner make the case for why Penn should make payments in lieu of taxes to fund public education in Philly.
Original Music by David Chavannes
For more information about the Alice Paul Center visit www.gsws.sas.upenn.edu
For more information on the campaign for PILOTs at Penn, check out pennforpilots.org
Additional sonic material excerpted from 6abc Action News, WPVI-TV Philadelphia, and Good morning America. Testimonies from Penn History professor Ann Farnsworth-Alvear and Central High School student Lin Lin are from the Committee Hearing on Children and Youth in March. Testimony from Education professor Gerald Campano comes from a Penn for PILOTs Update Session.