17 episodes
LGBT Cliffnotes LGBT Cliffnotes
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- Society & Culture
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4.0 • 5 Ratings
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A podcast about LGBT+ issues and culture from a historical and scientific perspective. Each episode focuses on a relevant science or history topic, summarizing important points for the LGBT+ community.
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Episode 16: Amelio Robles Ávila
Amelio Robles Ávila was a trans man who fought in the Mexican Revolution who lived as himself for over seventy years and was a total badass!
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Music: Cabaret by Kai Engel
Links:Oral history compiled by Olga Cárdenas TruebaMexican Secretary of Culture history on AmelioLydia Zárate's article in Pikara MagazineMaria's thread reflecting on trans identity and stuff, you don't actually have to follow her, unless you want to? -
Episode 15: Queering History
Doing history can be tough, especially when it comes to addressing LGBTQIA+ topics! In this episode, we talk about some of the challenges we face, how we overcome them, and how our perspectives can color our view of history. Also we have a spirited discussion on technical jargon, and why we hate it with a passion!
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Music: Cabaret by Kai Engel
Links:
"The New Unhistoricism in Queer Studies" by Valerie Traub
Examples of erotic murals in Pompeii (NSFW...obviously)
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Episode 14: Gender and Communication
In this episode we talk about how gender influences the way people speak and communicate. We start with a study on the differences between men and women using signed languages like ASL, then talk about a few studies examining the differences in word choice between cis-men and cis-women, and end with an article on trans men and what people perceive as “gay sounding” speech in men.
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Music: Cabaret by Kai Engel
Sources:
Turn-Taking, Fingerspelling, and Contact in Signed Languages edited by Ceil Lucas
Women, Men, and Language by Jennifer Coates
Hegemonic masculinity and the variability of gay-sounding speech: The perceived sexuality of transgender men by Lal Zimman -
Episode 13: Cyberpunk 2077
Cyberpunk 2077 is out and it sure is a video game! In this episode, Maria takes off her historian hat, puts on the gamer socks, and talks about what the game did right, what the game did wrong, and why QA teams are highly undervalued in video game development! All without any meaningful spoilers!CW: Transphobia (15:04-15:23)Homophobia (20:54-22:12)
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Music: Cabaret by Kai EngelLinks:
Bella Blondeau’s article at The Gamer
Interview with Kasia Redesuik at Eurogamer
Charlie Hall’s interview with Redesuik at Polygon
Anthony Gramuglia’s article at CBR
Riley MacLeod’s piece at Kotaku -
Episode 12: Animals With More Than 2 Genders
We’ve had two episodes about gay animals, now it’s time for an episode about animals that have more than two genders. These animals move beyond the gender binary that so many people think is set in stone and easily defined.
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Music: Cabaret by Kai EngelLinks:
1980 paper about female mimicry in bluegill sunfish
2003 paper about hormones and behavior in tree lizards
Evolution’s Rainbow (link to book on Goodreads)
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Winter 2020 Hiatus Announcement
We are going on a brief hiatus until January 7th! Happy holidays!
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Music: Cabaret by Kai Engel
Customer Reviews
Breathtaking Classism
Was excited to tune into the episode on Edward Carpenter but could only listen for a few minutes. Enormously disappointing podcast. Carpenter gave lectures to working men’s groups, and the hosts make the breathtaking claim that laborers could not possibly have been interested in such a rarefied subject as astronomy. True, the hosts say the working men would want wage improvements instead, but—of course—the men could want both, better working conditions *and* education. In fact, working men’s educational institutes and reading and debate clubs proliferated in that era. Lecture circuits were enormously popular—yes, even educational lectures (though the hosts claim only people attending college would be interested in educational lectures). Such lectures drew audience from all classes, even (though the hosts seem unable to imagine such a thing) the working classes. For a podcast that addresses histories of marginalized peoples, I am enormously disappointed to hear the classism here. One would expect a more nuanced—and historically accurate—approach. On this episode, at least, neither was offered, only a cursory Wikipedia-level discussion based on classism and inaccuracy. Not recommended.