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Gender Jawn S3 E7: ALL EXITS with LTS

This episode features an interview with Lane Timothy Speidel, Philadelphia artist, musician, writer, and Gender Jawn's podcast producer. In their new exhibition at Vox Populi Gallery, ALL EXITS, Lane Speidel lets us into the backstage of the mind.


April 1, 2023
Gender Jawn S3 E6: Minerva Parker Nichols: The Search for a Forgotten Architect

This month’s episode features a discussion with Molly Lester, Associate Director of the Urban Heritage Project, and is all about American architect Minerva Parker Nichols, the subject of a groundbreaking exhibition presented by the Architectural Archives at the University of Pennsylvania Stuart Weiztman School of Design until Saturday, June 17th this year.


March 1, 2023
Gender Jawn S3 E5: Sex Sounds with Daniele Schlomit Sofer

In their new book, Sex Sounds: Vectors of Difference in Electronic Music (MIT, 2022), music theorist, media scholar, and performer Daniele Shlomit Sofer asks what makes sound sexual.


February 1, 2023
Gender Jawn S3 E4: Fixing Housing in Philly Part II

December’s edition of Gender Jawn features a two-part series on housing issues facing Philadelphians. In part two, Gwendolyn Beetham considers how home ownership has been plagued by discriminatory lending practices and how homeowners can support queer, trans, and POC laborers in the trades.


December 8, 2022
Gender Jawn S3 E3: Fixing Housing in Philly Part I

December’s edition of Gender Jawn features a two-part series on housing issues facing Philadelphians. In part one, Maria Murphy speaks with Akira Drake Rodriguez about saving the UC Townhomes and Penn’s role in the destabilization of west Philly and the displacement of its residents.


December 2, 2022
Gender Jawn S3 E2: The Politics of Laughter with Delia Casadei

November’s episode features a discussion on the politics of laughter with Delia Casadei, Assistant Professor of Music at the University of California Berkeley.


November 1, 2022
Gender Jawn S3 E1: On the Dobbs decision and the future of reproductive care

Penn community members Serena Mayeri, Carol Tracy, Antoilyn Nguyen, and Alicia Meyer comment on the recent Dobbs ruling that overturned the nearly 50 year precedent of the constitutional right to an abortion.


August 31, 2022
Gender Jawn S2 E9: Stages, artmaking, and end of life caregiving with Rachel Kauder Nalebuff

In this last episode on this year’s theme, "Care for the Future," Tamir Williams speaks with Rachel Kauder Nalebuff about her genre-bending book Stages: On dying, working, and feeling.


May 2, 2022
Gender Jawn S2 E8: Trans Care with Hil Malatino

In this episode, the second on this year’s theme, Care for the Future, Gwendolyn Beetham and Tamir Williams speak with Hil Malatino about his books Trans Care and Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad.


March 31, 2022
Gender Jawn S2 E7: 40 Years of Queer BIPOC Feminism

This episode recognizes the fortieth anniversary of two landmark publications for BIPOC queer feminist writing, This Bridge Called My Back and But Some of Us Are Brave—volumes whose foundational insights on the mutual formation of gender, sexuality, race, class, ability, environment, slavery, and colonialism have often been excluded from queer theory’s traditional genealogies.


March 1, 2022