Podcasts

Gender Jawn S2 E6: k.d.lang's Ingénue at 30 with Mairead Sullivan and canada.gov.ca

This episode is a celebration of k.d.lang’s album Ingénue, which was released 30 years ago this month on January 1st 1992.


January 31, 2022
Gender Jawn S2 E5: The Border of AIDS with Karma Chávez

December’s episode features a conversation with Karma Chávez about her new book The Borders of AIDS: Race, Quarantine, and Resistance out now from University of Washington Press. 


December 2, 2021
Gender Jawn S2 E4: Learning in Public with Courtney Martin

November’s episode of Gender Jawn features Courtney Martin, author of the book Learning in Public: Lessons for a Racially Divided America from my Daughter’s School in conversation with Gwendolyn Beetham.


November 1, 2021
Gender Jawn S2 E3: Abolitionist Body Politics with Kathy Brown

This month’s episode features Kathy Brown discussing her forthcoming book Undoing Slavery: Abolitionist Body Politics and the Argument over Humanity. 


October 1, 2021
Gender Jawn S2 E2: No sexy deviance without sad deviance with Heather Love

What are deviance studies and what does deviance have to do with queer theory? Heather Love explores. 


August 31, 2021
Gender Jawn S2 E1: A little change will do you good with Melissa Sanchez

The season 2 opener of Gender Jawn unpacks the motivations for changing the name of the gender & sexuality research center at Penn from the Alice Paul Center to the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies.


August 1, 2021
Gender Jawn S1 E8: Anthea Butler on White Evangelical Racism

In May’s episode of Gender Jawn Anthea Butler discusses her new book about the history of evangelicalism in the U.S., how evangelical faith is politically leveraged as a powerful voting block, and why evangelicals vote overwhelmingly for politicians who do not practice what evangelicals preach.


May 10, 2021
Gender Jawn: S1 E7. The Case for PILOTs at Penn

Why should Penn make payments in lieu of taxes (PILOTs)? Members of Penn for PILOTs make the case.


April 1, 2021
Gender Jawn: S1 E6. The Future of Lesbian & Queer Space with Jack Gieseking

The March 2021 episode of Gender Jawn features Jack Gieseking in conversation with Gwendolyn Beetham (Associate Director of GSWS) and Davy Knittle (English PhD Candidate and GSWS Graduate Associate).


March 2, 2021
Gender Jawn: S1 E5. Queerness, Gender & Sexuality in the Tarot with Roksana Filipowska

In February’s episode of Gender Jawn, Roksana Filipowska, a third-generation tarot reader, educator, and researcher, discusses her own (re)discovery of the tarot, the queer, feminist & colonial history of tarot through the imagery of queer, Jamaican-born artist Pamela Colman Smith, and the importance of establishing mutual networks of care. 


February 1, 2021