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Listening Post, non-comprehensive
Jul. 15th, 2024 08:42 pmMusically: currently catching up what I missed from Hozier. Big fan of this one:
Assorted, non-exhaustive podcasts and such:
A Rebel on the Bench: ABC Conversations interview with David Heilpern, former magistrate and law reform advocate in a range of areas. Prior to appointment as a magistrate, he wrote a book - THE book, the only systemic survey - on sexual assault of young prisoners. He's very well known for his openness about his workplace PTSD, and for work in drug law reform and alternative sentencing.
The Callover's NAIDOC week episode with Justice Lincoln Crawley, the first Indigenous person appointed to a superior court in Australia. I particularly enjoyed Crawley's description of why he left his post-undergrad public service job within a year: he was bored out of his mind (same, pal), and he wanted to be "a specialist, putting specialist knowledge to work". That really resonated with me.
Jolene's podcast "When a guy has a really f*cked gender", particularly this episode with Alexis, "Femboys in the Factory". The incitating topic is Alexis' article "Femboys in the factory: trans labour beyond abjection", which I have yet to read, but there's a lot of back and forth discussion of Alexis' overall marxist approach to concepts like transmisogyny and who is subject to it. Engages interestingly with Jules Gill-Petersen's history of transmisogyny - including diverging in a few interesting ways.
ABC Listen's "What the Duck", especially this episode on tomato virus history. Featuring government jobs being decided by a boxing match, and pioneering biological research before anyone had seen a virus with a microscope.
Emily Anderson's podcast "Unfinishing", interview with Lorraine Topper about the history of bras, and why Lori abandoned writing a book on bra history.
Kate Lister's Betwixt the Sheets, but particularly one on The origins of the patriarchy and The History of Monogamy. Notably, although the two guests clearly don't share the exact same set of key dates / assumptions, Helen Fisher puts the origins of monogamy *long* before the development of agrarianism; and Saini doesn't fix the origins of the patriarchy with agrarianism at all but with the rise of *cities*. I need to update my feminist anthropology, clearly.
Will Tosh on Bad Gays re Christopher Marlowe. Tosh makes a compelling argument back toward using an author's queer narratives as as good a reason as any to suppose them queer: not because art MUST follow from life, but because the ways Marlowe's texts show a deep investment in thinking around and through problems of gender role and homoeroticism as problems, neither absent from nor unquestioningly accepted in his cultural context. I immediately ordered Tosh' book on Shakespeare on the basis of how he talks about Marlowe.
Gone Medieval, How the Plantaganets Built England
ABC If You're Listening's entire series Who Broke Britain, the first episode of which dropped as the UK election campaign began, and which ended the week after the election itself.
Lena Matteis' Queer Lit, especially This episode "Gendered Bodies and Narrative Form" with Chiara Pellegrini. Having recently finished "Confessions of the Fox", I'm once again particularly annoyed by what seems to be a collective agreement in trans literature that "describing bodies and sex without specifying anything about genitals" is not only tasteful but radical and affirming - knowing that it's not just me having weird luck in books, it's an actual Trend Worth Studying, is useful.
Forgotten Australia, The Birth of the Bodgies: in which Bodgies and Widgies are much more complex (gender-wise, social panic-wise) than a few sentences and a picture in the y 9/10 history book had led me to believe.
And, last and most unexpectedly fascinating, After Dark, The Hidden History of Garden Gnomes
This has been a non-comprehensive list of things I have listened to.
Assorted, non-exhaustive podcasts and such:
A Rebel on the Bench: ABC Conversations interview with David Heilpern, former magistrate and law reform advocate in a range of areas. Prior to appointment as a magistrate, he wrote a book - THE book, the only systemic survey - on sexual assault of young prisoners. He's very well known for his openness about his workplace PTSD, and for work in drug law reform and alternative sentencing.
The Callover's NAIDOC week episode with Justice Lincoln Crawley, the first Indigenous person appointed to a superior court in Australia. I particularly enjoyed Crawley's description of why he left his post-undergrad public service job within a year: he was bored out of his mind (same, pal), and he wanted to be "a specialist, putting specialist knowledge to work". That really resonated with me.
Jolene's podcast "When a guy has a really f*cked gender", particularly this episode with Alexis, "Femboys in the Factory". The incitating topic is Alexis' article "Femboys in the factory: trans labour beyond abjection", which I have yet to read, but there's a lot of back and forth discussion of Alexis' overall marxist approach to concepts like transmisogyny and who is subject to it. Engages interestingly with Jules Gill-Petersen's history of transmisogyny - including diverging in a few interesting ways.
ABC Listen's "What the Duck", especially this episode on tomato virus history. Featuring government jobs being decided by a boxing match, and pioneering biological research before anyone had seen a virus with a microscope.
Emily Anderson's podcast "Unfinishing", interview with Lorraine Topper about the history of bras, and why Lori abandoned writing a book on bra history.
Kate Lister's Betwixt the Sheets, but particularly one on The origins of the patriarchy and The History of Monogamy. Notably, although the two guests clearly don't share the exact same set of key dates / assumptions, Helen Fisher puts the origins of monogamy *long* before the development of agrarianism; and Saini doesn't fix the origins of the patriarchy with agrarianism at all but with the rise of *cities*. I need to update my feminist anthropology, clearly.
Will Tosh on Bad Gays re Christopher Marlowe. Tosh makes a compelling argument back toward using an author's queer narratives as as good a reason as any to suppose them queer: not because art MUST follow from life, but because the ways Marlowe's texts show a deep investment in thinking around and through problems of gender role and homoeroticism as problems, neither absent from nor unquestioningly accepted in his cultural context. I immediately ordered Tosh' book on Shakespeare on the basis of how he talks about Marlowe.
Gone Medieval, How the Plantaganets Built England
ABC If You're Listening's entire series Who Broke Britain, the first episode of which dropped as the UK election campaign began, and which ended the week after the election itself.
Lena Matteis' Queer Lit, especially This episode "Gendered Bodies and Narrative Form" with Chiara Pellegrini. Having recently finished "Confessions of the Fox", I'm once again particularly annoyed by what seems to be a collective agreement in trans literature that "describing bodies and sex without specifying anything about genitals" is not only tasteful but radical and affirming - knowing that it's not just me having weird luck in books, it's an actual Trend Worth Studying, is useful.
Forgotten Australia, The Birth of the Bodgies: in which Bodgies and Widgies are much more complex (gender-wise, social panic-wise) than a few sentences and a picture in the y 9/10 history book had led me to believe.
And, last and most unexpectedly fascinating, After Dark, The Hidden History of Garden Gnomes
This has been a non-comprehensive list of things I have listened to.