Best The Rational Republican Podcasts (2024)

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Emily Cousens, "Trans Feminist Epistemologies in the US Second Wave" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) 46:49

31m ago46:49

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Why do "second wave" and "trans feminism" rarely get considered together? Challenging the idea that trans feminism is antagonistic to, or arrived after, second wave feminism, Emily Cousens re-orients trans epistemologies as crucial sites of second wave feminist theorising. By revisiting the contributions of trans individuals writing in underground …

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Kate Hext, "Wilde in the Dream Factory: Decadence and the American Movies" (Oxford UP, 2024) 1:10:06

5d ago1:10:06

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Hollywood is haunted by the ghost of playwright and novelist Oscar Wilde. Wilde in the Dream Factory: Decadence and the American Movies (Oxford University Press, 2024) by Dr. Kate Hext is the story of his haunting, told for the first time. Set within the rich evolving context of how the American entertainment industry became cinema, and how cinema …

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Susan Stryker, "When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader" (Duke UP, 2024) 1:00:15

14m ago1:00:15

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Susan Stryker is a foundational figure in trans studies. When Monsters Speak: A Susan Stryker Reader (Duke UP, 2024) showcases the development of Stryker’s writing from the 1990s to the present. It combines canonical pieces, such as “My Words to Victor Frankenstein,” with her hard to find earlier work published in zines and newsletters. Brought tog…

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Matthew H. Sommer, "The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China" (Columbia UP, 2024) 1:26:55

4h ago1:26:55

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The Fox Spirit, the Stone Maiden, and Other Transgender Histories from Late Imperial China (Columbia University Press, 2024) is a fascinating study of transgender lives and practices in late imperial China. This book takes as its core subject matter six court cases from Qing China that involve people who moved away from the gender they were assigne…

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Hannah Freed-Thall, "Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons" (Columbia UP, 2023) 1:04:32

5d ago1:04:32

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Departing from the conventional association of modernism with the city, Hannah Freed-Thall's Modernism at the Beach: Queer Ecologies and the Coastal Commons (Columbia University Press, 2023) makes a case for the coastal zone as a surprisingly generative setting for twentieth-century literature and art. An unruly and elusive confluence of human and …

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Alexander Sasha Kondakov, "Violent Affections: Queer Sexuality, Techniques of Power, and Law in Russia" (UCL Press, 2022) 1:03:09

1h ago1:03:09

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Violent Affections: Queer Sexuality, Techniques of Power, and Law in Russia (UCL Press, 2022) by Alexander Sasha Kondakov uncovers techniques of power that work to translate emotions into violence against queer people. Based on analysis of over 300 criminal cases of anti-queer violence in Russia before and after the introduction of ‘gay propaganda’…

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Kevin Leo Nadal, "Queering Law and Order: LGBTQ Communities and the Criminal Justice System" (Lexington Book, 2020) 38:54

1h ago38:54

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Throughout US history, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people have been pathologized, victimized, and criminalized. Reports of lynching, burning, or murdering of LGBTQ people have been documented for centuries. Prior to the 1970s, LGBTQ people were deemed as having psychological disorders and subsequently subject to electrosh…

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Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz and Sara A. Howard, "Grabbing Tea: Queer Conversations in Librarianship" (Litwin Books, 2024) 53:54

19d ago53:54

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This interview with Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz about Grabbing Tea: Queer Conversations on Identity and Libraries and Grabbing Tea: Queer Conversations on Archives and Practice (available in 2024 from the Litwin Books Series on Gender and Sexuality in Library and Information Studies) explores how queerness is centered within library and archival theory an…

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Neil J. Young, "Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right" (U Chicago Press, 2024) 1:01:37

30d ago1:01:37

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Coming Out Republican: A History of the Gay Right (U Chicago Press, 2024) is a fascinating and engaging historical tour of those who were gay and active in Republican and conservative politics over the course of the last 80 years. Neil J. Young has written an accessible and deeply sources book that brings forward stories about those in the closet, …

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The (ir)Rational Rainbow (the DSM & the Fight to Depathologize Homosexuality) 1:14:39

7d ago1:14:39

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The psychological establishment has long pathologized diverse forms of sexual identity and gender expression. In the mid-century, a brave movement of gays and lesbians fought back and claimed: no, actually, we’re healthy. But in the process, did they define other identities unhealthy? This is episode two of Cited Podcast's returning season, the Rat…

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Nat Reeve, "Nettleblack" (Cipher Press, 2022) 49:33

1M ago49:33

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1893. Henry Nettleblack has to act fast or she’ll be married off by her elder sister. But leaving the safety of her wealthy life isn’t as simple as she thought. Ambushed, robbed, and then saved by a mysterious organisation – part detective agency, part neighbourhood watch – a desperate Henry disguises herself and enlists. Sent out to investigate a …

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Feng-Mei Heberer, "Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism" (U Minnesota Press, 2023) 59:24

1M ago59:24

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Asians on Demand: Mediating Race in Video Art and Activism (University of Minnesota Press, 2023) explores a multilingual archive of contemporary queer and feminist videos by Asian diasporans in North America, Europe, and East Asia. It grapples with the pressing question of how media representation can critique and advance social justice for raciali…

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Al Travis - Devastating Debate for Biden | The Culture Enabling Feeding Our Future 18:55

16d ago18:55

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After a devastating debate for Joe Biden on CNN, state representative Walter Hudson joins Al Travis to theorize how it happened and what it means. Grand conspiracy or sheer incompetence? Also, why are the Feeding Our Future fraudsters, now including a clumsy effort to bribe a juror, so brazen and shameless. Here's what no one else will dare say: it…

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How to Bipartisan 25:01

1M ago25:01

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Why don't we see more bipartisanship in Minnesota? It's not just the respective partisan politics of each party or caucus. It's the institutional choices by legislative leadership and the governor. The stage is set from the top down. State Representative Walter Hudson reacts to a recent TPT Almanac discussion with Shannon Watson of Majority in the …

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Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo, "Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora and Comics" (U Arizona Press, 2024) 52:31

18d ago52:31

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Growing Up in the Gutter: Diaspora and Comics (U Arizona Press, 2024) by Dr. Ricardo Quintana-Vallejo offers new understandings of contemporary graphic coming-of-age narratives by looking at the genre’s growth in stories by and for young BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and diasporic readers. Through a careful examination of the genre, Dr. Quintana-Vallejo analyses …

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Empowering the Black Community Through Choice 7:05

2M ago7:05

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For decades, the black community has been sold on the value of "equity," a false promise which hasn't delivered. Meanwhile, those with means, including many of the Democrat patrons peddling "equity," utilize their resources to send their kids to private schools or move to areas with superior public offerings. When will the black community have the …

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Educators v. Indoctrinators: Battle for Students' Souls 13:21

2M ago13:21

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The public education establishment in Minnesota is openly hostile toward the public it was created to serve. The latest example comes from an email sent to school administrators inviting them to a summer training session equipping them with "strategies for pushing equity efforts forward despite the resistance." It's entirely inappropriate for publi…

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Here's Why Gun-Owners May Need High-Capacity Magazines 10:48

2M ago10:48

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"Why do you need that many bullets?" Gun control advocates on the Left frequently ask that question as if it presents some self-evident argument against high-capacity magazines. But a recent incident shared on X shows exactly why a law-abiding gun owner might need the ability to deploy many rounds in their own self-defense.…

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Al Travis - Officer Jamal Mitchell Memorial & New Fraud Revelations in Minnesota 15:56

2M ago15:56

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State Representative Walter Hudson joins Al Travis to discuss lessons learned from attending several memorials for fallen law enforcement officers and first responders over his first term in office. They then unpack new revelations from the Office of Legislative Auditor about the lack of agency oversight and legislative malfeasance which has led to…

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BREAKDOWN: Rampant Fraud in Minnesota: How Should Voters Respond? 26:04

2M ago26:04

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A new report for the Minnesota Office of Legislative Auditor details negligent management by the Minnesota Department of Education enabled by incompetently authored Democrat policies resulting in hundreds of millions of dollars in fraud connected to the "Feeding Our Future" scandal. State Representative Walter Hudson breaks it down, and makes a con…

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Casey James Miller, "Inside the Circle: Queer Culture and Activism in Northwest China" (Rutgers UP, 2023) 1:21:11

2M ago1:21:11

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After the end of the Maoist era in the People's Republic of China, the rise of queer communities and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) has generated growing public and academic attention. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in northwest China, Casey James Miller offers a novel, compelling, and intimately personal perspective on C…

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Rescue Minnesota: The Path to Victory for Republicans 18:00

2M ago18:00

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Speaking to attendees of a fundraiser for Cass County Republicans, State Representative Walter Hudson lays out the path to victory in the 2024 election for the Republican Party of Minnesota.By Walter Hudson

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Emma Heaney, "Feminism Against Cisness" (Duke UP, 2024) 46:56

2M ago46:56

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The contributors to Feminism Against Cisness (Duke UP, 2024) showcase the future of feminist historical, theoretical, and political thought freed from the conceptual strictures of cisness: the fallacy that assigned sex determines sexed experience. The essays demonstrate that this fallacy hinges on the enforcement of white and bourgeois standards of…

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Eleanor Medhurst, "Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion" (Hurst, 2024) 44:28

2M ago44:28

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Eleanor Medhurst joins us today to talk about Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion (Hurst & Company, 2024). Clothes are integral to lesbian history. Lesbians, in turn, are integral to the history of fashion. The way that we dress can help us to present who we are to the world, or it can help us to hide ourselves. It can align us with a communit…

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Sarah Nooter, "How to Be Queer: An Ancient Guide to Sexuality" (Princeton UP, 2024) 30:38

2M ago30:38

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The idea of sexual fluidity may seem new, but it is at least as old as the ancient Greeks, who wrote about queer experiences with remarkable frankness, wit, and insight. Sarah Nooter's How to Be Queer: An Ancient Guide to Sexuality (Princeton UP, 2024) is an infatuating collection of these writings about desire, love, and lust between men, between …

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Margot Weiss, "Unsettling Queer Anthropology: Foundations, Reorientations, and Departures" (Duke UP, 2024) 53:01

2M ago53:01

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This field-defining volume of queer anthropology foregrounds both the brilliance of anthropological approaches to queer and trans life and the ways queer critique can reorient and transform anthropology. Consisting of fourteen original essays by both distinguished and new voices, Unsettling Queer Anthropology: Foundations, Reorientations, and Depar…

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Aslı Zengin, "Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World" (Duke UP, 2024) 59:46

2M ago59:46

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In Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World (Duke UP, 2024), Aslı Zengin traces how trans people in Turkey creatively negotiate and resist everyday cisheteronormative violence. Drawing on the history and ethnography of the trans communal life in Istanbul, Zengin develops an understanding of cisheteronormative violence…

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Deep Dive: Judge in Trump Trial Jumps the Shark 24:00

2M ago24:00

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Astounding jury instructions from the Democrat-connected judge in the Stormy Daniels trial. A charge which relies upon an underlying crime doesn't have require them to agree on the nature of that crime!! Plus, why did a highly successful pro golfer kill himself. And what is the relationship between energy production and wealth?…

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Sa’ed Atshan, "Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique" (Stanford UP, 2020) 55:47

2M ago55:47

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In Queer Palestine and the Empire of Critique (Stanford University Press, 2020) anthropologist and activist Sa’ed Atshan explores the Palestinian LGBTQ movement and offers a window into the diverse community living both in historic Palestine and in diaspora. His timely and urgent account contends that the movement has been subjected to an “empire o…

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Deep Dive: The Truth About the Failed "Equal Rights Amendment" in Minnesota 32:06

2M ago32:06

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Live reaction to this article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune bemoaning the failure of the so-called "Equal Rights Amendment" in Minnesota. Were equal rights really on the table? Is this the continuation of century-long struggle? Or were there novel and radical ideas smuggled into "ERA" branding that would have created two tiers of citizen within t…

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Bodie A. Ashton, "The Pet Shop Boys and the Political: Queerness, Culture, Identity, and Society" (Bloomsbury, 2024) 59:16

2M ago59:16

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In The Pet Shop Boys and the Political: Queerness, Culture, Identity, and Society (Bloomsbury, 2024), editor Bodie Ashton compiles twelve essays exploring the impact of Pet Shop Boys across the past four decades. The Pet Shop Boys came of age at a time of deep socio-political tension. From the rise of sexual politics and awareness to Thatcherite ne…

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Jon Justice - 2024 Legislative Session Wrap-Up 45:56

3M ago45:56

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State Senator Eric Lucero and State Representative Walter Hudson join Jon Justice to breakdown the chaotic end to the legislative session, which saw the Democrat majority flagrantly disregard legislative rules to shove through a massive tax omnibus bill which wasn't distributed or available to view before the midnight vote was taken. How did we get…

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Anjali Arondekar, "Abundance: Sexuality’s History" (Duke UP, 2023) 52:13

3M ago52:13

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In Abundance: Sexuality’s History (Duke UP, 2023), Anjali Arondekar refuses the historical common sense that archival loss is foundational to a subaltern history of sexuality, and that the deficit of our minoritized pasts can be redeemed through acquisitions of lost pasts. Instead, Arondekar theorizes the radical abundance of sexuality through the …

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Al Travis - Gun Control Update & Senate Ethics Hearing Breakdown 18:00

3M ago18:00

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State representative Walter Hudson updates Al Travis on the status of gun control in the Minnesota legislature and breaks down the utter clown show which was the Minnesota Senate ethics committee hearing regarding Senator Nicole Mitchell's alleged first-degree burglary of her own mother.By Walter Hudson

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Jon Justice - Uber/Lyft Update & ERAsure Amendment 23:03

3M ago23:03

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State representative Walter Hudson joins Jon Justice on Twin Cities News Talk AM 1130 to provide an update on the status of Uber/Lyft in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Also discussed: the ERAsure Amendment, which would permanently strip civil rights from the unborn and eliminate women as a category. Also, a preview of the Minnesota Senate ethics committ…

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The Omnibus Podcast - The tales of 3 GOP CD Conventions and Gun Bills 1:13:05

3M ago1:13:05

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Tensions rise on The Omnibus Podcast as former state representative Jeremy Munson and current state representative Walter Hudson butt heads regarding the internal politics of the Republican Party of Minnesota. Who are the grassroots? What does it mean to be "establishment" or "corrupt." Plus, update on the status of gun control legislation in the M…

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Jon Justice - The ERAsure Amendment, Democrats Nail in the Coffin of Women 25:22

3M ago25:22

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State representative Walter Hudson joins Jon Justice on Twin Cities News Talk for a deep dive into the ERAsure Amendment, which would eliminate women as an objective legal category and permanently strip civil rights from human beings up until the moment of birth.By Walter Hudson

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Dancing Parkinson's and Queering Science with John Noel Viaña 34:02

3M ago34:02

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In this episode Pat speaks with Dr John Noel Viaña. Dr John Noel Viaña’s work is focused on the social and ethical aspects of neuroscience and biotechnology. He has interests in a range of bioethical issues and has engaged with researchers, clinicians and science communicators to explore justice, equity and diversity considerations in health resear…

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Christopher Ewing, "The Color of Desire: The Queer Politics of Race in the Federal Republic of Germany After 1970" (Cornell UP, 2024) 45:22

3M ago45:22

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The Color of Desire: The Queer Politics of Race in the Federal Republic of Germany After 1970 (Cornell UP, 2024) tells the story of how, in the aftermath of gay liberation, race played a crucial role in shaping the trajectory of queer, German politics. Focusing on the Federal Republic of Germany, Christopher Ewing charts both the entrenchment of ra…

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Julia A. Cassiday, "Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and Putinism" (U Wisconsin Press, 2023) 49:12

3M ago49:12

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Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and Putinism (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023) provides a critical and nuanced analysis of the relationship between popular culture and politics in Russia during Vladimir Putin’s first two decades in power. It traces how the performance of Russian citizenship has been remolded according to a neoconservat…

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Darcey Edwards for HD31 46:54

3M ago46:54

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Darcey Edwards is a life-long resident of Washington County and is running for House District 31. We talk land use and how Oregon can be more business-friendly.By The Rational Republican

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Javier Samper Vendrell, "The Seduction of Youth: Print Culture and Homosexual Rights in the Weimar Republic" (U Toronto Press, 2020) 1:05:29

3M ago1:05:29

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The Weimar Republic is well-known for its gay rights movement and recent scholarship has demonstrated some of its contradictory elements. In his recent book entitled The Seduction of Youth: Print Culture and Homosexual Rights in the Weimar Republic (University of Toronto Press, 2020), Javier Samper Vendrell writes the first study to focus on the Le…

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Rustam Alexander, "Gay Lives and ‘Aversion Therapy’ in Brezhnev’s Russia, 1964–1982" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2023) 56:09

3M ago56:09

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Rustam Alexander's Gay Lives and 'Aversion Therapy' in Brezhnev's Russia, 1964-1982 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023) examines the autobiographies and diaries of Soviet homosexual men who underwent psychotherapy during the period from 1970 to 1980 under the guidance of Yan Goland, a psychiatrist-sexopathologist from Gorky. The examination of these unique …

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Jon Justice - Democrat Felon Still in Senate, Plus They Vote to Buy and Sell Kids 31:46

3M ago31:46

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State representative Walter Hudson joins Jon Justice on Twin Cities News Talk AM 1130 to breakdown the rapidly developing case of state senator Nicole Mitchell, who has be credibly asked for burglarizing her own mother in Minnesota. Plus, Democrats vote to buy and sell kids for profit. No, seriously.…

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Al Travis - Senator Nicole Mitch Needs to Resign After Burglary Arrest 17:57

3M ago17:57

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State representative Walter Hudson chats with Al Travis about the continually developing case of state senator Nicole Mitchell who was arrested for first-degree burglary.By Walter Hudson

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Andil Gosine, "Nature's Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean" (Duke UP, 2021) 1:06:22

3M ago1:06:22

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In Nature's Wild: Love, Sex, and Law in the Caribbean (Duke UP, 2021), Andil Gosine engages with questions of humanism, queer theory, and animality to examine and revise understandings of queer desire in the Caribbean. Surveying colonial law, visual art practices, and contemporary activism, Gosine shows how the very concept of homosexuality in the …

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Kristin M. Franseen, "Imagining Musical Pasts: The Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson" (Clemson UP, 2023) 1:01:36

3M ago1:01:36

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Imagining Musical Pasts: the Queer Literary Musicology of Vernon Lee, Rosa Newmarch, and Edward Prime-Stevenson (Clemson University Press, 2023) by Kristin M. Franseen explores the complicated archive of sources, interpretations, and people present in queer writings on opera and symphonic music from ca. 1880 to 1935. It focuses primarily on the wor…

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Jon Justice - Democrat State Senator Arrested for 1st Degree Burglary! 42:31

4M ago42:31

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It's unthinkable, but true. A Democrat state senator was arrested over the weekend for first degree burglary. State representative Walter Hudson reacts to the emerging details with Jon Justice on Twin Cities News Talk AM 1130. --- 🌟 Thank you for watching! 🌟 If you enjoyed this video, please consider: 👍 Liking the video to help it reach more viewer…

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Al Travis - Why Are Democrats Trying to Separate Kids from Parents? 17:47

4M ago17:47

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Speaking with Al Travis, state representative Walter Hudson unpacks a cleverly hidden agenda to separate runaway children from their parents under the auspices of "gender-affirming care" in Minnesota. --- 🌟 Thank you for watching! 🌟 If you enjoyed this video, please consider: 👍 Liking the video to help it reach more viewers 🔔 Subscribing to the cha…

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Unashamed with Elliot Engen - Life Finds a Way 32:26

4M ago32:26

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Minnesota state representative Elliot Engen became a father on April 2. His son was born at 28-weeks and rushed to the hospital. State representative Walter Hudson sits down with him to hear the miraculous story of life's struggle for a heroic premature child. Together they reflect upon the obvious pro-life lessons to be gleaned. --- 🌟 Thank you fo…

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