On this episode of SPS, we discuss the confusion around "trans politics" & sexual emancipation and examine the limits of anti-Trump activism. Audrey Crescenti, Pam Nogales & Berkeley member, Will Lushbough, sits down with comedian Will Franken, who lived as a trans woman for a brief time, to talk about sexuality & the state of stand-up today. Laurie Rojas talks to UK members, Rory Hannigan & Pádraig Maguire about the recent anti-Trump protests in London. And Suzy V. drops by to discuss the Chicago queer scene and the difficulty of thinking about sexual emancipation today.
Articles mentioned:
(1) "The Word 'Cisgender': An Unlikely Semantic Revolutionary"
www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-wor…10913904.html
(2) "Why Scarlett Johansson — Or Any Cis Actor — Should Never Play Trans Roles"
www.them.us/story/why-scarlett-…er-play-trans-roles
From the Platypus archives on sexual liberation:
(1) platypus1917.org/2016/10/17/9-16-…teach-frankfurt/
(2) platypus1917.org/2014/06/01/sexua…rum-2014-6-1-14/
(3) platypus1917.org/2011/02/01/which…xual-liberation/
Hosted by Audrey Crescenti, Pam C. Nogales C., Laurie Rojas.
From the Zero Books website (August 2, 2018):
Chris Cutrone is a member of the Platypus Affiliated Society, a professor at The School of Art Institute of Chicago, and a returning guest to the Zero Books podcast. He is the author of a controversial essay entitled “Why Not Trump.” The piece was a half-hearted endorsement of Trump as the better adversary for the left, an opinion that is not at all self-evident today under Trump. However, this week we discuss the late Moishe Postone as well as Adolph Reed in the context of the death of politics."
An interview with Lawrence Parker, the author of Communists and Labour: The National Left-Wing Movement, 1925-1929, conducted by Efraim Carlebach of the Platypus Affiliated Society on July 21, 2018.
An edited transcript of the interview was published in the Platypus Review Issue #111.