The Critical Lede

09/26/2017

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09/26/2017

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06/06/2017

Refresh your feeds! We are back at long last with an interview with Donna Haraway about her new book, Staying with the Trouble! (Make kin, not babies!)

02/17/2017

We are about to return after our long hiatus! Coming back with a bang with Donna Haraway, Kimberly Hoang, Lisa Lowe and more great guests!

03/02/2016

Interview with Uri McMillan about Embodied Avatars is now up! Check it out!

02/17/2016

We're back! (Well, Greg is back from several months in Brazil doing fieldwork.) Today we have an interview with Ramzi Fawaz on "The New Mutants" up in our iTunes feed. Next up will be Uri McMillan on his book on black feminist performance genealogies, "Embodied Avatars."

11/05/2015

Episode 149 - An interview with Brian Eugenio Herrera on his new book, "Latin Numbers: Playing Latino in 20th Century US Popular Performance," is now up on iTunes! See more on the book at http://www.latin-numbers.com/the-blog

10/12/2015

Episode 148 - An interview with Jane Ward about her book "Not Gay: S*x Between Straight White Men" (NYU Press) is now up in iTunes!

09/15/2015

Interviews with Svati Shah (Street Corner Secrets) and Bobby Benedicto (Under Bright Lights) are now up in iTunes and on the site!

08/08/2015

Check out our new interview with Mireille Miller Young about her new book, A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Po*******hy (Duke UP)! Now in your itunes feed or on the site!

07/17/2015

New interview with Marcia Ochoa (author of Queen for a Day and co-editor of GLQ) is now up in iTunes and the site! We're back! Coming soon: An interview with Mireille Miller-Young on 'A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Po*******hy.'

http://www.amazon.com/Queen-Day-Transformistas-Performance-Modernities/dp/0822356260

Queen for a Day connects the logic of Venezuelan modernity with the production of a national femininity. In this ethnography, Marcia Ochoa considers how femininities are produced, performed, and consumed in the mass-media spectacles of international beauty pageants, on the runways of the Miss Ven...

01/07/2015

Be sure to check out the interview with Nguyen Tan Hoang about his book, A View from the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and S*xual Representation. It's now up in iTunes. Also just posted is a review/discussion of Sharon Holland's The Erotic Life of Racism. Next up, we'll have another review/discussion of Roxane Gaye's Bad Feminist.