Talia and Emma are joined by May Peterson (she/her, goddessblade.bsky.social) to discuss the sizzling and steamy world of M/M romance fiction and ask: Does having critiques of M/M media make you racist?! A single Tumblr callout post that somehow managed to become an academic paper snowballs into a discussion on identity politics, transfeminine erasure, and the anti-intellectualism inherent to a discursive environment that relies more on vibes than actual arguments when discussing not merely fandom, but topics as important as politics, bigotry, and art.

Sources:

Sam Aburime, The influence of transphobia, homonationalism and anti-Asian prejudice: Anti-BL attitudes in English-speaking fandoms: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/378234729_The_influence_of_transphobia_homonationalism_and_antiAsianprejudice_Anti-BL_attitudes_in_English-speaking_fandoms

Between Scylla and Charybdis: https://lysistrata327.substack.com

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For the first episode of Cracked Ivory, Talia and Emma are joined by legal historian and queer feminist of color Kay (who can be found at dihya-bint-neyth.bsky.social on Bluesky) to discuss Kimberlé Crenshaw’s oft-cited yet sparsely-read theory of intersectionality, along with its implications for masculinity studies, critics of feminism, and Ben Shapiro’s fear of bottoming.

Sources:

Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1052&context=uclf

Intersectionality Wars: https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/2019/5/20/18542843/intersectionality-conservatism-law-race-gender-discrimination

Intersectionality and Masculinity Studies: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/18902138.2024.2376445#d1e115

Crenshaw on police violence against Black women: https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/kimberle-crenshaw-who-coined-term-intersectionality-police-violence-against-black-women

Close Encounters of Three Kinds (Crenshaw 2010): https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/2865/

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Talia Bhatt and Emma Zakharuk unveil their evil lesbian radical transfeminist agenda: to end both Manhood and Discourse with a single podcast. 'Cracked Ivory' is an examination of popular feminist discourses and the scholarship (both good and very, very bad) that spawned them! Coming soon to wherever you get your podcasts.

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