Talia and Emma discuss one of the worst-written books they've had to cover: Judith Butler's Gender Trouble. It is considered a landmark text of the so-called third wave of feminism, but is it all it's cracked up to be? Given that it kicked off queer theory, it certainly got a few things wrong. Join us as Talia walks Emma through the good, the bad, and the paradigm-shifting aspects of Judith Butler's seminal work.

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Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, 1990

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Emma and Talia are once more joined by Isaac (he/they/ze) to ask a straightforward and simple question: what went wrong after the Trans Tipping Point? How did we go from an optimistic, promising future of shifting cultural tides and legal victories to the embittered, vicious, and cruel reactionary backlash to trans existence? To find the answer, they must look as far as three decades back, trying to grapple with years upon years of anemic advocacy, liberal apathy, and epistemic neglect. Cracked Ivory premieres season two by laying out a roadmap for future episodes on the topic of the third wave of feminism, and how it failed.

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The Trans Dandy, The Anti-Trans Tipping Point

The Trans Dandy, The Trans Policy Crisis

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Talia and Emma make a podcast about their podcast. They discuss the trials and triumphs of season one, talk about the planning and production process, answer listener questions, and go over future plans for season two.

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