It has been decades since Michel Foucault urged us to rethink "the repressive hypothesis" and see new forms of sexual discourse as coming into being in the nineteenth century, yet the term "Victorian" still has largely negative connotations. LGBT Victorians: Sexuality and Gender in the Nineteenth-Century Archives(Oxford UP, 2022) argues for re-visiting the period's thinking about gender and sexual identity at a time when our queer alliances are fraying. We think of those whose primary self-definition is in terms of sexuality (lesbians, gay men, bisexuals) and those for whom it is gender identity (intersex and transgender people, genderqueers) as simultaneously in coalition and distinct from each other, on the assumption that gender and sexuality are independent aspects of self-identification. Re-examining how the Victorians considered such identity categories to have produced and shaped each other can ground a more durable basis for strengthening our present LGBTQ+ coalition.
LGBT Victorians draws on scholarship reconsidering the significance of sexology and efforts to retrospectively discover transgender people in historical archives, particularly in the gap between what the nineteenth century termed the sodomite and the hermaphrodite. It highlights a broad range of individuals (including Anne Lister, and the defendants in the "Fanny and Stella" trial of the 1870s), key thinkers and activists (including Karl-Heinrich Ulrichs and Edward Carpenter), and writers such as Walt Whitman and John Addington Symonds to map the complicated landscape of gender and sexuality in the Victorian period. In the process, it decenters Oscar Wilde and his imprisonment from our historical understanding of sexual and gender nonconformity.
Simon Joyce is Professor of English, College of William and Mary. He holds a BA and MA from the University of Sussex and a PhD from the University of Buffalo. He is a Professor of English at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, where he teaches Victorian and modernist literature from Britain and Ireland and LGBTQI+ Studies.
Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Twitter.
The woman the world would know as Josephine Baker was born into abject poverty in 1906 in Saint Louis, Missouri.
Despite her humble background and numerous obstacles in her way, she became one of the most significant entertainers of the first half of the 20th century. However, the way she found success was unlike any of her contemporaries.
She later used her fame and celebrity as a highly effective spy during the Second World War.
Learn more about the incredible life of Josephine Baker on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.
We'll tell you who federal prosecutors accuse of being a Cuban spy in what's being called a historic infiltration of the U.S. government.
Also, there's a warning from the White House about when money to support Ukraine may run out if lawmakers don't act soon.
Plus, which Republican candidates to expect on the debate stage this week, what we now know about a 23andme hack impacting millions of users, and another Taylor Swift record.
The Biden administration is sounding the alarm to Congress about the need to pass a funding bill to support Ukraine in their war with Russia. White House budget official Shalanda Young sent a letter to party leaders in the House and Senate on Monday warning that “we are out of money — and nearly out of time.”
The Supreme Court on Monday heard yet another case with significant implications – this time about the opioid crisis. The question in front of the court will determine whether or not the wealthy Sackler family, which made much of its fortune through opioids like Oxycontin, will be held directly liable for their role in the opioid crisis.
And in headlines: Spotify laid off roughly 1,500 employees on Monday, Doug Burgum announced that he suspended his 2024 presidential campaign, and faculty at Cal State University are on strike this week.
In this episode, Rivers and Sam are hangin' out at Disgraceland Studios with comedian Maxx Eddy for an episode that could only be described as the "Greatest of All Time". With that in mind, we kick things off by taste-testing the pineapple cream soda flavor of NFL Hall of Famer Jerry Rice's energy drink "G.O.A.T. Fuel". We also talk about a recent incident at a committee hearing in the U.S. Senate that almost turned into a fight. We go through some more nightmare stories from the bartenders of Reddit and Elvis Presley's "Jailhouse Rock" is our JAM OF THE WEEK! Can't wait for y'all to hear this one. Wouldn't you like to be an Oppenpepper too? Give us a listen! Follow Maxx on everything @MaxxEddy Rivers is @RiversLangley Carter is @Carter_Glascock Sam is @SlamHarter on Twitter and @SamHarter666 on Instagram Subscribe on Patreon for HOURS of bonus content and growing ALL THE TIME! http://patreon.com/TheGoodsPod Pick up a Goods from the Woods t-shirt at: http://prowrestlingtees.com/TheGoodsPod
Dec. 7 will mark two months since Hamas attacked Israel, killing 1,200 people and taking 240 others hostage.
Fighting between Hamas and Israel resumed Friday after the release of about 100 hostages during a weeklong cease-fire. As Israeli troops advance in Gaza, they are “constricting the size of ground they don’t control,” defense expertRobert Greenway says of the Israel Defense Forces.
Israel is now advancing to conduct military operations in southern Gaza in addition to the north, and Greenway, director of the Center for National Defense at The Heritage Foundation, says that’s necessary because “you can’t have a sanctuary” region where terrorists can remain. (The Daily Signal is the news outlet of The Heritage Foundation.)
Greenway joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to explain how the U.S. should be engaged in the war and to share what is known about the hostages that have been freed and those still in captivity.
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The band KISS is launching holograms of themselves to star in future concerts — But ABBA is already doing this… and it’s sold $150M worth of tickets already.
Alaska Airlines is acquiring Hawaiian Airlines for $1.9B — To get to Hawaii, you’ll have to go through Alaska.
And Bitcoin has surged 150% this year past $42k — Because after a crypto extinction event, Bitcoin is enjoying a “Mosquito Rally”.
Last week, former UN ambassador and South Carolina governor Nikki Haley scored a coveted endorsement from Charles Koch’s political advocacy group. She’s passed Ron DeSantis in the polls—and now, she’s the top, non-Trump Republican candidate for president. But is there any hope of winning over Trump voters—or is this a race to be the candidate who steps in if the former president goes to jail?
Guest: Alexandra Ulmer, reporter at Reuters covering the 2024 U.S. presidential race, with a focus on Republicans, donors and AI.
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