UnLivable Cultures

Unlivable Cultures

Because the world is actively made unlivable for too many. Join Julia, Clayton, and Cody as they experiment with social theory, politics of liberation and solidarity, and real world issues to question: How can we make livable cultures? Follow our Twitter (@unlivablepod) for sneak peaks of new episode topics before they release. More information at unlivablecultures.wordpress.com.

  1. 12/18/2024

    Theorizing the Nuance of Queer and Trans Life: A Conversation on Gender Without Identity with Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini

    How can psychoanalysis support the flourishing of queer and trans life in light of the discipline’s contested history and present? Why is it preferable to understand gender as a process of becoming instead of something that is a preprogrammed part of the self? In this interview from July 2024, Clayton speaks with Dr. Ann Pellegrini and Dr. Avgi Saketopoulou about their book Gender Without Identity and how their ideas and their psychoanalytic practice seeks to answer these questions. Avgi Saketopoulou is a psychoanalyst in private practice in NYC, and a member of the faculty at New York University's Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. She is also the author of Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia from the Sexual Cultures Series, NYU Press. Ann Pellegrini is Professor of Performance Studies & Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University, and a practicing psychoanalyst. Their books include Performance Anxieties: Staging Psychoanalysis, Staging Race and Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance (coauthored with Janet R. Jakobsen). Clayton Jarrard⁠ is a graduate student at New York University's XE: Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement program and works at the University of Kansas Center for Research, contributing to initiatives at the nexus of research, policy implementation, and community efforts.  If you like Un/Livable Cultures, share with your friends, consider supporting the podcast on Patreon or leaving us a review! And follow our Twitter @UnlivablePod for updates.

    1h 13m
  2. 04/17/2024

    De/Institutionalize: Learning from Unwellness and Crip Spacetimes (with Special Guests Margaret Price and Mimi Khúc)

    In this conversation, Clayton is joined by Dr. Mimi Khúc and Dr. Margaret Price to discuss their new books dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss and Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life, both from Duke University Press. The three have a wide-ranging conversation about capitalist mandates for wellness, appropriations of accessibility and cultures of care in the university, the ways race and racism refract experiences of disability and unwellness, and how academe structures the very power imbalances that make crip spacetime and claiming unwellness precarious and often harmful.  ⁠Interview Transcript⁠ De/Instutionalize is a series from Un/Livable Cultures focusing on the ways in which academic cultures are made livable and unlivable and how these institutions can participate in regimes of oppression and subjugation. Mimi Khúc is a writer, scholar, and teacher of things unwell. She is the creator of Open in Emergency and the Asian American Tarot. Check out dear elia book tour dates and information. Margaret Price is Associate Professor of English at the Ohio State University, author of Mad at School: Rhetorics of Mental Disability and Academic Life, and co-founder of the Transformative Access Project. Clayton Jarrard works at the University of Kansas Center for Research, contributing to initiatives at the nexus of research, policy implementation, and community efforts, and he is an incoming student at NYU's Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement program. If you like Un/Livable Cultures, share with your friends, consider supporting the podcast on Patreon or leaving us a review! And follow our Twitter @UnlivablePod for updates. Sources Disrupting White Mindfulness: Race and Racism in the Wellbeing Industry by Cathy-Mae Karelse “Writing While Adjunct: A Contingent Pedagogy of Unwellness” by Mimi Khúc in Crip Authorship: Disability as Method edited by Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez Claiming Disability: Knowledge and Identity by Simi Linton

    1h 17m

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Because the world is actively made unlivable for too many. Join Julia, Clayton, and Cody as they experiment with social theory, politics of liberation and solidarity, and real world issues to question: How can we make livable cultures? Follow our Twitter (@unlivablepod) for sneak peaks of new episode topics before they release. More information at unlivablecultures.wordpress.com.