TRANSposition Podcast

Billie Hoard

Audio Essays covering Queer Explorations of Religion, Culture, Philosophy, and Political Dissent, oh and also C. S. Lewis. With a little commentary added. billieiswriting.substack.com

  1. Jul 2

    Live now! Celeste and I talk about Matthew Vines' NYT article.

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    Live now! Celeste and I talk about Matthew Vines' NYT article.

  2. 12/05/2025

    When Fantasy Fails: Anxiety, Desire, and the Shape of Courage

    Read the original essay HERE What does it mean for fantasy to collapse? And how does one differentiate between the multiplicity of desires? These are excellent questions, and worth lingering on, since they touch some of the fundamental elements of Lacanian theory. TRANSposition is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to TRANSposition at billieiswriting.substack.com/subscribe

    When Fantasy Fails: Anxiety, Desire, and the Shape of Courage

  3. 12/02/2025

    The King is Dead

    You can find the original version of this essay HERE. “They aren’t even good at it” is what I have found myself thinking more and more often since the MAGA regime has taken power. The thought isn’t in reference to Musk’s DOGE attacks on the federal infrastructure (though the application there certainly would be apt) but to the MAGA/Christian Nationalist/US-fascist attempt to embody a certain masculine imperial vibe to which they purportedly aspire. We shouldn’t be surprised I suppose; Hannah Arendt warned us long ago of the banality of evil, and the peculiar smallness that inclines a person to embrace fascism is hardly a secret. These are people who want to see themselves as masculine kings and nobles harkening back to the chivalric myths of medieval Europe and noble illusions of classical Rome, and they are just bad at it. Get full access to TRANSposition at billieiswriting.substack.com/subscribe

    The King is Dead

  4. 11/21/2025

    Freedom in Fear: Courage Through a Lacanian Lens

    You can find Paul’s original essay in written form HERE What does it mean to be brave? Is courage simply the eradication or conquest of fear? In a world that emphasizes integrating our feelings and listening to our bodies, courage often appears as the exception—a virtue defined by overriding those very signals. To be courageous, we are told, is to deny fear and act anyway, to master what threatens us. But is courage really the triumph of mastery? Or—as readers of my earlier essays may anticipate—does courage emerge instead through failure and lack, precisely where the fantasy of wholeness collapses? TRANSposition is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to TRANSposition at billieiswriting.substack.com/subscribe

    Freedom in Fear: Courage Through a Lacanian Lens

  5. 11/20/2025

    Letter to the Christian Transgender Woman who Just Came Out

    You can find the full written version of this essay HERE This letter is written to and for Christian trans women. If that is not you then you are welcome, invited even, to listen in but know that the further you are from that social location, the less this is written “for you”. I hope that listening in our our conversation might bless you. The letter draws heavily on the work and theory of James Baldwin and Julia Serano and I hope that you will go to the original page to read the citations if nothing else. TRANSposition is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to TRANSposition at billieiswriting.substack.com/subscribe

    Letter to the Christian Transgender Woman who Just Came Out

  6. 11/14/2025

    Restless Contentment

    You can find the original essay in written form HERE. Paul’s introduction: Last week I reflected on how self-help culture feeds on our fantasy of wholeness, always dangling the next habit, hack, or method as the key to completion. This week I want to press further into that same restless dynamic, but from a different angle: contentment. If self-help promises freedom through mastery, consumerism promises peace through satisfaction. Both miss the point of desire. TRANSposition is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to TRANSposition at billieiswriting.substack.com/subscribe

    Restless Contentment

  7. 11/11/2025

    Who Deserves to Die?

    This is one of a few essays I wrote in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder. You can find the original written version of the essay HERE. In this piece I examine several of the most common reactions to his murder on the left and in the center and I argue that moral clarity and a refusal to soften the edges of this profoundly racist and cruel individual are necessary in this moment. TRANSposition is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to TRANSposition at billieiswriting.substack.com/subscribe

    Who Deserves to Die?

  8. 11/07/2025

    Freedom to Want: Desire and the Self-Help Illusion

    You can find the original essay in written form HERE on Paul’s Substack. Paul argues in this essay that self-help can’t help but fail. Its very solutions feed the problem. But here’s the twist: their failure is good news. The comfort, mastery, and wholeness they dangle before us is an impossible fantasy—one that keeps us addicted to the next promise of completion. To see through this fantasy is to take a first step toward freedom. My aim is not a nihilistic rejection of growth, but an invitation to reimagine what life, transformation, and even virtue might look like once we stop chasing the mirage of wholeness. Get full access to TRANSposition at billieiswriting.substack.com/subscribe

    Freedom to Want: Desire and the Self-Help Illusion
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Audio Essays covering Queer Explorations of Religion, Culture, Philosophy, and Political Dissent, oh and also C. S. Lewis. With a little commentary added. billieiswriting.substack.com

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  • Creator
    Billie Hoard
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    19
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Willa Hoard
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    TRANSposition Podcast