Gender Jawn

About Gender Jawn

Podcast of the Center for Research in Feminist, Queer and Transgender Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, hosted by associate director Che Gossett and producer Lane T. Speidel

Publisher

Che Gossett

Category

education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

24 Sept 2020

Latest episode

14 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

70 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   14 Jun 2026

   Topography of Autotheories: a Conversation between Alex Brostoff and Vilashini Coopan

   In this episode, FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with Vilashini Coopan, Professor of Literature and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and Alex Brostoff, Assistant Professor of English and Women's and Gender Studies at Georgetown University, about their co-edited anthology, Autotheories (MIT Press, 2025).  Professors Coopan and Brostoff discuss collaborative writing and the 2025 symposium they convened, "Intimacies of Relation: The Autotheoretical Turn" at UC Santa Cruz. Professors Brostoff and Coopan also discuss how autotheory shapes their own writing styles, the political genealogy of autotheory, and the reason they pluralize the concept, as well as the impact of autotheory on narrative writing, and the relationship between autotheory and affect.

2. 

   22 Apr 2026

   The Language of Survival: A Conversation with Homi K. Bhabha

   In this episode FQT Center associate director Che Gossett speaks with professor Homi Bhabha.  Bhabha is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. They discuss professor Bhabha's intellectual iterinary and how distinct sites such as Bombay and Oxford have shaped his cosmpolitan thought.  They also discuss his pathbreaking scholarship including such texts as Nation and Narration (Routledge, 1990) and The Location of Culture (2004, Routledge Classics). Bhabha also elaborates on his recent work on temporality and the pandemic, and the afterlives of his concepts such as mimicry, hybridity and third space.  Finally, Bhabha discusses his writing style, and how for him, the affective power of writing is as important as argumentation. Music Credit (30 seconds): Vidushi Bombay Jayashri Ramnath performing Raga Hamsadhwani

3. 

   25 Mar 2026

   Conditions of Paradox: A Conversation with Charles Gaines

   In this episode, FQT director Che Gossett speaks with Charles Gaines about his artistic practice, his interest in systems thinking and unthinking, and how Gaines takes up questions about seriality and discreteness, difference and repetition in relation to race, materiality and infrastructure.  They discuss Gaines's pathbreaking 1993 exhibition with Catherine Lord at the Fine Arts Gallery of the University of California, Irvine, titled "The Theater of Refusal: Black Art and Mainstream Criticism," as well as his 2022 monumental kinetic sculpture Moving Chains commissioned by Creative Time at Governor's Island, and his new 2025 work Hanging Tree, commissioned by the Equal Justice Initiative and installed in Freedom Monument Sculpture Park in Montgomery, Alabama. Gaines's work is included in prominent public collections such as the Museum of Modern Art (New York), Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, D.C.), Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles), Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco), and the Tate (London). Audio Credit: Moving Chains audio, Creative Time, Governor's Island, New York

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

8 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 46 / 100

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Quality

65

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

68