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The Gender Playbook
by eskins-thieme
Childhood friends read and analyze literature, manifestos, and texts by women and gender minorities in service of a socialist mission.
Episodes
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Poli Readings: Angela Davis - Reproduction
In this episode, Savannah and K. discuss the 12th chapter of Angela Davis' book Women, Race, and Class. Additionally, K. brings in knowledge accrued through reading Killing the Black Body by Dorothy Roberts. The pace of American eugenics is comparable to that of the Nazis; we discuss various...
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Poli Readings: Critiques of Females by Andrea Long-Chu
In this episode, you'll find K. and Savannah discussing the concerns and interpretations of the book Females by two trans women, McKenzie Wark and Kay Gabriel. Touching on Wark's concept of gender "technics" as well as Gabriel's concerns about the political implications of Chu's work, Sav and K....
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Poli Readings: Andrea Long-Chu - Females
Andrea Long-Chu's Females begins with the contentious claim: "Everyone is female." The second part of her thesis may be even more contentious: "everyone hates it." Chu picks up the thread of her earlier work "On Liking Women" with her constant companion Valerie Solanas -- writer of the SCUM...
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Poli Readings: On Housework
Sav and K. talk about the 13th chapter of Angela Davis's Women, Race & Class, "The Approaching Obsolescence of Housework: A Working-class Perspective" in addition to Gabrielle Meagher's article, "Is it Wrong to Pay for Housework?" These readings helped round out our prior discussions of housework...
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Poli Readings: Andrea Long-Chu - "On Liking Women"
Sav and K. discuss Andrea Long-Chu's "On Liking Women" and her fascination with Valerie Solanas and the S.C.U.M. Manifesto. This includes some of her ideas about gender and desire, phrased skillfully; Long-Chu's personal experiences grant a special meaning to her discussion of Solanas and the...
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Poli Readings: Audre Lorde - "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House"
Sav and K. discuss the political insights they've gleaned from one of Audre Lorde's most famous essays, "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House." Along the way, they discuss political alliance between feminists across racial lines, the fundamental lack of consideration of…
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Poli Readings: Audre Lorde - "Poetry is Not a Luxury" and "Uses of the Erotic"
In this episode, K. and Savannah deep dive into two brief essays by Audre Lorde in the 2017 Penguin collection of her work titled The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House. The titular essay will be the topic of our next episode, but these were a great read! We discuss Audre's...
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Shulie Series: Dialectic of Sex Chapter 10 Part 2
Savannah and K. finally wrap things up with Shulamith Firestone's Dialectic of Sex. Just how screwed are we (ecologically, politically, socially, and economically)? Why have communal living communities/ socialist states failed (in Shulie's opinion)? Relatedly, how can they succeed (hint: it has…
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Shulie Series: Dialectic of Sex Chapter 10 Part 1 - Ecology
In this episode, K and Savannah discuss the last chapter of Dialectic of Sex, "Feminism and Ecology." Of course we discuss climate change and the balance Shulie wants to restore between (wo)man and nature. We try to finally pinpoint when maturity begins and Savannah gives a helpful analogy about...
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Shulie Series: Dialectic of Sex ch. 8 + 9, (Male) Culture & Dialectics of Cultural History
"Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men; they describe it from their on point of view, which they confuse with absolute truth." (Simone de Beauvoir) + "Not only were the arts and humanities corrupted by sex duality, but modern science has been determined by it. And...
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Shulie Series: Dialectic of Sex Chapter 6 + 7 -- Love and Romance
Savannah and K. discuss Shulie's take on the system of love and romance and its effects on women.
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Shulie Series: Dialectic of Sex Chapter 5 -- Racism
In this episode, K and Savannah delve into the disturbing view of race that Shulie displays in her fifth chapter of the Dialectic of Sex, entitled "Racism is the Sexism of the Family of Man" -- and it is as much of a doozy as the title implies. How is the sex/gender role of women already...
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Shulie Series: Dialectic of Sex Chapter 4 -- Childhood
K. and Savannah explore Shulamith "Shulie" Firestone's fourth chapter in her feminist manifesto Dialectic of Sex, which delves into .Shulie's arguments against separation of children from adult life in the phase we refer to as "childhood." Education itself becomes a conspirator in the suppression...
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Shulie Series: Dialectic of Sex Chapter 3 - Freudianism
K and Sav cover a fundamental piece of Shulamith Firestone's analysis of sex class as established by Sigmund Freud. The Mother, The Father, the Son, and the Daughter. The Incest Taboo. The root of patriarchy. And so on.
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Shulie Series: Dialectic of Sex Chapter 2 -- White American Feminism
Savannah and K. discuss the second chapter of Shulamith "Shulie" Firestone's Dialectic of Sex, in which Shulie gives her (very white-centric) account of the history of American Feminism (from 1840ish-1970). What does Shulie think about the suffragettes? Does Shulie like The Left? Does Savannah…
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Shulie Series: Dialectic of Sex Chapter 1
This is the first episode in our Shulamith ("Shulie") Firestone series, in which we take on The Dialectic of Sex chapter by chapter -- in all its glory and controversy. Below is the strange figure/graph/chart (not sure what to call it) that we refer to in this episode.
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Childhood friends read and analyze literature, manifestos, and texts by women and gender minorities in service of a socialist mission.
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