Intro to Feminist and Social Justice Studies Podcast

Episode 14: Sex Work (2021)

Welcome to Introduction to Feminist and Social Justice Studies. This is the fourteenth audio episode of the semester-long course for the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist, and Social Justice Studies program at McGill University, taking place in the Fall of 2021. 

The transcript is available here: https://introtofeministstudies.blogspot.com/2020/07/episode-14-sex-work.html

Today’s episode will discuss

1. Feminist debates around sex work
2. It will center sex wokers’ voices.

This podcast is by Dr. Alex Ketchum

Episode 13: Work (2021)

Welcome to Introduction to Feminist and Social Justice Studies. This is the thirteenth audio episode of the semester-long course for the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist, and Social Justice Studies program at McGill University, taking place in the Fall of 2021. 

The transcript is available here: https://introtofeministstudies.blogspot.com/2020/07/episode-13-work.html

Today’s episode will:

1. Build off of the last lecture
2. Talk about the second shift and housework
3. Talk about care and emotional labour
4. And finish with a discussion of new models of labour
5. I will also speak about sexual harassment in the work place and pregnancy discrimination- so that’s a content warning for that

This podcast is by Dr. Alex Ketchum

Episode 12: Class (2021)

Welcome to Introduction to Feminist and Social Justice Studies. This is the twelfth audio episode of the semester-long course for the Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies program at McGill University, taking place in the Fall of 2021. 

The transcript is available here: https://introtofeministstudies.blogspot.com/2020/07/episode-12-class.html

Today’s episode will focus on:

1. Class and labour organizing
2. We will talk about growing economic inequality and the feminization of poverty.
3. I’ll also discuss the impact of COVID-19 and the concept of a gendered recession or she-cession (though I don’t like that term)
4. I’ll introduce the concept of neoliberalism.
5. We will talk about capitalism and exploitation.
6. The lecture will finish by discussing the role of labour in the university.

This podcast is by Dr. Alex Ketchum

Episode 11: Transgender and Intersex Identities (2021)

Welcome to Introduction to Feminist and Social Justice Studies. This is the eleventh audio episode of the semester-long course for the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist, and Social Justice Studies program at McGill University, taking place in the Fall of 2021. 

The transcript is available here: https://introtofeministstudies.blogspot.com/2020/07/episode-11-transgender-and-intersex.html

Today’s episode will:

1. Track the history of LGBTQ+ movements, primarily of the USA and Canada, with a particular emphasis on Trans history
2. And discuss trans and intersex identities

This podcast is by Dr. Alex Ketchum

Episode 10: Sexuality and Sexual Orientations (2021)

Welcome to Introduction to Feminist and Social Justice Studies. This is the 10th audio episode of the semester-long course for the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist, and Social Justice Studies program at McGill University, taking place in the Fall of 2021. 

The transcript is available at: https://introtofeministstudies.blogspot.com/2020/07/episode-10-sexuality-and-sexual.html

Today’s episode will discuss:

1. Sexuality and some of the key theorists in queer theory
2. Sexual orientation
3. Heteronormativity and homonormativity

This podcast is by Dr. Alex Ketchum.

Episode 9: Global and Transnational Feminisms (2021)

Welcome to Introduction to Feminist and Social Justice Studies. This is the ninth audio episode of the semester-long course for the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist, and Social Justice Studies program at McGill University, taking place in the Fall of 2021. 

 

The transcript is available at: https://introtofeministstudies.blogspot.com/2020/07/episode-9-global-and-transnational.html

 

Today’s episode will discuss:

1. Global and transnational feminisms
2. We will look at feminist activism outside of the US and Canadian contexts
3. And speak to the topic of borders and borderlands

This podcast is by Dr. Alex Ketchum

Episode 8: Colonialism and Decolonization (2021)

Welcome to Introduction to Feminist and Social Justice Studies. This is the eighth audio episode of the semester-long course for the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist, and Social Justice Studies program at McGill University, taking place in the Fall of 2021. This is also the start of Unit 2.

The transcript is available at: https://introtofeministstudies.blogspot.com/2020/07/episode-8-colonialism-de.html

Today’s episode will discuss:

1. Colonialism 
2. The meaning of decolonization
3. The epidemic of Missing and murdered Indigenous women

Episode 7: Race, Racism, and Anti-Racism (2021)

Welcome to Introduction to Feminist and Social Justice Studies. This is the seventh audio episode of the semester-long course for the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist, and Social Justice Studies program at McGill University, taking place in the Fall of 2021. 

 

The transcript is available at: https://introtofeministstudies.blogspot.com/2020/07/episode-7-race.html

 

Today’s episode will discuss:

1. Privilege, through the lens of race
2. Racism and Anti-racist work in Canada and the United States
3. Black feminist thought
4. Asian American feminism and Asian Canadian feminism
5. An introduction to Police Abolition and Defund the Police Movements

This podcast is by Dr. Alex Ketchum

Episode 6: The Many Feminisms and Intersectionality (2021)

Welcome to Introduction to Feminist and Social Justice Studies. This is the sixth audio episode of the semester-long course for the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist, and Social Justice Studies program at McGill University, taking place in the Fall of 2021. 

 

The transcript is available here: https://introtofeministstudies.blogspot.com/2020/07/episode-6-many-feminisms-and.html

 

Today’s episode will explain:

1. The many types of feminism
2. intersectionality

This podcast is by Dr. Alex Ketchum

Episode 5: Second and Third Waves and the Question of 4th + Waves (2021)

Welcome to Introduction to Feminist and Social Justice Studies. This is the fifth audio episode of the semester-long course for the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist, and Social Justice Studies program at McGill University, taking place in the Fall of 2021. 

The transcript is available here: https://introtofeministstudies.blogspot.com/2020/07/episode-5-second-and-third-waves-and.html

In the last lecture episode, we talked about American and Canadian feminist movements in the 19th and early 20th century. One of the major themes in that lecture was around the tensions within the category of “woman.” As we discussed, one of the problems with the feminist wave metaphor is that so much of it is built around white women’s histories and experiences with feminist activism. Critiques of treating middle and upper class white women’s experiences as universal occurred in the 19th and early 20th century. We will continue to see these critiques in the lecture today and throughout this course. 

 

Today’s episode will explain:

1. The history of feminist activism from the 1920s to the 2020s
2. Areas of focus within feminist activism and how that shifts between generations
3. How feminist activism is linked with other social movements
4. And the concept of backlash and how progress is not a straight line

This podcast is by Dr. Alex Ketchum