The Sex Wars

Life has been busy but we came out of hibernation to release this fall reading list! We'll be back in a few weeks with more episodes. Show notes: Books- Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, by Andrea Lawlor How to do Nothing, by Jenny Odell Females, by Andrea Long Chu Once and Future Feminist, edited by Merve Emre A Certain Hunger, by Chelsea G. Summers Podcasts- Novara FM  You're Wrong About - Online Shopping  Articles of Interest TV Shows- I May Destroy You, written/directed by Michaela Coel All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, directed by Laura Poitras

In the FINAL episode of porn month, we interview Maggie MacDonald, a 4th year PhD student who studies the platformization of porn. We talk porn platforms, deepfakes, and anti-sex work policy in Canada.  To read all the articles discussed in this episode, head to Maggie's website: https://www.internetmaggie.com Check out the Maggie's Toronto Sex Work Action Project here: https://www.maggiesto.org Gender Troubles will be taking a little break over the summer to rest and write more great episodes! Thanks for listening and we'll be back in September with lots more content <3

Emma and Eva talk about the sex wars (also known as the porn wars), a time in the 1980s when debates on sexuality, pornography and kink dominated the feminist conversation.  Follow us on social media: Instagram Twitter Facebook We are a proud member of the Harbinger Media Network reading list: Diary of a Conference on Sexuality  Pleasure and danger : exploring female sexuality (Gayle Rubin's "Thinking Sex" starts on page 267) Against Sadomasochism: A Radical Feminist Analysis Off our backs, "towards a politics of sexuality" Juggling : a memoir of work, family, and feminism Explanation of the Dworkin-MacKinnon Ordinance Dworkin's "Against the Male Flood" and MacKinnon's "Only Words

From Pompeii to Pornhub, Eva & Emma discuss the long history of porn. Show notes: https://www.filmsite.org/sexinfilms1.html https://www.proquest.com/openview/31a0431f5269893f8a5632a062bf0a46/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750 https://susannapaasonen.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/01pornification23-32.pdf https://monoskop.org/images/e/e7/Williams_Linda_Hard_Core_Power_Pleasure_and_the_Frenzy_of_the_Visible.pdf https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/how-the-internet-changed-porn-201674/ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/dec/30/internet-porn-says-more-about-ourselves-than-technology https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2021/06/16/the-shady-secret-history-of-onlyfans-billionaire-owner/?sh=1b1496085c17 Staying power: The mainstreaming of the hard -core pornographic film industry, 1969–1990 Johnson, Stephen Patrick. University of Maryland, College Park ProQuest Dissertations Publishing,  2009. 3359387. https://archive.org/details/historyofpornogr0000unse/page/2/mode/1up?view=theater Pornography: A Secret History of Civilisation. TV Mini Series. 1999. 

We kick off Porn Month with a conversation with Kyla Hewson and Kristen Pue, of the podcast Pullback! Pullback investigates the ethical issues behind everyday goods and services. Kyla and Kristen help us work through the issues around the ethical consumption of pornography. What does it look like to be an ethical porn consumer? What are the best ways to directly support porn creators? Is OnlyFans like farm-to-table cuisine? Listen now to find out.  You can find Pullback here and follow them on Instagram Twitter Facebook  The book we discuss, "Porn Work: Sex, Labor and Late Capitalism" can be found here  Follow us on social media: Instagram Twitter Facebook Support us on Patreon We are a proud member of the Harbinger Media Network

This episode, we talk through our thoughts about the leaked Supreme Court draft decision on Roe v. Wade.  Readings and Recommendations  Interrupting Criminalization, Abortion Decriminalization is Part of the Larger Struggle Against Policing and Criminalization Reproaction, Understanding and Advocating for Self-Managed Abortion Plan C, A Guide to Abortion Pills Online  Evan Greer, digital security thread  Caroline Duble, resource thread  Melissa Gira Grant, The Real Fight for Abortion Rights Is Not in the Courts or Congress Jenny Brown, Without Apology: The Abortion Struggle Now (free ebook)  Science Vs, The Abortion Underground  5-4 Podcast, Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health: The End of Roe K. Adetoyin, No More Coat Hanger Imagery tiktok  Some lists of Abortion Funds: here, here, here, and here 

This week, Eva and Emma talk about surrogacy. They discuss different feminist perspectives on the topic and consider how we can expand the definitions of "parenthood" and "family" beyond the nuclear model.  Follow us on social media: Instagram Twitter Facebook Support us on Patreon We are a proud member of the Harbinger Media Network READING LIST: Anita L. Allen, "The Black Surrogate Mother" Elizabeth S. Scott, "Surrogacy and the Politics of Commodification" Radiolab, "Birthstory"  Angela Davis, "Surrogates and Outcast Mothers: Racism and Reproductive Politics in the Nineties" Katherine B. Lieber, "Selling the Womb: Can the Feminist Critique of Surrogacy Be Answered?" Barbara Katz Rothman, "Reproductive Technologies and Surrogacy: A Feminist Perspective" Sophie Lewis, "Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family" \ Sophie Lewis, "What is Family Abolition?"  "Baby M" Surrogate Mother who fought for custody, video Cover image: Louise Bourgeois, "The Family" (2007)

What's postmodern feminism? In this episode we desperately try to answer that question! Show notes: "Explainer: What is Postmodernism" by David Palmer, 2014 Artland "What is Dadaism?" "On Judith Butler & Performativity" by Sarah Salih, 2007  Feminist thought : a comprehensive introduction" by Rosemarie Tong, 1989 Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 3. Feminist Postmodernism  Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity, 1999.

Eva and Emma talk about the male gaze, from its origins in feminist film criticism to how the concept gets used today. They also discuss what is often left out from the discourses around the male gaze... (hint: it's capitalism) and also get interrupted by Emma's lovey, loud cat! Follow us on social media: Instagram Twitter Facebook Support us on Patreon We are a proud member of the Harbinger Media Network READING LIST: Big Mama, tiktok  Issues in Feminist Film Criticism (includes 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' and 'Women and Representation')  Janell Hobson, 'Viewing in the Dark: Toward a Black Feminist Approach to Film' Caroline Evans and Lorraine Gamman, 'The Gaze Revisited, or Reviewing Queer Viewing' John Berger, 'Ways of Seeing' show and book  Laura Mulvey, 'Afterthoughts on ‘Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema’' Guerrilla Girls, archive  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 'The Female Gaze' video series  Molly Moss, 'thoughts on a queer gaze' Eliza McDonough, 'Radical Queer Gazes'

In this episode, Eva & Emma discuss the history of gender discrimination within the Canadian Indian Act, and the Indigenous women who have been fighting to overturn this sexism since the 1960's. Show notes: Indigenous authors and organizations: Settee, Priscilla. “Indigenous Women Charting Local and Global Pathways Forward.” The English Journal, vol. 106, no. 1, National Council of Teachers of English, 2016, pp. 45–50 Collaborative Process on Indian Registration, Band Membership, and First Nation Citizenship Fact Sheet, Government of Canada, Mohawk Council of Akwesasne Ontario Native Women's Association, Feathers of Hope Simpson, Audra. Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States. Durham ; London: Duke University Press, 2014.  Gehl, Lynn. 2000. “The Queen and I: Discrimination Against Women.” Canadian Woman Studies/Les Cahiers De La Femme Volume 20, Number 2 Borrows, John. 2016. “Unextinguished: Rights And The Indian Act”. University of New Brunswick Law Journal Volume 67. The Indian Act Said What?, Native Women's Association of Canada Ongoing Indian Act Inequity Issues- Enfranchisement & Marital Status, Native Women's Association of Canada Presentation to the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs Re: Bill S-3 – An Act to amend the Indian Act (elimination of sex- based inequities in registration) Submitted by Dr. Pamela D. Palmater Other sources: Gender discrimination persists in Canada’s Indian Act, United Nations committee rules, APTN National News Bill C-31, Indigenous Foundations, First Nations & Indigenous Studies, UBC https://www.sac-isc.gc.ca/eng/1467214955663/1572460311596 Milloy John. 1991. “The Early Indian Acts: Developmental strategy and constitutional change.” In Sweet Promises: A Reader on Indian-White Relations in Canada, edited by J.R. Miller. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Day, S. (2019). Equal Status for Indigenous Women— Sometime, Not Now : The Indian Act and Bill S-3. Canadian Woman Studies, 33(1-2). Retrieved from https://cws.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cws/article/view/37770 Indian Act Sex Discrimination, Gwen Brodsky Women in Canadian History: Mary Two-Axe Earley, Rise Up Feminist Archive