EP05: Motherlands and Colonialism
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06/10/18 • -1 min
Cora–scholar, multi-media artist, ancient prophet, and very good friend–joins us to talk about the Motherland and the role of maternal figures in colonialism and post-colonialism. Check out Cora’s website to explore their work.
Topics Touched:
T.S. Eliot’s voice, wrinkled dugs, World War I propaganda, weaponized white motherhood, nationalism, South African colonial and post-colonial history, Section 377, conveniently short historical memory, historical fantasy, gender and motherhood in the post-colonial imagination, getting personal, feminist ethics of care v. reproductive labor, the possibility that maybe capitalism might be bad
Works Cited:
- Sherry Ortner – “Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?”
- Zakes Mda – The Heart of Redness
- Silvia Federici – Wages Against Housework
- Lindsay Ellis – “My Monster Boyfriend”
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Cora–scholar, multi-media artist, ancient prophet, and very good friend–joins us to talk about the Motherland and the role of maternal figures in colonialism and post-colonialism. Check out Cora’s website to explore their work.
Topics Touched:
T.S. Eliot’s voice, wrinkled dugs, World War I propaganda, weaponized white motherhood, nationalism, South African colonial and post-colonial history, Section 377, conveniently short historical memory, historical fantasy, gender and motherhood in the post-colonial imagination, getting personal, feminist ethics of care v. reproductive labor, the possibility that maybe capitalism might be bad
Works Cited:
- Sherry Ortner – “Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?”
- Zakes Mda – The Heart of Redness
- Silvia Federici – Wages Against Housework
- Lindsay Ellis – “My Monster Boyfriend”
Tip Jar
If you like the show, we really appreciate financial support, which goes directly to our recording costs. Thank you!
$5.00
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EP04: Asherah and The Jewish Divine Feminine
Seth joins us again to discuss his search for a Jewish divine femininity, female messiahs, and androgynous God.
Topics Touched:
two thousand years of shitposts, Hephzibah, Zerubbabel, Battle Mary, The Talmud, Asherah, Elohim, King Josiah, Elijah, Code of Hammurabi, Kabbalah, androgynous God and Adam, Chasidism
Works Cited:
- Martha Himmelfarb – Jewish Messiahs in a Christian Empire: A History of the Book of Zerubbabel
- Raphael Patai – The Hebrew Goddess
- Names of God in Judaism
- The Jewish Study Bible
- Ada Rapoport-Albert – Women and the Messianic Heresy of Sabbatai Zevi, 1666-1816
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EP06: Mammies, Nannies, and Reproductive Labor
Cora joins us again to to discuss race, blackness, mothering and motherhood, and reproductive labor. You can explore Cora’s work at https://polychora.org/.
Topics Touched:
housewifery as administrative experience, the institution of “hired help,” the legacy of slavery, the archetype of the mammy, controlling images, Octavia Spencer, black female characters in film, the perverse psychodrama of US whiteness, the wild psychosexual landscape of global white imperialism, our own moms
Works Cited:
- Patricia Hill-Collins – Black Feminist Thought
- H. Rider Haggard – King Solomon’s Mines
- Ralph Ellison – Invisible Man
- The Help
- Hidden Figures
- The Shape of Water
- Annabelle
- Girl Interrupted
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
- Jules Verne – 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- Lindsay Ellis – “My Monster Boyfriend”
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