EP07: Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe
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06/24/18 • -1 min
Cora is with us again to talk about black cultural studies, motherhood, and gender. You can check out Cora’s multi-media work at https://polychora.org/.
Topics Touched:
Hortense Spillers, foundational work in black studies, cultural archetypes of black womanhood, the Moynihan Report, gender and race in the American imagination, construction of black motherhood, erasure of black fatherhood, intersectionality and what happens when terms from cultural theory hit the discourse without context (it’s fine), Harold Bloom and the anxiety of influence (he is wack though), productive misreading (but performativity still doesn’t mean what you think it does)
Works Cited:
- Hortense J. Spillers – Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book
- Patricia Hill Collins – Controlling Images and Black Women’s Oppression
- Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw – Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color
- Judith Butler – Gender Trouble
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Cora is with us again to talk about black cultural studies, motherhood, and gender. You can check out Cora’s multi-media work at https://polychora.org/.
Topics Touched:
Hortense Spillers, foundational work in black studies, cultural archetypes of black womanhood, the Moynihan Report, gender and race in the American imagination, construction of black motherhood, erasure of black fatherhood, intersectionality and what happens when terms from cultural theory hit the discourse without context (it’s fine), Harold Bloom and the anxiety of influence (he is wack though), productive misreading (but performativity still doesn’t mean what you think it does)
Works Cited:
- Hortense J. Spillers – Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: An American Grammar Book
- Patricia Hill Collins – Controlling Images and Black Women’s Oppression
- Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw – Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence Against Women of Color
- Judith Butler – Gender Trouble
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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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EP08: Gigantic Mythic Spiders
Trans writer, gamer, and resident eldritch abomination Sabrina Boynton joins us this week to discuss a sensitive topic very near and dear to everyone’s heart: giant fucking spider moms.
Topics Touched:
abject horror, Sonic Dreams, Charlotte’s Web, maternal industriousness, James and the Giant Peach, arachnophobia, The Red Spot, the devouring mother, the castrating mother, love bombing, J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, the void, Ungoliant, unlight, Shelob, deadlights, Dungeons and Dragons, Lolth, matriarchy, The Drow, racism, anti-blackness, the politics of genre fiction, C. S. Lewis, H. P. Lovecraft, The Black Goat of the Woods With A Thousand Young, post-coital cannibalism, sometimes a man is a snack, ovipositors, doubling and doubles, Ceto and Echidna, vore
Works Cited:
- Louise Bourgeois – Maman
- Dungeons and Dragons Player’s Handbook 5th Edition
- Michael Moorcock – Starship Stormtroopers
- Barbara Creed
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