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Jane Ward is a feminist scholar and author of the books “Not Gay: Sex Between Straight White Men” and “Respectably Queer.” She teaches gender and sexuality studies at UC Riverside, specializing in feminist, queer and heterosexuality studies and creating “scholarship for the feminist revolution.” Jane joins Tierney to discuss her new book “The Tragedy of Heterosexuality,” a “lesbian feminist diagnosis” of heterosexuality that exposes the realities of heterosexual culture while encouraging its development into something deeper, more loving and less violent. Jane declares herself an ally to straight people as “they work to liberate heterosexuality from misogyny.” She’s an expert at revealing how weird most “normative” cultures and social identities tend to be. In this book, Jane contextualizes heterosexuality as the romantic arm of patriarchy and details how the heterosexual advice industry has been trying to help men and women in this country survive their marriages for the last 100+ years (not all that successfully, either).

Do you want a chance to acknowledge queer people as allies to straight people, especially straight women experiencing romantic discontent, instead of vice versa? How about a celebration of the immeasurable contributions lesbians have made to the mainstream feminist movement? Listen to this and more importantly, read the book!
Ward quotes Edith Massey as Aunt Ida in John Waters’ “Female Trouble” several times: “The world of the heterosexual is a sick and boring life.”
No matter who you are or who you’re attracted to, Ward’s work has tons to offer you!

“As with the often nebulous racial category of whiteness, one of the ways that we avoid looking critically at straightness is to keep it indefinable, to imagine that it is so vast and irreducible to any one way of being,” Ward writes in the book.

Buy “The Tragedy of Heterosexuality” from NYU Press today - https://nyupress.org/9781479851553/the-tragedy-of-heterosexuality/

Follow Jane Ward on Twitter @thequeerjane and check out https://www.janewardphd.com/.

To enter to win a copy of “The Tragedy of Heterosexuality,” please follow these instructions:

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Subscribe to Tierney Talks today and follow Tierney on IG @TSTAR7. Our show music is “Let Me Love You” by Dis Fantasy. Recorded and edited by Margot Padilla. Hosted, written and produced by Tierney Finster.

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New episode of the podcast featuring @theaprilflores out now! April is a porn performer, model and artist from Los Angeles. She’s the star of Fat Girl, a fine art book that documents 12 years of her erotic art practice with the photographer Carlos Batts. In 2005, she got her start performing in porn with Belladonna and in 2014, she became the first performer to win the AVN Award for BBW Performer of the Year. She’s won a Feminist Porn Award for her work in “Lesbian Curves 3: Soft Girls and Strap Ons” and wrote about beauty and embodiment in Tristan Taormino’s The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure. We talk about learning the term “zaftig” and she clears up my misunderstanding of what a FUPA actually is.

She’s the first Tierney Talks guest to have her own masturbator toy and tells us all about the molding process (she’s the first BBW to be molded for such a toy & the Amazon reviews are worth reading!) We talk about entering the porn industry as a hobbyist, weed and body dysmorphia and the plus-size amount of work left to do in the fat acceptance movement! We also talk about fat representation in porn vs mainstream fashion and entertainment, enjoying her exhibitionism and her female fan base. April describes the way making porn fulfills her interests in filmmaking and says her main career motivation is to be visibly naked, fat, fucking, having fun and getting paid for it. And we’re smoking weed and wearing lingerie the whole time! Available on Apple, Spotify, Google Play, Stitcher, etc
Credit and thanks to our engineer and audio producer Margot Padilla, whose band Dis Fantasy made the music you hear at the beginning and end of this episode ("Let Me Love You" and "She Magical." Check out Dis Fantasy's LP, streaming now!

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Tierney invites screenwriter Michelle Badillo and comedian Heather Jewett into the Montez Press Radio RV outside the 2019 Los Angeles Book Fair. While book collectors stroll MOCA and the radio staff cracks beers on lawn chairs outside, Michelle, Heather and Tierney crouch around the motor home's dining room table and discuss their mothers. The segment is called "Maternal Adoration and Agitation" because that bond is crazy AF. Heather reads a piece called "Meal Time With Mommy," Michelle reads a diary entry from high school and I read an excerpt from my short story "Reseda," which originally appears in Dazed and Confused A/W 2019.
Heather and Michelle's stories are sooooooo funny and beautiful, you'll squeal and squirm and smile.
Follow Michelle @_mistermichelle and Heather @hurrrjurrr
Thank you Montez Press.

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My favorite heavily-perfumed party girls are in the studio discussing niche fragrances! Welcome Chloe Coover and Maddie Phinney! The noses behind the one and only Nose Candy podcast!
This episode is like smoking weed, getting an iced coffee, and going perfume shopping at the mall. Only with two passionate experts at hand!
Chloe and Maddie share their approaches to collecting scents. They discuss their fan-favorite friendship. And they recommend tons of fragrances!
Nose Candy honors the art of perfumery with knowledge, intuition, and eroticism. They're smart and hot and listening to them will make you an insatiable frag-hag™. You will learn words like "gourmand" and "flanker." Your vocabulary and olfactory system will grow, deepen, ripen, and bloom.

Curate your own collection! Cultivate your own personal taste! Open your nose!
Join Nose Candy at their Scent Swamp on Saturday, July 6th! At Murmurs Gallery in LA. Tickets available here.

Curate your own collection! Cultivate your own personal taste! Open your nose!
[™ = Nose Candy]
FRAGRANCES DISCUSSED:

Orebella Salted Muse [Her perfumes are $100 not $56 like I say.]

Orebella Blooming Fire

Orebella Window2Soul

Le Labo Santal 33

Theodoros Kalotinis

Being Frenshe Lavendar Clouds

Two Eau de Toilette by Knize

Byredo Bibliotheque

Byredo La Tulipe

Akro Smoke Eau de Parfum

Jousset Gourmand-Bakhoor

Jousset Gourmand-Bakhoor-Oud

Mugler Angel Nova

Hilde Soliani Hot Milk Eau de Parfum

Xerjoff Mefisto Eau De Parfum

Xerjoff Lira

Versace Dylan Turquoise Pour Femme Eau de Toilette

Vilhelm Mango Skin

Diesel Loverdose

Etat Libre D’Orange The Ghost in the Shell

Philosophy Amazing Grace

Heeley Menthe Fraîche

Courrà ̈ges Hyper Musc

Tom Ford Black Orchid

Mugler Angel

Mugler Alien

Viktor&Rolf Flowerbomb

Viktor&Rolf Spicebomb Night Vision

Etat Libre D’Orange You or Someone Like You

Alguien 2

Kyse Cocoa Vanille
One more time! Join Nose Candy at their Scent Swamp on Saturday, July 6th! At Murmurs Gallery in LA. Tickets available here.
Subscribe to Nose Candy today wherever you listen to podcasts! And check out episode #44 The E! True Hollywood Story w/ me! Perfume is having a moment. Each week, Nose Candy co-hosts and perfume evangelists Maddie and Chloe preach the fraghead gospel.
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Tierney Talks is hosted and produced by Tierney Finster. Follow me on IG @TSTAR7. Engineered and edited by Margot Padilla. Original music by Margot Padilla. Follow Margot on IG @margotpaulinepadilla.
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Welcome back Beth Pickens! My favorite art consultant, art counselor & lesbian-feminist money coach (she's a Capricorn too!) We celebrate her new book “Make Your Art No Matter What: Moving Beyond Creative Hurdles” and discuss some of its core topics — money, time, fear, grief, isolation, education, and asking for what you want. Listen for a chance to win your own copy!
Beth shares tons of tips to enhance your experience of both your art and your life. Investing time and money into yourself, distinguishing isolation from solitude, and warming up for your own creative practice are all talked about. We also explore staying connected to stillness while an abundance of ways to spend time become available to us. Beth gives advice to artists with common fears like experiencing disappointment while pitching and avoiding promoting your completed projects.
Beth says, “For artists, the hard thing is not attaining goals, getting the grant or getting the opportunity or the show or whatever, the hard thing is being present for it and actually enjoying it.”

She reminds us all, "We can’t solve interior situations with exterior things!"
Follow Beth, buy her book & listen to her podcast. (Some LA libraries also have the book!)
Tierney Talks is engineered & edited by Margot Padilla + hosted & produced by Tierney Finster. Subscribe to the show wherever you're listening. Our show music is "Let Me Love You" by Dis Fantasy. Listen to their new track "I Want You" on Bandcamp now.

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