Couched

Join us for this embodied and moving conversation with Harrison Guy and Dr. Brianna Suslovic. Our guests teach us how to harness the reconstructive power of the abolitionist movement in order to reimagine a thriving black and queer life. Anchored both in their spirited optimism and capacity to face the brutal realities of injustice, our guests inspire listeners to engage with the yet to be realized possibilities for meaningful action and transformative living.

Mentioned in this episode (in order of mention)

Kelley, R. D.G. (2003). Freedom dreams: The black radical imagination. Penguin Books.
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/206173/freedom-dreams-by-robin-dg-kelley/

DuBois, W.E.B.(1935). Black reconstruction in America: An essay toward a history of the part which black folk played in the attempt to reconstruct democracy in America, 1860-1880. Harcourt, Brace and Company.
http://www.webdubois.org/wdb-BlackReconst.html

No New Prisons Illinois - https://www.chicagoactivismhub.org/detail/2116/

Sedgwick, E. K. (1997). Paranoid reading and reparative reading; or, you’re so paranoid, you probably think this introduction is about you. In E. K. Sedgwick (Ed.), Novel gazing: queer readings on fiction (pp.1-38). Duke University Press.
https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/636/chapter/128566/Paranoid-Reading-and-Reparative-Reading-or-You-re

Boggs, N. (2025). Baldwin: A love story. Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux.
https://www.nicholasboggs.com/

El-Kurd. M. (2025). Perfect victims: And the politics of appeal. Haymarket.
https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2499-perfect-victims
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Join us for this stirring conversation with Dr. Carter Carter and Alec Karakatsanis. Our guests peel back the curtain and inspire with a paradigm-shifting conversation on how they wrest life from institutions and build communities for themselves and others. By exposing the limits to our imagination when we adhere to the counterintuitive logics of institutionalization, our guests challenge us to think beyond the status quo. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join us for this illuminating conversation with Drs. Mary Kim Brewster, David Eng, and Shinhee Han. Our guests confront the dangerous myths of yellow peril and the model minority in the context of negated geo-political histories. They encourage us to imagine the Asian American subject’s relationality as both “Asian” and “American” and as a necessary condition towards repair and recognition.

Episode References

A Dialogue on Racial Melancholia - David Eng & Shinhee Han

Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic LIves of Asian Americans - David Eng & Shinhee Han

Reparations and the Human - David Eng

Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974 - 1989

Caucasia - Danzy Senna

Joan Wallach Scott

Donald W. Winnicott - Hate in the Countertransference
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Join us for this timely truth-telling conversation with multi-medium artist Kris Grey and author and psychoanalyst, Griffin Hansbury. Our guests crack open the delusions of binary gender and hyper-normativity, bringing forth expansive modes of being and thinking. This episode invites all to experience the pleasure and potency of nuanced subversion and non-conformity.

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Join us for this poetic and incisive conversation between Foluke Taylor and Jyoti Rao. Our guests explore the toxicity of institutional stasis and the subversive urgency of grief and grievance. Through their conversation they model inclusivity, interdisciplinarity, and intimacy offering us an alternative path through. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.