Audio QT: Recent Episodes
QT Voices
Audio QT is a feature of QT Voices, the online magazine of the LGBTQ Studies Program at the University of Texas at Austin.
Audio QT is comprised primarily of interviews with faculty, staff, students, and friends of the program discussing their research or artistic practice, community projects, current political issues, or good old-fashioned queer gossip. Designed for students and others interested in LGBTQ issues, particularly in Austin and the rest of Texas, Audio QT will bring a fresh perspective on the matter at hand each month.
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In this episode of Audio QT, Karma Chávez talks with Professor Lisa Moore, who will be stepping down as the director of UT's LGBTQ Studies Program at the end of this semester.
Lisa L. Moore is Archibald A. Hill Professor of English and Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. She is the author or editor of five books, including Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes, which won the Lambda Literary Award.
Karma R. Chávez is Bobby and Sherri Patton Professor and Chair in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at The University of Texas at Austin.
Follow: Karma: @queermigrations
Resources:
College of Liberal Arts | The University of Texas at Austin
Profile for Lisa L Moore at UT Austin
In this episode of Audio QT, Karma Chávez talks with allgo co-founder and activist María Limón about her work supporting people living with HIV and AIDS in the early days of the pandemic, and the program called Informe Sida. This interview was recorded on December 1, 2021 and originally aired on KOOP Radio's People United program on Dec. 10. Thanks to Allan Campbell and KOOP for permission to reuse.
María Limón, nacida y criada a la orilla del río que antes era grande, she finished raising herself among a circle of activists tending to issues as diverse as the gentrification of the East Side, getting the Texas national guard out of Honduras, and ensuring that Cuba stayed libre. Her fifteen minutes of fame involved the Austin police department flexing their authoritarian muscle at an anti-KKK rally and helping establish one of the longest-running queer POC organizations in the country while learning how to help close friends die. Having learned that changing the conditions that create injustice and inequality happens one meaningful connection at a time, she coaches people on uprooting the beliefs about ourselves and others an oppressive society shoves down our throats. UC Denver’s Center on Domestic Violence provides the salary that brings home the fakin’ bacon.
Karma Chávez is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at UT.
Follow: Karma: @queermigrations
Resources: https://allgo.org https://www.worldaidsday.org https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Limón
Jo Hsu speaks with Rocky Lane about trans and queer community in Austin, QTPOC activism and mutual aid, and the hope and wonder in trans life.
Resources:
Austin Black Pride: https://www.austinblackpride.org/ Black Trans Leadership of Austin: https://btla.squarespace.com/ Project Liferaft: https://projectliferaft.carrd.co/ SwirlBaby LLC: https://www.swirlbabytv.com/ Rocky’s Instagram: @therockyverse Rocky’s Tiktok: @rockylane
This episode of Audio QT is a replay of an interview that Karma Chávez conducted with Sarah Schulman on 89.9 FM WORT Madison's program "A Public Affair." In it, Chávez and Schulman discuss Schulman's recent book, Let The Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993 published in May by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.
Sarah Schulman is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island and a well-known author of dozens of novels, plays, and works of non-fiction, including American Library Association Stonewall Book Award winners After Delores (1988) and Stage Struck: Theatre, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America (1998). Karma Chávez is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at UT.
Follow:
Karma: @queermigrations Sarah: @sarahschulman3
Resources:
https://actuporalhistory.org
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374185138/lettherecordshow
This episode of Audio QT was mix and mastered by Ean Herrera.
In this episode of Audio QT, Karma Chávez talks with undocuqueer artivist Julio Salgado about how his work has grown over the last decade, its significance to the immigrant justice movement, and his hopes for life and organizing. Julio Salgado is the co-founder of Dreamers Adrift and the Senior Program Manager for The Center for Cultural Power. His status as an undocumented, queer artivist has fueled the contents of his visual art, which depict key individuals and moments of the DREAM Act and the migrant rights movement.
Karma Chávez is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at UT.
Follow:
Julio: @julio1983
Karma: @queermigrations
Resources:
https://www.juliosalgadoart.com
https://www.culturalpower.org
This episode of Audio QT was recorded by Kate Whitmer and was mixed and mastered by Ean Herrera.
In this episode of Audio QT, Karma Chávez talks with Dr. Cameron Awkward-Rich about his reflections on the lessons of 2020, the relationship between art and social movement, the importance of Black trans life, and what trans people have to teach all of us about how to get free.
Cameron Awkward-Rich is the author of Sympathetic Little Monster (Ricochet Editions, 2016), which was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award and Dispatch, which Persea Books published last year. He is a Cave Canem fellow and a poetry editor for Muzzle Magazine. Cameron earned his PhD from Stanford University's program in Modern Thought & Literature, and he is an assistant professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Karma Chávez is an associate professor and chair of the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at UT.
Follow:
Cameron: @cawkward_rich
Karma: @queermigrations
Resources:
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/06/11/i-wish-i-knew-how-it-would-feel-to-be-free/
https://www.cawkwardrich.com/
This episode of Audio QT was recorded by Miki Lin and was mixed and mastered by Oscar Kitmanyen.
In this episode of Audio QT, Karma Chávez talks with Dr. Xavier Livermon about his work exploring how Black queer youth use art, aesthetics, and creative practice to animate Black freedom politics.
Xavier Livermon is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz. He has recently published Kwaito Bodies: Remastering Space and Subjectivity in Postapartheid South Africa (Duke University Press, 2020).
This episode of Audio QT was recorded by Harper Carlton and was mixed and mastered by Oscar Kitmanyen.
In the inaugural episode for Audio QT, Dr. Karma Chavez, sits down with Dr. Laura Gutiérrez, a professor of Latin American and Latina/o performance studies; visual cultural studies; gender and sexuality studies; feminist theory; queer theory; race and racial formations; and inter-American and transnational studies.
Laura G. Gutiérrez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies. Her primary research and teaching areas of interest are: Latin American, Mexican and Latina/o embodied practices, gender and sexuality, and questions of nation, modernity and the transnational. Gutiérrez is the author of Performing Mexicanidad: Vendidas y Cabareteras on the Transnational Stage (U Texas P, 2010), which won The Ninth Annual MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies. Gutiérrez has published essays and book chapters in the Arizona Journal of Hispanic Culture Studies, Transformations, Spectator, Studies in Latin American Popular Culture, Latin American Literary Review, Feminist Media Studies, Global Mexican Cultural Productions, Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture & Chicana/o Sexualities.
This episode of Audio QT was recorded by Evan Sherer and was mixed and mastered by Lydia Fortuna and Brittany Marsh.