Researching the Rainbow: Recent Episodes
Researching the Rainbow
Join us on Researching the Rainbow to hear more about the exciting and thought-provoking advances in LGBTQIA+ research. Listen to staff and student researchers across a wide range of disciplines talk about their work… and themselves! Researching the Rainbow is coming (out) to you from a flamboyant little closet in the Locke Building at the University of Kent, UK. Hosted by the wonderful Rasa Mikelyte (she/her), and produced by the fabulous Josh Turner (he/him) this podcast is for anyone who’s into exploring the big queer questions!Follow us on Instagram @Researching_The_Rainbow
Join Dr Trude Sundberg (they/them) in conversation about their work as a collaborative researcher, working alongside local to international marginalised communities. This wonderful conversation explores ethical ethnographic research, and how academics can question their role, their power and their contribution to the community involved in their collaborative research.
Check their Eventbrite page for future 'Queerying Workshops'
Visit the project website for LGBT-HE, exploring LGBTQ+ inclusion in the higher education workforce
Read about Trude’s work exploring Urban Water Security in the Global South
Find out more about Trude’s work here
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Join Dr Declan Kavanagh (he/them) in this fascinating discussion on the discovery of the interior life throughout works of queer literature and the subsequent exploration of LGBTQ+ identities. Speaking on their work into the role of effeminacy and its intersection with politics and power, and the exciting prospect of the power bottom subverting the norms of penetration and power. This episode promises to be an exciting queer literary journey from the 18th Century to the present.
Find out more about Declan’s academic work here
Have a look at Declan’s book “Effeminate Years: Literature, Politics, and Aesthetics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain”
Email Declan on D.Kavanagh@kent.ac.uk
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Join Dr Koen Slootmaeckers (he/him) in discussion about his work exploring LGBTQ+ politics in Serbia. This conversation explores the interplay between EU Accession and LGBTQ+ rights in Serbia and the upcoming EuroPride taking place in Serbia’s capital, Belgrade.
This episode was recorded on 19th August 2022, prior to the announcement from the Serbian President that EuroPride would be cancelled. The event has not been cancelled and you can read the statement given by EuroPride on their website here.
Find more of Koen’s work on his website www.koenslootmaeckers.com
Follow our guest on Twitter @kslootmaeckers
Check out Koen’s new book “Coming in: Sexual Politics and EU Accession in Serbia”
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Join Dr Helen Brooks in discussion about “Beyond the Binary: Performing Gender Then and Now”, a fascinating collaborative research project.
This project has brought together students, public researchers, performance-makers and academics to explore new perspectives on gender and performance from historic music hall and pantomime archives.
Find out more on the Beyond the Binary project webpage here
Book your free tickets for Beyond the Binary: Rowdy Dowdy Boys & Saucy Seaside Girls at the Gulbenkian Theatre
Follow our guest on Twitter @drhelenbrooks
Find out more about Helen’s research career
Discover the amazing Lunatraktors here
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Join International Criminology MA (IMARC) student Saskia Hennecke (she/her) in conversation on her research into the experiences of queerness in Uganda and the implications of colonial legacies and imperial projects within modern queer experiences. Saskia explores acts of counterpower through the retelling of stories from her time spent in Uganda interviewing some of the wonderful people in Kampala’s queer community.
Follow Saskia on Twitter @SaskiaHenn
Visit Saskia’s portfolio website here (for the casual name dropped pictures with Joe Biden)
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Join Dr Lynne Regan (she/her) in conversation about supporting transgender students in higher education. Lynne explores what a good trans inclusive policy can look like in education, and how this can be implemented to improve the student experience for transgender individuals.
Follow Lynne on Twitter @LynneRegan31
Click here for information on LGBTQ+ support at the University of Kent and across the UK
- Mermaids Support for trans, non-binary and gender diverse students aged 18-25.
- Gendered Intelligence Trans support, and inclusivity training, including information for therapists and counsellors.
- Mind Out LGBTQ mental health service
You can also read the University of Kent’s Transgender Student Policy and Support Procedures
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Join Dr Flora Renz in this enthralling discussion on their involvement with the Future of Legal Gender project. This feminist led critical law reform project looked into the role of gender in law, and explored the positive and negative impacts that would come from removing gender from law altogether. Flora is a Senior Lecturer in Kent Law School at the University of Kent.
Visit the Future of Legal Gender website here
Follow Flora on Twitter @FloraRenz
Find out more on other publications from Flora Renz here
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Join MA student Michael Redmond (he/they) in this captivating conversation on their LGBTQ+ comparative literature research. Michael explores the queer obsession with escapism in Christopher Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin (Cabaret) and Manuel Puig’s Kiss of the Spider Woman.
Unfortunately Michael was telling the truth in saying they were a “mystery”, be sure to furiously Google until something comes up! (We’ll be doing the same!)
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Join PHD student Kirsty Gravestock (she/her) in a fascinating discussion on how LGBT+ inclusive shows, such as Sex Education and Heartstopper, can impact attitudes and behaviours towards the LGBTQ+ community.
You can find Kirsty's (brand new!) academic twitter on @K_Gravestock
Read the article "A Love Letter to Heartstopper" here
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Join Dr Jolie Keemink (she/her) in conversation about her amazing research exploring LGBTQ+ inclusive care provision.
You can find Jolie on Twitter on @JolieRosanne
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