Intro to Feminist and Social Justice Studies Podcast: Recent Episodes
Alex Ketchum, PhD
Introduction to Feminist and Social Justice Studies: Fall 2020 For transcripts: https://introtofeministstudies.blogspot.com
Here is the link to the transcript: https://introtofeministstudies.blogspot.com/2022/12/episode-23-special-mini-bonus-episode.html
The other podcast mentioned is Feminist Ingredients for Revolution: A Food and Queer History Podcast- transcripts and more information is available at: http://www.thefeministrestaurantproject.com/p/podcast.html
The book is Ingredients for Revolution: A History of American Feminist Restaurants, Cafes, and Coffeehouses: https://www.concordia.ca/press/ingredients.html
and the other book is Engage in Public Scholarship!: A Guidebook on Feminist and Accessible Communication: https://press.library.concordia.ca/projects/engage-in-public-scholarship
the syllabi are available at: https://www.alexketchum.ca/p/syllabi.html
The transcript is available here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZF9K_efF0jgit7WjYpt5YNSeOdSMf1SLWlXvUnvRz68/edit?usp=sharing
For people listening to the podcast that aren't in my GSFS 200 class, this is an audio lecture for my GSFS 200 class on race, racism, and anti-racism since our October 3rd in-person lecture class was cancelled due to the Quebec election. It includes updated and new materials from episode 7. The episode begins by going over some material that you might have heard or read from episode 6. I've added new scholars, new materials, and new analysis.
Welcome to Introduction to Feminist and Social Justice Studies. This is the twenty-second and LAST audio episode of the semester-long course for the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist, and Social Justice Studies program at McGill University, taking place in the Fall of 2021.
The transcript is available here: https://introtofeministstudies.blogspot.com/2020/07/episode-22-environmentalism.html
My name is Dr. Alex Ketchum. As I hope you know by this point, I am your professor for this course. I am joined by three teaching assistants who are graduate students at McGill University. We’ve also been joined this semester by the occasional snoring sounds of my dogs Bubbles and Sprout and the chime of the tags on their collars clinking together.
Having an online semester has been quite an experience. Twenty two audio lectures is a lot-- but it is only the beginning-- only an introduction.
Today’s episode will talk about environmentalism and wrap up the term by talking about world making.
Welcome to Introduction to Feminist and Social Justice Studies. This is the twenty-first audio episode of the semester-long course for the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist, and Social Justice Studies program at McGill University, taking place in the Fall of 2021.
The transcript is available here: https://introtofeministstudies.blogspot.com/2020/07/episode-21-violence-sexual-and-domestic.html
While material throughout this semester has the potential to be triggering, as this episode will focus on the topic of sexual and domestic violence, I want to take an intentional pause to speak to the triggering nature of this content. I will be speaking about this topic through the lens of the kind of language that we use.
This podcast is by Dr. Alex Ketchum
Welcome to Introduction to Feminist and Social Justice Studies. This is the twentieth audio episode of the semester-long course for the Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies program at McGill University, taking place in the Fall of 2021.
The transcript is available here: https://introtofeministstudies.blogspot.com/2020/07/episode-20-embodiment-disability-and.html
Today’s episode will explain:
- The social vs medical models of disability
- Disability and sexuality
- What is accessibility?
- And more!
This podcast is by Dr. Alex Ketchum
Welcome to Introduction to Feminist and Social Justice Studies. This is the 19th audio episode of the semester-long course for the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist, and Social Justice Studies program at McGill University, taking place in the Fall of 2021.
The transcript is available at: https://introtofeministstudies.blogspot.com/2020/07/episode-19-reproduction-and.html
Today’s episode will talk about reproduction, reproductive justice, and reproductive injustices. Every lecture for this course has triggering content, but this lecture may be particularly triggering.
This podcast is by Dr. Alex Ketchum
Welcome to Introduction to Feminist and Social Justice Studies. This is the eighteenth audio episode of the semester-long course for the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist, and Social Justice Studies program at McGill University, taking place in the Fall of 2021.
The transcript is available here: https://introtofeministstudies.blogspot.com/2020/07/episode-18-health.html
Today’s episode centres on the topic of health.
- We will discuss the many forms health can take.
- The history of recent health movements
- And more!
This podcast is by Dr. Alex Ketchum
Welcome to Introduction to Feminist and Social Justice Studies. This is the seventeenth audio episode of the semester-long course for the Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies program at McGill University, taking place in the Fall of 2021.
The transcript is available here: https://introtofeministstudies.blogspot.com/2020/07/episode-17-technology.html
Today’s episode will talk about technology in relation to:
- Labour and how that is gendered, raced, and classed
- Surveillance, privacy, and policing
- And more!
This podcast is by Dr. Alex Ketchum
Welcome to Introduction to Feminist and Social Justice Studies. This is the sixteenth audio episode of the semester-long course for the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist, and Social Justice Studies program at McGill University, taking place in the Fall of 2021.
The transcript is available here: https://introtofeministstudies.blogspot.com/2020/07/episode-16-online-media-and.html
Today’s episode will discuss:
- The lost promise of the internet
- trolling, doxxing, and cyber harassment
- Gamer gate and social media
- Course evaluations’ bias
- Resources to help if you encounter trolling, doxxing, and/or cyber harassment
This podcast is by Dr. Alex Ketchum
Welcome to Introduction to Feminist and Social Justice Studies. This is the fifteenth audio episode of the semester-long course for the Gender, Sexuality,Feminist, and Social Justice Studies program at McGill University, taking place in the Fall of 2021.
The transcript is available here: https://introtofeministstudies.blogspot.com/2020/07/episode-15-popular-culture-beauty-sports.html
Today’s episode will talk about:
- Beauty culture
- Popular culture
- Media and sports
This podcast is by Dr. Alex Ketchum
Welcome to Introduction to Feminist and Social Justice Studies. This is the fourteenth audio episode of the semester-long course for the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist, and Social Justice Studies program at McGill University, taking place in the Fall of 2021.
The transcript is available here: https://introtofeministstudies.blogspot.com/2020/07/episode-14-sex-work.html
Today’s episode will discuss
- Feminist debates around sex work
- It will center sex wokers’ voices.
This podcast is by Dr. Alex Ketchum
Welcome to Introduction to Feminist and Social Justice Studies. This is the thirteenth audio episode of the semester-long course for the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist, and Social Justice Studies program at McGill University, taking place in the Fall of 2021.
The transcript is available here: https://introtofeministstudies.blogspot.com/2020/07/episode-13-work.html
Today’s episode will:
- Build off of the last lecture
- Talk about the second shift and housework
- Talk about care and emotional labour
- And finish with a discussion of new models of labour
- I will also speak about sexual harassment in the work place and pregnancy discrimination- so that’s a content warning for that
This podcast is by Dr. Alex Ketchum
Welcome to Introduction to Feminist and Social Justice Studies. This is the twelfth audio episode of the semester-long course for the Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies program at McGill University, taking place in the Fall of 2021.
The transcript is available here: https://introtofeministstudies.blogspot.com/2020/07/episode-12-class.html
Today’s episode will focus on:
- Class and labour organizing
- We will talk about growing economic inequality and the feminization of poverty.
- I’ll also discuss the impact of COVID-19 and the concept of a gendered recession or she-cession (though I don’t like that term)
- I’ll introduce the concept of neoliberalism.
- We will talk about capitalism and exploitation.
- The lecture will finish by discussing the role of labour in the university.
This podcast is by Dr. Alex Ketchum
Welcome to Introduction to Feminist and Social Justice Studies. This is the eleventh audio episode of the semester-long course for the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist, and Social Justice Studies program at McGill University, taking place in the Fall of 2021.
The transcript is available here: https://introtofeministstudies.blogspot.com/2020/07/episode-11-transgender-and-intersex.html
Today’s episode will:
- Track the history of LGBTQ+ movements, primarily of the USA and Canada, with a particular emphasis on Trans history
- And discuss trans and intersex identities
This podcast is by Dr. Alex Ketchum
Welcome to Introduction to Feminist and Social Justice Studies. This is the 10th audio episode of the semester-long course for the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist, and Social Justice Studies program at McGill University, taking place in the Fall of 2021.
The transcript is available at: https://introtofeministstudies.blogspot.com/2020/07/episode-10-sexuality-and-sexual.html
Today’s episode will discuss:
- Sexuality and some of the key theorists in queer theory
- Sexual orientation
- Heteronormativity and homonormativity
This podcast is by Dr. Alex Ketchum.
Welcome to Introduction to Feminist and Social Justice Studies. This is the ninth audio episode of the semester-long course for the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist, and Social Justice Studies program at McGill University, taking place in the Fall of 2021.
The transcript is available at: https://introtofeministstudies.blogspot.com/2020/07/episode-9-global-and-transnational.html
Today’s episode will discuss:
- Global and transnational feminisms
- We will look at feminist activism outside of the US and Canadian contexts
- And speak to the topic of borders and borderlands
This podcast is by Dr. Alex Ketchum
Welcome to Introduction to Feminist and Social Justice Studies. This is the eighth audio episode of the semester-long course for the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist, and Social Justice Studies program at McGill University, taking place in the Fall of 2021. This is also the start of Unit 2.
The transcript is available at: https://introtofeministstudies.blogspot.com/2020/07/episode-8-colonialism-de.html
Today’s episode will discuss:
- Colonialism
- The meaning of decolonization
- The epidemic of Missing and murdered Indigenous women
Welcome to Introduction to Feminist and Social Justice Studies. This is the seventh audio episode of the semester-long course for the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist, and Social Justice Studies program at McGill University, taking place in the Fall of 2021.
The transcript is available at: https://introtofeministstudies.blogspot.com/2020/07/episode-7-race.html
Today’s episode will discuss:
- Privilege, through the lens of race
- Racism and Anti-racist work in Canada and the United States
- Black feminist thought
- Asian American feminism and Asian Canadian feminism
- An introduction to Police Abolition and Defund the Police Movements
This podcast is by Dr. Alex Ketchum
Welcome to Introduction to Feminist and Social Justice Studies. This is the sixth audio episode of the semester-long course for the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist, and Social Justice Studies program at McGill University, taking place in the Fall of 2021.
The transcript is available here: https://introtofeministstudies.blogspot.com/2020/07/episode-6-many-feminisms-and.html
Today’s episode will explain:
- The many types of feminism
- intersectionality
This podcast is by Dr. Alex Ketchum
Welcome to Introduction to Feminist and Social Justice Studies. This is the fifth audio episode of the semester-long course for the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist, and Social Justice Studies program at McGill University, taking place in the Fall of 2021.
The transcript is available here: https://introtofeministstudies.blogspot.com/2020/07/episode-5-second-and-third-waves-and.html
In the last lecture episode, we talked about American and Canadian feminist movements in the 19th and early 20th century. One of the major themes in that lecture was around the tensions within the category of “woman.” As we discussed, one of the problems with the feminist wave metaphor is that so much of it is built around white women’s histories and experiences with feminist activism. Critiques of treating middle and upper class white women’s experiences as universal occurred in the 19th and early 20th century. We will continue to see these critiques in the lecture today and throughout this course.
Today’s episode will explain:
- The history of feminist activism from the 1920s to the 2020s
- Areas of focus within feminist activism and how that shifts between generations
- How feminist activism is linked with other social movements
- And the concept of backlash and how progress is not a straight line
This podcast is by Dr. Alex Ketchum
Welcome to Introduction to Feminist and Social Justice Studies. This is the fourth audio episode of the semester-long course for the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist, and Social Justice Studies program at McGill University, taking place in the Fall of 2021.
The transcript is available here: https://introtofeministstudies.blogspot.com/2020/07/episode-4-problem-with-wave-theory-and.html
Today’s episode will explain:
- The problem with the wave theory
- What is considered the first wave
- The importance of looking at feminist history and the women’s movementS (yes, plural)
This podcast is by Dr. Alex Ketchum
Welcome to Introduction to Feminist and Social Justice Studies. This is the third audio episode of the semester-long course for the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist, and Social Justice Studies program at McGill University, taking place in the Fall of 2021.
The transcript is available at: https://introtofeministstudies.blogspot.com/2020/07/episode-3-defining-terms-and.html
Today’s episode will focus on:
- The terms sex and gender
- Talk about social construction (and define it!)
- Discuss our first reading, the Introduction to: Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez
- Finish with the podcast by beginning a discussion of what is feminism and what is social justice
This podcast is by Dr. Alex Ketchum
Welcome to Introduction to Feminist and Social Justice Studies. This is the second audio episode of the semester-long course for the Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist, and Social Justice Studies program at McGill University, taking place in the Fall of 2021.
The transcript is available here: https://introtofeministstudies.blogspot.com/2020/07/episode-2-politics-of-citation-and.html
Today’s episode will explain:
- The role and political power of citation
- The assignments
- The quizzes
This podcast is by Dr. Alex Ketchum
Welcome to Introduction to Feminist and Social Justice Studies. This is the first audio episode of the semester-long course for the Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies program at McGill University, taking place in the Fall of 2021.
The transcript is available here: https://introtofeministstudies.blogspot.com/2020/07/audio-and-transcript-1-introduction.html
Today’s episode will explain:
- The design of the course and particularly why the course will be audio based
- What to expect from the course
- And what to look forward to!
This podcast is by Dr. Alex Ketchum.