Second time’s a charm as the Dorx answer YOUR questions, having already answered them a week earlier in a session that failed to record properly. What are our favorite podcasts? What would we have done differently? How is putting on a dress and having fake breasts different to blacking up and wearing an afro wig? Is there Right Wing creep in the GC movement? Is it too soon to hope? Do we have autogynephilia? Learn the answers to these questions and more on this hot, re-heated, re-recorded episode!
Links:
Our Grace Lavery interview: https://www.heterodorx.com/podcast/episode-26-trano-a-trano-with-grace-lavery/
Greg Dember on Metamodernism: https://www.heterodorx.com/podcast/episode-16-metamodernism-with-greg-dember/
Put Yourself First (In a Sexy Way): https://youtu.be/H2lmojePnA0
Andrea Dworkin – Right Wing Women: https://www.feministes-radicales.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Andrea-DWORKIN-Right-Wing-Women-The-Politics-of-Domesticated-Females-19831.pdf
University of Illinois requires DEI statements for tenure and promotion: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/04/01/u-illinois-require-diversity-statements-tenure
For what it’s worth, I think there is very good reason to be optimistic and hopeful. When very bad things happen, we can’t help but notice how terrible it is and we become cynical about the way people are and how the world is. But somehow, we never see the people in the midst of those horrible things that help put it to right and/or lessen an ongoing tragedy. That’s because the Right Thing is the expectation that we’re not aware we have until something upsets it. It’s also the reason why, most of the time, when you do the right thing, no one notices you’ve done anything at all.
So, there may not be a lot we’re not noticing at this moment or at any moment in time when it may look pretty bad, but the motion towards doing the Right Thing is more persistent than we know.