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New episode: Access Intimacy in Academic Spaces (with guest Katya Vrtis)
Nicolas welcomes Dr. Katya Vrtis back to the podcast. They turn their practice of crip theorizing-in-process to Mia Mingus’ concept of access intimacy and the possibilities it offers as a way of thinking about and practicing accessibility in higher education. Key questions include: What is access intimacy, and what interventions might it make where higher ed’s…
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New Episode: Defusing Queerphobia in the Classroom
In this episode, university arts educators share practical strategies for defusing homophobia and transphobia in the classroom while accounting for our increasingly polarized political realities across the U.S. Rather than combatting or fighting queerphobia, they present approaches they have used to keep students engaged in dialogue and promote inclusive, respectful classroom culture.
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Roundtable Part 2: Queer Failure, Queer Possibility
Host Nicolas Shannon Savard, Kelly Aliano, Keenan Shionylan, and Ben Gillespie explore the questions: How have the constraints of existing archives caused (invited? necessitated?) what Jack Halberstam calls “queer failure”? Where do we see queer possibility in the archive? Their conversation offers a range of queer interventions for scholars and students of performance and history…
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New Episode. Queer Praxis Roundtable, Pt. 1: Disrupting White Supremacy in Theatre History
Host Nicolas Shannon Savard invites queer theatre artist-educator-historians Janet Werther, Kelli Crump, Jordan Ealy, Victoria Lafave to dig into how we bring a queer eye to history in the classroom, what power and responsibility we have as queer artist-educators to disrupt white supremacy in the archive and our institutions and strategies for building solidarity.