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Outed: LBJ’s Confidant and the Arrest that Transformed a Presidency with Timothy Stewart-Winter (U Chicago Press, 2026)

Timothy Stewart-Winter joins Michael Stauch to discuss the arrest that transformed Lyndon Johnson’s presidency. In 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson’s longest-serving and most trusted advisor, Walter Jenkins, was arrested for soliciting sex in a YMCA bathroom ... more

23 Oct 2026 • 53 min

No! The Art and Activism of Complaining

To be heard as complaining is not to be heard, writes Sara Ahmed. In No! The Art and Activism of Complaining, her sweeping exploration of complaint as a means of resistance, Sara Ahmed attunes her “feminist ear” to those who seek to challenge powerfu... more

22 Oct 2026 • 52 min

Queer Resistance: Contesting State, Family, and Inequality in Post-Socialist China with Susanne Yuk-Ping Choi (U California Press, 2026)

Queer Resistance: Contesting State, Family, and Inequality in Post-Socialist China (U California Press, 2026) by Dr. Susanne Yuk-Ping Choi examines transformations in intimate lives in post-socialist China through the experiences and resistance of LG... more

19 Oct 2026 • 44 min

An Inconvenient Woman: The Extraordinary Life of Lillian Smith, the Southerner Who Defied Jim Crow America with Keri Leigh Merritt (St. Martin's Press, 2026)

Born in Florida to a religious family, Lillian Smith (1897-1966) was a white Southern woman living in the Jim Crow South who defied all stereotypes: She lived with her lover, Paula, first running a summer camp in the foothills of the Appalachian Moun... more

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Timothy Stewart-Winter

Associate professor of history and author of Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics

Rutgers University-Newark

Episode: Outed: LBJ’s Confidant and the Arrest that Transformed a Presidency with Timothy Stewart-Winter (U Chicago Press, 2026)

Sara Ahmed

Independent feminist scholar and author of eleven books, including The Feminist Killjoy Handbook

Episode: No! The Art and Activism of Complaining

Susanne Yuk-Ping Choi

Sociologist researching gender, family, sexuality, and social change in Chinese societies and East Asia.

The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Episode: Queer Resistance: Contesting State, Family, and Inequality in Post-Socialist China with Susanne Yuk-Ping Choi (U California Press, 2026)

Tom Hulme

Professor of history, Queen's University Belfast

Queen's University Belfast

Episode: Tom Hulme, "Belfastmen: An Intimate History of Life Before Gay Liberation" (Cornell UP, 2026)

Ketil Slagstad

Author of Standardizing Sex, A History of Trans Medicine

University of Chicago Press / author

Episode: Ketil Slagstad, "Standardizing Sex: A History of Trans Medicine" (U Chicago Press, 2025)

Diego Galego

Author of Queering Public Policy, A Disruptive Yet Inclusive Framework for Policymaking

Rutgers University; author

Episode: Diego Galego, "Queering Public Policy: A Disruptive Yet Inclusive Framework for Policymaking" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026)

Julie Kliegman

Author of Finding Renée Richards, The Groundbreaking Story of Tennis's Trans Pioneer

Author, Finding Renée Richards

Episode: Julie Kliegman, "Finding Renée Richards: The Groundbreaking Story of Tennis’s Trans Pioneer" (HarperOne, 2026)

Ryan Michael Schweitzer

Author of the book Homosexuality in Central Asia: Stories of Hardship and Hope

Barnes & Noble Press (publisher)

Episode: Ryan Schweitzer, "Homosexuality in Central Asia: Stories of Hardship and Hope" (B&N Press, 2026)

Carly Thomsen

Associate Professor in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Rice University; author of Reproductive Justice, Queerly

Rice University

Episode: Carly Thomsen, "Reproductive Justice, Queerly" (U California Press, 2026)

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Queer Resistance: Contesting State, Family, and Inequality in Post-Socialist China with Susanne Yuk-Ping Choi (U California Press, 2026)

Q: What are some of the strategies of everyday queer resistance that you've identified, whether or not they're tied to kind of a big life decision, like whether to get married or whether to come out?

Choi identifies three strategies: using international migration to gain freedom and rights, performing heterosexuality through nominal marriages or staged relationships, and drawing on changes in heterosexual marriage to defend remaining single or forming other family arrangements.

Queer Resistance: Contesting State, Family, and Inequality in Post-Socialist China with Susanne Yuk-Ping Choi (U California Press, 2026)

Q: Can you tell us more about how or to what extent, I suppose, the Chinese state has or has not shifted its position and governance of homosexuality over the last few decades?

Choi traces changing state policies from denunciation and repression through pragmatic approaches and a more liberal period, followed by intensified crackdowns and censorship from 2016. Some individual legal protections and autonomy have nevertheless continued to develop.

Outed: LBJ’s Confidant and the Arrest that Transformed a Presidency with Timothy Stewart-Winter (U Chicago Press, 2026)

Q: What is the Lavender Scare? And then secondly, how does each party relate to the Jenkins arrest in the context of the Lavender Scare?

The Lavender Scare was a campaign to identify and remove gay and lesbian government employees, justified by claims that they could be blackmailed. Republican operatives helped publicize Jenkins's arrest during the 1964 campaign, while Johnson's team sought to contain the fallout and present it as a health crisis.

Outed: LBJ’s Confidant and the Arrest that Transformed a Presidency with Timothy Stewart-Winter (U Chicago Press, 2026)

Q: What explains the big difference between those, the arrest in 1959 and the arrest in 1964 in your view?

In 1959, police used a procedure that sanitized some arrest records, and Jenkins's record was not fully disclosed during later background checks. Bureaucratic confusion and competing priorities also helped keep it from becoming public. In 1964, the arrest became a political story after Republican officials directed reporters to the record.

No! The Art and Activism of Complaining

Q: What is the work of being a feminist ear? What tools would we use? How would someone know that we were a feminist ear and not a false ally?

Ahmed describes a feminist ear as a commitment to action, not simply listening. It means working with complainants to understand why a complaint has stalled and how to help it move forward.

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The show concentrates on scholarly explorations of LGBTQ+ studies, gender, sexuality, and related social justice issues through interviews with authors, researchers, and practitioners. Episodes frequently blend biography, history, and theory with contemporary implications for policy, education, and culture, often centering marginalized voices and decolonial or feminist perspectives. Noteworthy is the commitment to making rigorous academic work accessible, with guests ranging from biographers and legal scholars to mental health professionals and historians. This mix offers listeners a deep dive into complex topics while highlighting practical implications for activists, educators, and researchers interested in how research translates to publ... more

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