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Interviews with researchers on sex-related issues.

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Artwork for New Books in Sex, Sexuality, and Sex Work

Latest Episodes

Headstrong: Women Porters, Blackness, and Modernity in Accra (U Pennsylvania Press, 2025) explores the experiences of women porters, called kayayei, in Accra, Ghana. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork, anthropologist Laurian R. Bowles shows how kayayei... more

Averill Earls is an associate professor in history at St. Olaf’s College and her research focuses on sexuality and modern Ireland. Her writing has appeared in the Journal of the History of Sexuality, Historical Reflections (in the top-visited issue o... more

In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, Dr Hanna Torsh speaks with Dr Vaughan Rapatahana about sexual predation in the English language teaching industry.

The conversation addresses his new book Sexual Predation and TEFL: The teaching o... more

In Engendering Blackness: Slavery and the Ontology of Sexual Violence (Stanford UP, 2025) Patrice D. Douglass interrogates the relationship between sexual violence and modern racial slavery and finds it not only inseverable but also fundamental to th... more

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Recent Guests

Patrice D. Douglass
Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at UC Berkeley.
University of California, Berkeley
Episode: Patrice D. Douglass, "Engendering Blackness: Slavery and the Ontology of Sexual Violence" (Stanford UP, 2025)
Marla Segol
Associate Professor in the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies
University of Buffalo
Episode: Marla Segol, "Kabbalah and Sex Magic: A Mythical-Ritual Genealogy" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2022)
Ayo Wahlberg
A researcher focused on sperm banking and reproductive technologies in China.
University of California Press
Episode: Ayo Wahlberg, "Good Quality: The Routinization of Sperm Banking in China" (U California Press, 2018)
Chris Washington
Author of Nonbinary Jane Austen and Associate Professor of English at Francis Marion University
Francis Marion University
Episode: Chris Washington, "Nonbinary Jane Austen" (U Minnesota Press, 2025)
Marion Bower
Author of The Life and Work of Joan Riviere, trained as a teacher and psychoanalytic psychotherapist
Routledge
Episode: Marion Bower, "The Life and Work of Joan Riviere: Freud, Klein and Female Sexuality" (Routledge, 2018)
Dr. Lieba Faier
Professor of Geography and Gender Studies at UCLA
University of California, Los Angeles
Episode: Lieba Faier, "The Banality of Good: The UN's Global Fight Against Human Trafficking" (Duke UP, 2024)
Dr. Jenn Hobbs
Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Leicester
University of Leicester
Episode: Jenn Hobbs, "Bodily Fluids, Fluid Bodies and International Politics: Feminist Technoscience, Biopolitics and Security" (Bristol University Press, 2024)
Tamara Lea Spira
Associate Professor of Queer Studies and American Studies at Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies
Western Washington University
Episode: Tamara Lea Spira, "Queering Families: Reproductive Justice in Precarious Times" (U California Press, 2025)
Lucia Soriano
Assistant professor of ethnic studies and women's gender and sexuality studies at Albion College.
Albion College
Episode: Lucia Soriano, "Embodying Normalcy: Women's Work in Neoliberal Times" (Lexington Books, 2024)

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Hanna Torsh
Host of the Language on the Move Podcast

Reviews

4.2 out of 5 stars from 11 ratings
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    I really liked some episodes which had some interviews with researchers and sex workers, but with the May 2023 episode with Mary Eberstadt, I’ve learned this podcast series is just as bad as the mainstream media

    There is no sex worker solidarity without solidarity for trans people. If you’re reading this and thinking “well not everything is black and white, you just don’t want people to express their opinions freely”, please go educate yourself with some recent research on the current statistic... more

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Listeners appreciate the depth and rigor of discussions, often finding the interviews enlightening and the content intellectually stimulating.
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Averill Earls, "Love in the Lav: A Social Biography of Same-Sex Desire in Ireland, 1922-1972" (Temple UP, 2025)
Q: How did men themselves navigate the surveillance and legal repercussions?
Many men evaded detection by communicating discreetly and understanding the social signals indicating safe spaces for encounters.
Averill Earls, "Love in the Lav: A Social Biography of Same-Sex Desire in Ireland, 1922-1972" (Temple UP, 2025)
Q: What do these sources that they produced tell us?
They indicate that there were men engaging in same-sex relationships in public spaces but do not capture the private lives of these men who may have had more intimate relationships.
Averill Earls, "Love in the Lav: A Social Biography of Same-Sex Desire in Ireland, 1922-1972" (Temple UP, 2025)
Q: What does your research do to correct that and challenge that?
The research reveals that there were indeed men hooking up with other men in public toilets in Dublin in the 1950s, opposing the perception that it didn't happen during that time.
Sexual Imperialism and English Language Teaching
Q: What would you like sort of our audience to go away with in terms of the key message of your book?
Be far more aware and report any incidents of sexual predation, even if they seem minor.
Marla Segol, "Kabbalah and Sex Magic: A Mythical-Ritual Genealogy" (Pennsylvania State UP, 2022)
Q: What is Sex Magic?
Marla defines Sex Magic as human beings using sexuality to access and employ divine power, specifically focusing on ritual imitation of divine processes.

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