This week: how did a spate of right wing violence in the early years of the 1960s help to fundamentally…
We’re closing out Pride month with a look at a country where Pride demonstrations are banned. How did Russia go from relative tolerance to extreme repression? Why did so much Soviet propaganda feature men kissing? And how did a law about kids’ media turn into a human rights violation?
This week: why did the Japanese Socialist Party and the left more generally utterly fail to capitalize on the momentum…
Author S.A. Chant joins us again to discuss what it’s like to write a story about robots. How does the perspective of the point-of-view character change the way we experience science fiction? What does representation mean in a genre full of non-human characters? And where can trans science fiction go from here?
This week, we’re kicking off a short series on the transformations of 1960s Japan with a look at the unassuming…
Can you break the law by reincarnating in the wrong body?
This week, we’re taking a look at the life of one of Japan’s most famous artists: Miyazaki Hayao. How did…
Author S.A. Chant joins Demetria to talk about the conversation about The Matrix when it first came out in 1999—and how that conversation changed when the movie’s directors came out as trans. What’s it like to rewatch a movie that famously defied easy interpretation two decades after its release?
The Jokyu Rebellion is one of the more minor conflicts in Japanese history; yet it also represents a tipping of…
Get ready for more discussion of of glory holes than you’ve ever heard in a civics lesson before.