A show about what you're not supposed to say.
Nancy Rommelmann is a journalist and the author of To the Bridge: A True Story of Motherhood and Murder. Her work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times Magazine, and the LA Weekly, among other publications.
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James Sullivan works at a jewelry store in Texas. He's also one of my favorite philosophers. James is the host of James and the Giant Podcast.
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Renegade University continued the revolution in higher education in New Orleans earlier this month. Brett Veinotte of the School Sucks Project helps me host a live podcast at the end of our third weekend. Big ideas and great people are such a wonderful mix, I can't wait for the next one.
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Shayne Lee is a professor of sociology at the University of Houston and the author of four books: Tyler Perry's America: Inside His Films; Erotic Revolutionaries: Black Women, Sexuality and Popular Culture; Holy Mavericks: Evangelical Innovators and the Spiritual Marketplace; and T.D. Jakes: America's New Preacher. He has appeared as a guest on CNN, ABC, and Fox, while also providing commentary in the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Atlantic, Huffington Post, U.S.A. Today, CNN.com, Christian Science Monitor, and numerous other periodicals.
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"The Color of Discipline: Civil Rights and Black Sexuality," by Thaddeus Russell
T.D. Jakes (wiki)
No More Sheets: The Truth About Sex, by Juanita Bynum
"Lil Wayne, Shakespeare, and Artistic Freedom," by Shayne Lee
"67 Times Rappers Name Dropped ‘Donald Trump’," by Taryn Finley and Oliver Noble
The Hip Hop Wars, by Tricia Rose
Chitlin' Circuit (wiki)
Stanley Aronowitz (wiki)
Eddie Glaude (wiki)
Erotic Faculties, by Joanna Frueh
Feminist Accused of Sexual Harassment, by Jane Gallop
Zane (wiki)
Beyond the Black Lady: Sexuality and the New African American Middle Class, by Lisa B. Thompson
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Holy Mavericks: Evangelical Innovators and the Spiritual Marketplace
Erotic Revolutionaries: Black Women, Sexuality, and Popular Culture
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Heidi Matthews is an assistant professor of international law at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University. Her recent work on the #MeToo movement and women's sexual agency has caused considerable controversy in all the best ways.
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"How do we understand sexual pleasure in this age of ‘consent’?," by Heidi Matthews
The War on Sex, Edited by David M. Halperin & Trevor Hoppe
Militarized Humanitarianism Meets Carceral Feminism: The Politics of Sex, Rights, and Freedom in Contemporary Antitrafficking Campaigns, by Elizabeth Bernstein
The Sexual Politics of the “New Abolitionism”, by Elizabeth Bernstein (PDF)
Governance Feminism: An Introduction, by Janet Halley, Prabha Kotiswaran, Rachel Rebouché, & Hila Shamir
Nuremberg Trials (wiki)
"As we remember VE Day, remember too the German women who were raped," by Heidi Matthews
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Peter Bagge is a Harvey Award winning cartoonist whose best-known work includes the comics Hate and Neat Stuff and graphic biographies of Margaret Sanger and Zora Neale Hurston.
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Swami Prem Niren, also known as Philip Toelkes, was the chief counsel for the Rajneesh spiritual organization and for its leader, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, also known as Osho. Niren is featured in the Netflix documentary Wild Wild Country, which covers the dramatic conflict in the 1980s between the Rajneesh community in Oregon and local, state, and federal governments. Niren now works as a counselor at his own practice, Niren Conscious Coaching. He is working on a book about his time with Osho.
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Kliph Nesteroff is the author of The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels & The History of American Comedy. His work has appeared in Vice, The New York Times, CNN, LA Weekly, and the National Post. He also worked as a stand-up comic for many years and he is the chief curator of George Carlin's personal archive.
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C. Derick Varn is a poet, book editor, podcaster, and public school teacher in Utah. He previously taught in private education in South Korea, Mexico, and Egypt. He is also the author of the new book of poetry, Apocalyptics.
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Nadine Strossen is the John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law at New York Law School. She was the president of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1991 to 2008, and has written, taught, and advocated extensively in the areas of constitutional law and civil liberties. Her newest book, HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship, is now available for sale and in Audible format performed by Nadine herself!
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Marvin Mutch spent 41 years in San Quentin State Prison for the murder of 13-year-old Cassie Riley, a crime he maintains he did not commit.
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Dar Williams is a musician and author. The New Yorker has described her as "one of America's very best singer-songwriters." Her latest album is the self-produced and critically acclaimed Emerald, and her new book, What I Found in a Thousand Towns, combines anthropological field work she conducted as a touring musician with scholarly research on the renaissance of American towns and small cities.
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Michael Malice is the author of Dear Reader: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il, the subject of Harvey Pekar's Ego & Hubris: The Michael Malice Story, a columnist for The Observer, and a cable news renegade.
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Janet Capron is the author of the memoir Blue Money, which chronicles her time as a prostitute in New York City in the early 1970s.
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What Is Postmodernism? - Thaddeus Russell's Renegade University course
Germaine Greer, The Female Eunuch
Daniel Bergner, What Do Women Want? Adventures in the Science of Female Desire
John Ralston Saul, Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West
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Bryan Callen is a stand-up comedian, actor, and podcaster. He hosts the podcasts The Fighter & The Kid with Brendan Schaub and Mixed Mental Arts with Hunter Maats. His one-hour comedy special, Never Grow Up, is available on Amazon, iTunes, and Google Play.
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Angela Nagle is the author of Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan And Tumblr To Trump And The Alt-Right. Her work has appeared in The Baffler, Jacobin, Current Affairs, and the Irish Times. She's the co-editor of Ireland Under Austerity from Manchester University Press.
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Dave Smith is a stand-up comedian, CNN and HLN contributor, host of the podcast Part of the Problem, and co-host of the Legion of Skanks podcast. He can be seen regularly on CNN's S.E. Cupp Unfiltered.
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Elisa Albert is the author of After Birth, one of the most acclaimed works of fiction of recent years. Her work has appeared in Tin House, The New York Times, Post Road, The Guardian, Gulf Coast, Commentary, Salon, Tablet, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Believer, The Rumpus, Time Magazine, on NPR, and in many anthologies. She is currently Visiting Writer at Bennington College.
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Raised in a family of Christian conservative activists, Michael Boldin took a very different path. In 2006 he founded the Tenth Amendment Center, which has promoted the efforts of states and municipalities to block the enforcement of federal laws.
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Christopher Ryan is an author, podcaster, and troublemaker who puts out a weekly podcast called Tangentially Speaking. His work has been featured on MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, NPR, The New York Times, Playboy, The Washington Post, Time, The Atlantic, and Salon, and he has been a featured speaker all over the world, from TED to the Festival of Dangerous Ideas.
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