The Heteropessimists

A series of interviews that seek to unpack and explore the concept of 'heteropessimism' as well as its travels throughout scholarship and popular culture, with the ultimate goal to find a way forward, towards a 'hetero-optimism'. This is a podcast for straight and queer folks alike interested in thinking holistically about gender, relationships and sexuality today.

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Episodes (6)

Jul 12, 2023 Volume 1 Coda: Misogyny and the Anesthetic Affect
Jul 21, 2022 Episode Five: Domestic Ecologies and Family Abolition
Jul 14, 2022 Episode Four: Desire and Moving Beyond Binaries

The Heteropessimists

Jul 12, 2023
61¾ minutes
41 MB

This in-depth discussion between Samantha Pinson Wrisley and Jennifer Hamilton provides an unexpected but perfect coda to volume one. Wrisley’s research on misogyny focuses on the "feeling" of hating women, and on articulating how those feelings shape relationships and social worlds. In Wrisley’s work, the consequences of widespread heteropessimism are examined for their connections to misogyny, which are less banal and more pernicious. They look at how this same (or adjacent) feeling tangles with misogyny and forms part of the rise of transphobia, incels and the manosphere.

The Heteropessimists

Volume 1 Coda: Misogyny and the Anesthetic Affect

The Heteropessimists

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