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This summer has been full for our family! We have been traveling a lot, including to Alaska, and next week we’re heading to New York to catch Broadway shows like Six, Death Becomes Her, Hamilton, and Maybe Happy Ending. So, the time to read, write, and cast has been compressed!

But here is what I am working on:

For Gay Thoughts, I am working on an essay bringing together Judith Butler, Martha Nussbaum, and Adam Phillips on the purposes of theory. I will call it When (Not) To Play Around.

Speaking of Butler, I was enjoying a dry cappuccino at Cup of Joe in Raleigh yesterday–rereading Gender Trouble–and the only reality that perplexed me at all was the young woman dressed like a cat, acting like a cat, and talking (in that voice we sometimes speak to cats) to her cat stuffies that she had laid out on her table as she … studied? (Sometimes she would scold them, making me laugh— but I physically jumped when she unexpectedly lunged into my space!).

As for Butler’s writing, it was not only thrilling but entirely comprehensible. I loved rereading it as much as when I first read it (although the pleasures associated with reading Gender Trouble now are informed by decades more study, whereby I earned my views about gender, identification, and many of the primary sources Butler reads).

If you have not read Gender Trouble, why not? Alternatively, here’s a great, short YouTube video of Butler explaining gender.

For New Thoughts, I am working on two new episodes. The first, Sex Changes: On Trans* Desire(s)–will feature Butler, specifically their recent book, Who’s Afraid of Gender? Kara Fisher has a great interview with Butler on her podcast. Listen in here.

I am also working on an episode regarding Social Media Changes and Teens. It will feature a conversation between Jonathan Haidt’s book, The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness, and Matt Ritchel’s book, How We Grow Up: Understanding Adolescence.

Change or Die – The NEW Thoughts Podcast

Three horror films. One question: What happens when the world hands you a choice—change or die? Dr. Hoshaw examines Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, I Saw the TV Glow, and Slanted through the psychoanalytic lens of Adam Phillips's On Wanting to Change and R.D. Laing's The Divided Self. Along the way: a personal story about earning a pilot's license, Susan Stryker's landmark Frankenstein essay, and a sharp meditation on privilege, conversion, and the body's refusal to cooperate. SPOILER WARNING: This episode contains major spoilers for Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen, I Saw the TV Glow, and Slanted. Watch the films first, then come back. Explore:  Films/Series:  *Something Very Bad Is About To Happen* on Netflix: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMc_pWm7G7o *I Saw The TV Glow*: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kymDzCgPwj0 *Slanted*: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRYAuKuzmn0 Books/Essays:  Adam Phillips, *On Wanting to Change* (2022): https://bookshop.org/p/books/on-wanting-to-change-adam-phillips/34b21e55a58f4b29?ean=9780374717308&next=t&aid=123053&listref=n-ew-thoughts-podcast-featured-books R.D. Laing, *The Divided Self* (1960): https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-divided-self-an-existential-study-in-sanity-and-madness-r-d-laing/9b9381601d8b5c38?ean=9780140135374&next=t&aid=123053&listref=n-ew-thoughts-podcast-featured-books Susan Stryker, "My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix" (1994): https://sites.evergreen.edu/politicalshakespeares/wp-content/uploads/sites/226/2015/12/Stryker-My-Words-to-VF.pdf  Hortense Spillers, "Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe" (1987): https://web.english.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Spillers_Mamas_Baby.pdf David M. Halperin, *What Do Gay Men Want?* (2009): https://bookshop.org/p/books/what-do-gay-men-want-an-essay-on-sex-risk-and-subjectivity-david-halperin/baac28bbfb7f5d4d?ean=9780472116225&next=t&aid=123053&listref=n-ew-thoughts-podcast-featured-books C. Winter Han, *Racial Erotics* (2021): https://bookshop.org/p/books/racial-erotics-gay-men-of-color-sexual-racism-and-the-politics-of-desire-associate-professor-of-sociology-c-winter-han/271c1f2ac20144d2?ean=9780295749082&next=t&aid=123053&listref=n-ew-thoughts-podcast-featured-books Sophia Lewis, *Abolish the Family* (2022): https://bookshop.org/p/books/abolish-the-family-a-manifesto-for-care-and-liberation-sophie-lewis/601674138b4319e7?ean=9781839767197&next=t&aid=123053&listref=n-ew-thoughts-podcast-featured-books  Music:  "Extraordinary," from the musical *Pippin:* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjqYqhq9xsk "We Will Not Be Lovers," *The Waterboys:* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vu65eMTuqsQ "Perfection," from the musical *Death Becomes Her:* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqSBWHH_KPw    

1. Change or Die 01:13:38
2. Change: The People Call It Ragtime 57:39
3. Animal Changes 01:07:08
4. Social Changes 02:02:52
5. Sex Changes 01:02:25

Thanks for staying tuned in!

And remember: even if you are (headed) back to school, there is still time left to enjoy the summer!