Episode · Behind the Bastards · 2022-03-26
Books mentioned on It Could Happen Here Weekly 27
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Garrison Davis discussed Marriage Under Fire by James C. Dobson, Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe, All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. Johnson, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, I am Jazz by Jessica Herthel and others, My Gender Workbook by Kate Bornstein, and Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan. Christopher Wong criticized The Transsexual Empire by Janice G. Raymond. Robert Evans discussed Gay Berlin by Robert Beachy and The Cloister by August Strindberg. Also mentioned: Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters and Boy erased by Garrard Conley.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Marriage Under Fire
Marriage Under Fire by James C.
Discussed“The other other big thing I want to mention before I get into Family Research Council is the 2004 book Marriage Under Fire uh by by by Dr. James Dobson”
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Detransition, Baby
Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters is a contemporary novel exploring identity, family, and the complex realities of gender transition and detransition.
Recommended“Um, I would also recommend like if you want to have a like, you know, trans author's take on dransition, the novel dransition baby is out there. It exists. It is again one person's take.”
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Boy erased
Boy erased is a poignant memoir by Garrard Conley that details his harrowing experiences growing up gay in a fundamentalist family and enduring conversion therapy.
Recommended“It's not a monolithic thing, but it's a it's a good novel. Um, and then if you want to learn more about the effects of the deconversion therapy universe, um, Gared Connley's book, Boy Erased, is [ __ ] great.”
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The Transsexual Empire
The Transsexual Empire by Janice G.
Critiqued“Soon after its founding in 2011, the group fully embraced radical feminism, staking out a position in an old debate inside the feminist movement raging since the 1970s over whether trans women are in fact women. These feminists, I use the term loosely here, became known as trans-exclusionary radical feminists or turfs. Their heroes were people like Janice Raymond, author”
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Gender Queer
Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe is an autobiographical graphic novel that chronicles the author's journey of self-discovery, gender identity, and adolescence.
Discussed“Inside the letter, it was specifically targeted towards uh Maya Kobe's uh book, Gender Queer, a memoir. Um which is a a genderqueer graphic novel kind of detailing what it's what it's like to be gender queer.”
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All Boys Aren't Blue
All Boys Aren't Blue by George M.
Discussed“There's books like All Boys Aren't Blue by writer George M. Johnson, whose whose book led one white schoolboard member to call the police on uh her own district's librarian for keeping it in stock.”
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The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale is Margaret Atwood's dystopian novel about a totalitarian society where women's rights are stripped away and a select few are forced into reproductive servitude.
Discussed“The picture book I am jazz, uh, Kate Bournestein's My Gender Workbook, and the YA novel Two Boys Kissing. Also included is Margaret Atwoods, The Hand The Handmaidaiden's Tale. No left turn indiscriminately targets all these titles”
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I am Jazz
I am Jazz by Jessica Herthel and Jazz Jennings is a children's picture book that tells the true story of a transgender child navigating identity and acceptance.
Discussed“The picture book I am jazz, uh, Kate Bournestein's My Gender Workbook, and the YA novel Two Boys Kissing. Also included is Margaret Atwoods, The Hand The Handmaidaiden's Tale. No left turn indiscriminately targets all these titles”
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My Gender Workbook
Kate Bornstein's My Gender Workbook is a notable guide that challenges conventional understandings of identity and societal expectations regarding gender roles.
Discussed“The picture book I am jazz, uh, Kate Bournestein's My Gender Workbook, and the YA novel Two Boys Kissing. Also included is Margaret Atwoods, The Hand The Handmaidaiden's Tale. No left turn indiscriminately targets all these titles”
Where to get it
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Two Boys Kissing
Discussed“The picture book I am jazz, uh, Kate Bournestein's My Gender Workbook, and the YA novel Two Boys Kissing. Also included is Margaret Atwoods, The Hand The Handmaidaiden's Tale. No left turn indiscriminately targets all these titles”
Where to get it
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Gay Berlin
Discussed“the scholarly work that I'm kind of basing my research on this on largely right now and we're going to do an episode of behind the bastards that gets in to more of this I think in the near future but it's a book called Gay Berlin by Robert Beichy”
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The Cloister
Discussed“For whatever reason, Mshite Hulenheim took a fairly benevolent attitude towards Berlin's same-sex bars and dance halls, at least in the better healed parts of the city. He was on cordial terms with many regulars, and none other than Augustus Strindberg testified to in his autobiographical novel, The Closter”
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Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“And like Sprig's sources are a mixture of like junk science issued by groups that support conversion therapy. Um, and also legitimate science coded out of context or cherrypicked, which is a long use tactic”
“In Wyoming, prosecutors considered charging library staff with stalking books about sexuality. um including like literary classics under like the sexed banner like sex is a funny word and this book is gay.”
“In Wyoming, prosecutors considered charging library staff with stalking books about sexuality. um including like literary classics under like the sexed banner like sex is a funny word and this book is gay.”
“It's incredible because when I was in a Texas public school, I read all of the Wheel of Time books from my school library and those are horny in a much much more unhealthy way than any of the books that you talking about could possibly be described as.”
“Um, you know, even like the [ __ ] Bible is more graphic than the gender queer graphic novel. Um, but when conservatives say pornography, what they just mean is a is any display of queerness, right?”