GBA 244 Alison Phipps

Summary: In GBA 244 we get better acquainted with Alison Phipps. She talks about her roundabout route to becoming an academic, how her politics have changed and grown over time, researching lad culture, sexual violence and reproductive rights, the dialectics of feminism, including sex worker and trans rights within feminism, how institutions work and the way that music and singing have framed and shaped her life. Content note: This episode includes discussion of sexual assault, rape and violence. Alison plugs: Blog: https://genderate.wordpress.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/alisonphipps Pastachips: https://twitter.com/pastachips I plug: What do sex workers want?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJRBx0JjM_M Toni Episode: https://soundcloud.com/gettingbetteracquainted/gba-197-toni What About the Men? Mansplaining Masculinity: https://soundcloud.com/standuptragedy/sut-presents-what-about-the-men-mansplaining-maculinity http://mansplainingmasculinity.co.uk Twitter: http://twitter.com/goosefat101 Donating: http://bit.ly/1LUtbKt We mention: (Re)theorising laddish masculinities: https://t.co/XVhIziHi5e Elmhurst Ballet School: http://www.elmhurstdance.co.uk/ Manchester University: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/ The Politics of the Body: Gender in a Neoliberal and Neoconservative Age, Alison Phipps, 2014: http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Politics-Body-Neoliberal-Neoconservative/dp/0745648886 Radical Feminism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_feminism Stand Up Tragedy: http://www.standuptragedy.co.uk/ Intersectional Feminism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality Dialectics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialectic Sex Worker Open University: http://www.sexworkeropenuniversity.com/ Shula Firestone - Dialectics of Sex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dialectic_of_Sex Carceral Feminism: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/10/against-carceral-feminism/ Prison Abolition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_abolition_movement Restorative Justice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restorative_justice Survivors Network: http://www.survivorsnetwork.org.uk/ Stoya/ James Deen: http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/dec/04/how-stoya-took-on-james-deen-and-broke-the-porn-industrys-silence Unilad: http://www.unilad.co.uk/ Gamergate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_controversy Steve Dempster: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-research/about-us/people/steven-dempster NUS Report Lad Culture: http://www.nus.org.uk/Global/Campaigns/That's%20what%20she%20said%20full%20report%20Final%20web.pdf 50 Shades is Abuse: https://twitter.com/50shadesabuse Germaine Greer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germaine_Greer Female Eunach: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Female_Eunuch Janice Raymond: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janice_Raymond Andrea Dworkin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Dworkin Brownmiller: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Brownmiller McKinnon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharine_MacKinnon Baudrillard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baudrillard Focualt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Foucault Lean In: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean_In Fawcett Feminism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fawcett_Society Centre for Gender Studies: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/gender/ Solidarity With Sex Workers: http://www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/read/31323 Kimberle Crenshaw: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimberl%C3%A9_Williams_Crenshaw Hamilton: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton_(musical) Prince: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(musician) REM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.E.M. Nirvana: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_(band) Pearl Jam: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_Jam Stone Temple Pilots: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Temple_Pilots The other Alison Phipps: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/08/hosting-refugees-in-my-home-migration-crisis Follow @GBApodcast on Twitter. Like Getting Better Acquainted on facebook. Tell your friends. Spread the word!