Podcast
Two Serious Ladies
Hosted by Two Serious Ladies · EN
a serious podcast by two serious ladies. two linguists from elite universities interested in both shooting the shit and talking shit. but don't take us too seriously.
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Shudder Quotes
Oct 16, 202001:21:57Tap to summarizeThe ladies talk about a whole host of things: the competing ontologies surrounding linguistic 'understanding' through the lens of so-called artificial intelligence, the engineerification of academic linguistics, the cultural ethics of orality and literacy, the question of what is 'naturally' human, technologies like lapis lazuli, and, uh, reptile sex.
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Phoning It In
Aug 7, 202001:16:41Tap to summarizeThe ladies talk about Orange County, phone sex forced feminization domination, vanilla sex and taxonomies of desire, the economics of trans surgery and GoFundMe.
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Inappropriation
Aug 1, 202001:07:39Tap to summarizeThe ladies shoot the shit about transvestism, nation state formation and standard language ideology, African American English, and the mysteries of Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco, California.
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Letter RIP - (7/7/20)
Jul 20, 202001:05:35Tap to summarizeLucy and Helen talk all about meaninglessness: open letters about Steven Pinker, cancel culture, JK Rowling, lesbian bar Jolene's in San Francisco.
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EXCLUSIVE - Interview with Geoffrey H. Nicholson - (7/2/20)
Jul 20, 202000:34:51Tap to summarizeHelen and Lucy talk with "transamorous" advocate, Geoffrey H. Nicholson, about his recent piece in the Transgender Studies Quarterly and his views on attraction to trans people.
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Performativity - (6/24/20)
Jul 20, 202000:56:57Tap to summarizeThe ladies talk about gender performativity and cognitive competence, the poetics of colloquial Finnish's pronouns, philosophy of science and inborn schemata regarding bodily sex.
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Red Scare - (6/13/20)
Jul 20, 202001:05:35Tap to summarizeLucy and Helen talk about Red Scare, Dasha Nekrasova and Anna Khachiyan's podcast, slurs, trust, linguistic prescriptivism, JK Rowling, cottagecore, etc.
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Without Dogma - (7/20/20)
Jul 20, 202001:18:54Tap to summarizeThe ladies talk the acoustics of vowels, voice feminization cults, Danielle Carr's piece in n+1, The Bad Feature; neoliberalism, ordinary language, concern trolling, and more.
Transcribe →Chasers - (6/7/20)
Jul 4, 202001:06:02Tap to summarizeHelen and Lucy talk ~current events~ and so-called chasers: desire vs. fetishization, recognition, etc., with particular attention paid toward the pseudonymously published Transgender Studies Quarterly piece about "Transamorous" men.
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Sportsball - (5/25/20)
Jul 4, 202001:19:32Tap to summarizeLucy and Helen talk about sports: trans people in sports, basically.
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