CONTENT WARNING: This content includes brief audio depicting transphobia, as well as later discussion of queer and transphobia throughout the episode. Pleasae feel free to sit this one out, take breaks, whatever you need to do.
Show Notes:
Are there IKEA instructions for how to be a ‘proper’ human? Is our nature predetermined by a creator God? And how might the way we answer these questions inform the way we approach questions of human freedom, deviance, particularly in the context of the queer and trans liberation movement? In this first episode of Level With Me, Sunny explores the works of existentialist thinkers such as Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir to answer these questions and, ultimately, reconsider existentialism as a philosophy aligned with the transfeminist movement.
Works Discussed:
Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity
Jean-Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism
The LGBTQ+ Bar, “LGBTQ+ ‘Panic’ Defense”
Sabine Lang, “Native American Men-Women, Lesbians, Two-Spirits: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives.”
The Jerry Springer Show
Intro and Ending Music: Nicholas Britell, Succession (Main Title Theme)
About
Level With Me is a podcast where Sunny Jeong-Eimer, a rookie philosophy student at Pomona College, levels with you on how we might be able to apply lofty philosophical concepts to our everyday lives. Because there’s no reason why philosophy can’t exist on a level playing field.
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