Rate, review, subscribe! Wherever they are, Black women have always theorized about race and gender, says Dr. Cassie Osei. In the first of two eps, PhDiva Xine interviews Cassie Osei, historian of Afro-Brazilian women’s history, longtime PhDivas Podcast listener, and newly minted PhDiva (!). Cassie talks about archival methodologies, Black feminist theorizing beyond the US,…
S6E7 | PhDivas Discuss DISAFFECTED: Solidarities Outside the Master’s House
Listen. Rate, review, subscribe! Let’s talk about feelings, unfeelings, boundaries, and emotional labour! How do we build solidarities beyond what Black feminist Audre Lorde calls ‘the master’s house’? In part 2, PhDiva Liz chats to Xine about her book Disaffected and how her own positionality as a Chinese diasporic queer person led to how she…
S6E4 | PhDivas Watch Netflix’s The Chair: WOC Safeguarding & Sabotage
Listen. Rate, review, reshare, and subscribe! Have you watched Netflix’s The Chair? Join PhDivas Liz and Xine as they talk about all the uncomfortable resonances between their experiences as women of colour in academia and the short ‘comedy’ series starring Sandra Oh. (Yes, Xine even had a student describe her as ‘if Sandra Oh were…
S7E1 | You Are Not Alone: Race + Mental Health w Dr Samara Linton & Rianna Walcott
Listen, review, subscribe! Good luck with the start of another academic year: you are not alone. Mental health is often falsely presented as irrelevant to people of colour. Dr. Samara Linton and Dr. Rianna Walcott’s brilliant The Colour of Madness explores mental health for and by people of colour across art, essays, poetry, and stories….
S6E9 | Pandemic Pedagogy & Sailor Moon Solidarity w Dr. Cassie Osei
Listen, review, and subscribe! Adversity and the power of friendship! In the second half of the interview, PhDiva Xine talks with historian Cassie Osei about pedagogy during the pandemic and life lessons from Sailor Moon. Do you watch anime? How does it affect how you engage in the world? Support PhDivas on Patreon: www.patreon.com/phdivaspodcast Dr. Cassie…
S6E6 | WOC Then, WOC Now Pt 1: Writing Books & Historical Black Women in STEM
Listen, rate, and review. Subscribe! So much and yet so little has changed for women of colour since the 19th century… PhDivas Liz and Xine discuss Xine’s first book DISAFFECTED. Xine shares the challenges of writing a monograph (a fancy academic term for research book). Chapter 4 is kind of an homage to Liz: it…
S6E5 | WOC Scholars in Community: PhDiva Xine’s Book Launch!
If the master’s tools can never dismantle the master’s house, what can we build instead? Since emotional labour is racialized and gendered, what if minoritized people say ‘no’? Listen to several brilliant WOC scholars discuss PhDiva Xine’s new book DISAFFECTED: each of them was given a chapter of the book to respond to in order…
PhDiva Xine Yao’s Book is OUT! Launch: Monday Dec 3 17:30 GMT/12:30 EST/9:30 PST
Congratulations to PhDiva Xine Yao: her first book DISAFFECTED: THE CULTURAL POLITICSOF UNFEELING IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA is now OUT from Duke University Press! Disaffected won the Duke UP Scholars of Color First Book Prize. For a 30% discount use the code E21YAO on the following sites North America: https://www.dukeupress.edu/disaffectedUK, Europe, Middle East, Africa, Asia Pacific:…
S6E3 | Casteism ≠ Racism: Prof Shaista Patel on the Failures of ‘Postcolonialism’
Rate, review, subscribe! Just because they are both systems of oppression does not mean that casteism ≠ racism! Postcolonialism developed as a field of study established by predominantly Indian intellectuals — but only understanding them as non-Black people of colour erases their caste privilege. Shaista Patel, a professor in Critical Muslim studies at UC San…
S5 Mother’s Day Special! Liz Interviews Her Mom
Mother’s Day Special! Liz interviews her mom about what it’s like to raise a PhDiva. Learn about Liz’s childhood career aspirations and their intergenerational experience of education in Mississippi. Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/phdivaspodcast
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