Helen and Sarah discuss The Camp of the Saints, a racist novel that has quietly become fundamental to how the right wing talks about immigration.
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15. Patagonian Royalty in the Camp of the Saints

Sarah and Helen take a look at some research papers from viXra, the scientific publishing site for cranks and pseudoscientists, and end up learning about the sensual curves which underlie reality itself.

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PREVIEW Bonus 2: On the Theory of Heaven Breasts

In this twist on the "theory and practice" format, Helen introduces Sarah to Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini's Gender Without Identity, a contemporary work of queer psychoanalytic theory. Then, the two dive in to a case study concerning a young child and his parents who want a therapist to "straighten out" his effeminacy.

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14. Just Call Me a Slur

In this "theory and practice" episode, Sarah and Helen read Umberto Eco's essay "Ur-Fascism," then see how it applies to Frank Miller's 1986 Batman comic The Dark Knight Returns.

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13. The Joker is both Strong and Weak

Sarah and Helen invite a guest to the symposium to talk about a foundational work of transphobia: Janice Raymond's Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male, and discover that despite its pretensions to feminism, it is steeped in some pretty classic misogyny.

Our guest, Julia Cameron, is an educator and writer based in Boston.

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12. Invasion of the Gender Snatchers w/ Julia Cameron

In this tribute to Knowledge Fight, Sarah and Helen go through an episode of notorious neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes's show, and find out he's locked in a Freudian cycle of abuse and disgust with his own fans.

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11. Groyper Superchat Superhell

Helen introduces Sarah to French Enlightenment philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and in particular his writing on the proper education of women.

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10. Project 1789

Sarah introduces Helen to Joseph Swetnam, the man the word "misogyny" was coined to describe, who turns out to have gotten his ass beaten on four separate occasions by the authors of Elizabethan England.

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9. The First Misogynist

Helen introduces Sarah to the work of Louis Althusser.

The book Helen references several times, which is a great place to learn more if you're interested is Killer Althusser: The Banality of Men by Francis Dupuis-Déri [https://btlbooks.com/book/killer-althusser].

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8. Ceci N'est Pas Un True Crime Podcast

Sarah and Helen are forced to confront their penis envy as they dive into the writings of the psychoanalyst from hell.

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7. Who's Afraid of Gerald Schoenewolfe?

Two women's quest to understand the reproduction of bigotry, through history's eye-popping examples.

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