Drunk Church

An Academic Breakdown: Invoking Free Speech to End Free Speech

When academic freedom is under attack, what do we do? Is it enough to fight back from within—especially when the university itself is embedded in larger systems of oppres

Welcome To Drunk Church 2.0: Confirmation

The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Bimbo Theory: A Gender Maximalist Guide to Having It All

We’re not like other girls…  Join us for our most recent episode as we offer a critical re-evaluation of the figure of the bimbo and deconstruct societal preconceptions

Spectres of Ableism: A Halloween Special!

We are at most only temporarily able-bodied and minded. While we may live our lives more or less aware of our relationship with disability and while we may experience dif

Everything is Possible and Nothing is True: Mia Khalifa, Fake News, Free Speech, and the Hope for a Free Palestine

This is a special mini episode, driven by the immediacy of the horrors happening right now in the Gaza Strip. Mia Khalifa, controversial public figure and Lebanese ex-po

The Sadness: You Always Hurt the One You Love (TEASER)

This is a teaser--to access the full episode on an patron only-RSS feed, sign up at our Patreon. What if you became a zombie, but instead of becoming a mindless brain ea

Playing with Fire: Ethical Sadism & the Draw to Overwhelm (Part III on Avgi Saketopoulou's "Sexuality Beyond Consent")

Given the failures of affirmative consent, how can we develop a better more nuanced framework that both embraces the messiness of sex and attends to the ways in which int

Possession: The Anatomy of a Breakup and The Dissolution of the Family (Free Version)

This is the free teaser—to get access to the whole hour and a half bonus version, go to our Patreon and sign up at "Getting Tipsy with the Lord" or higher. Andrzej Żuław

To Suffer Pleasure: Opacity and Self Making (Part II on Avgi Saketopoulou's "Sexuality Beyond Consent")

Diving into our second segment in our series on Avgi Saketopoulou’s “Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia”, we take you through the first chapter: "To Suf

An Exquisite Slap: Introducing Avgi Saketopoulou’s "Sexuality Beyond Consent"

We are thrilled to present our first episode of a series working through Avgi Saketopoulou’s brilliant “Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia”—a text so me

Radfems, Transsexuals, & the Youth: A Proverbial Discourse Grab-bag (Free Version)

For this episode we do something a little different, going through some of the hottest subjects of discourse of the current moment as a way to review lots of the major th

Trauma & Taboo: The Unspeakability of Sexual Violation

Continuing with our Season 2 Villain Arc, we examine the vilification of victims and the gridlock of taboos that surround sexual violation through a discussion of our ver

Trigger Warning: A Holiday Special!

Drunk Church returns victoriously for the start of our second season with “Trigger Warning: A Holiday Special!”, our festive conversation on violation, power, desire, fan

Bonus: Secretary Review (FREE VERSION)

This free version of the review is a shortened version of our full episode, which is available to all subscribers on their patron-exclusive RSS feed. You can sign up to o

The Horror of Desire: A Halloween Special!

How is it that desire, when taken to its conclusion, curdles into horror? For our Halloween Special, we linger with two transgressive erotic BDSM novels—first, with Pauli

Dangerous Sex & The Empire of Trauma

For our grand finale to this four part series on "Hatred of Sex" we investigate the ways that attempts to subsume sex into neat and tidy identiy categories inevitably tig

Ordering Desire, Unbound Perversions

In our penultimate discussion on "Hatred of Sex", we do something literally no one in the history of the world has done before: we call Freud problematic!! That being sai

Not Just To Come, But To Come Undone

Having shown how hatred of sex is endemic to sex itself, in our second discussion of “Hatred of Sex” we trace some of the most influential thinkers today to show where ou

We Want Sex & We Hate It

Today we present the first part of our discussion of the polemic “Hatred of Sex”, exploring how our hatred of sex (like hatred of democracy!) is endemic to the structure

Blasphemy for Cyborgs

Nietzsche said "God is dead"—now so is the Goddess. Through a reading of Donna Haraway's fabulous "Cyborg Manifesto", we delve into what it means to write, speak, and liv