Cracked Ivory
A podcast about the feminist discourses in academic theory and popular culture. Hosted by Talia Bhatt, author of 'Trans/Rad/Fem', and Emma Zakharuk, blogger behind 'Dolphin Diaries.'
Podcasting since 2025 • 11 episodes
Cracked Ivory
Latest Episodes
Are Transsexuals Bourgeois? Serena Nanda's "Neither Man Nor Woman"
For the season one finale, Talia and Emma are joined by a very special guest: Julia Serano, transfeminist and author of Whipping Girl! They discuss the pervasive problem of orientalism and transmisogyny in academic disciplines, the his...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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1:27:37
Mitchell's Festivities. The Contentious History of Michfest and Camp Trans
Talia locks Emma and Beth (she/her) into a call so she can ramble at them about lesbian feminism and feminist history for hours (again). She goes over the history of Michfest, the sin for which all lesbians must now answer, whether or not we at...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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1:33:32
Spotlight: Interview with Maria Ying, Author of "The Hades Calculus"
Emma and Talia bring you an interview with the one-third of the bestselling author of The Hades Calculus Maria Ying, about lesbian futurism, not-so-feminist Greek myth retellings, and how the past is a foreign country (so you can be or...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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1:24:13
The Cult That Changed Tumblr. Robinson's "Detransition: Beyond Before and After"
Initially, this episode was intended to be exclusive to Patreon. However, given its subject matter, we decided to instead release it to early access and then publicly. Happy holidays!For the Patreon companion episode, Emma, Tali...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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1:27:42
The Parent Trap. Shrier's "Irreversible Damage"
In this very special episode of Cracked Ivory, Emma traps Talia and Lucy Kartikasari (she/they/he, luckartikasari on TikTok) on a call and subjects them to Abigail Shrier's opinions on transition, teenage sex, and race. Irreversibl...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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1:25:14