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.'
Cracked Ivory
Latest Episodes
The Butler Did it? Butler's "Gender Trouble"
Talia and Emma discuss one of the worst-written books they've had to cover: Judith Butler's Gender Trouble. It is considered a landmark text of the so-called third wave of feminism, but is it all it's cracked up to be? Given that it ki...
The Anti-Trans Tipping Point
Emma and Talia are once more joined by Isaac (he/they/ze) to ask a straightforward and simple question: what went wrong after the Trans Tipping Point? How did we go from an optimistic, promising future of shifting cultural tides and legal victo...
Season One Wrap Up
Talia and Emma make a podcast about their podcast. They discuss the trials and triumphs of season one, talk about the planning and production process, answer listener questions, and go over future plans for season two.
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...
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...