Best Queer Men’s Work Podcasts (2025)

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Taking PRIDE in our Mental Health – Will Dempsey 48:30

2h ago48:30

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Pride season is supposed to be all glitter, joy, and celebration—but for many, it can bring up waves of anxiety, loneliness, and even depression. So how do you keep your spirit lifted when everyone else seems to be riding rainbows, and you’re just trying to stay afloat? In this powerful and heart-centered episode, we’re joined by the fabulous Will …

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M. Myrta Leslie Santana, Transformismo: Performing Trans/Queer Cuba" (U Michigan Press, 2025) 58:47

1h ago58:47

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In Transformismo, M. Myrta Leslie Santana draws on years of embedded research within Cuban trans/queer communities to analyze how transformistas, or drag performers, understand their roles in the social transformation of the island. Once banned and censored in Cuba, transformismo, or drag performance, is now state-sponsored events. Transformismo su…

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Kevin Smokler, "Break the Frame: Conversations with Women Filmmakers" (Oxford UP, 2025) 51:39

32m ago51:39

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In the twenty-first century alone, women filmmakers have succeeded at directing every size, genre, and style of motion picture. Their movies have won Oscars (Free Solo), made actors into household names (Jennifer Lawrence in Winter's Bone), received induction into the Library of Congress's National Film Registry (Real Women Have Curves), and become…

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The Shaman’s Mind: Jonathan Hammond on Queer Wisdom, Nature’s Intelligence, and the Power to Co-Create Reality 1:00:52

1d ago1:00:52

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In this episode of The Circle, Eric and Tim sit down with Jonathan Hammond—author, spiritual teacher, and trained shamanic practitioner—to explore how earth-based spirituality and Hawaiian wisdom can help us reclaim authenticity, heal limiting beliefs, and reimagine a more connected world. From the ancient role of queer people in shamanic cultures …

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Emily Colbert Cairns and Nieves Romero-Diaz, "Early Modern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic" (Amsterdam UP, 2024) 48:49

19m ago48:49

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Emily Colbert Cairns of Salve Regina University and Nieves Romero-Díaz of Mount Holyoke join Jana Byars to talk about Early Modern Maternities in the Iberian Atlantic (Amsterdam University Press, 2024). It is the first volume to emphasize women's personal experiences and their life trajectories as mothers within the Peninsula and across the Atlanti…

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Mobilizing Social Workers to Action: Frameworks for Social Change 58:34

5h ago58:34

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“I was taught social justice meant more services. Now I understand that social justice means we don’t need so many services.”By University at Buffalo School of Social Work

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Sébastien Tremblay, "A Badge of Injury: The Pink Triangle as Global Symbol of Memory" (de Gruyter, 2023) 1:03:27

3d ago1:03:27

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Sébastien Tremblay is a historian specialized in queer, global, and conceptual history. Born in Montreal / Tiohtià:ke, he received his PhD at the DFG Graduate School 'Global Intellectual History' at the Friedrich-Meinecke-Institute in 2020. He is currently a Postdoc at the Department for History and Didactics of History at the University of Flensbu…

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Tamara Lea Spira, "Queering Families: Reproductive Justice in Precarious Times" (U California Press, 2025) 1:06:09

8h ago1:06:09

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Envisioning queer futures where we lovingly wager everything for the world's children, the planet, and all living beings against all odds, and in increasingly precarious times. Tamara Lea Spira's Queering Families: Reproductive Justice in Precarious Times (U California Press, 2025) traces the shifting dominant meanings of queer family from the late…

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Vincent L Stephens, "Broads, Sisters, Exes: Feminist Millennial Television" (Wayne State UP, 2025) 1:09:41

1d ago1:09:41

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This timely and telling analysis identifies the formal and thematic innovations pioneered by millennial feminists between 2012 and 2020 that have shaped the trajectory of our favorite shows today. Author Vincent L. Stephens offers close readings of nine pivotal series, including Girls, Orange Is the New Black, Broad City, Jane the Virgin, Crazy Ex-…

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Ben Jackson, "Material Masculinities: Men and Goods in Eighteenth-Century England" (Manchester UP, 2025) 58:41

4d ago58:41

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Material Masculinities: Men and Goods in Eighteenth-Century England (Manchester University Press, 2025) by Dr. Ben Jackson examines the material and consumer practices of over 1000 men from the middling and upper ranks of eighteenth-century society, c.1650-1850. It draws upon evidence from over 35 archives and museum collections to detail how mater…

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Reimagining Mental Health for Gay, CIS and Trans Queer Men – Rahim Thawer 44:23

3d ago44:23

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In this powerful and deeply personal episode, Rahim Thawer (he/him)—psychotherapist, educator, and queer Muslim thought leader—joins us to unpack what sets queer men apart from our straight counterparts. From anticipating rejection in dating and navigating body image pressures, to managing our sexual health with a unique blend of hypervigilance and…

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Guo Quan Seng, "Strangers in the Family: Gender, Patriliny, and the Chinese in Colonial Indonesia" (SAPP, 2023) 55:53

4d ago55:53

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In Strangers in the Family: Gender, Patriliny, and the Chinese in Colonial Indonesia (SAPP, 2023), Guo-Quan Seng provides a gendered history of settler Chinese community formation in Indonesia during the Dutch colonial period (1816–1942). At the heart of this story lies the creolization of patrilineal Confucian marital and familial norms to the col…

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Lucia Soriano, "Embodying Normalcy: Women's Work in Neoliberal Times" (Lexington Books, 2024) 55:21

4d ago55:21

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Embodying Normalcy: Women’s Work in Neoliberal Times (Lexington Books, 2024) calls attention to how women in the United States do a type of unpaid work to embody the latest trends for the purpose of achieving success in neoliberal culture. Using TLC reality shows, lifestyle and beauty influencers, Brazilian butt lift TikToks, and celebrities like K…

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Remembering to Pretend: Why Imagination Might Be the Most Important Grown-Up Thing You’ve Forgotten 51:38

9d ago51:38

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In this episode of The Circle Podcast, Eric and Tim explore the transformative power of imagination—not as a childhood relic, but as a radical tool for adult healing, creative expression, emotional intelligence, and personal growth. From visualizing future goals to softening interpersonal conflicts, they unpack how reconnecting with our imagination…

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Claire McNulty, "Edinburgh's Unruly Women: Gender, Discipline, and Power, 1560-1660" (Routledge, 2024) 36:29

5d ago36:29

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Edinburgh's Unruly Women: Gender, Discipline, and Power, 1560-1660 (Routledge, 2024) examines experiences of church discipline across parish communities through Edinburgh and its environs. The book argues that experiences of discipline were not universal, varying according to any number of factors such as age, gender, marital status, and social ran…

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Anna Wainwright, "Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in the Italian Renaissance" (U Delaware Press, 2025) 55:11

7d ago55:11

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Widow City: Gender, Emotion, and Community in Renaissance Italy (University of Delaware Press, 2025) investigates the ever-evolving role of the widow in medieval and early modern Italian literature, from canonical authors such as Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, to the numerous widowed writers who rose to prominence in the sixteenth century—includin…

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Big Robot Feelings 7: A Human Work 34:24

8d ago34:24

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Ada, Katie and Gia talk about a Misato-focused episode that really starts to open up the show to a larger scale. We also talk McDonald's toys, nuclear reactors (pushin' on tubes) beer for breakfast and being a woman at academic conferences Support the showBy Katie Coleman, Henry Giardina, and Ada-Rhodes Short

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Elyssa Ford and Rebecca Scofield, "Slapping Leather: Queer Cowfolx at the Gay Rodeo" (U Washington Press, 2023) 1:20:41

9d ago1:20:41

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What would a rodeo open to anyone and everyone look like? In their new book, Slapping Leather: Queer Cowfolx at the Gay Rodeo (U Washington, 2023), history professors Elyssa Ford (Northwest Missouri State) and Rebecca Scofield (University of Idaho) argue that the International Gay Rodeo Associaton (IGRA) provides a template. Founded in the 1970s as…

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Courtney M. Cox, "Double Crossover: Gender, Media, and Politics in Global Basketball" (U Illinois Press, 2025) 1:05:06

9d ago1:05:06

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As they compete in leagues around the world, elite women’s basketball players continually adjust to new cultures, rules, and contracts. Courtney M. Cox follows athletes, coaches, journalists, and advocates of women’s basketball as they pursue careers within the sport. Despite all attempts to contain them or prevent forward momentum, they circumvent…

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What does it really mean to be Queer and Christian? – Brandan Robertson 48:02

10d ago48:02

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Today the word "Christian" is polarizing. In fact for many it conjures up words like hate, nationalism, evil, fear. WOW...it should not. Then couple that word with Queer, and you might as well be burned at the stake! Let's not do that. Instead, let's invite Queer Christians to the table to embrace their love of goad and faith, and invite others who…

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Rope and Radical Communication: Mr. R on Trust, Consent, and Kink 1:03:35

16d ago1:03:35

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Curious about kink—but unsure where to start? In this episode of The Circle Podcast, Eric and Tim are joined by Mr. R, a rope rigger, dominant, and BDSM educator, to explore how consent, communication, and trust form the bedrock of safe and empowering experiences in BDSM and beyond. Through real stories, thoughtful analogies, and insights from kink…

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Cynthia Enloe, "Twelve Feminist Lessons of War" (U California Press, 2023) 1:14:32

19d ago1:14:32

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Women's wars are not men's wars. This is the first lesson of Cynthias Enloe’s Twelve Feminist Lessons of War (U California Press, 2023): the lack of attention paid to women during war not only obscures their experiences but also prevents a full understanding of war and its effects. Wartime shapes women's lives and also the gendered politics of issu…

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The Trouble With Throuples – Jeff Hudson 40:51

17d ago40:51

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Maybe you find yourself bored in your couple. Then you decide playing together with another guy could be fun...and it is. Then you decide that maybe having another guy in the middle (so to speak) on a permanent basis will make your relationship thrive (so to speak). And then it doesn't! Helping us explore this whole concept of the Throuple live, is…

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Unpacking the Prickle: Irritation, Annoyance, and the Needs Beneath the Noise 56:25

23d ago56:25

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Ever found yourself snapping in traffic or spiraling over something small? In this episode of The Circle Podcast, Eric and Tim unpack the deeper truth behind irritation and annoyance—and how these emotions often reveal unmet needs, unconscious beliefs, and moments where we fall out of integrity with ourselves. With personal stories, embodied insigh…

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Caitlin Killian, "Understanding Reproduction in Social Contexts" (Bloomsbury, 2025) 1:07:52

25d ago1:07:52

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In today's post-Roe v. Wade world, U.S. maternal mortality is on the rise and laws regarding contraception, involuntary sterilization, access to reproductive health services, and criminalization of people who are gestating are changing by the minute. Today I’m joined by Dr. Caitlin Killian, the editor of and one of the contributors to a new book fr…

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Emma Casey, "The Return of the Housewife: Why Women Are Still Cleaning Up" (Manchester UP, 2025) 36:32

25d ago36:32

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How has the rise of digital platforms changed domestic labour? In The Return of the Housewife: Why Women Are Still Cleaning Up (Manchester UP, 2025), Emma Casey, a Reader in Sociology at the University of York, explores the rise of the ‘cleanfluencer’. Situating the way specific online discourses now valorise and glamourise housework, the book gets…

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Big Robot Feelings 6: Rei II, Showdown at Tokyo-3 39:22

23d ago39:22

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We continue watching Neon Genesis Evangelion! In this episode: The D8 tries to use an overdesigned vibrator to break into NERV, so Misato has to rush to come up with a plan, and the plan is...Big Gun! Ada, Gia and Katie talk Twin Peaks comparisons, a little Japanese geography, and mispronounce a bunch of words. This is a good episode, you should wa…

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Alexander Stoffel, "Eros and Empire: The Transnational Struggle for Sexual Freedom in the United States" (Stanford UP, 2025) 1:03:33

26d ago1:03:33

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The history of queer politics in the United States since 1968 is commonly narrated as either a progressive campaign for state recognition or as a subcultural rejection of prevailing gender norms. But these accounts miss the true scale of queer politics in the post-war era. By centering transnational relations, practices, and infrastructures in the …

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Mehrdad Alipour, "Negotiating Homosexuality in Islam: A Legal-hermeneutical Examination of Modern Shīʿī Discourse" (Brill, 2024) 1:43:47

27d ago1:43:47

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What does Islam, particularly Shīʿī Islam, really say about same-sex sexual relations? Can Islamic legal frameworks, rooted in centuries of jurisprudence, ever be used to imagine the possibility of an Islamically valid same-sex marriage? What terms and categories did pre-modern Islamic sources use to describe what we might now call “homosexuality,”…

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Navigating Breakups and Toxic Relationships as A Gay Man – Lonay Halloum 42:15

24d ago42:15

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Navigating gay relationships isn't easy, but it can be worth it. Yet, for most gay men, that 1st breakup can be a doozy and waht we often don't realized is where that pain is rooted...it's not where you think. Shedding light on how to overcome trauma, is RTT Therapy specialist, Lonay Halloum, who guides us to explore a powerful therapy technique fo…

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The Vote Gap: What’s Pulling Young Men and Women Apart? 55:33

28d ago55:33

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Why are young men leaning right while young women shift left? Hosts Nina dos Santos and Owen Bennett-Jones speak with NYU’s Scott Galloway, political analyst Sophie Stowers, and commentator Oliver Dean to explore the forces behind this growing divide. Whether it’s a broken social contract where young people no longer believe they will lead better, …

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