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Nick Fuentes on Women, Protein Pop-Tarts, St. Patrick's Day Spelling Bee
This week, we’re talking: Hot & Healed Comedy Tour, Double Take Trend, Reba on TikTok, Melodyne vs. Autotune, Candace Cameron-Bure Attending Demonic Sex Parties and telling everyone about it, St. Patrick’s Day Spelling Bee, Nick Fuentes on Women, Katie Couric’s “use it or lose it ... Show More
32 m
Mar 11
Dopamine Dressing: How Clothes Can Boost Your Mood with Marie Claire’s Editor-in-Chief (Nikki Ogunnaike)
What if getting dressed could actually help you feel better? This week, JVN sits down with Marie Claire Editor-in-Chief Nikki Ogunnaike to talk about dopamine dressing, personal style, and why fashion is so much deeper than just clothes. Together, they get into how to figure out ... Show More
40m 55s
Mar 9
WMD Playbook, Escalation in Iran, Daylight Savings
This week we’re talking: prepping for the Hot & Healed comedy tour, self-tape adventures, new Instagram follows, shopping quirks, our weekly spelling bee, dermatologist updates, geopolitical reflections on the military action Iran, answering your listener questions, and of course ... Show More
29m 33s
Jan 2019
Derek Hird and Geng Song, "The Cosmopolitan Dream: Transnational Chinese Masculinities in a Global Age" (Hong Kong UP, 2018)
China’s global rise has been analysed from many perspectives in recent years. But pressing questions over how understandings of gender – and particularly masculinity – have been changing amidst increasing mutual contact between China and the wider world have been asked less often ... Show More
1h 8m
Apr 2021
Jonathan Chatwin, "Long Peace Street: A Walk in Modern China" (Manchester UP, 2019)
Changan Jie, or Long Peace Street, stretches across central Beijing. Along it are several critical historical sites, including Zhongnanhai, Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City: all important to Beijing’s history as the center of Imperial, Republican and then Communist China.
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39m 50s
Oct 2021
Elizabeth Lacouture, "Dwelling in the World: Family, House, and Home in Tianjin, China, 1860-1960" (Columbia UP, 2021)
To call the hundred years that straddle the nineteenth- and twentieth-centuries as a radical period of change for China is an understatement, moving from the Imperial period, through the Republican era, and ending in the rise of the PRC.
Dr. Elizabeth LaCouture’s Dwelling in the ... Show More
37m 9s
Dec 2021
Boys’ Love, Censored
One of the most popular shows in China was, Word of Honor, a supernatural martial arts epic that most fans watched not for the fighting, but for the heavily implied, homoerotic relationship between the two young, male leads. This is a boys’ love drama, a genre that has swept East ... Show More
28m 55s
Dec 2023
Chinese Podcast EP77: Does the Chinese Have Sex Education?中国人从小接受性教育吗？
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Sensible viewers, please be advised, as we delve into a topic that might
be sensitive for some— sex education in China. Ever wondered how the
Chinese approach this essential aspect of life? Join us as we unravel
the layers of cultural nuances and societal perspectives, exp ... Show More
23m 32s
Sep 2023
Tingting Hu, "Victims, Perpetrators and Professionals: The Representation of Women in Chinese Crime Films" (Liverpool UP, 2021)
How are women represented in Chinese crime films? In what ways do the representation reflect traditional Chinese values and contemporary Chinese social-cultural norms? How did boys’ love culture emerge in China? What is the role of the Chinese state in queer media production and ... Show More
33m 7s
Dec 2023
Sharing Your LGBTQ+ Journey with The World with YouTubers, Jamie Raines PhD (@Jammidodger) and Shaaba Raines PhD (@Shaaba)
Are you ready to be charmed by a couple that is pushing for change and educating the world about LGBTQ+ issues? Meet Jamie and Shaaba! Jamie, the creative force behind the popular YouTube channel JammiDodger, opens up about documenting his transition online and shares valuable ti ... Show More
1h 6m
What do 90 young, gay men in mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong have in common? They’ve all spent years sharing their stories with this week’s guest: Dr. Travis S. K. Kong. He joins Jonathan as part of our Pride Beyond Borders series to discuss what it’s like to be queer in each of these places—and share his interviewees’ coming out stories, their experie ... Show More
