As Andrew and I listened to the playback for parts I and II of this month’s Writers’ Round Table about queerness and allyship we both found ourselves exhausted from the emotional labor that we’ve been doing this month. We were both unprepared for the things we felt-trauma, disappointment, frustration, and for the homophobia we wouldContinue reading “(Podcast Episode) A Postscript to our Writers’ Round Table on Queerness and Allyship”
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(Podcast Episode)Pride 2021: Queerness and Allyship- An Ivory Tower Boiler Room Round Table Part II
You couldn’t wait, right? We left you wondering more about our interaction with LGBTQ+ literature, and you like listening to us in the Ivory Tower Boiler Room so much that you couldn’t wait to come back and listen to the rest of what we had to say about queer literature, Pride, allyship, coming out andContinue reading “(Podcast Episode)Pride 2021: Queerness and Allyship- An Ivory Tower Boiler Room Round Table Part II”
(Podcast Epiode)Pride 2021: Queerness and Allyship-An Ivory Tower Boiler Room Round Table Part I
(Erika, writing on behalf of the Ivory Tower Boiler Room team,) One of my favorite parts of being part of the Ivory Tower team is getting to sit around with my friends and have the kind of deep, intense conversations like the ones that happen in the middle of the night at summer camp, orContinue reading “(Podcast Epiode)Pride 2021: Queerness and Allyship-An Ivory Tower Boiler Room Round Table Part I”
Podcast Preview: Queerness and Allyship
Hello, lovelies! We wanted to remind you to tune in with us tomorrow night for a stroll through some of the issues crowding our heads this week. One of the more intriguing ones is the recent prohibition of uniformed police from Pride parades. Another is the introduction of the phrase “Rainbow Capitalism” into our collectiveContinue reading “Podcast Preview: Queerness and Allyship”
Mid-Week Teaser
Happy Wednesday, lovelies! We just want to inform you that this week’s podcast will be a round table on LGBTQ* themes (duh). We’ll be talking about the books and other media that were fundamental in the development of our respective relationships with queerness, whether as insiders or as an allies, and about the persistence ofContinue reading “Mid-Week Teaser”
(Podcast Episode) This Episode Contains Multitudes
Who has done his day’s work? who will soonest be through with his supper?Who wishes to walk with me?(From Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”) Now that you are done with your day’s work…or perhaps you’re planning to listen while you work, we are happy to bring you this week’s episode honoring the 202nd birthday of WaltContinue reading “(Podcast Episode) This Episode Contains Multitudes”
You Don’t Look a Day Over 200
By Erika Grumet It’s birthday time here. Mine is this week, although I am nowhere near 200, but we’ll also be celebrating Walt Whitman’s 202nd birthday with this weekend’s episode of The Ivory Tower Boiler Room. I think it’s hard to grow up where I did on Long Island and not have at least a Continue reading “You Don’t Look a Day Over 200”
(Podcast Episode) Inside the Ivory Tower Boiler Room-A Writers’ Round Table (Part II)
Our latest episode, where Adam’s question gets answered and we hear from some other writers. We’ve got a special celebration coming up next week, all about Walt Whitman’s birthday. You’ll hear from Andrew, of course, but also some reflections from others on their interaction with the poetry of Walt Whitman. Do you have a favoriteContinue reading “(Podcast Episode) Inside the Ivory Tower Boiler Room-A Writers’ Round Table (Part II)”
Podcast Preview: Inside the Ivory Tower Boiler Room-A Writers’ Round Table, Part II
Andrew Answers Adam’s Question I know you’ve been waiting excitedly to hear more about Andrew and who he was writing for, and here’s your chance in this week’s episode. And if that’s not enough excitement for you, you can see the both parts, all together, in our first YouTube video. To help you catch upContinue reading “Podcast Preview: Inside the Ivory Tower Boiler Room-A Writers’ Round Table, Part II”
Podcast Preview: Inside the Ivory Tower Boiler Room-A Writers’ Round Table (Part II)
I’m sure you’ve already listened to last week’s episode, Part I of our first Writers’ Round Table and this week we’ll be bringing you part II, where Andrew will answer Adam’s question and talk about writing for his younger self, and we’ll talk more about our audiences and even hear from some listeners. And AdamContinue reading “Podcast Preview: Inside the Ivory Tower Boiler Room-A Writers’ Round Table (Part II)”