The Heteropessimists

Author: The Heteropessimists

A series of interviews that seek to unpack and explore the concept of 'heteropessimism' as well as its travels throughout scholarship and popular culture, with the ultimate goal to find a way forward, towards a 'hetero-optimism'. This is a podcast for straight and queer folks alike interested in thinking holistically about gender, relationships and sexuality today.
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Volume 1 Coda: Misogyny and the Anesthetic Affect
Episode 6
Tuesday, 11 July, 2023

This in-depth discussion between Samantha Pinson Wrisley and Jennifer Hamilton provides an unexpected but perfect coda to volume one. Wrisley’s research on misogyny focuses on the "feeling" of hating women, and on articulating how those feelings shape relationships and social worlds. In Wrisley’s work, the consequences of widespread heteropessimism are examined for their connections to misogyny, which are less banal and more pernicious. They look at how this same (or adjacent) feeling tangles with misogyny and forms part of the rise of transphobia, incels and the manosphere.