Summer Friday: Homophobia to Transphobia; Friendship & Race Relations; Book Bans; The Story of the Mall
The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 12, 2022
On this Summer Friday, we've put together some of our favorite recent interviews, including:
- William Eskridge, Yale Law School professor and author of many books, including (with Christopher Riano) Marriage Equality: From Outlaws to In-Laws (Yale University Press, 2020), reflects on how transphobia has replaced homophobia as the most common form of hate and fearmongering directed toward LGBTQ folks, as well as the combination of hate and fear that the term "phobia" suggests.
- Andre Henry, musician, activist, columnist for Religion News Service and the author of All the White Friends I Couldn't Keep: Hope--and Hard Pills to Swallow--About Fighting for Black Lives (Convergent Books, 2022), talks about his new book and his call for radical change.
- Suzanne Nossel, PEN America chief executive officer, discusses the renewed efforts to ban books about 'divisive concepts' from schools and libraries.
- Alexandra Lange, architecture critic and the author of Meet Me By the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022), looks at the history of the shopping mall as a guide for transforming them for the future, and listeners share their mall stories.
These interviews were polished up and edited for time, the original versions are available here:
How the Political Right Shifted its Focus from Homophobia to Transphobia (Jun 1, 2022)
Calling for Radical Change in the Fight Against Racism (Apr 25, 2022)
The Return of Book Bans (Feb 9, 2022)
A Future for the Mall? (Jul 21, 2022)
