Thanks to everyone who tuned into our Substack Live.
We got into the hetero-politics of the Department of Homeland Security. Given that our podcast is all about deconstructing heteronormative culture and politics, and imagining new ways forward, we felt like it was pretty urgent times to do a bonus episode on the state-sponsored, hypermasculine violence we’re seeing across the country right now.
Just a few topics we touched on:
the origins of ICE in this country’s long history of rationalizing white supremacy and male violence as a way to “protect” white women’s sexuality and “the family”
the link between Nazi motherhood medals and The Heritage Foundation’s new report
Alex Pretti as a foil to ICE masculinity
Renee Good as a reflection of the hetero-politics of ICE
the sentimental nuclear family as the marketing arm of authoritarianism
DHS targeting young men who want to team up with their “boys” to fight the “bad guys”
Greg Bovino’s stupid fucking Nazi coat
Naomi Wolf being Naomi Wolf
Why Minnesotans are winning (we should all be taking notes)
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