INTERVIEW: Grace Lavery on today's free speech issues
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.8 • 672 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2022
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
On today's episode, we sat down with Grace Lavery to talk about why she left Substack, how platforms should be moderating speech in this moment, and what the state of free speech looks like in America. Grace Lavery is a writer, editor, and academic living in Brooklyn, NY. She is an Associate Professor of English, Critical Theory, and Gender & Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and her research explores the history and theory of aesthetics and interpretation, with particular interests in psychoanalysis, literary realism, and queer and trans cultures. She has a forthcoming memoir called Please Miss, which will be published by Seal Press in 2022.
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| 0:34.5 | From executive producer Isaac Saul. |
| 0:38.6 | This is Tangle. |
| 0:40.6 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place where you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking without all that hysterical nonsense you find everywhere else. |
| 1:05.3 | My name is Isaac Saul, and I am your host, and on today's episode, I am sitting down with Grace Lavery. |
| 1:10.7 | Grace is a writer, editor, and academic living in Brooklyn, New York. |
| 1:14.4 | She is an associate professor of English, critical theory and gender and women's studies |
| 1:19.1 | at the University of California, Berkeley. |
| 1:21.3 | And her research explores a lot of interesting things, the history and theory of aesthetics and interpretation |
| 1:28.7 | with focus and interest in psychoanalysis, literary realism and queer and trans cultures. |
| 1:34.9 | She has a forthcoming memoir called Please Miss, which will be published by Seal Press in 2022. |
| 1:40.9 | Grace, thank you so much for coming on the show. |
| 1:43.6 | It's really good to be here. |
| 1:44.7 | Fourthcoming no longer. |
| 1:45.9 | It's out this week, I can say. |
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