Drunk Church
cosima bee concordia & Aurora Laybourn
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After their time as philosophy undergrads gorging on cheap wine and bread, co-hosts cosima bee concordia and Aurora Laybourn reunite almost a decade later for Drunk Church, a podcast haunting the liminal spaces between anti-fascist theory and religious eroticism.
Named for a gathering of queers where art, drink, and communion were shared outside of the confines of formal institutions, Drunk Church seeks to transgress, subvert, and blaspheme the religious for our own pleasure and thriving. In a world that feels like it’s ending and with fascism ascendant, how do we to build shared ritual, meaning, and narrative on our own terms? Come get drunk on the blood of God!
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An Academic Breakdown: Invoking Free Speech to End Free Speech
When academic freedom is under attack, what do we do? Is it enough to fight back from within—especially when the university itself is embedded in larger systems of oppression?On this episode of Drunk…
S3E1 Welcome To Drunk Church 2.0: Confirmation
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S2E9 Bimbo Theory: A Gender Maximalist Guide to Having It All
We’re not like other girls… Join us for our most recent episode as we offer a critical re-evaluation of the figure of the bimbo and deconstruct societal preconceptions of femininity at large through…
S2E8 Spectres of Ableism: A Halloween Special!
We are at most only temporarily able-bodied and minded. While we may live our lives more or less aware of our relationship with disability and while we may experience different periods of health and…
S2E7 Everything is Possible and Nothing is True: Mia Khalifa, Fake News, Free Speech, and the Hope for a Free Palestine
This is a special mini episode, driven by the immediacy of the horrors happening right now in the Gaza Strip.Mia Khalifa, controversial public figure and Lebanese ex-porn star, was publicly…
S2 The Sadness: You Always Hurt the One You Love (TEASER)
This is a teaser--to access the full episode on an patron only-RSS feed, sign up at our Patreon.What if you became a zombie, but instead of becoming a mindless brain eater you find that you're…
S2E6 Playing with Fire: Ethical Sadism & the Draw to Overwhelm (Part III on Avgi Saketopoulou's "Sexuality Beyond Consent")
Given the failures of affirmative consent, how can we develop a better more nuanced framework that both embraces the messiness of sex and attends to the ways in which intimacy makes us uniquely…
S2 Possession: The Anatomy of a Breakup and The Dissolution of the Family (Free Version)
This is the free teaser—to get access to the whole hour and a half bonus version, go to our Patreon and sign up at "Getting Tipsy with the Lord" or higher.Andrzej Żuławski’s fever dream…
S2E5 To Suffer Pleasure: Opacity and Self Making (Part II on Avgi Saketopoulou's "Sexuality Beyond Consent")
Diving into our second segment in our series on Avgi Saketopoulou’s “Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia”, we take you through the first chapter: "To Suffer Pleasure: Limit…
S2E4 An Exquisite Slap: Introducing Avgi Saketopoulou’s "Sexuality Beyond Consent"
We are thrilled to present our first episode of a series working through Avgi Saketopoulou’s brilliant “Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia”—a text so meaty that this episode does…
S2E3 Radfems, Transsexuals, & the Youth: A Proverbial Discourse Grab-bag (Free Version)
For this episode we do something a little different, going through some of the hottest subjects of discourse of the current moment as a way to review lots of the major themes we've covered in Drunk…
S2E2 Trauma & Taboo: The Unspeakability of Sexual Violation
Continuing with our Season 2 Villain Arc, we examine the vilification of victims and the gridlock of taboos that surround sexual violation through a discussion of our very own Aurora Laybourn’s…
S2E1 Trigger Warning: A Holiday Special!
Drunk Church returns victoriously for the start of our second season with “Trigger Warning: A Holiday Special!”, our festive conversation on violation, power, desire, fantasy, patriarchy, and the…
Bonus: Secretary Review (FREE VERSION)
This free version of the review is a shortened version of our full episode, which is available to all subscribers on their patron-exclusive RSS feed. You can sign up to our patreon to get access to…
S1E13 The Horror of Desire: A Halloween Special!
How is it that desire, when taken to its conclusion, curdles into horror? For our Halloween Special, we linger with two transgressive erotic BDSM novels—first, with Pauline Réage's classic "Story of…
S1E12 Dangerous Sex & The Empire of Trauma
For our grand finale to this four part series on "Hatred of Sex" we investigate the ways that attempts to subsume sex into neat and tidy identiy categories inevitably tighten bureaucracies of risk.…
S1E11 Ordering Desire, Unbound Perversions
In our penultimate discussion on "Hatred of Sex", we do something literally no one in the history of the world has done before: we call Freud problematic!! That being said, we also look at how Davis…
S1E10 Not Just To Come, But To Come Undone
Having shown how hatred of sex is endemic to sex itself, in our second discussion of “Hatred of Sex” we trace some of the most influential thinkers today to show where our contemporary discourses on…
S1E9 We Want Sex & We Hate It
Today we present the first part of our discussion of the polemic “Hatred of Sex”, exploring how our hatred of sex (like hatred of democracy!) is endemic to the structure of sex itself, and exists in…
S1E8 Blasphemy for Cyborgs
Nietzsche said "God is dead"—now so is the Goddess. Through a reading of Donna Haraway's fabulous "Cyborg Manifesto", we delve into what it means to write, speak, and live knowing that there is no…
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Drunk Church has published 31 episodes since July 2022, covering topics in Arts, Philosophy.
Drunk Church is currently sporadic with new episodes every 2 weeks. Average episode length is 52m.
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