INTERVIEW
The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast, hosted by Aaron Goodman, Episode 36. “Autobiography and MCS.” November 28, 2023.
INTERVIEW
Unravelling the Anthropocene podcast, hosted by Liberal Arts Collective, Penn State University. Episode 20 with Merve Tabur. “Encounters with Viral Objects: Tracing the Genealogies of the COVID-19 Pandemic.” March 18, 2021.
PODCAST
Radical Encounter podcast, co-hosted by Patricia Silva and Sofia Varino. Episode 5 | Jack Halberstram: Lessons in Disruption
Released: June 9, 2017
I interviewed Jack Halberstam at the Cyborg conference at the Disruption Lab in Berlin, during which he gave a talk about the politics and ethics of human enhancement technologies. Halberstam is a professor in the department of English and Comparative Literature and the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Columbia University and one of the most influential queer theorists today. He is the author of works including Female Masculinity, The Queer Art of Failure and Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire. This conversation took place in the lobby of the Bethanien Kunstraum, one of Berlin’s main exhibition spaces for contemporary art, and the imposing architecture and transience of the space helped shape our conversation.
PODCAST
Radical Encounter podcast, co-hosted by Patricia Silva and Sofia Varino. Episode 7 | Margrit Shildrick: Difference and Danger
Released: June 23, 2017
I spoke with Margrit Shildrick in June of 2015 during a conference on posthumanism at the University of Geneva. Shildrick was giving a keynote on immunity politics and I was presenting on environmental justice. Shildrick is professor of gender and knowledge production at Linköping University in Sweden and a key theorist of disability. Shildrick’s work on feminist posthuman ethics and embodied difference has been crucial to Sofia’s own research on bodies and illness. Shildrick is the author of several books including Dangerous Discourses of Disability, Subjectivity and Sexuality, and of many articles in the fields of medicine and philosophy. It was an honor and a pleasure to speak with her about her thought and activism while we sat on a bench in the Parc des Bastions in Geneva during a hot summer afternoon to discuss the role of radical politics and poststructuralist thought in her practice as a philosopher of the body.