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by Adrian Daub and Moira Donegan
On In Bed With the Right hosts Moira Donegan and Adrian Daub welcome a range of scholars and critics to analyze right wing ideas about gender, sex and sexuality – and to plumb the ways in which these ideas persist in and shape our present moment.
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- 4 days ago1h 13m
Episode 166 -- Suffragette Jiu-Jitsu
For this episode, you can lean on us, and you can afford the ticket, because we're heading back to Suffragette City! Moira walks a stupefied Adrian through the story of jiu-jitsu's surprising popularity in the West in the Edwardian era, and how eventually suffragettes used it to kick absolute ass. (If you'd like to see some of the images of suffragettes kicking absolute ass discussed in the episode, we've collected them here.)
- 1 weeks ago1h 4m
Episode 164 -- The Origins of Bodybuilding
This week on In Bed with the Right, we're 19th-Centurymaxxing again! Moira takes Adrian on a wild ride through the origins and strange early history of bodybuilding. This one has everything: Eugenics! Swolitude! Prussians! World Fairs! Gymnastics!
- 2 weeks ago1h 11m
Episode 163 -- 2026 Halloween Film Spooktacular
In honor of spooky season, Moira and Adrian once again did homework assigned by the podcast's Patreon-supporters, analyzing two two classic horror films and what they say about gender, sexuality and gender conservatism in their era. This year's Patreon picks were 1987's The Lost Boys and 1996's Scream. These two actually have a lot in common: central California! The youths! A prohibition of female sexuality subverted! The long 1980s! Come for the House Hunters view of Woodsboro real estate, stay for the serial killer history of Santa Cruz, CA!ONE NOTE: Adrian misspoke in the episode and identified Woodsboro in Scream with Santa Rosa, CA, but it was of course filmed in Sonoma, CA (with one house in Healdsburg thrown in). Apologies to the true Wine Country Heads out there!
- 2 weeks ago49 min
Episode 162 -- Bolsonarismo with Rodrigo Nunes
On October 25, 2026 Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva defeated Flavio Bolsonaro in the second round of Brazil's presidential election after trailing his opponent in the first round. In this episode, political philosopher Rodrigo Nunes (whose recent book Anatomy of Disintegration uses Bolsonarismo as a lens to analyze the international far right) helps Moira and Adrian understand the election results and in particular Lula's come-from-behind win. The episode explores the origins of Bolsonarismo, the gender dynamics that helped it break through, and its likely future.
- 3 weeks ago57 min
Episode 161 -- The Lord of the Rings with Michael Lutz
"Tolkien is turning in his grave", Elon Musk tweeted on September 5, 2022 having watched (i.e. not watched) the first episode of Amazon's new series The Rings of Power. Whether it's a new Galadriel-centered TV-show, the Peter Jackson trilogies or just people writing fantasy a little differently: right wingers are very happy to claim J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) as their own, their own reactionary impulses as fealty to his legacy, and his magnum opus, The Lord of the Rings (1954) as a source of right wing shibboleths. As guest Michael Lutz (part of the Ranged Touch network of podcasts) explains, that view manages to be both not entirely inaccurate and somehow completely misguided. Moira and Adrian ask Michael: What role does Tolkien's Middle Earth play in nurturing reactionary impulses within sci-fi/fantasy fandom? (If you'd like to hear more of Michael's analysis of The Lord of the Rings, head over to Shelved by Genre, where Michael, Cameron Kunzelman, and Austin Walker read their way through all of Tolkien!)
- Oct 13, 202648 min
Episode 160 -- Science Fiction Fandom, Part 2
Moira and Adrian continue their deep dive into science fiction fandom. After spending Episode I with the inner workings of right wing fandom (also pod racing), they now delve into the kinds of fan objects right wing fans congregate around. What specific authors, specific subgenres, specific tropes seem to inspire right wing fans (sometime deliberately, sometimes through no fault of their own)? What do right-wingers come to science fiction for?
- Oct 6, 202656 min
Episode 159 -- Science Fiction Fandom, Part 1
This fall, Moira and Adrian will take a deep dive into right wing fans. In recent years, right wingers from Milo Yiannopoulos to Elon Musk have leveraged science fiction fandom to stoke media outrage and build onramps to the far right. But when they have done so, they have built on something of a tradition. While we'll eventually end up with the kinds of "fans" who get upset about Black actors portraying elves or storm troopers, this first episode delves into the forms of fandom that right wing culture war skirmishes have traditionally drawn on, or as which they have camouflaged. What's the role of gender in fan communities? What version of “fealty”, possessiveness and community come into play in these skirmishes? How come so much of our contemporary politics seems to be routed through fandom?
- Oct 2, 202647 min
Episode 157 [PATREON PREVIEW] -- Milo Yiannopoulos with Matt Bernstein
For this episode, Moira and Adrian are joined by Matt Bernstein of A Bit Fruity to talk about the resistible rise and precipitous fall of Milo Yiannopoulos. We trace Milo's origins living parasitically off of fan cultures, the culture war-politics of Breitbart, and explore both the power and very real limits of right wing politics of outrageousness. What happens to the provocateur when provocation becomes a tool of governance?CONTENT NOTE: Yes, Adrian knows that it was national treasure Jennifer Connelly, not Jennifer Garner hanging with the goblins in Labyrinth! He will not be taking questions on this matter at this time.CONTENT NOTE: Also, there's discussions of a lot of hateful ideas, actions, terms in this episode. All the content warnings that come naturally with discussing Milo Yiannopoulos apply to this episode.
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