Cracked Ivory

Thanks to @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social for coming in as a guest again!

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What do lesbian separatists from the 70s and Sheila Jeffreys have in common with Tumblr? Can we end patriarchy by adopting the Ancient Roman view of sex? And how can you live the most lesbian life possible?

Tune in to our latest Patreon exclusive to find out!

It's a great episode. Again, Cracked Ivory is excellent for people like me; bimbos who should know more about trans history and academia.

someone else go check if i did good, i can't listen to recordings of my own voice without catching fire

This episode is out now wherever you listen to podcasts!

Fun fact, I'm definitely (but don't know how I'm) related to Nancy and my high school gf volunteered at MichFest every summer.

I wasn't out yet, but I definitely put out signs.

I'm in this one!

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Today Talia, Emma, and @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social have gathered to apologize for the lesbian sins they've committed before they were born: the politics of Michigan Women's Festival. Tune in to find out why time is a flat circle!

I have been listening to @taliabhatt.itch.io and @dolphindiaries.bsky.social 's wonderful Cracked Ivory podcast recently and I appreciate Talia repeatedly saying kinda random things I have believed for a while but never actually heard anyone else say.

Emma offhandedly mentions that force femme isn't real and I am here literally screaming at my computer that it is (I was really engaged, ok?) when Talia makes the hot take that all women are force feminized under patriarchy.

(Also, at least for trans femme people, castration is an extremely rudimentary form of gender affirming health care, and hence, not only are trans people extremely ancient, but so is medical transition! Of a sort. You can take my estrogen out of my cold dead hands though.)

Cracked Ivory | Patreon A podcast about deconstructing feminist discourses

If you like listening to me yap, consider checking out @crackedivorypod.bsky.social, the podcast I co-host with @dolphindiaries.bsky.social! We talk about academic texts good and bad, feminist discourses, and how we're evil radfem cultural marxists :3

Cover art for a podcast episode. The central picture is the cover of the book “Brown/Trans/Les.” A caption reads, “on transfeminism, and gender war ft. Talia Bhatt, february 4, 2026”

Our episode on Transfeminism and the battle for the narrative in gender politics with @taliabhatt.itch.io is out!

Don’t miss this incredible conversation with such a brilliant writer, and after you listen make sure you check our her books, substack, and podcast, @crackedivorypod.bsky.social !

We’re kicking off the 1st week of Feb right!

On Mon, Dave Ring of @neonhemlock.bsky.social and @bafflingmag.bsky.social discusses the state of publishing

On Wed, @taliabhatt.itch.io, author of “Brown/Trans/Les,” and host of @crackedivorypod.bsky.social discusses her radical transfeminist writing!

I did DulhanImago!

They're very good books with wildly different genres but connected by trans lesbians. Please read them both!

P.S. they were both purchased by me months ago and on the tbr pile. Great excuse to read excellent lit fic!

Discussing two very different debut novels. One of them is a frequently melancholic exploration of a dystopian setting that hollows out the very souls of its people to prop up a brutal regime of exploitation and epistemicide, and the other one's "Imago".

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Talia and Emma discuss queer lit, online censorship, and each others' books, touching on the remarkable similarities in two pieces of lesbian fiction based on very different cultures and genres, but which still share many themes!

The interview with Maria Ying is now live! Catch @callistokhan.bsky.social as she talks about the team's ideas for Gunmetal Olympus, our opinions on feminist retellings, and our influences.

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This is a fantastic interview that digs into patriarchal feminist retellings, reimagining a gender, and why everyone should be gay and erect

This interview is really interesting and smart and gives listeners a SURPRISE PREVIEW scene to "The Persephone Effect"!!

Very intriguing listen and a reminder to actually start reading Greek mythology

Our interview with Maria Ying is out now on all platforms!

'The Persephone Effect', the next installment in the bestselling phenomenon that is the Gunmetal Olympus series, is out on 29th January!

Oh I am SO EVEN MORE excited for The Persephone Effect after listening to this. @callistokhan.bsky.social is absolutely the perfect addition to the Maria Ying hive mind, not only an incredible writer, she just *gets it*

found these books side-by-side at the library and just couldn't help myself. wish me... luck? @crackedivorypod.bsky.social

actually side-by-side? holy shit

If you want to hear me wax about creating the lesbian future and reclaiming our past please give this a listen! Thank you so much to @taliabhatt.itch.io and @dolphindiaries.bsky.social for having us on!

Hop on their patreon for an interview with the Maria Ying team!

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Emma and Talia bring you an interview with one-third of bestselling author Maria Ying, about lesbian futurism, not-so-feminist Greek myth retellings, and how the past is a foreign country (so you can be orientalist about it)! 'The Persephone Effect' is out this January!

thank you!

Cracked Ivory Society & Culture Podcast · A podcast about the feminist discourses in academic theory and popular culture. Hosted by Talia Bhatt, author of 'Trans/Rad/Fem', and Emma Zakharuk, blogger behind 'Dolphin...

ICYMI, during the holidays we released two new episodes guest-starring Lucy Kartikasari: a discussion of the GC child abuse manual "Irreversible Damage" & of a TERF self-conversion therapy manual "Detransition: Beyond Before And After"

Give them a listen! Available everywhere now