In Bed With The Right - Trailer!

Hello and welcome.

I'm Adrian Dobb.

And I'm Moira Donegan.

And whether we like it or not, we're in bed with the right.

This is our podcast about sex and gender in the conservative imagination.

In the coming weeks, we'll be looking at various thinkers and various ideas that have informed public discourse around sexuality, gender, and sex to a much greater degree than we might like to think.

Arguments, controversies, the most intimate parts of our identities and lives, and also the center of our politics.

And we should say this is going to be kind of an intellectual podcast.

There's that really famous line, Altrolling line, right, like about conservatism being basically a bunch of irritable gestures striving to resemble ideas.

We're going to kind of grant that these are ideas and that they are traceable and that they're formative to look at, even if we don't really agree with them.

And, you know, I think it's so important to do this right now because conservative ideas about sex and gender have really moved to the forefront of the American national conversation.

You know, we came to this in the wake of the Dobbs decision, rolling back the national right to an abortion.

We come as there's a huge wave of anti-trans legislation and sentiment attacking everybody, especially the very young.

And we're coming as there's like renewed attacks on birth control, divorce rights, and a huge backlash to Me Too.

What we've been finding as we've been reading for and then recording these episodes is that time is a flat circle.

You know, the Supreme Court is is basically revisiting gay rights this week.

This is a thing that feels very 2013.

It feels like we were done with it, right?

That's part of what we want to investigate here.

Like, what happens to ideas that the mainstream thinks that they're done with, but really may be anything but.

Yeah, the thing about conservative ideas about sex and gender is that they're always just under the surface of a lot of our debates.

And they come back zombie-like every couple years.

And, you know, learning this history, I think, will help us sort of understand how and why we are doomed to repeat it.

I hope you enjoy it.