Broadcast: 6.30pm – 7.30pm, Tuesday 13th July.
How have both male and female sexualities and identities have been impacted by the increasing ‘pornification’ of mass culture? How has this violent entry of a specific type of sexuality into public discourse impacted on real sex?
The speakers were Bidisha and Nicky Falkof. The show was hosted by Seph Rodney.
Speaker biographies:
Bidisha is a writer, critic and broadcaster. A professional writer since the age of 14, she has published 3 books and written for virtually all the UK’s newspapers and arts magazines. A former Night Waves presenter, she now presents The Strand, the World Service’s flagship arts show, as well as various series and docs across the BBC. She will be guest presenting Woman’s Hour this summer. She was a judge for the Orange Prize last year and will be judging the John Lewellyn Rhys Prize this year. She currently writes for The Guardian, the New Statseman, the FT, The F Word, Mslexia and the FT. Her latest book is Venetian Masters.
Nicky Falkof holds a BA and a postgraduate Honours in English from the University of Cape Town, and a Masters in Critical Theory from the University of Sussex. Her doctoral research, an attempt to excavate a forgotten corner of the narrative of decolonisation, is on the cultural pathologies surrounding the end of whiteness in late apartheid South Africa. Other interests include Hollywood genre cinema, particularly action and science fiction; feminism; film and psychoanalysis; theorising the masculine body on screen; technology and the Cold War in 1980s popular culture; and the colonial and postcolonial occult. She has been, in various other incarnations, a journalist and editor, author of feminist polemics (Ball and Chain: the Trouble with Modern Marriage, Vision Books 2007) and singer in a Yiddish reggae band.