FQT Podcast

The Language of Survival: A Conversation with Homi K. Bhabha

Apr 22, 2026

In this episode FQT Center associate director Che Gossett speaks with professor Homi Bhabha. Bhabha is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. They discuss professor Bhabha's intellectual iterinary and how distinct sites such as Bombay and Oxford have shaped his cosmpolitan thought. ...

Conditions of Paradox: A Conversation with Charles Gaines

Mar 25, 2026

In this episode, FQT director Che Gossett speaks with Charles Gaines about his artistic practice, his interest in systems thinking and unthinking, and how Gaines takes up questions about seriality and discreteness, difference and repetition in relation to race, materiality and infrastructure. They discuss Gaines's...

"A Constellation of Many Bodies of Understanding" A Conversation with Tourmaline

Mar 20, 2026

In this episode, FQT podcast host Che speaks with their sister, the artist, filmmaker, writer, and activist, Tourmaline. Tourmaline's practice highlights the experiences of Black, queer, and trans communities and their capacity to impact the world. Her films and photographs rewrite mainstream narratives and cultural...

"Something That Needed to Happen," part two of a conversation with Susan Stryker

Feb 25, 2026

In this episode FQT associate director Che Gossett continues their conversation with Professor Susan Stryker about the 1966 Compton's cafeteria uprising and its afterlives, and the history and future of trans studies.

Professor Stryker's forthcoming book Changing Gender (FSG, 2026) will be published in August....

"Purpose Bigger Than Fear” A Conversation with Geena Rocero

Nov 19, 2025

In this episode, FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks with author, film producer and director, actor and model, Geena Rocero about Horse Barbie: A Memoir of Reclamation (Random House, 2003), her modeling, directing and acting careers, her public advocacy work, trans diaspora, spirituality, and her new short...