Special Guest Baker Rogers // Season 2, Episode 2

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In this episode of Swerve South, Jaime is joined by Baker Rogers who is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Georgia Southern University. Jaime had some time to check in with Baker who is at the University of Mississippi to speak at the first annual Trans Summit! Listen to Jaime and Baker discuss the complexities of growing up in religiously conservative spaces, discovering self through college, and challenging the narrative that queer people only exist in urban metropolitan spaces. In this episode we also have a special opportunity to get a sneak peek into Baker’s work on trans men in Southern spaces and we get a special inside look at their recent publications: Trans Men in the South: Becoming Men and Conditionally Accepted: Christians’ Perspectives on Homosexuality & Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights. This episode ends with an excellent discussion of the challenges in the classroom to ensure a physically safe but intellectually threatening environment. 

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SHOW NOTES:  

Baker Rogers' is also the author of Conditionally Accepted: Christians’ Perspectives on Sexuality and Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights. 

Sources specific to this episode:

”'Traumatic whiplash': BYU's U-turn on homosexuality a blow to gay students”, Caroline Radnofsky, NBC
Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right, Arlie Russell Hochschild
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
"Midwest or Lesbian? Gender, Rurality, and Sexuality", Emily Kazyak
2019 Southern LGBTQ Health Survey
Starkville Pride

Check out Jaime's other podcast, Help Me Understand: Oxford, for ongoing conversations between Jaime and J.D. Shaw of Grace Bible Church, proving that people with different points of view can be civil and engaging at the same time.

Additional Resources on the Queer South:

Another Country: Queer Anti-Urbanism, Scott Herring
Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America, Mary Gray
Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South, E. Patrick Johnson
Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History, E. Patrick Johnson
Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women, E. Patrick Johnson
The Lesbian South, Jaime Harker