In this episode Karma Chávez talks with Harvard professor Durba Mitra, author of the "sexuality" entry in Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies. Dr. Mitra discusses how ideas about sexuality shape modern society, the ubiquitousness of sexuality as a concept, sexuality and identity, and some of the problematic ways sexuality gets taken up to justify war.

Karma R. Chávez (she/her) is Chair and Bobby and Sherri Patton Professor in the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at UT Austin.

Durba Mitra (she/her) is Richard B. Wolf Associate Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Harvard University.

"Feminist Keywords Collective, Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies. New York: NYU Press, 2021. (keywords.nyupress.org)

Mitra, Durba, Indian Sex Life: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2020. (https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691196350/indian-sex-life)

Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality: An Introduction. New York: Knopf Doubleday, 1990."