Remnants of Resistance: Manuscript in a Filing Cabinet in London

February 28, 2025

As part of the One Institute's Circa Queer Histories Festival, CSUN's University Library and Queer Studies Program have partnered to produce a second season of the Remnants of Resistance podcast. Episodes feature interviews with CSUN faculty, and will delve into unique and hidden queer stories uncovered by their research.

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About the Episode

Join Heidi Schumacher and Ellen Jarosz as they interview Dr. Jacob Lau about his co-authored introductory essay for Out of the Ordinary, titled “In His Own Way, In His Own Time."

About the Guest

Jacob Lau is Assistant Professor in and Director of the Queer Studies Program at California State University, Northridge. He is the co-editor of Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka's 1962 trans memoir Out of the Ordinary: A Life of Gender and Spiritual Transitions (Fordham University Press, 2016), for which he also co-authored an introduction to the text with Cameron Partridge. Informed by his interdisciplinary training, Lau writes on trans temporalities and affects in literature, film, and archival ephemera, through women of color feminist and postcolonial epistemologies, as well as queer of color critique. His research has appeared in TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, Amerasia Journal, Keywords for Gender and Sexuality Studies (NYU Press 2021), The SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies, and The Routledge Companion to Gender and Affect.

More Reading

• Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka. Out of the Ordinary: A Life of Gender and Spiritual
  Transitions. Jacob Lau and Cameron Partridge, Eds. New York: Fordham University Press,
  2017. Find it at CSUN | Buy a copy
• “One From the Vaults,” in Tourmaline, et al. Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and
  the Politics of Visibility. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017. Find it at CSUN | Buy a copy
• Cameron Awkward-Rich. The Terrible We: Thinking with Trans Maladjustment. Durnam,
  NC: Duke University Press, 2022. Find it in your local library | Buy a copy
• José Ignacio Cabezón. “Epilogue.” Sexuality in Classical South Asian Buddhism.
  Sommerville, MA: Wisdom Publications, 2017. Find it in your local library | Buy a copy

Other Recommendations

• Valentine’s Day Special, One From the Vaults (Apple Podcasts)
• Disclosure (Netflix)
• Framing Agnes (Prime)
• No Ordinary Man (Prime)
• Heather María Ács
• Kit Yan

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