Special Guest Baker Rogers

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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