“Clever Girl” with Hannah McGregor

Fierce femme dinosaurs, intersex embodiment, Laura Dern – it’s surprisingly easy to read Jurassic Park as a feminist celebration of monstrous queer bodies, at least when you have the magnificent Hannah McGregor by your side. In Hannah’s ‘bookiest book yet,’ we learn about lesbian dinosaurs, the ignorance of white male adventurers, and how and why they’re erotically eviscerated for their flaws. Not to be missed!

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References:
Jurassic Park
Hannah McGregor’s Podcast or Perish
Material Girls
Theodor Rex
Whoopi Goldberg
Emmanuel Levinas
Laura Mulvey
Hannah McGregor’s A Sentimental Education
The Little Mermaid
Ursula
The Last Unicorn
Jen Sookfong Lee (Pop Classic series)
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s Femme Shark Manifesto!
Terra nullius
Laura Dern
Verlyn Klinkenborg’s “What Were Dinosaurs For?”
Prehistoric Planet with David Attenborough
Ellen Ripley
Tales of the City
@hkpmcgregor and @ohwitchplease (Instagram)
Making Worlds podcast 
https://www.hannahmcgregor.com/
Agatha All Along  

Questions you should be able to respond to after listening:

1.      Why/How can we read Jurassic Park as a feminist film?
2.      What is the ‘monstrous-feminine’? How does Hannah speak about this? Can you find out which other scholar(s) we may associate with this term?
3.      What does terra nullius mean? How is this relevant to Hannah’s reading of the film?
4.      Lena calls Jurassic Park a queer ecology in the episode. Please name at least two reasons why this term might apply.
5.      What does Hannah highlight about Indigenous and decolonial scholarship in relation to Jurassic Park?
6.     How do you feel about Laura Dern?