Matthew Wolf-Meyer: Unsettling disgust and how it keeps us apart

February 10
43 mins

Episode Description

Where do our senses of disgust come from? What does it mean to interrogate and unsettle the ways that our senses of disgust may have been shaped? And how has the Standard American Diet limited curiosity while reinforcing certain social hierarchies?

In this episode, we welcome Matthew Wolf-Meyer, the author of American Disgust: Racism, Microbial Medicine, and the Colony Within.

Join us as we explore the social and biological histories of our most visceral emotion, how disgust has been used as a tool of settler colonialism, and more.

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Song feature: “Peaches” by Isla Greenwood (@islagreenwood on Instagram)

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