Drunk Church
Episodes
An Academic Breakdown: Invoking Free Speech to End Free Speech
06 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When academic freedom is under attack, what do we do? Is it enough to fight back from within—especially when the university itself is embedded in la...
Welcome To Drunk Church 2.0: Confirmation
04 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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Bimbo Theory: A Gender Maximalist Guide to Having It All
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We’re not like other girls… Join us for our most recent episode as we offer a critical re-evaluation of the figure of the bimbo and deconstru...
Spectres of Ableism: A Halloween Special!
01 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are at most only temporarily able-bodied and minded. While we may live our lives more or less aware of our relationship with disability and while w...
Everything is Possible and Nothing is True: Mia Khalifa, Fake News, Free Speech, and the Hope for a Free Palestine
17 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a special mini episode, driven by the immediacy of the horrors happening right now in the Gaza Strip.Mia Khalifa, controversial public figure ...
The Sadness: You Always Hurt the One You Love (TEASER)
11 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a teaser--to access the full episode on an patron only-RSS feed, sign up at our Patreon.What if you became a zombie, but instead of becoming a...
Playing with Fire: Ethical Sadism & the Draw to Overwhelm (Part III on Avgi Saketopoulou's "Sexuality Beyond Consent")
16 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Given the failures of affirmative consent, how can we develop a better more nuanced framework that both embraces the messiness of sex and attends to t...
Possession: The Anatomy of a Breakup and The Dissolution of the Family (Free Version)
23 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is the free teaser—to get access to the whole hour and a half bonus version, go to our Patreon and sign up at "Getting Tipsy with the Lord" or ...
To Suffer Pleasure: Opacity and Self Making (Part II on Avgi Saketopoulou's "Sexuality Beyond Consent")
11 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Diving into our second segment in our series on Avgi Saketopoulou’s “Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia”, we take you through ...
An Exquisite Slap: Introducing Avgi Saketopoulou’s "Sexuality Beyond Consent"
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We are thrilled to present our first episode of a series working through Avgi Saketopoulou’s brilliant “Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Trau...
Radfems, Transsexuals, & the Youth: A Proverbial Discourse Grab-bag (Free Version)
09 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For this episode we do something a little different, going through some of the hottest subjects of discourse of the current moment as a way to review ...
Trauma & Taboo: The Unspeakability of Sexual Violation
27 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Continuing with our Season 2 Villain Arc, we examine the vilification of victims and the gridlock of taboos that surround sexual violation through a d...
Trigger Warning: A Holiday Special!
19 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Drunk Church returns victoriously for the start of our second season with “Trigger Warning: A Holiday Special!”, our festive conversation on viola...
Bonus: Secretary Review (FREE VERSION)
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This free version of the review is a shortened version of our full episode, which is available to all subscribers on their patron-exclusive RSS feed. ...
The Horror of Desire: A Halloween Special!
01 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
How is it that desire, when taken to its conclusion, curdles into horror? For our Halloween Special, we linger with two transgressive erotic BDSM nove...
Dangerous Sex & The Empire of Trauma
23 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For our grand finale to this four part series on "Hatred of Sex" we investigate the ways that attempts to subsume sex into neat and tidy identiy categ...
Ordering Desire, Unbound Perversions
17 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In our penultimate discussion on "Hatred of Sex", we do something literally no one in the history of the world has done before: we call Freud problema...
Not Just To Come, But To Come Undone
12 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Having shown how hatred of sex is endemic to sex itself, in our second discussion of “Hatred of Sex” we trace some of the most influential thinker...
We Want Sex & We Hate It
03 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Today we present the first part of our discussion of the polemic “Hatred of Sex”, exploring how our hatred of sex (like hatred of democracy!) is e...
Blasphemy for Cyborgs
26 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Nietzsche said "God is dead"—now so is the Goddess. Through a reading of Donna Haraway's fabulous "Cyborg Manifesto", we delve into what it means to...
TEASER for Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom Review
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We watched “Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom” and are confronted with the infinite horrors of fascism and the ways we are all made complicit in the...
The Fantasy is Death (Part II)
13 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Finishing off our discussion of fascism through essays from "Leatherfolk" that complicate the problem of desire, and use that to move onto contemporar...
The Fantasy is Death (Part I)
05 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Now that we have delved into the nature of desire and erotocism, we follow the death drive into the abyss to stare directly into its most horrific pro...
The Insolent Saint of the Chasm (Part III)
29 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
To exist against and NOT with. This does not suppress joy but exalts it, it is not despair but immense hope. Today we deliver you the finale of our th...
The Insolent Saint of the Chasm (Part II)
23 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Imagine a bullfight for you alone. Today we deliver you the middle of our three-part close reading of the work and life of Laure (also known as Colett...
TEASER for Mad God Review
19 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Listen to the teaser for our second bonus episode—a deep dive into "Mad God", Phil Tippett's sacred and profane practical effects masterpiece thirty...
The Insolent Saint of the Chasm (Part I)
16 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to give yourself completely and honestly? Today we start our three-part close reading of the work and life of Laure (also known as C...
Christian Mysticism & The Philosopher of Holes
01 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We push even further into our esteemed Philosopher of Holes Georges Bataille, especially in regards to how his concept of religious erotocism can be u...
TEASER for Benedetta Review
25 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For our first bonus episode, we dive into our review of the newest glorious kinky nun movie: Paul Verhoven's Benedetta. Among other things, we discuss...
Welcome to Drunk Church
16 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
For our introductory sermon, we talk about Bataille's concept of religious eroticism, getting wasted as philosophy students, the value of taboo and re...
Drunk Church Trailer
08 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
"Welcome to Drunk Church! Come drink the blood of God with us! "I'm cosima bee concordia," "and my name is Aurora Laybourn...