Slate Gender and Society
A feed drawing from Slate’s podcast network, including The Waves and Outward, featuring episodes that take a critical eye to the world around us, how we define ourselves, and how gender itself is defined.
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What Next TBD: When Meta Tells Law Enforcement ...
What does Big Tech need to do to protect users in Post-Roe America?
22 min
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The Waves: Hollywood Needs an Overhaul
The Academy does need a “crisis team.” Just not for the reasons they think they do.
28 min
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How To!: ‘Chaos Cook’ With Samin Nosrat
Samin Nosrat on learning to cook for your soul.
37 min
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The Waves: It’s OK to Hate Your Spouse (Sometimes)
Ask Polly author Heather Havrilesky on why a dull marriage might, actually, be good for you.
32 min
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How To!: Style Your Home Like a Pro
Corey Damen Jenkins on giving your space a design remix.
31 min
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Dear Prudence: Sister Wants Me to Be Her Surrog...
My sister is in desperate need of a surrogate, but I can’t help her.
34 min
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What Ballet’s Best Choreographer Destroyed
Ballet’s most famous choreographer left an amazing legacy–and many hurt women in his wake.
26 min
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Political Gabfest Reads: A Boarding School Thri...
Rebecca Makkai’s new book I Have Some Questions For You is a murder mystery that feels ripped from Twitter.
33 min
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Dear Prudence: My Partner Might Be in Conversio...
Dear Prudence returns as a podcast! Listen to Jenée Desmond-Harris answer your questions.
32 min
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The Waves: The Inherent Fear in Being a Woman
The dread you feel walking alone at night is part nature, and part nurture.
33 min
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What Next: Will Abortion Pills Be Banned?
How far can anti-abortion activists push against FDA-approved medication?
23 min
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Outward: Are Throuples All That Different From ...
Plus, the shocking history and radical queer possibilities of psychedelics.
78 min
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How To!: Find Your First Kiss at 38
A professional matchmaker tries to help a 38-year-old woman find “The One.”
30 min
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Working: A New Way to Tell Trans Stories
39 min
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The Waves: How ADHD Disorients Women
How One Self-Described ‘Lady Comic’ Lives as an adult with ADHD.
31 min
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The Waves: Are “Cool Moms” A Menace?
Can you be a mom and not totally lose yourself along the way? Plus, a defense of Lean In.
34 min
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How To!: Command a Room
Radio host Meghna Chakrabarti on how to captivate an audience.
34 min
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The Waves: How a Man Writes Women Protagonists
Should authors steer clear of man characters with genders different from their own?
36 min
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ICYMI: American Girl’s Addy Is More Than a Slave
It seems like every six months another person brings this discourse back online.
35 min
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The Waves: Exercise Shouldn’t (Always) Feel Pun...
It’s okay to slow down. Plus, why your yoga class costs so much.
29 min
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Outward: The War on Drag
Why drag? Why now?
78 min
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How To!: Stick to Your New Year’s Resolutions
Maya Shankar on creating smart, sustainable habits.
33 min
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ICYMI: RuPaul’s Drag Race Has Finally Logged On
The season 15 premiere sets up the dynamic between the online and IRL queens like never before.
34 min
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The Waves: Who’s Getting Rich Off Menopause?
Gwyneth Paltrow, Drew Barrymore, Naomi Watts and more are taking menopause mainstream. And companies are looking to cash in.
32 min
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What Next: A Sex Crimes Lawyer's New Mission
A new law in New York might not get survivors "justice." But it could get them money.
27 min