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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Slate Money | Criminals: Elizabeth Holmes
Elizabeth Holmes went from optimistic founder, to convicted criminal.
38 min
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What Next TBD: Can Politicians Keep Kids Safe O...
At a time when lawmakers operate from wildly different standards of children’s “safety”, who can be trusted to regulate the internet?
27 min
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One Year: 1955 - The Weather Girls
In the 1950s, women weathercasters were idolized and lusted over. They were also seen as a major threat.
41 min
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The Waves: Why Joe Jonas’s ‘Bad Mommy’ Story Fl...
The tabloids want you to think Sophie Turner is a neglectful mom as her divorce from Jonas goes public. The internet isn’t buying it.
27 min
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Big Mood, Little Mood: Trans Tipping Point
with guest, Elisa Gonzalez, author of Grand Tour
52 min
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Hear Me Out: It’s Time To End The Engagement Ring
It’s silly, often sexist, and ultimately unnecessary.
29 min
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The Waves: The Bama Rush to Trad Wife Pipeline
Bama Rush Tok has blow up, but there’s something very familiar about these girls…and what they’re promoting.
38 min
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ICYMI: The Waves: How Drake Betrayed Megan Thee...
Tory Lanez was sentenced for shooting Megan, but he’s not the only “Toronto Mans” to do her dirty.
45 min
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How To!: Find Your People
38 min
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Dear Prudence: Relationship Podcasts Are Ruinin...
She sees every unmarried woman as competition. Is there anything that can be done?
36 min
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The Waves: The Forced Kiss Seen Round the World
A women’s World Cup soccer champ was forcibly kissed by her boss’s boss. But the problems in women’s soccer go beyond one kiss.
34 min
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ICYMI: BookTok’s Horny Hockey Drama and the End...
How the changing financial incentives of the internet make loud and unabashed thirst more fraught.
34 min
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Best of What Next | What Texas' Attacks on Tran...
When Governor Abbott directed the state to investigate gender-affirming care as child abuse, trans kids and their families had to decide if Texas could still be home. Many left.
25 min
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How To!: Navigate Adult Autism
Lauren Ober on the beauty of better understanding who we are.
39 min
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Best of What Next | The Diagnosis Was Fatal. Sh...
Lauren Hall was traumatized by the lack of care. Then she got pregnant again and sued the state.
28 min
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The Waves: America’s Dangerous Obsession with T...
From celebrities to the International Chess Federation to the Olympics, attacks against trans people - especially trans women - are piling up.
31 min
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How To!: Fill an Empty Nest (Encore)
I got nauseous when I dropped my first kid at college. I have to do this again?
29 min
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What Next TBD: How Crypto Fails Sex Workers
Why sex workers turned to crypto, and how crypto turned on them.
22 min
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The Waves: How Drake Betrayed Megan Thee Stallion
Tory Lanez was sentenced for shooting Megan, but he’s not the only “Toronto Mans” to do her dirty.
44 min
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Outward: Red, White & Really Bad
A gay romance among the ruling class seems to have been created for straight people.
61 min
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How To!: Live Anywhere in the World
Dr. Nassim Assefi on making an international move work for you.
30 min
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Amicus: The Family Roe
Joshua Prager on his epic investigation of “An American Story”: the complex life and family background of Norma McCorvey (AKA Jane Roe in Roe v Wade).
51 min
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Political Gabfest: Abortion Rights Win at the P...
Ohio voters decide not to change their state constitution now so they can change it later; Republicans struggle to deal with Donald Trump; and we all need to better prepare for and deal with disasters.
53 min
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The Waves: Why All The First Ladies Want to Be ...
Casey DeSantis is yet another political partner engaging in First Lady cosplay.
33 min
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Working: A Radical Comic Strip, Reimagined for ...
38 min