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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The Waves: Your Period Deserves Respect
How cultural embarrassment around periods is hurting menstruating people, with author Kate Clancy.
32 min
302
How To!: Quit Your Calling
Daphne Gomez on leaving a job you loved to save your sanity, part two.
36 min
303
Outward: Lesbian Bars: A Love Story
Krista Burton and Naomi Gordon-Loebl visited every U.S. dyke bar.
29 min
304
ICYMI: Why “The Ultimatum: Queer Love” Ultimate...
The show, much like it’s participants, can’t commit.
42 min
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What Next: After They Testified: The Drag King ...
A drag performer and lip-syncer speaks their own truth to Texas lawmakers.
24 min
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The Waves: Finding Love Without Romance
Author Amy Key explores a life without romantic love, but with a lot of Joni Mitchell.
32 min
307
Outward Pride Special: Is “I Do” Best for You?
A better way to protect all kinds of relationships—including queer ones.
34 min
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Hear Me Out: Corporate Pride is Tacky, Pointles...
The first Pride was a protest, after all.
42 min
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How To Help Teachers Thrive
Daphne Gomez on supporting educators, part one.
31 min
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Amicus: How SCOTUS Enabled The Explosion of Ant...
Decisions stripping voting rights and abortion rights paved the way for a rapidly growing and wide-ranging assault on the rights of trans adults, trans kids, and their families.
62 min
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Dear Prudence: I Think My Wife Is Cheating On M...
My wife has formed a flirty relationship with an AI tool and I can't shake off the sense of feeling replaced and insecure.
51 min
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The Waves: The Hustle of Being Beautiful
How can we interrogate the problems with beauty culture…while still enjoying our face masks and lip gloss?
37 min
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What Next: After They Testified: The Trans Phar...
Gwen Herzig went to the legislature to share her medical expertise on trans health care. What came next was humiliating.
24 min
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Slate Money: Rainbow Rage
Slate Money talks Pride merch outrage, Nvidia, and the German recession.
43 min
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What Next: TBD | Tweetering on the Glass Cliff
Is Elon Musk’s CEO pick set up to fail?
20 min
316
The Waves: I Don’t Care If You Like Me
Are female characters on shows like Killing Eve, Fleabag and 90s Rosanne anti-heroes, or just fully formed women?
33 min
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What Next: Republicans' Stealth Plan to Ban Abo...
How a 150-year-old law could give anti-abortion activists the win they’re still chasing.
18 min
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Outward: Queer Utopian Fiction and Dystopian Re...
Netflix’s queer dating show features pets, processing, and very little sexual chemistry.
69 min
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Amicus: E. Jean Carroll and the Lawyer Who Beat...
E. Jean Carroll and lawyer Roberta Kaplan tell Dahlia Lithwick how they won, and why they could be headed back to court.
50 min
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The Waves: Why Medical Mysteries Plague Women
Journalist Allison Behringer is digging into new medical mysteries on this season of Bodies.
28 min
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What Next: North Carolina’s Rush to Restrict Ab...
Its time as a regional outlier in reproductive freedom ends with an overridden veto.
23 min
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Hear Me Out: Workplace DEI Trainings Do More Ha...
If you really want to make your workplace more inclusive, stop with the virtue signaling and actually do the work.
29 min
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The Waves: What E. Jean Carroll Did For Women
She won her defamation case against Donald Trump. Will it have a lasting impact?
34 min
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Hear Me Out: Your Kids Don’t Owe You Anything
They didn’t ask to be here, after all.
35 min
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Political Gabfest Reads: The Classic Hollywood ...
Curtis Sittenfeld’s new book Romantic Comedy explores the middle-aged romance between a pop star and a comedy writer.
24 min