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.
ICYMI Encore: Did TikTok Find Gabby Petito, or ...
After an aspiring Instagram influencer mysteriously disappeared, she became the TikTok true crime community’s newest obsession.
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What Next: How Serena Transcended Tennis
Her on-court accomplishments are unparalleled, but Serena Williams’s impact stretches much further.
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The Waves: Why Jane Austen Still Slaps
Her women speak. What a concept!
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What Next: Abuse in the Southern Baptist Conven...
Decades of accusations and alleged cover-up have the church’s leadership under a DOJ investigation.
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A Word: Black Wombs Matter
Why does the maternal mortality crisis kill more Black mothers?
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The Waves: It’s Not TV. It’s a Sh*tshow.
The mess at HBO is a sign of worse things to come for marginalized voices in TV and movies
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ICYMI: What Is a Clean Girl?
And what does it have to do with the Old Money and Soft Life trends?
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Decoder Ring: The “Sex” Scandal That Made Mae West
Before she hit the big-screen, the sultry actress starred in a 1927 tabloid trial.
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The Waves: Live. Laugh. Lexapro.
Mental health drugs shouldn’t come with stigma. But they shouldn’t be the only solution, either.
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What Next: The Crisis of Trust That Dobbs Created
A ruptured ectopic pregnancy left a Texas woman wondering if her treatment was delayed because of her state’s abortion ban.
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The Waves: Liz Cheney’s Mom Energy
She’s disappointed in Trump. But she still voted with him 93 percent of the time.
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The Waves: Cafeteria Catholics Can Support Abor...
The Catholic Church claims abortion activists are threatening them. Is that true?
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Slow Burn - Roe v. Wade: Roe Against Wade
How Justice Harry Blackmun became an accidental abortion rights hero.
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The Waves: The 10 Year Old Who Needed An Abortion
Why did so many news outlets question a doctor’s word about a rape?
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Slow Burn - Roe v. Wade: Women vs. Connecticut
What it took to strike down one of the oldest abortion laws in the country.
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What Next: The Prosecutors Stuck With Abortion ...
In conservative states, some public attorneys are trying to signal that they'll treat Dobbs-triggered cases with skepticism.
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Slow Burn - Roe v. Wade: Life or Death
How a doctor and nurse from Cincinnati irrevocably changed the debate over abortion in America.
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Slow Burn - Roe v. Wade: Get Married or Go Home
In 1971, Shirley Wheeler became the public face of the fight for abortion rights.
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The Waves: Brittney Griner and the Problem With...
She’s a star of her game—and this is how she’s treated?
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How To Orgasm
Ev’Yan Whitney on sexuality, pleasure, and staying true to you.
34 min
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How To Stand Up for Your Kid When Society Won’t
A mom learns to embrace her child’s nonbinary identity.
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Sponsored: How Can We Adapt to Meet Evolving Cu...
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Sponsored: You Have My Attention with OkCupid C...
In Episode 2 of The Relentless, we’re talking to someone who is an expert in standing out when selling yourself online: Melissa Hobley, the Chief Marketing Officer of the popular dating app OkCupid.
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Katrina Adams
Allison Benedikt talks to Katrina Adams, former president of the U.S. Tennis Association, about the pressures for Americans to win championships, how being the first black woman leader of the USTA shaped the way she did the job, and that infamous Serena and Osaka tennis match.
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Madeline Bell
Allison Benedikt talks to Madeline Bell, president and CEO of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, about creating a culture of innovation in a culture where mistakes can be dangerous, the difference between talking to donors and politicians, and how the power dynamics between nurses and doctors are changing.