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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Death, Sex & Money | The Internet Taught Me to ...
Casey Johnston used to count every calorie and despise exercise. Then she started lifting weights and found a new want to relate to her body and the world.
51 min
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ICYMI | The Great Girlboss Comeback
Just a few years after their cancellations, some girlbosses are starting their second acts.
48 min
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ICYMI | Kendra Fell In Love With Her Psychiatri...
How a TikTok series became more like a ‘Black Mirror’ episode.
41 min
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How To! | Raise a Kid in a Polarized Family
Melinda Wenner Moyer on letting in-laws impart love, not patriarchy.
39 min
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ICYMI | Your Next Favorite Book Will Be Fanfiction
Why is fanfiction going mainstream, and did someone leave their Labubu on Karl Marx’s grave?
42 min
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Outward | From Hit Parade: The Hidden History o...
From Little Richard to Chappell Roan, queer artists have always been vanguards of pop, even when they have not been out.
59 min
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ICYMI | Why Online Whisper Networks Never Work
The Tea app betrayed the women it was supposed to keep safe.
40 min
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What Next: TBD | The Death of an Online Whisper...
Your safety? There isn’t an app for that.
25 min
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ICYMI | Astronomer Updates, Jessie Murph, and D...
What’s going on with Astronomer? Why is the internet mad at singer Jessie Murph? And what’s up with this fake TikTok cult?
40 min
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What Next | Trans and Shut Out in Trump’s America
Clinics for trans youth are closing, incorrect passports have been issued, and trans people are having to make emergency health care plans, even in blue states.
25 min
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How To! | Gossip for Good
Normal Gossip’s Rachelle Hampton spills the tea on … spilling the tea.
43 min
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ICYMI | Calico Critters Are Beefing Thanks To T...
Fans are enraged by a lawsuit targeting the popular satirical account SlyvanianDrama.
39 min
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Outward | From Hit Parade: The Hidden History o...
57 min
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How To! | Be an Ethical Hater
Slate’s Scaachi Koul on talking trash for the betterment of humankind.
37 min
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ICYMI: The Internet History of Jojo Siwa
The chronically online former children’s entertainer is rebranding (again)
58 min
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ICYMI | Love Island’s Toxic Relationship With S...
How Love Island USA can learn from the UK franchise’s mistakes.
38 min
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Outward | Archiving the Spirit of Ballroom with...
Michael Roberson traces the spiritual, political, and public health roots of the ballroom scene
38 min
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ICYMI | The Most Famous Facelift on TikTok
What a woman’s viral trip to Guadalajara and Kylie Jenner’s boob job reveal say about the current state of plastic surgery discourse online.
29 min
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ICYMI | How Coming Out Videos Changed YouTube
We sit down with YouTuber Ingrid Nilsen to reflect on the 10-year anniversary of her most popular video to date.
44 min
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Outward | The Latest on Trans Rights in the Cou...
48 min
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Outward | Small-Town Pride Blooms
Bryan dives in with Christina Cauterucci’s reporting on rising rural Prides and we hear from an organizer of Canyon County Pride in Idaho
43 min
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What Next | Corporate America Retreats From Pride
It was always an awkward fit, but it’s still ominous to watch companies pull back support.
26 min
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ICYMI: TikTok’s “Relationship Experts” Must Be ...
TheWizardLiz’s breakup proves you can’t “hack” love.
31 min
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ICYMI: Sad Beige Lawsuits and an Influencer’s “...
31 min
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ICYMI: Will MomTok Actually Change Mormonism?
43 min