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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Well, Now: Eating Disorders Are Rising Among Bo...
Eating disorders are one of the most deadly psychiatric disorders. For decades doctors didn’t have the right tools to care for most boys and men who had them.
36 min
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Hear Me Out: Anti-Vaxers Aren’t Just Extremists
They’re often responding to real problems with American healthcare.
33 min
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Death, Sex & Money: The Very Hot Marriage of Ni...
The Emmy-winning actor sits down with her wife for a conversation about their early courtship, steamy first date, and the process of going public with their love.
37 min
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Amicus: How The Mifepristone Case Reached SCOTUS
Will this Supreme Court reward three decades of activism against abortion pills and ban the safest, most popular abortion method in the United States?
54 min
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What Next: How Anti-Abortion Laws Trap Domestic...
In post-Roe America, survivors’ choices are limited.
21 min
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Outward: Chase Strangio, Continued. Trans Visib...
Part two of our conversation with ACLU Lawyer Chase Strangio
19 min
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A Word: Black Country Renaissance
After Beyoncé’s “Texas Hold ‘Em” tops charts, the spotlight shines on Black women in country music.
37 min
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Outward: Chase Strangio on the Anti-Trans Legis...
What’s at stake in the courts this year and how Dobbs impacts it all
54 min
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Slate Money: Her Boyfriends Couldn’t Handle Her...
Filmmaker Chloe Domont discusses the real-life toxicity behind her erotic thriller Fair Play.
27 min
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A Word: Freedom Fight Like a Woman
24 min
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Amicus: The IVF Decision We Should Have Seen Co...
You can draw a straight line from Jim Crow to Dobbs and the Alabama IVF decision
58 min
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Outward: Polyamory and Other Non-monogamous Advice
Comedian Ashley Ray joins Bryan to explain throuples, unicorn hunting, and answer questions about non-hierarchical non-monogamy
36 min
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What Next: What Happened to Nex Benedict?
A 16-year-old trans student is dead after a fight in a school bathroom. Why?
24 min
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What Next: The Basketball Phenom Shaking Up the...
Caitlin Clark, the NCAA women’s basketball all-time leading scorer is changing the sport, one logo-shot at a time.
17 min
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Outward: True Detective: Night Country’s Lesbia...
Bryan and Madeline whip out the detective corkboard to solve the mystery of True Detective: Night Country’s queer undertones
33 min
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ICYMI: The Turbulence of Air Force Taylor
Plus, why food influencer Emily Mariko got backlash for selling a $120 tote bag
44 min
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Care & Feeding (After Dark): Couples’ Therapy
Our spouses have entered the group chat.
29 min
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Well, Now: What We Get Wrong About Love
Kiss the grand romantic gestures goodbye and dig into the research-backed components that make life-long partnerships.
32 min
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Outward: A Short History of Transmisogyny with ...
Bryan interviews Jules about her new book A Short History of Transmisogyny
43 min
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Hear Me Out: Campus Assault Hearings Are A Disa...
Restorative justice might be the solution.
33 min
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Political Gabfest: Will The Carroll Verdict Hur...
We’re talking numbers: $83.3 million in Carroll v. Trump; 1920-1948 in Israel and Palestine; and the billionaires of techno-authoritarianism.
63 min
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Care & Feeding: My Son Doesn’t “Play Like A Boy”
Slate’s parenting podcast on the kindergarten binary.
27 min
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ICYMI: Nicki Minaj’s 72-Hour Spiral
The internet history of Nicki Minaj’s beef with Megan Thee Stallion
36 min
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Outward: All of Us Strangers’ Ghosts and Gays
Jules and Bryan are joined by Slate’s Jeffrey Bloomer to react to All Of Us Strangers, a new film from director Andrew Haigh.
40 min
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Amicus: Donald Trump and the Apex of MAGA Misogyny
What the E. Jean Carroll Trials Tell Us About Republicans’ Devolving Views on Women
32 min