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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Care & Feeding: Dads Can Suffer From Postpartum...
Slate’s parenting podcast on knowing the signs.
36 min
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Slow Burn: Gays Against Briggs - Ep. 4: You Mus...
In the fight against John Briggs, desperate times called for a deeply personal tactic.
52 min
153
Working: A Master Class in Queer Character Desc...
Writer Emma Copley Eisenberg discusses her new novel Housemates and explains why she took special care to describe her characters’ clothes and bodies.
45 min
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A Word: The WNBA’s Great White Hype
Is the WNBA’s Caitlin Clark facing jealousy, or just tough competition from Black players?
31 min
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Slow Burn: Gays Against Briggs - Ep. 3: Harvey ...
How the unofficial mayor of Castro Street became the public face of the anti-Briggs campaign.
52 min
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Well, Now: The Isolation of a Life-Threatening ...
How author Suleika Jaouad grapples with identity after a leukemia diagnosis, remission, and re-emergence.
40 min
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Death, Sex & Money: I Was Afraid of Losing Myse...
What if we thought of caretaking as big, meaty, rewarding work? Or even… cool?
44 min
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What Next: It’s Supreme Court Blockbuster Season
The highest procrastinators in the land are facing a full docket this June, from guns to abortion to presidential immunity.
25 min
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Care & Feeding: How Moms Became Our Social Safe...
Slate’s parenting podcast on “Holding It Together.”
31 min
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Well, Now: How Doulas Make Childbirth Safer For...
For centuries, doulas have guided us through major life transitions, from childbirth to death and everything in between (even first menstruation!).
43 min
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Slow Burn: Gays Against Briggs - Ep. 2: Defend ...
John Briggs’ crusade against gay teachers tapped into a deep well of conservative anxiety.
48 min
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Death, Sex & Money: Why You’re Not Having Sex
People share why physical intimacy is lacking in their lives, whether by choice or circumstance.
33 min
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Money Talks: Business is Bad for Lesbians
Feminist author June Thomas explains the headwinds facing the queer women’s business model.
30 min
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What Next: Diddy’s Reckoning
How one video transformed how the world saw the media mogul, after years of allegations—and even Department of Homeland Security raids—did not.
27 min
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Outward: Behind the Scenes of ‘Gays Against Bri...
Bryan and Christina reunite to talk about the new season of Slow Burn
38 min
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Slow Burn: Gays Against Briggs - Ep. 1: A Hotbe...
In the 1970s, California played host to the biggest gay rights fight the country had ever seen.
45 min
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Working: A Much-Needed History of Queer Women’s...
Writer June Thomas talks about bringing journalistic rigor to a subject that’s close to her heart.
42 min
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Care & Feeding: Why I’m Choosing Single Motherhood
Slate’s parenting podcast on getting a dog (or a boyfriend).
38 min
169
What Next: Why Miss USA is Imploding
Miss USA’s resignation letter is vague. But the first letter of each sentence spells out “I am silenced.”
25 min
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Dear Prudence: I’m Queer and Here—Just Not to M...
Jenée Desmond-Harris is joined by author and host of Savage Lovecast, Dan Savage.
28 min
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Care & Feeding: Mom Guilt Is Real, but So Is He...
Slate’s parenting podcast on being the matriarch.
38 min
172
Well, Now: Overcoming a Complicated Pregnancy
Half of pregnancies will experience complications. Here’s how patients and their partners can best advocate for the proper care.
37 min
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How To!: Flirt With Confidence
Jeff Guenther on telling your crush how you really feel.
36 min
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AMICUS PREVIEW: Abortion Gaslighting is Back at...
Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern take you through the arguments in the emergency abortion care case and a look ahead to Trump’s immunity case.
7 min
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Well, Now: Living and Loving With OCD (feat. Al...
And finding humor with it, too.
36 min