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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8: Conversion | When We All Get to Heaven
“We just kept trying to find meaning, meaning, meaning.”
57 min
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Death, Sex & Money | “The Lord Is My Shepherd a...
In the 1960s, the Metropolitan Community Church was one of the first gay-positive churches. When AIDS hit, it became a refuge.
51 min
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What Next | How Planned Parenthood Got Defunded
Abortion bans may not be politically feasible—but cutting funding from the clinics gets you a lot of the way there.
29 min
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ICYMI | AI Is Changing How We Have Sex
Technology and porn are becoming disturbingly intertwined.
45 min
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7: Dress Rehearsals | When We All Get to Heaven
A church romance blossoms between a hula dancer and a lumbersexual.
46 min
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Interlude: Tired of Dying | When We All Get to ...
Ten years into the AIDS crisis, the country starts to notice. A little bit.
30 min
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ICYMI | Yes, Having a Boyfriend Is Embarrassing
A viral Vogue essay has sparked an online debate.
45 min
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What Next | No, Women Didn't Ruin the Workplace
“Are workplaces too girly?” and other questions asked bravely by the New York Times.
28 min
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6: Attacked | When We All Get to Heaven
When a lesbian minister is physically assaulted, the church is galvanized. And when they find out who did it, there are even fewer answers.
61 min
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5: Healing Without a Cure | When We All Get to ...
A minister with AIDS grapples with what “healing” means in the face of certain death.
54 min
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4: Friends in the Fire | When We All Get to Heaven
“To know us is to love us.”
48 min
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ICYMI | TwitchCon’s Sexual Harassment Problem
An incident at the 2025 convention has added new urgency to streamer safety.
47 min
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3: “A Church with AIDS” | When We All Get to He...
The gay church becomes the church with AIDS.
44 min
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How To! | Survive Getting Fired
Laura Brown and Kristina O’Neill on bouncing back after losing your job.
39 min
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Death, Sex & Money | How a Former Polygamist “S...
Christine Brown Woolley, co-star of the TLC reality show Sister Wives, talks about the faith she grew up in—and raised her children in—and why she decided to break from it.
57 min
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Care & Feeding | Is Gaming Taking Over Boys’ Li...
35 min
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2: A New Gospel for Gay Sinners | When We All G...
A Pentecostal preacher starts a gay church in his living room. A navy veteran starts one in a gay bar. And a lesbian athlete finds one when she needs one.
56 min
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Outward | Making ‘When We All Get to Heaven’
Bryan and Christina sit down with Lynne Gerber, to discuss the new limited series about how queer churches responded to the AIDS crisis.
29 min
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1: Setting The Table | When We All Get to Heaven
A queer church tries to remember all they lost to AIDS. We do too.
26 min
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How To! | Harness Your Anger
Soraya Chemaly on the power of women’s rage.
43 min
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ICYMI | Podcaster Theo Von Is A Manosphere Mystery
And the comedian might be outgrowing it.
44 min
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ICYMI | Taylor Swift Is Rewriting Her Internet ...
We break down the surprising reactions to Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl and what it says about her current relationship to the internet.
42 min
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ICYMI | Saudi Arabia Is Coming For The Sims
A new EA Games deal has players worried about censorship of their beloved franchise.
37 min
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ICYMI | RIP to MTV's Catfish: Caught, But Never...
What nine seasons of Catfish taught us about the internet, fantasy world building, and our ultimate desire for connection.
33 min
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ICYMI | Hank Green Started a War With Knitters
Plus, who asked for the return of the internet’s least favorite wife guy, and did we get raptured?
41 min