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.
1
ICYMI: Kate Mackz Can’t Outrun Politics
24 min
2
Outward | Queer Travel Writing with Alden Jones
Queer writers, global stories: Alden Jones on challenging the legacy of travel literature
34 min
3
ICYMI: The Harry Potter Fandom Faces Its Bigges...
49 min
4
ICYMI: This Book Drama Gets Hotter in the DMs
27 min
5
Death, Sex & Money | The Patient and Cunning Wo...
Andrew Schneider is the only full-time lobbyist at West Virginia’s state capitol working on LGBTQ issues.
49 min
6
What Next | Should Hospitals Drug Test New Moms?
False positives are common. The legal consequences can be devastating.
24 min
7
What Next | When a State Tells Trump 'No'
Maine’s governor said she’d follow her state’s laws—then the federal government launched more than a half dozen investigations.
24 min
8
Outward | How The Gay Rights Movement Became Tr...
33 min
9
What Next | Project 2025’s Plan for Your Family
24 min
10
Outward | Planning San Francisco Pride in a Shi...
Christina Cauterucci speaks with SF Pride’s Executive Director about organizing Pride while corporate allies shift toward Trump-era politics.
37 min
11
Culture Gabfest | Seth Rogen’s Love/Hate Letter...
This week, the hosts discuss The Studio, Eephus, and Sunrise On The Reaping.
67 min
12
Outward | The New Lavender Scare with Christina...
Jules Gill-Peterson talks with Christina Cauterucci about her latest piece on queer federal workers.
42 min
13
What Next | How the Supreme Court Could Gut Pla...
25 min
14
Culture Gabfest: Netflix’s Incel Tragedy Adoles...
This week, the hosts discuss Adolescence, Lady Gaga’s latest album MAYHEM, and Trump’s continued assault on public universities to remove DEI programs.
66 min
15
Outward: Renaissance Trans Theologies and Histo...
How Renaissance theology and literature reveal a long history of transition—socially, spiritually, and surgically
35 min
16
How To! | Write Your Memoir
Patrick George of InsideEVs on finding your new ride.
42 min
17
Outward | Should We Get Guns?
39 min
18
Culture Gabfest: Meghan Markle Sprinkles Potpou...
This week, the hosts discuss Mickey 17, Netflix’s With Love, Meghan, and the plague of the white homes.
67 min
19
Outward | Why Love Isn’t Apolitical: Liberation...
Bryan Lowder sits down with Dean Spade to talk about his new book Love in A F*cked Up World: How to Build Relationships, Hook Up, and Raise Hell Together
36 min
20
How To! | Lose Your ‘Virginity’ at 43
Nicole Hardy, author of Confessions of a Latter-Day Virgin, on leaning into curiosity and pleasure.
41 min
21
Death, Sex & Money | Call It ‘A Midlife Awakening’
Anna talks to writer Ada Calhoun and comedian Rosebud Baker about some of life’s big transitional moments: motherhood, divorce, and following crushes.
51 min
22
Outward | Slapping Leather: The Untamed History...
Christina Cauterucci talks with historian Rebecca Scofield about the history of gay rodeo
36 min
23
What Next | Why Women Kill
One commonality among women incarcerated for homicide raises the question, what is self-defense—and who’s entitled to it?
30 min
24
Culture Gabfest: The Oscars Go Streaming
This week, the hosts discuss I’m Still Here, Trump’s disruptions at the National Endowment for the Arts and the Kennedy Center, and an exclusive interview with Oscars CEO Bill Kramer.
66 min
25
Outward | The “Protect the Children” Trap: How ...
Bryan Lowder sits down with Nico Lang to unpack how Trump is using child protection rhetoric to push anti-trans policies
33 min