The Cut

In Her Shoes from the Cut is a weekly conversation between a special guest and Lindsay Peoples, The Cut's Editor-in-Chief, exploring culture, style, sex, politics and more. Intimate, provocative, and probing, the Cut aims to ask questions before listeners even know they have them, always with a generous wit and an expansive idea of what is possible. From New York Magazine and The Vox Media Podcast Network. New episodes every other Wednesday.

Personal Journals
Documentary
Fashion & Beauty
126
Do You Actually Miss the Yoga Studio?
What yoga means without the studio- for students, for teachers, and for the entire culture of American Yoga.
26 min
127
Your Friendly Black Sidekick
In the ‘90s, young Black girls in film were rarely in the spotlight. Producer B.A. Parker navigates the feeling of being relegated to the sidelines with a little help from her favorite ‘90s Black child actresses.
16 min
128
The Truth About False Memories
The Lost in the Mall experiment is a classic case study in Psych 101 classes.
33 min
129
Five Reasons To Get Married On Zoom
The way that people have been getting married in 2020 might change weddings forever. And that's for the better—or at least, that's what host Avery Trufelman is trying to convince her friend.
20 min
130
Would You Move Back Home? Could You?
For more than a decade now, Stella Bugbee has lived with her parents. But for a long time, she kept that a secret—shamed by the American myth that you're a loser if you live at home.
16 min
131
In Her Shoes: Tamron Hall
Tamron Hall made daytime television history becoming the first Black woman to host the Today Show.
35 min
132
The Dangerous Legacy Of White Male America (wit...
Author Ijeoma Oluo discusses her new book and why we need white men to believe in their ability to grow.
27 min
133
The Border Patrol Agent I Know
Ana is an activist and a reporter. Art is an active duty border patrol agent. Their two worlds collided in the Arizona desert, over a series of conversations.
36 min
134
In Her Shoes: Jenna Lyons
While president of J. Crew, Jenna Lyons was once labeled the “The Woman Who Dresses America.”
39 min
135
Being An Anxious Weirdo with Cazzie David and Z...
These days, it's easy to forget how to be with other people. But writer Cazzie David and filmmaker Zoe Lister-Jones are embracing that uncomfortable feeling.
19 min
136
In Her Shoes: Erica Chidi
Erica Chidi went from being a doula to a women’s health entrepreneur.
30 min
137
She Had COVID For Months. No One Believed Her.
Chimere was pretty sure she had COVID, but her tests kept coming back negative. She started to question herself until she found a group exactly like her.
25 min
138
In Her Shoes: Aya Kanai
Aya Kanai been a fashion editor for nearly 20 years.
38 min
139
Turning to Tarot
This week, a case study in three different tarot card readers, and three very different theories of how we should approach the future.
20 min
140
The Last Four Years, The Last Five Decades (wit...
The Cut talks with Rebecca Traister about how the battle to protect Roe v. Wade may be steep, but all is not lost.
30 min
141
Protesting Without Rules
This summer, when protesting felt both dangerous and at times joyous, many activists started to wonder: is there a right way to protest?
23 min
142
Am I Radical Enough?
Society is in need of a radical change. So what do we gain and what do we lose in compromising?
28 min
143
Irony is Out (with Raven Leilani)
Being a snob takes too much energy. Author Raven Leilani discusses her debut book Luster and the importance of being earnest.
25 min
144
I Guess It's Time to Move?
It feels like everyone's moving. Whether we become our new selves in a new place, when a new neighborhood feels like a shadow of itself.
20 min
145
Rich People Problems
Rich people have been a source of fascination and perverse envy. Why can’t we stop looking at them... and why haven’t we eaten them yet?
21 min
146
Emily Ratajkowski Wants Her Pictures Back
Emily Ratajkowski is a model whose image is not always treated as her own. Now she talks about what it's like to try and take back her own power.
29 min
147
Love on Lockdown: A Quarantine Romantic Comedy
Our heroine faces a new hurdle in her search for love: a pandemic. So when she meets her potential dream man online, she invites him to quarantine with her.
29 min
148
The Joy of Sext
This week on The Cut: the art of the nude, and why people socialized as male aren’t allowed to see themselves as desirable.
21 min
149
Nature is Healing
The nature memes of 2020 brought the mantra; "nature is healing, we are the virus." But is humanity the virus we’ve condemned ourselves to be?
23 min
150
Optimism
While being an optimist seems ridiculous right now, the people who have come to represent optimism incarnate have a lot to teach us.
28 min