HeyJaredGender Spiral with Ally Beardsley and Babette Thomas
Hosted by Ally Beardsley and Babette Thomas, Gender Spiral is a quest to explore the modern experience of being a human in our gendered world.
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Body Fascism (w/ Da'Shaun L. Harrison) (opens the original)
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Author and trans theorist Da'Shaun L. Harrison walks us through why cultural views of the fatness, race and gender are all intricately interconnected, and how certain standards for the body are enforced in times of fascism. Hosted by Ally Beardsley and Babette Thomas, Gender Spiral is a quest to explore the modern experience of being a human in our gendered world. Check out Da'Shaun on Instagram . Find their work on their website: dashaunharrison.com See our friends Honey Pluton and Spike Einbin
Trans Agnostic Reactionary Liberals (w/ Andrea Long Chu) (opens the original)
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Pulitzer-prize winning critic Andrea Long Chu (New York Magazine, books: Females, Authority) lobbys for a new term for centrist TERFs who are neither right-wing nor leftist. She also explains how gender is a filter through which her work is written, and why criticism isn't necessarily "mean." Hosted by Ally Beardsley and Babette Thomas, Gender Spiral is a quest to explore the modern experience of being a human in our gendered world. Check out Andrea's work at her website: andrealongchu.com Liste
Men Who Think I Am One of Them Speak (w/ Stacey Waite) (opens the original)
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Poet and professor Stacey Waite is staying in Nebraska, and examining masculinity as they raise their son. Get Stacey's Lambda-nomiated book A Real Man Would Have a Gun . Hosted by Ally Beardsley and Babette Thomas, Gender Spiral is a quest to explore the modern experience of being a human in our gendered world. Listen to this episode ad-free, watch the video version, and access other perks on our Patreon: patreon.com/GenderSpiralPodcast . Thank you for supporting us! Find transcripts, merch and
Everyone Needs Gender Liberation (w/ Raquel Willis) (opens the original)
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Activist and writer Raquel Willis tells us why we can't lose focus on intersectionality in the gender liberation movement. Plus, she talks about recording her experience of growing up Black and trans in a Catholic southern family in a memoir at the ripe age of 33. TRIGGER WARNINGS: death of a parent, suicide, grief Learn more about Raquel and her work at raquelwillis.com . Follow her on Instagram , Threads , Facebook and YouTube . Get a copy of her memoir The Risk it Takes to Bloom . Stay connec
Black Trans Masculine Experience (w/ TYGAPAW) (opens the original)
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From their all-girls school growing up in Jamaica, to the international customs kiosk, to their Carribean neighborhood in NYC, DJ TYGAPAW (aka Dion) examines moving through the world now passing as a man versus their former experience of Black womanhood. Hosted by Ally Beardsley and Babette Thomas, Gender Spiral is a quest to explore the modern experience of being a human in our gendered world. This episode features music from TYGAPAW's new album "Together You Gather All Power Applied Worldwide,
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