Fireside with Blair Hodges
by Blair Hodges
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Relationscapes: “The Radical Origins of Pride Month,” with Kaila Story
Relationscapes: “The Radical Origins of Pride Month,” with Kaila Story
About this podcast
Interviews about culture, religion, and more with brilliant people who will fan the flames of your curiosity.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 28 episodes
- Relationscapes: “The Radical Origins of Pride Month,” with Kaila Story · Season 3 Episode 68The rainbow flag signals unity. Reality under the banner is messier. Professor Kaila Story has spent her life navigating spaces where parts of her identity are welcomed while…
- S’mores (Bonus Episode)—Tara Boyce on Hope · 54 min · Season 2 Episode 15She dreamed of being a mother. Reality had a wakeup call for her.
- Joy, with Ross Gay · 1 h 10 min · Season 2 Episode 14Not your happy-go-lucky discussion of joy here. Ross Gay brings something different.
- Invisible, with Meghan O’Rourke · Season 2 Episode 13As a silent epidemic of chronic illnesses afflicts tens of millions of Americans, Meghan O’Rourke calls for revolution.
- Transitions, with Susan Stryker · 1 h 35 min · Season 2 Episode 12A trans scholar makes history writing trans history.
- Mission, with Kathryn Gin Lum · Season 2 Episode 11The word “heathen” has fallen out of use, but the racist ideas behind it persist in the White American imagination.
- Shell Play, with Toni Jensen · Season 2 Episode 10America's legacy of firearm violence through the eyes of a Métis woman.
- Hope, with Tom Whyman · Season 2 Episode 9A father wonders if it's ethical to bring children into this world.
- The Fire, with Danté Stewart · 1 h 29 min · Season 2 Episode 8A young Black Christian writer discovers the holiness of rage.
- Heritage, with Masha Rumer · Season 2 Episode 7The challenges of parenting second-generation immigrants.
- Monsters, with David Livingstone Smith · 1 h 6 min · Season 2 Episode 6When we fight monsters, we risk becoming monstrous ourselves.
- Voices, with Jeff Chu · 58 min · Season 2 Episode 5After Rachel Held Evans unexpectedly died, her friend Jeff Chu made sure her last book was completed.
- Margins, with Fatimah Salleh and Margaret Olsen Hemming · 59 min · Season 2 Episode 4How can scripture be inspiring if it's also racist, misogynist, and otherwise problematic?
- The Books, with Vanessa Zoltan · 59 min · Season 2 Episode 3The novel 'Jane Eyre' was ahead of its time, but many years later it bears the marks of its age. Are these older canonical books worth saving?
- Civility, with Alex Zamalin · 49 min · Season 2 Episode 2The virtue of civility has been used for generations to silence the voices of marginalized people in the United States.
- Hidden, with Ayala Fader · 1 h 31 min · Season 2 Episode 1Ultra-Orthodox Jews living as hidden heretics within their communities try to make it work.
- S’mores (Bonus Episode)—Let’s Talk, with Anna Sale · 30 min · Season 1 Episode 11How to talk about hard things like death, sex, money, and more.
- Options, with Taylor Petrey · 1 h 32 min · Season 1 Episode 10Shifting beliefs about gender and sexuality in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
- Home, with Lauren Sandler · 1 h 14 min · Season 1 Episode 9One woman's plight of being brilliant, pregnant, and homeless.
- Slow Down, with John Swinton · 60 min · Season 1 Episode 8Thinking about disabilities can reshape our understanding of time.
