Relationscapes: Exploring Human Identity and Connection
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Your Gender is a Constellation (with Ari Berkowitz)
Your Gender is a Constellation (with Ari Berkowitz)
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Your identity is a landscape, shaped by countless connections and crossroads with other people. Relationscapes explores our shared terrain—how we make each other who we are, often in ways we don't easily recognize.
Journalist Blair Hodges ventures into this terrain with fascinating people whose expertise and experiences reveal unexpected things about who we are and how we connect. Join us to explore gender, race, sexuality, ability, friendship, family, culture, and more. Expand your map of what it means to be human in turbulent times.
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- Your Gender is a Constellation (with Ari Berkowitz) · 1 ώ. 12 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 65Most people don't think much about human biology after high school. Which is a real problem! Because most people also assume that biological sex is obvious, simple, and binary…
- MINI EPISODE: How to become better neighbors with death (with Amelia Chiarenza) · 32 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 88Death is inevitable, but most of us spend our lives keeping it at a distance. After Amelia Chiarenza lost her mother, father, and best friend within 16 months, she decided to…
- Healing From the Whiteness Mindset (with Jonathan Mathias Lassiter) · 1 ώ. 7 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 86What if some of the ideas normalized in the practice of psychology are actually causing harm? Psychologist Jonathan Mathias Lassiter joins Blair to uncover the white/Eurocentric…
- More than the Baby Blues (with Teresa Wong) · 1 ώ. 22 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 85Teresa Wong loved her newborn daughter. At the same time, she wondered if she hated her. After giving birth to Scarlet, Teresa found herself consumed by exhaustion, shame…
- Christian Purity Culture is Pretty Racist, Actually (with Sara Moslener) · 1 ώ. 5 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 84In the wake of the #MeToo movement, another hashtag reckoning emerged: #ChurchToo. Religious women are coming forward with stories of being harmed by the tenets of Christian…
- The Postpartum Psychosis Prophecies (with Ayana Lage) · 1 ώ. 13 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 83After experiencing a devastating miscarriage, writer Ayana Lage was thrilled to welcome a new child. She wasn't so thrilled with the accompanying sleeplessness, mania, and…
- MINI EPISODE: The 14th Amendment is safe...for now (with Susan J. Pearson) · 28 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 82Donald Trump launched his political career by spreading the lie that Barack Obama was not born in the United States. He launched his second term as president trying to overturn…
- Life Between the Cracks of History: An Immigrant Family's Story (with Ada Ferrer) · 60 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 81History is often told through revolutions, presidents, and wars. Historian Ada Ferrer tells it through the experience of her own family. When Ferrer was just 11 months old, her…
- The Secret and Sometimes Sinister History of American Birth Certificates (with Susan J. Pearson) · 1 ώ. 22 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 80If you have one, your American birth certificate may be the most powerful piece of paper you own. It can open doors to citizenship, school, employment, and legal recognition…
- Communists, Black folks, and queers, oh my! (with Robert Fieseler) · 1 ώ. 6 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 79In 1959, a young University of Florida student was pulled out of his final exam by police and taken to a motel room for interrogation. His suspected crime: being gay. Journalist…
- The Radical Origins of Pride Month (with Kaila Story) · 1 ώ. 10 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 78The 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…
- MINI EPISODE: The Sitcomification of Holly Brown · 46 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 77Holly Brown loves TV sitcoms. Growing up, her own family looked like the prototype for must-see TV: a charismatic dad who worked on a top sitcom in Hollywood, siblings and a…
- The Slow-Motion Inevitability of Becoming Yourself (with Kevin James Thornton) · 1 ώ. 14 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 76Kevin James Thornton built a massive audience singing absurd stories from his evangelical past in an auto-tune style on TikTok. But underneath the humor were years of loneliness…
- Navigating Mixed-Race Family Dynamics (with Samira Mehta) · 1 ώ. 21 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 75Why do racist comments from loved ones cut more deeply than overt racism from strangers? What makes it so difficult to name harm when it comes from someone who cares about you?…
- The Obvious Reason Men's Reproductive Health Has Been Overlooked (with Rene Almeling) · 49 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 74We talk a lot about women’s reproductive health. We rarely talk about men’s. But that gap isn’t just cultural—it’s built into science itself. In this episode, Yale sociologist…
- MINI EPISODE: She Lets Joy Be Her Compass (with Bailey Buckles) · 34 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 73She thought there would always be more time to explore—until a routine hike nearly killed her. In this mini episode, Bailey Buckles recounts how a sudden, life-threatening…
- Tumbling Through the Mother-Daughter Multiverse (with Sarah Labrie) · 1 ώ. 15 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 72If you lost touch with reality, how would you even tell the difference? That's the question Sarah Labrie had to confront after her mother was found on the side of a Houston…
- How Dogs Domesticated Humans (with Laura Hobgood) · 1 ώ. 9 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 71Dogs didn’t just become our companions. They helped make us human. They've been by our side for tens of thousands of years, helping us herd and hunt, migrate, heal, grieve, fight…
- MINI EPISODE: What a Good Boy, with Steven Page · 39 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 70Some songs take decades to reveal what they’re really about. Back in the 90s when 20-year-old Steven Page wrote “What a Good Boy,” he understood it as a plea to ease up on…
- Recovering Queer Black History for Everybody (with George M. Johnson) · 1 ώ. 8 λεπ. · Επεισόδιο 69When George M. Johnson was a kid growing up in New Jersey, they loved Black History Month. They were thrilled to learn about the people who shaped American history for the…
