Susan Stryker
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
English - May 27, 2021 07:30 - 1 hour - 89.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 64.9K ratingsComedy TV & Film armchair expert dax shepard Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Susan Stryker is a professor, author, filmmaker, and theorist whose work focuses on gender and human sexuality. Susan joins the Armchair Expert to discuss the transgender experience in today’s modern world, consulting on the Lady and the Dale docuseries, and how transgender hate is rooted in racism, colonization, and oppression. Susan and Dax talk about the history of criminalization of non-reproductive sexuality, the cross-cultural view of transgender people, and what transmisogyny means. Susan and Dax debate how people should approach transgender Olympic athletes, beliefs about masculinity, and what actually gives an athlete an advantage.