Latest Queer friendly Podcast Episodes
What's a NORMAL period?
Unladylike - July 09, 2024 22:45 - 45 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsWhy is menstruation still so misunderstood? Ask Kate Clancy, the anthropology professor and period scientist who cared enough to study the relationship between COVID vaccination and temporary cycle changes when nobody else was. Cristen talks to Kate about intersectional feminist period science, w...
Presidential Plot Twist?? (TEASER)
Unladylike - July 07, 2024 10:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratings**UNLADIES' ROOM teaser** Cristen's calling it. The presidential election in November ain't gonna be Trump v Biden. dun dun dunnnn! To hear the full, ad-free episode, join the Patreon - and THANK YOU!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Best Of: Flush the Pooptriarchy
Unladylike - July 02, 2024 22:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsWhy is number two extra taboo for girls? This listener fave originally aired in 2019, but unlike Joe Biden, it does not get old. Cristen revisits a pair of comedian "poop friends" and an IBS expert to find out how gender gets in our guts, the side effects of poop shame and generally dealing with ...
Boob Sweats and Body Odors
Unladylike - June 25, 2024 04:00 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsAs the old saying goes, horses sweat, men perspire, and women glisten. In which case, call me a horse; I'm dripping. Cristen (and her signature sweat mustache) dives into the gender- and class-coded human superpower that is SWEATING. Science journalist Sarah Everts (The Joy of Sweat: The Strange ...
Krista Tippett on Getting Quiet Inside, from Say More
Unladylike - June 20, 2024 04:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsSharing a preview of the Say More podcast, where, in a special series, Boston Globe columnist Shirley Leung is opening up the conversation about stress and burnout to help listeners feel less alone and inspired to get help. In this episode, Krista Tippett, says the uncertainty of the times we’re ...
The Myth of Making It
Unladylike - June 18, 2024 04:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsSamhita Mukhopadhyay is done sacrificing herself to ambition. Editorial director of The Meteor and former Teen Vogue executive editor, Samhita details how corporate feminism failed us, what got lost in the fall of the girlboss and why we have to think beyond the fact that work suuuuucks. Her new ...
Her-Fault Divorce
Unladylike - June 12, 2024 00:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsWomen initiate 70 PERCENT of divorces in husband-wife marriages. But why? Are no-fault divorce laws to thank/blame? Cristen digs through the legal history divorcing women, surprising stats and an old LIFE magazine to help explain the paradoxical and persistent relationship between women and divor...
Deary Diary, pt. 2: Tea and History
Unladylike - June 04, 2024 04:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsAre diaries the ultimate form of authenticity? How do our stories shift when we're journaling for no one to see? On Theme co-hosts Yves Jeffcoat and Katie Mitchell read into Black women's diaries for the personal reflections, everyday details and emotional nuance that goes unseen elsewhere. Highl...
Dear Diary, pt 1: Secrets Women Keep
Unladylike - May 29, 2024 04:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsWhat do 400 years-worth of women's published diaries tell us about the kinds of secrets and feelings we keep to ourselves? From a 16th-century spiritualist to the diaries of Anne Frank and Ma Yan, writer Sarah Gristwood reveals the everyday histories they document, the age-old frustrations they s...
The Bumble Fumble
Unladylike - May 21, 2024 16:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsHow did Bumble get its (celibacy-themed) rebrand so wrong? What does it tell us about general dating app burnout? Cristen revises the brand's millennial girlboss origin story, its promise of female empowerment and Whitney Wolfe Herd's path to self-made billionaire. Highlights include: AI dating c...
Hostess with the Mostest
Unladylike - May 15, 2024 20:45 - 44 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsImagine having to host the Pope and the Chinese President. On the same day. Plus, a whole press corps and socialite circle is watching and waiting to blame you for anything that goes wrong. That’s what Deesha Dyer walked into when she was promoted to White House Social Secretary for the Obama adm...
Bisexual Imposter Syndrome (ENCORE)
Unladylike - May 08, 2024 04:05 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsNeW ePiSoDeS returning next week, unladies! In the meantime . . . What happens when women in long-term relationships with straight men realize they're bi, and why are they less likely to come out? Writer and Culture Club host Maggie Zhou shares her own reckoning with the "Bittersweet Privilege of...
"You Don't Look Autistic" (ENCORE)
Unladylike - April 30, 2024 22:45 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsWhat happens when adult women discover they're autistic? Cristen busts the gender stereotypes and neurotypical myths of Autism Spectrum Disorder with help from unladies who've been there. The Loudest Girl in the World host and producer, Lauren Ober, details the (expensive!) jungle gym she had to ...
Sneak Peek: The Last City
Unladylike - April 25, 2024 04:05 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsExiled from a world of engineered perfection, Demetria crash-lands into the brutal reality of the Outerlands. Distrusted by the defiant survivors, her only hope lies with a mysterious AGI, First Belle. But the secrets it holds could break her... or forge her into the hero she never knew she could...
Comstockery!
Unladylike - April 24, 2024 18:00 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsCould an 1873 law that hasn't been enforced in nearly a century be a national abortion ban just waiting to happen? Legal friend of the pod Natalie Birnbaum (Repro Solutions) returns to explain what the Comstock Act is, why it's getting so much attention lately and whether it could it ban medicati...
Monument Building with Diane Carlson Evans (TEASER)
Unladylike - April 21, 2024 04:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratings**Unladies' Room Patreon preview** What does it take to erect a monument to women's history? Just ask Diane Carlson Evans, without whom the Vietnam Women's Memorial would not exist... To hear the full, ad-free episode, join the Patreon - and THANK YOU!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg...
UNCUT GEMS: Monument Building with Diane Carlson Evans (TEASER)
Unladylike - April 21, 2024 04:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratings**Unladies' Room Patreon preview** What does it take to erect a monument to women's history? Just ask Diane Carlson Evans, without whom the Vietnam Women's Memorial would not exist... To hear the full, ad-free episode, join the Patreon - and THANK YOU!! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit meg...
Black Girl Magician
Unladylike - April 16, 2024 16:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsMagician Nicole Cardoza has never met another illusionist who looks like her. The reasons why are no stage magic secret. This episode, Nicole debunks the default pale, male magician and his "lovely assistant" and reclaims the power of suspending disbelief. Highlights include: spiritual appropriat...
Magical Overthinking
Unladylike - April 09, 2024 17:00 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsWhat do vision boards and Princess Diana conspiracy theories have in common? They both rely on a kind of magical thinking called proportionality bias. It's one of many cognitive biases that returning guest Amanda Montell connects to all the woo-woo and delulu going around these days. From the sun...
The Stay-at-Home Girlfriend Mirage (TEASER)
Unladylike - April 07, 2024 04:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratings**Unladies' Room Patreon preview** A labor-free life of feminine leisure, and/or the ultimate self-care con? The SAHGs (stay-at-home girlfriends) of TikTok have been described as a manifestation of Gen Z, anti-girlboss culture. Except, they’re still getting paid to work!! To hear the full, ad-fre...
The Stay-at-Home Girlfriend Mirage
Unladylike - April 07, 2024 04:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratings**Unladies' Room Patreon preview** A labor-free life of feminine leisure, and/or the ultimate self-care con? The SAHGs (stay-at-home girlfriends) of TikTok have been described as a manifestation of Gen Z, anti-girlboss culture. Except, they’re still getting paid to work!! To hear the full, ad-fre...
Mean Girl Feminism
Unladylike - April 02, 2024 20:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsWhat's the difference between a white feminist and a mean girl? Not so much, as Kim Hong Nguyen explains this episode. From colonial era white women to TERFs on main today, mean girl feminism is a new term for an old problem that's all show, no go and oblivious to racialized white feminisms. We a...
When a Butch Loves a Femme
Unladylike - March 26, 2024 15:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsAre butch-femme roles in queer relationships just recycling the same old hetero his 'n' hers gender boxes? What happens when toxic masculinity invades queer relationships and spaces? In an Unladylike FIRST, we're re-asking and re-answering a listener advice request–and with empathetic expertise f...
Body Hair with Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa (TEASER)
Unladylike - March 24, 2024 04:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratings**Unladies' Room Patreon teaser** With spring a few days away, tis the season to talk BODY HAIR! But my 2019 interview with spoken word artist and performer Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa isn't the same old to-shave-or-not-to-shave body hair binary. Sukhjit is a practicing Sikh, and letting it all grow (aka...
UNCUT GEMS: Body Hair with Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa (TEASER)
Unladylike - March 24, 2024 04:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratings**Unladies' Room Patreon teaser** With spring a few days away, tis the season to talk BODY HAIR! But my 2019 interview with spoken word artist and performer Sukhjit Kaur Khalsa isn't the same old to-shave-or-not-to-shave body hair binary. Sukhjit is a practicing Sikh, and letting it all grow (aka...
Introducing Stars and Stars with Isa
Unladylike - March 21, 2024 04:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsHave you ever wondered what the zodiac can reveal about your favorite artists? Then you have to listen to Stars and Stars with Isa, the podcast where we look to the stars above with the stars below. Every episode our charismatic, funny and insightful host and astrologer, Isa Nakazawa, sits down w...
The Cool Aunt
Unladylike - March 19, 2024 22:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsOf all the aunt tropes in pop culture–spinster aunts, sinister aunts, weird aunts, witchy aunts–why is The Cool Aunt so popular these days? More importantly, who is she really, beyond (alleged) disposible income and TikTok aesthetics? Los Angeles Times art and design columnist Carolina Miranda ap...
The Cool Mom
Unladylike - March 13, 2024 19:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsIt's not like a regular podcast episode. It's a cool episode. Right, Regina? Andi Mitchell and Sabrina Kohlberg from Pop Culture Moms take us on a pop cultural tour of The Cool Mom, from Mean Girls to Euphoria, and her defining qualities on screen. But as we also learn from her disregard for boun...
The People vs. Frozen Embryos (TEASER)
Unladylike - March 10, 2024 21:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsWtf just happened with frozen embryos, fertility clinics and IVF in Alabama?? Get ready for the un-true crime, sci-fi Jesus saga of LePage v Center for Reproductive Medicine. As in, the case behind the Alabama state supreme court’s ruling that frozen embryos for IVF are “EXTRAUTERINE CHILDREN” in...
A Football League of Their Own
Unladylike - March 05, 2024 17:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 3.6K ratingsIn 1974, what had started as a sexist gimmick became the first and only (so far) professional women's football league in US history. It wasn't a feminist stunt, either. Sports writer Frankie de la Cretaz tells us the incredible - and incredibly queer - story of the National Women's Football Leagu...
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