Down The Rabbit Hole: Gender and Online Communities
10/25/23 • 74 min
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Eliza Mondegreen visits the girls/women to talk about the relationship between online communities and gender identities. From Reddit to Tumblr, tens of thousands of strangers are poised to welcome confused kids into a sprawling and hyper-accepting “family.” But, as Eliza puts it, “finding these communities is like stepping in quicksand.”
Eliza Mondegreen is a graduate student researching online trans communities. She is a columnist for UnHerd, Fairer Disputations, and Genspect, and writes on Substack here.
ICYMI
You can listen to this episode for more context about the WaPo story about Artemis Langford.
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Eliza Mondegreen visits the girls/women to talk about the relationship between online communities and gender identities. From Reddit to Tumblr, tens of thousands of strangers are poised to welcome confused kids into a sprawling and hyper-accepting “family.” But, as Eliza puts it, “finding these communities is like stepping in quicksand.”
Eliza Mondegreen is a graduate student researching online trans communities. She is a columnist for UnHerd, Fairer Disputations, and Genspect, and writes on Substack here.
ICYMI
You can listen to this episode for more context about the WaPo story about Artemis Langford.
Want to hear the whole episode? Upgrade your subscription.
HOUSEKEEPING
💭 Follow Sarah’s Substack, “Hold That Thought.”
☕Follow Meghan’s other podcast, “The Unspeakable”
🥂 Join The Unspeakeasy, Meghan’s community for freethinking women.
🎥 Follow us on YouTube!
❌ And on the platform formerly known as Twitter.
📸 And Instagram.
🎵 And TikTok.
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aspecialplace.substack.com
Previous Episode
Sorority Mister
This week, the girlx discuss the recent Washington Post article about Artemis Langford, a University of Wyoming student who was driven out of a sorority house for not being the right kind of girl — specifically, a 6’2” biological male with a five o’clock shadow and some strange hobbies.
Relevant Links
“Judge Rules against Female Sorority Members Who Sued after Chapter Admitted Male Student” from The National Review
HOUSEKEEPING
💭 Follow Sarah’s Substack, “Hold That Thought.”
☕Follow Meghan’s other podcast, “The Unspeakable”
🥂 Join The Unspeakeasy, Meghan’s community for freethinking women.
🎥 Follow us on YouTube!
❌ And on the platform formerly known as Twitter.
📸 And Instagram.
🎵 And TikTok.
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aspecialplace.substack.com
Next Episode
Why Don’t You Just Adopt?
In this episode Sarah and Meghan consider the ethics of adoption, surrogacy and the future of reproductive technology. They discuss the “Baby Scoop” era, which lasted from just after World War II into the early 1970s, in which millions of unwed mother surrendered their babies to adoption agencies, many of which were profiting from the transaction.
They discover that Meghan, who was born the year of the highest number of adoptions, has always knows tons of adoptees and never thought much of it. Sarah, on the other hand, knew very few adoptees. Sarah also reflects on her own primal motherhood instinct and Meghan talks about her volunteer work in the foster care system.
RELEVANT LINKS
Meghan worked in the foster care system for a while, and she wrote this essay about it in The New Yorker.
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HOUSEKEEPING
💭 Follow Sarah’s Substack, “Hold That Thought.”
☕Follow Meghan’s other podcast, “The Unspeakable”
🥂 Join The Unspeakeasy, Meghan’s community for freethinking women.
🎥 Follow us on YouTube!
❌ And on the platform formerly known as Twitter.
📸 And Instagram.
🎵 And TikTok.
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit aspecialplace.substack.com
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