Is gender relevant?

09/18/17 • 9 min

We’re trying to untangle the new masculinity and femininity, but is that even a relevant mission? Or should we be trying to figure out a post-gender world instead? Journalist Dina Newman was born in Russia and now lives in London. She believes the world is moving beyond masculinity and femininity and it’s more about untangling the new humanity. She joins us as we question the very premise of this podcast!
Host & producer Nas aka Nastaran Tavakoli-Far
Co-producer Cady Voge
Guest: Dina Newman, journalist https://twitter.com/Dinanewman
Related links:
The Gender Knot www.thegenderknot.com

Previous Episode

Does clothing shape gender identity?

Gender neutral clothing is all over the news at the moment. Just a few examples include school children protesting why girls and boys have to dress differently from each other and therefore encouraging their schools to change dress codes, and department stores who are doing away with gendered sections for clothing.
We talk to two guests who work in fashion and the clothing space. We talk the relationship between how they dress and their own gender identity, and how other people in society have responded to them. Both guests were born female, and one identifies as female while the other identifies as non-binary. How has clothing shaped their own gender identities? Should there be gendered sections in clothes shops? And what will happen if clothing becomes gender neutral?
Host & producer Nas aka Nastaran Tavakoli-Far
Co-producer Cady Voge
Guests Laura Kanaplue, producer of the London Queer Fashion Show Santina Sorrenti, founder of Gender Swap
Related links:
London Queer Fashion Show https://londonqueerfashionshow.com/
Gender Swap https://genderswapblog.wordpress.com/
The Gender Knot https://www.thegenderknot.com/
Music: Government Funded Weed by Black Ant (used under Creative Commons) Sourpatch by Glass Boy (used under Creative Commons)

Next Episode

Hillary Clinton’s “Blame Game”

Hillary Clinton apparently isn’t authentic. Except for when she is, and then no one can handle it!
Hillary Clinton’s new book ‘What Happened’ delves into the circumstances around her losing last year’s American presidential election to Donald Trump. She calls people out, and does so directly and by name, these being people who she believes are partially responsible for her losing the election. And she also points fingers at herself as well. Some people are loving her raw expressions, while many, many others are telling her to be quiet, and to sit down, or at least saying that it’s better to look ahead rather than to dwell on the past, which is a more polite way of saying that they don’t really want to hear it.
However, what is most baffling is that a politician and an aspiring leader would be told to sit down and would be discouraged from speaking out when, after all, isn’t that what politicians and leaders are supposed to do – to stand up and to call people out?
The question we’re trying to answer is this: can a woman politician call people out? Or is that a privilege reserved for men?
Host & producer: Nas aka Nastaran Tavakoli-Far
Co-producer: Cady Voge
Guests:
Hadley Freeman, columnist at The Guardian https://twitter.com/HadleyFreeman
Peter, works in politics in Washington DC
Jonathan Freeman, worked full time on Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential campaign, volunteered for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign
Russ Finkelstein, journalist, produced 2016 elections coverage for Fusion https://twitter.com/RussFinkelstein
Clare Foran, political reporter at The Atlantic https://twitter.com/ckmarie
Related links:
Hadley Freeman’s article ‘America’s vitriol towards Clinton reveals a nation mired in misogyny’ https://bit.ly/2x7xAMa
Music: Government Funded Weed by Black Ant (used under Creative Commons) Sourpatch by Glass Boy (used under Creative Commons)