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Finding Your Voice

November 17, 2020 Christy Powell

Billie was one of our last guests to join the show back on Earth That Was and comes back to us with an important idea for our new digital world- the way people hear your voice matters. This summer we began collecting pronouns from our callers because the more often we see ‘she/her’ paired with a booming baritone the more easily we can drop the gender critical bullshit and recognize that any voice can come from any one. And, as we work to make ourselves a more accepting society, Billie walks us through some of the dangers and opportunities found in the world of voice therapy.

Filling In American Gender History

March 8, 2020 Christy Powell

In an America that is still getting around to apologizing for Japanese American internment, it’s no surprise that expansion of legal protections for trans folx has brought greater visibility and some scary push back. What a lot of people don’t seem to understand is why there are SUDDENLY trans people everywhere, invading a bathroom or track and field team near you. Of course trans DNA has always been part of our genetic legacy but why haven’t we seen more trans figures in the past? Visiting Secular Sexuality to help answer some of these questions and offer us a few of the missing pages from our anthropology books is my colleague Billie Beard.

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