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Talking to Your Kids about Secular Sexuality

August 31, 2021 Christy Powell

I get it- talking about kids and sex in the same YouTube video is a really great way to alert the algorithm and end up on a watch list. But kids are in fact sexual beings, with bodies and genders and genitals all of their own. So how do we reconcile +200 years of puritanical squeamishness with a generation born into instant access to the greatest collection of sexually explicit data ever compiled?

Identity Politics and Unused Adjectives

May 16, 2021 Christy Powell

Is there anything more privileged then setting yourself up as the group that gets to decide what does and does not constitute a privilege? Weird flex straight people, but passing is not all it’s cracked up to be. Living in a cis-het mono/alo world (with a bias towards religion) is fun enough without having to pretend it’s a pleasure to be placed in somebody else’s party. This week Nate Smith and Helen Greene join me on the show to pick apart the supposed privilege of passing and pay penance for our queer cards.

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