Good-Bye Gidget: Sex and Teen Girls Today
Peggy Orenstein, contributing writer to New York Times Magazine, author of Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape (Harper, 2016), goes beyond the moral panic and hype through...
View ArticleBrian Lehrer Weekend: Jane Sanders on the Campaign, Shirley Chisholm’s...
A few of our favorite segments from the week, in case you missed them.Jane Sanders on the Campaign (First) | Shirley Chisholm’s Presidential Dreams (Starts at 44:03) | Talking to Teen Girls About...
View ArticleAfter Orlando, LQBTQ Muslims Offer Solidarity, Seek Acceptance
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this segment.Regulars at Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida have reported that Omar Mateen, the shooter who killed 49 people at the venue on June 5th, was a...
View ArticleUganda Pride celebrations are marred by arrests, violence and threats
“So many people are living in fear. The community right now is in panic.”
View ArticleOne of London's oldest gay bars is pouring its last pint
The bar is over a century old, and has been part of London's gay community since about the 1920s.
View ArticleGay marriage is legal in Mexico, but Mexicans are still fighting over whether...
Legally speaking, the argument is pretty much settled: Gay marriage is allowed in Mexico. But the politics surrounding the issue are still in turmoil.
View ArticleComing out as bisexual when you're Muslim and married
“I’m bisexual,” I said into the microphone, “and I’m married to a man. That’s not an erasure....”
View ArticleHow Sexual Coercion and Rape Culture Surfaced in the 2016 Election
Author and contributing writer to The New York Times MagazinePeggy Orenstein talks about the feminist response to Donald Trump and the sexual assault allegations, as well as rape culture and her recent...
View ArticleBarry Jenkins and Naomie Harris on 'Moonlight'
Director Barry Jenkins and actress Naomie Harris join us to discuss their film, “Moonlight” about a young man dealing with a dysfunctional home life and a drug-addicted mother (Harris) as he’s coming...
View ArticleFor some Colombian guerrilla fighters, the rebels offered an escape
Unlike other wars, as many as 40 percent of the Colombian guerrilla forces are women. Many join the ranks to seek protection.
View ArticleColombian war victims struggle to find justice. For a while, this girl only...
Research shows that in post-conflict countries where women are recognized as victims and awarded justice, peace is more likely to last. But as Colombia tentatively moves towards peace, how much justice...
View ArticleAmericans don safety pins in solidarity with minorities after election
There should be an embedded item here. Please visit the original post to view it.In the wave of reactions to Donald Trump’s election as the 45th president of the U.S., safety pins have taken on a new...
View ArticleDear President: 'For Black Men Like My Grandfather, Being Gay Equaled Failure...
Robert Jones, a writer and winner of the 2014 Black Weblog Award for Best LGBT Blog, discusses his essay about growing up as a gay black man, and the expectations around race and masculinity.This is...
View ArticleSweden opens a hotline to report mansplaining
Have you been mansplained? Wanna vent about it? If you're in Sweden, you can. Gender specialist operators are standing by.
View ArticleThis Englishman’s search for truth was about the transformation of spirit,...
Over several years in the 1940s, Michael Dillon underwent a groundbreaking physical transition from female to male through a series of surgical operations. It was just one part of his remarkable story...
View ArticleVictims of online romance scams, there's a place you can go for help
Victims of online romance scams suffer some of the highest financial losses of any internet-based crimes, the FBI says.
View ArticleVictims of online romance scams, there's a place you can go for help
Victims of online romance scams suffer some of the highest financial losses of any internet-based crimes, the FBI says.
View ArticleLooking back on the legacy of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’
Barack Obama ended the policy of preventing gay, lesbian and bisexual soldiers from serving openly in the military. For many, it was too little, too late. But remembering what it did could make our...
View ArticleWeek 10: Can Obamacare Be Saved?
Until last week, Andy Slavitt’s job was to run Obamacare. Now he’s trying to save it.On this episode of Indivisible, Brian Lehrer talks to Slavitt, the health care executive who headed the Affordable...
View ArticleThe Israeli Defense Forces paid for this soldier's sex reassignment
He entered Israel's military as a woman. Now he's an officer, and a man, and the IDF paid for his gender transition.
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Week 10 Wrap: Plotting The Next Step Forward
Week 10 focused on the Republican Party's renewed efforts to "repeal and replace" the Affordable Care Act.Monday's show analyzed how the failure of House Speak Paul Ryan's American Health Care Act has...
View ArticleNancy: It's a Podcast, Not a Person
BFFs Kathy Tu and Tobin Low are super queer, super fun and ready to take over your podcast feed. Join them for provocative stories and frank conversations about the LGBTQ experience today. Coming out...
View ArticleGay men in Chechnya rounded up, tortured, and killed: report
More than 100 gay men in Chechnya have been arrested and tortured, and some were killed by police, a local report says.
View Article#1: Hello, hello
Come out. Repeat. Record.Follow Nancy on Facebook and Twitter and sign up for our newsletter at nancypodcast.org. Nancy is a production of WNYC Studios.Theme music by Alex Overington. Scoring by Jeremy...
View ArticleWeek 13: Feminism In The Age Of Trump
On this episode of Indivisible, we’re talking about feminism in the age of Trump. Are we all seeing politics and life through the lens of gender more than before the election?Collier Meyerson from The...
View ArticleTrump officials say the UN supports coercive abortion in China. But does it?
In slashing financial support for the United Nations Population Fund, the Trump administration revived nefarious claims that the agency supports coercive abortion of girls. What's behind this claim.
View Article#5: There Are No Gay Wizards
Albus Dumbledore isn't gay, no matter what J.K. Rowling says. But that doesn't mean the "Harry Potter" books aren't incredibly queer.Pat Brown is a New York-based comedian. Her album is called Sex...
View ArticleA Palestinian radio station in the West Bank tackles catcalling, divorce and...
Muna Assaf used to work in public health. But when she went into Besan 101.9 to pitch a radio show, the owner made her station manager.
View ArticleFinding Sex in Unexpected Places
Ross Benes, a reporter at Digiday who previously worked for Esquire and Deadspin and the author of The Sex Effect: Baring Our Complicated Relationship with Sex (Sourcebooks, 2017), talks about some of...
View ArticleUganda's abducted kids try to get their lives back to normal
During Uganda's armed conflict, tens of thousands of children were abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army. Now they are adults, and many of them have returned. But after spending formative years in the...
View Article#10: Dear Nancy
We've got mail.Sign up for our newsletter and follow Nancy on Facebook and Twitter. Nancy is a production of WNYC Studios.Mara Wilson is a former child actor and the author of "Where Am I Now?: True...
View ArticleThe royal-turned-warlord and opium pioneer of the Golden Triangle dies at 90
The royal-turned-warlord and opium pioneer of the Golden Triangle dies at 90
View ArticleWomen and girls are a new frontier in the fight against HIV
There's a lot to celebrate right now in the fight against HIV and AIDS. Mortality rates have been slashed, and for the first time ever, more people are getting treatment than not. But for women and...
View ArticlePakistan's traditional third gender isn't happy with the trans movement
For centuries, South Asia has had it’s own Khawaja Sira or third gender culture. Now, some third gender people in Pakistan say the modern transgender identity is threatening their ancient third gender...
View ArticleLesbians in Senegal just want a place where they can be themselves
Gay sex in Senegal is illegal, but there is the beginnings of a gay rights movement there. Unfortunately, it doesn't include gay women.
View ArticleWhy violence is linked to the rising rate of HIV in South Africa's young women
It doesn’t help that the South African legal system has been slow to recognize violence against women.
View ArticleThe key to stopping HIV could someday be a vaginal ring or a needle in the arm
“What this virus has taught is that you can be a researcher, you can design something amazing … and then people don’t use it.” That's the challenge facing medical researchers looking for ways for women...
View ArticleAt 14, she tested positive for HIV — now she calls herself an HIVictor
At 14, she tested positive for HIV — now she calls herself an HIVictor
View ArticleSouth African artist Lady Skollie explains why she paints burning vaginas
“It’s got a burning vagina in the middle and there are all men — so it’s like they are warming themselves around a burning vagina. Which, to me, is pretty much South Africa.”
View Article'The Ethicist' in the House
Kwame Anthony Appiah, professor of philosophy and law at New York University, "The Ethicist" for The New York Times Magazine and author of Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (W. W. Norton,...
View ArticleEgypt is raiding its LGBTQ community after rainbow flags flew at a concert....
Egypt is raiding its LGBTQ community after rainbow flags flew at a concert. And the West is silent.
View Article#29: Absence Of
You don't know what you don't know.Jordan Crucchiola is an associate editor at Vulture, where this spring she wrote "An Asexual's Defense of Jughead Kissing Betty on Riverdale."Ben Schwartz is a LARP...
View ArticleSexual harassment at work is a global problem. Now, the world is finally...
The sexual harassment allegations against film mogul Harvey Weinstein have sparked a global conversation about the issue of harassment in the workplace. We devoted all of Friday's program to this issue.
View ArticleMeet the women who escorted Jane Doe to her abortion
A small clinic in McAllen, Texas, is the only abortion provider for hundreds of miles. Earlier this week when Jane Doe, an undocumented teenager held in detention, was allowed to have an abortion, this...
View Article'Not gay enough': Dutch authorities challenge asylum-seekers to prove their...
Lawyers and activists working with LGBT refugees in the Netherlands report that immigration authorities are increasingly demanding that people fleeing anti-gay persecution back home prove their...
View ArticleHas the #MeToo movement gone too far or not enough?
Actress Catherine Deneuve and 100-some other French women wrote an open letter to denounce the #MeToo campaign as becoming a witch hunt, saying the movement has created a backlash against men.
View ArticleSome French men are lamenting 'the end of love as we know it'
One French journalist sees his countrymen clinging to a "retro," sexist notion of seduction that includes pursuing women on city streets.
View ArticleDeneuve sends a dated message of empowerment
The legendary French actress Catherine Deneuve is denouncing the #MeToo movement and defending sexual freedom. The World's Sarah Birnbaum says she's stuck in a feminism of the 1960s.
View ArticleFeminist Lessons From the Third Wave
The tensions both inside and outside the #MeToo movement reflect a long history of debate over which direction feminism should take. Back in 1994, the women’s movement was similarly drilling down on...
View ArticleA Play on the Trans Experience, Through Voices of Family
Mashuq Mushtaq Deen, Resident Playwright at New Dramatists, discusses the New York premiere of Draw the Circle. Deen tells the hilarious and moving story of his transition entirely from the point of...
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