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Gender Spiral is an award-winning podcast about being a varied, ever-changing human in a world built around categories. Hosts Ally Beardsley (Dropout) and Babette Thomas (Yale University) interview trans and queer guests- the experts on reinvention and evolution- and investigate how we as humans interact with, reject, and reconfigure the boxes society puts us in.
[PREVIEW] Inspiring Joy and Justice (w/ Dr. Amáyá) AD-FREE
Dr. Amáyá, who you may know from her social media @dineaesthetics (https://www.instagram.com/dineaesthetics/?hl=en), talks about how gender was discussed growing up in the Navajo Nation and why your experience of gender is informed by the language you have to describe it.
Support Dr. Amáyá directly by Venmoing her (https://venmo.com/u/dineaesthetics), and by following her work on social media and on her website dineaesthetics.com (https://dineaesthetics.com).
Hosted by Ally Beardsley and Babette Thomas, Gender Spiral is a quest to explore the modern experience of being a human in our gendered world.
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22 Sept 2026
[PREVIEW] Gender is a Performance (w/ Jibz Cameron) AD-FREE
Performance artist (NOT clown) Jibz Cameron, who hosts LA's famed variety show "Weirdo Night" as her alter ego "Dynasty Handbag," caricaturizes gender and systemic issues through her larger-than-life characters. She also examines her own past and relationships with her parents in her memoir "Hell in a Handbasket (https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781635902785/hell-in-a-handbag/)."
Trigger warnings:
Around 11:20-11:43: Parental death, assault, stalking
Around 14:10-15:30: Kidnapping, parents suffering from addiction & mental illness
Hosted by Ally Beardsley and Babette Thomas, Gender Spiral is a quest to explore the modern experience of being a human in our gendered world.
Thank you for supporting us at patreon.com/GenderSpiralPodcast! (https://patreon.com/GenderSpiralPodcast!)
Find transcripts, merch and more at genderspiralpod.com (https://genderspiralpod.com). Follow us on Instagram @genderspiral. (https://www.instagram.com/genderspiral/)
8 Sept 2026
[PREVIEW] Body Fascism (w/ Da'Shaun L. Harrison) AD-FREE
Author and trans theorist Da'Shaun L. Harrison walks us through why cultural views of the fatness, race and gender are all intricately interconnected, and how certain standards for the body are enforced in times of fascism.
Hosted by Ally Beardsley and Babette Thomas, Gender Spiral is a quest to explore the modern experience of being a human in our gendered world.
Check out Da'Shaun on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/dashaunlh/?hl=en). Find their work on their website: dashaunharrison.com (https://dashaunharrison.com)
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