Stance Podcast

About Stance Podcast

Stance is an independent award-winning arts, culture and current affairs podcast run by New York based journalist and curator Chrystal Genesis. An episode is released on the 1st of every month. Stance is produced by Chrystal Genesis, Zara Martin and Saskia Sewell. stancepodcast.com @stancepodcast Guests so far include musicians Four Tet, Jamila Woods, Róisín Murphy, Amber Mark, Caribou, Kaytranada, Jessie Ware, Tricky and Nao, authors Yaa Gyasi, Sayaka Murata, Elif Shafak & Valeria Luiselli, lawyer and campaigner Gina Miller, politician Bobi Wine, poets Fatimah Asghar, John Cooper Clarke & Kae Tempest, actor Riz Ahmed, Me Too founder Tarana Burke, playwrights Inua Ellams & Natasha Gordon, writer and activist Janet Mock, choreographers Akram Khan, Deborah Colker and Hofesh Shechter, fashion designer Duro Olowu and visual artists Shirin Neshat, Larry Achiampong, The Singh Twins & Juliana Huxtable. Topics covered include Is This for Real?, Black in the Time of Corona, Manchesters LGBTQ+ Story, On Beauty, The Class Ceiling in the Arts, Modern Mumbai, Sex, The Female Prison Experience, Revolutionary Mothering, Demystifying Yoga and Donald Glover's Atlanta. Stance loves to explore and has visited locations including Mumbai in India, Colombo in Sri Lanka, Bergen in Norway, Paris in France and New York, LA & Philadelphia in the US in search of original stories and fresh perspectives. Stance was awarded Bronze for Best Current Affairs at The British Podcast Awards 2020. Stance won Best Arts & Culture Show and Rising Star in the Mixcloud Online Radio Awards 2018, nominated for Best Arts and Culture and Best Current Affairs as part of the British Podcast Awards 2019, included in The Observer and The Times annual Best Podcasts list, and has been Podcast of the Week in publications including The FT, Grazia, The Guardian and The Independent. Join the conversation @stancepodcast @chrystalgenesis on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Don't forget to subscribe and review! StancePodcast.com Music by Rikette Genesis and Stance branding by Edward Vince

Publisher

Stance Podcast

Category

arts · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Jan 2017

Latest episode

16 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

3 of 84 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   16 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Ep 76: Stance at Tribeca Film Festival's 25th Anniversary w/ Alison Brie, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Gar O'Rourke & Frédéric Boyer

   Host Chrystal Genesis interviews Alison Brie, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Gar O'Rourke, and Frédéric Boyer about filmmaking, creative processes, and global cinema at the Tribeca Film Festival.

2. 

   3 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Ep 75: Inside Broadway w/ Brian Anthony Moreland: Art, Business & Producing Culture

   Chrystal Genesis interviews Broadway producer Brian Anthony Moreland about his influential career, the art and business of producing culture, and balancing artistic ambition with commercial risk.

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   7 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Ep. 74: Musician José González on Against the Dying of the Light

   José González joins Chrystal Genesis to discuss his fifth studio album, Against the Dying of the Light. Born in Sweden and raised by Argentine parents, González has spent over two decades crafting introspective, emotionally resonant music that blends folk, classical guitar traditions and poetic songwriting. In this wide-ranging conversation, they discuss language, identity, and the role music can play during politically and socially fractured times. Together, they explore multilingual songwriting, Swedish and Argentine cultural influences, the spiritual quality often associated with his work, and how ideas around human flourishing, collaboration, and resistance shape the new album. The episode also touches on audience loyalty, artistic evolution, weather and geography as creative forces, and the guitar techniques and global musical traditions woven throughout his sound. If you like what you heard, please leave a review, subscribe, and explore more at stancepodcast.com and on socials @stancepodcast. Stance is Hosted by Chrystal Genesis and Produced by Etay Zwick. Music Referenced In This Podcast & Show Notes: Sheet Pajarito Against the Dying of the Light A Perfect Storm For Every Dusk José González Bandcamp José González Website José González IG A Perfect Storm (Official Music Video) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGatarqcFrk)

Inside a recent episode

Ep 76: Stance at Tribeca Film Festival's 25th Anniversary w/ Alison Brie, Jennifer Siebel Newsom, Gar O'Rourke & Frédéric Boyer

Published 16 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Family drama, the emotional drama. Here, everything is really working smoothly until the end. And the music is extraordinary. The music is really, really good. And Sabrina often says, MC Sabrina, kinky equals freedom. And I think you're right. It's thrilling. straight from the start right to the end. […]

Who has been a guest on Stance Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Alison Brie
• Gar O'Rourke
• Jennifer Siebel Newsom
• Frédéric Boyer
• Brian Anthony Moreland

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

33 ratings

Spotify

4.6 / 5

18 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 57 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

77

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

92

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Books guests

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