How to Skate Like a Girl, Part 2

How to Skate Like a Girl, Part 2

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SMNTY Classics: Soups are for Girls?

Many of us associate soup with comfort and cooler weather. However, soup is not immune to society's determination to gender everything. We dig into the history, the marketing and the arguments about why this is in this classic.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Book Club: Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space

Fairy tales are as old as time, moralistic stories that have influenced our understanding of the world, and not always for the better. Amanda Leduc's 2020 novel Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space explores the power of fairy tales and their historically probl ...  Show more

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