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When Queer Theory Meets Medical Practice: Aaron Kimberly On The Crisis In Transgender Health Care
Aaron Kimberly is a mental health clinician with longtime experience providing care to transgender and gender questioning patients. He is also a tran…
4 years, 8 months ago
YouTube Heroes Flying Too Close To The Sun: Chris Kavanagh Decodes The Gurus (With An Amazing Accent)
Chris Kavanagh is cognitive anthropologist and one-half of the team behind Decoding The Gurus, a podcast that bills itself as "an anthropologist and …
4 years, 8 months ago
There's No Such Thing As A Howard Beal Moment: Michael Wolff on Power, Access, Hubris, and Writing Great Sentences
Journalist Michael Wolff is best known for his juicy and deeply reported dispatches from various corridors of power. His many books include the 2008…
4 years, 8 months ago
Why This Show Is A Failure: A Song Of Joy and Peace
In a solo episode to wrap up the season, Meghan reflects on how the The Unspeakable Podcast is doing since launching fifteen months ago and how she's…
4 years, 9 months ago
The Post-Cancellation Pivot: Stephen Elliott's Financial Advice for Poets (and Moral Support for Pariahs)
Writer Stephen Elliott was once a bonafide member of the independent literary scene. In 2009 he founded the literary site The Rumpus, which helped la…
4 years, 9 months ago
Are MFA Programs Multi-Level Marketing Schemes? Leigh Stein Thinks So!
Leigh Stein first came on the show in the summer of 2020 to talk about her novel, Self-Care, which spoofs corporate feminism and the cult of the girl…
4 years, 10 months ago
How The News Went Insane: Batya Ungar-Sargon On The Social Rise and Intellectual Fall of Legacy Media
Regular listeners of this podcast are no strangers to the subject of political bias in the news media - especially the left wing, elite-driven bias t…
4 years, 10 months ago
Is Nuance A Career Killer? Comedian Jamie Kilstein on Taking the High Road To Nowhere
This week Meghan welcomes comedian Jamie Kilstein. This is the audio version of a video interview they recorded for The Unspeakeasy, the new video fe…
4 years, 10 months ago
Bitter Homes and Gardens: Larry Clarke and Fielding Edlow on Staying Afloat, Staying in Love, and Staying Insured in Hollywood
This week Meghan welcomes guests Larry Clarke and Fielding Edlow. They are actors/writers/producers and also the married couple behind the YouTube se…
4 years, 10 months ago
What Is a "Good Mother?" Lara Bazelon on Female Ambition, Biological Realities and Going To Trial
Lara Bazelon has a decades-long career as a public defender. She worked as a trial attorney in the office of the public defender in Los Angeles for m…
4 years, 11 months ago