Reading the Rainbows
Heather Looy
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8. Transgender Stories
Transgender. These days just speaking the word can trigger intense emotional reactions. The topic has become a political hot potato. It's difficult to have a considered, thoughtful, evidence-based…
7. The Biology of Gender Identity
How do you know your gender? Is it something you learn from others? Something that is hardwired into your brain from the beginning? Is gender identity something tightly connected to to your…
6C. The Science of Sexual Orientation: How and How Should Research Affect our Attitudes?
We casually toss around words like "gay," "straight,", "bi," and "ace" and use them as touchstones or calls to arms in our culture wars around sexual diversity. We often act as if we all know and…
6B. The Science of Sexual Orientation: What Does the Research Say?
We casually toss around words like "gay," "straight,", "bi," and "ace" and use them as touchstones or calls to arms in our culture wars around sexual diversity. We often act as if we all know and…
6A. The Science of Sexual Orientation: Defining the Phenomenon
We casually toss around words like "gay," "straight,", "bi," and "ace" and use them as touchstones or calls to arms in our culture wars around sexual diversity. We often act as if we all know and…
5C. Those Were the Days: Are Sex and Gender Binaries Real?
The theme to the 1970s sitcom All in the Family, "Those Were the Days," is a lament for a time when, supposedly, a clear sex and gender binary existed and everyone conformed: "Girls were girls and…
5B. Those Were the Days: Are Sex and Gender Binaries Real?
The theme to the 1970s sitcom All in the Family, "Those Were the Days," is a lament for a time when, supposedly, a clear sex and gender binary existed and everyone conformed: "Girls were girls and…
5A. Those Were the Days: Are Sex and Gender Binaries Real? Part 1
The theme to the 1970s sitcom All in the Family, "Those Were the Days," is a lament for a time when, supposedly, a clear sex and gender binary existed and everyone conformed: "Girls were girls and…
4B. It's Emotional! Holiness, Hospitality, Disgust, and Empathy Part 2
Conversations about sexual and gender diversity often become emotionally heated. Christians especially struggle with the apparent tensions between the call to holiness and the call to hospitality,…
4A. It's Emotional! Holiness, Hospitality, Disgust and Empathy Part 1
Conversations about sexual and gender diversity often become emotionally heated. Christians especially struggle with the apparent tensions between the call to holiness and the call to hospitality,…
3. Why is it so Hard to Talk about Sex? Full (1 Hour) Episode
When we have conversations about sexual and gender diversity we can quickly become emotional and defensive. We are often baffled how other people can think so differently than we do about these…
3E. Why is it so Hard to Talk about Sex? A Brief Intro to Moral Foundations
When we have conversations about sexual and gender diversity we can quickly become emotional and defensive. We are often baffled how other people can think so differently than we do about these…
3D. Why is it so Hard to Talk about Sex? Getting Emotional
When we have conversations about sexual and gender diversity we can quickly become emotional and defensive. We are often baffled how other people can think so differently than we do about these…
3C. Why is it so Hard to Talk about Sex? Defending our Categories and Preserving our Beliefs
When we have conversations about sexual and gender diversity we can quickly become emotional and defensive. We are often baffled how other people can think so differently than we do about these…
3B. Why is it so Hard to Talk about Sex? Categories and Rainbows
When we have conversations about sexual and gender diversity we can quickly become emotional and defensive. We are often baffled how other people can think so differently than we do about these…
3A. Why is it so Hard to Talk about Sex? Introduction
When we have conversations about sexual and gender diversity we can quickly become emotional and defensive. We are often baffled how other people can think so differently than we do about these…
2. Alphabet Soup: A Guide to Talking about Sexual and Gender Diversity
Talking about sexual and gender diversity is difficult when we're not sure what words to use. Old words have new meanings, new words keep appearing, and it seems too easy to unintentionally give…
1. Reading the Rainbows: A Metaphor for the Journey
What does it mean to "read the rainbows?" In this episode I explain how this metaphor supports the goals and spirit of this podcast.
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