Writer Ben James and his wife Oona are raising their sons in a progressive and “queer-friendly” New England town. They actively encourage the boys to be themselves, never mind those traditional gender norms around “masculinity”…
Lewis Wallace, female-assigned at birth, wanted to transition in the direction of maleness—in some ways. He shifted his pronouns, had surgery, starting taking testosterone. None of that meant he wanted to embrace everything that our…
American history—law, economics, culture—has built different notions of masculinity (and femininity) for people of varying races and ethnicities. A trip through a century of pop culture and the stereotyped images that white supremacy has manufactured…
Several years after Janey was sexually assaulted by her former boyfriend, Mathew, she told some of her closest friends, and her mother, what Mathew had done. Janey was so troubled by her loved ones’ responses,…
Do nations fight wars because men are naturally violent? Or do societies condition men to embrace violence so they’ll fight the nation’s wars? Along with co-hosts John Biewen and Celeste Headlee, this episode features reporting…
The #MeToo Movement has shed a harsh light on sexual harassment in the workplace. Just how bad, and how pervasive, is sexism on the job in the U.S., from day-to-day expressions of disrespect all the…
The struggles against sexism and racism come together in the bodies, and the lives, of black women. Co-hosts Celeste Headlee and John Biewen look at the intersections between male dominance and white supremacy in the…
A few hundred years ago, the great thinkers of the Enlightenment began to declare that “all men are created equal.” Some of them said that notion should include women, too. Why did those feminists—most of them…
For millennia, Western culture (and most other cultures) declared that men and women were different sorts of humans—and, by the way, men were better. Is that claim not only wrong but straight-up backwards? Co-hosts Celeste…
Launching Scene on Radio Season 3 series—MEN—co-hosts John Biewen and Celeste Headlee look at the problems of male supremacy. And we visit Deep Time to explore the latest scholarship on how, when, and why men invented…
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Just 15 minutes into season 5 of @SceneOnRadio and already the point that the writers of the Genesis story broke with the idea that the gods were also part of nature seems so significant. On some level, I understood that but had never really thought about its importance
It’s here, it’s here!! Digging deep into the roots of the climate crisis in S5 of @SceneOnRadio https://twitter.com/sceneonradio/status/1438131645501083648
In your feed: Season 5 Episode 1.
How did we get ourselves into this climate fix, and who's 'we'?
We start at the beginning. Like, 500 BCE. @amywestervelt
We are so excited to see this series come to life! Listen to the first episode of "The Repair" to better understand how we arrived at our current climate crisis.
This season of @SceneOnRadio is supported by our Fund for Women Journalists. https://twitter.com/SceneOnRadio/status/1438142204627853313
It's on. Season 5: The Repair. Our climate series begins.
How did we get this way, the ecology edition. With
@amywestervelt @0212crd
@prx @IWMF
https://www.sceneonradio.org/s5-e1-in-the-beginning/
It's on. Season 5: The Repair. Our climate series begins.
How did we get this way, the ecology edition. With
@amywestervelt @0212crd
@prx @IWMF
https://www.sceneonradio.org/s5-e1-in-the-beginning/