Gender (Justice)

Episode 44: Georgie Barden on fertility literacy as a form of reproductive choice and freedom

On this episode of en(gender)ed, our guest is Georgie Barden, a 20 year veteran of the biopharma industry consultant specializing in process organization, change management.  Georgie started Fertility 4 me in 2019 in response to her eight and a half year struggle with infertility and her passion to fix broken processes. Our conversation with Georgie…

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Episode 43: Professor Spring Cooper on the importance of sexual health and agency

Our guest today is Professor Spring Cooper, a social researcher with academic expertise in public health, health promotion, sexuality.  Professor Cooper’s PhD focused on the sexual health education implications of menstrual attitudes and knowledge among women of varying socio-economic status in the United States.  Her current research interests are in adolescent sexual health, adolescent and…

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Episode 42: Amanda Laird on menstrual equity as a human right

On this episode of en(gender)ed, our guest is Amanda Laird, a Registered Holistic Nutritionistℱ and host of the Heavy Flow Podcast – a weekly podcast dedicated to periods, reproductive health and other taboo health and wellness topics. Amanda is also the author of Heavy Flow: Breaking the Curse of Menstruation.  We will be speaking with…

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Episode 24: Professor James Wilkie on how masculinity impacts “green” behavior in men

Today’s episode adds to our men and masculinities series of episodes and continues our series on gender and environmental justice.  Our guest is Professor James Wilkie, Assistant Professor at Mendoza College of Business at Notre Dame University. Professor Wilkie is a consumer psychologist whose research incorporates aspects of implicit social cognition to examine how consumers…

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Episode 22: en(gender)ed Reflections on gender, masculinity and identity–a look back with our guest, Michael

Greetings en(gender)ed listeners: This is the third “Reflections” episode where I examine a series of interviews with my friend, Michael.  He joins me as we reflect back on episodes, 12 (Tom Digby), 13 (Allen Corben), 14 (Ben Atherton-Zeman), 15 (Dr. Tonya Leslie), 17 (Autumn), the first set of episodes on the construction of gender identity,…

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