Culture & Race
140: Mythbusting about fat and BMI with Dr. Lindo Bacon
This episode kicks off a series on the intersection of parenting and food. We begin today with a conversation with Dr. Lindo Bacon, where we bust a LOT of myths about the obesity epidemic that is said to be plaguing people in the United States and other countries that follow a similar diet. The messaging…
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139: How to keep your child safe from guns (even if you don’t own one)
Many of us haven’t been in each other’s homes for a while now, but pretty soon we’ll be getting together inside again. And our children will be heading inside, in their friends’ houses. People store guns inside. Are you certain that nobody owns a gun in any of the places your child plays? If…
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131: Implicit Bias with Dr. Mahzarin Banaji
Explicitly, nobody really believes in gender stereotypes anymore, but when we look at the world, and who’s where and how much money people make, and so on, it still seems to be there. And the answer to that is yeah, because it’s there. It’s just not something we say. It’s more of something we do.…
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SYPM 011: Untigering with Iris Chen
In this episode we talk with Iris Chen about her new book, Untigering: Peaceful Parenting for the Deconstructing Tiger Parent. Iris admits to being a parent who engaged in “yelling, spanking, and threatening with unreasonable consequences” – but far from becoming a well-behaved, obedient child, her son fought back. The harder she punished, the more…
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Dismantling White Supremacy and Patriarchy on MLK Day
In this short ad hoc episode that was originally recorded as a Facebook Live, I discuss ways that my family is working on dismantling both white supremacy and patriarchy (and having a go at capitalism while we’re at it!) this Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday weekend. The best part is that this doesn’t have…
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