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From the Radiolab podcast: The origin, rise, and uncertain future of an unraveling belief.
What makes a person LGBTQIA+? For a long time, the idea that people "Born This Way" spurred movements and political change. So today, we delve into the story of this idea. An idea that some people need, others reject, and one that will, ultimately, be hard to let go of.
#lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #genetics
Episode Segments:
00:00 The Birth of Born This Way
19:25 Born This Way seeps into the culture
55:38 The Unravelling of Born This Way
Videos:
Lisa Diamond - Born This Way, TEDx (zpr.io/WJedDGLVkTNF)
Books:
Joanna Wuest - Born This Way: Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement (zpr.io/rYPwyhNHtgXe)
Dean Hamer - The Science of Desire: The Search for the Gay Gene and the Biology of Behavior (zpr.io/3FuKZyu2bgwE)
Lisa Diamond - Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women’s Desire and Love (zpr.io/cj3ZSLC2xccJ)
Edward Stein - The Mismeasure of Desire: The Science, Theory, and Ethics of Sexual Orientation (zpr.io/UQfdNtyE3RtQ)
Chandler Burr - A Separate Creation: The Search for the Biological Origins of Sexual Orientation (zpr.io/GKUDhyfNacUf)
Jacques Balthazart - The Biology of Homosexuality (zpr.io/um6XMmpfkmQS)
Anne Fausto-Sterling - Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality (zpr.io/rWNrTYLeLZ3s)
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Photo illustration Jared Bartman
From the Radiolab podcast: The origin, rise, and uncertain future of an unraveling belief.
What makes a person LGBTQIA+? For a long time, the idea that people "Born This Way" spurred movements and political change. So today, we delve into the story of this idea. An idea that some people need, others reject, and one that will, ultimately, be hard to let go of.
#lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #genetics
Episode Segments:
00:00 The Birth of Born This Way
19:25 Born This Way seeps into the culture
55:38 The Unravelling of Born This Way
Videos:
Lisa Diamond - Born This Way, TEDx (zpr.io/WJedDGLVkTNF)
Books:
Joanna Wuest - Born This Way: Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement (zpr.io/rYPwyhNHtgXe)
Dean Hamer - The Science of Desire: The Search for the Gay Gene and the Biology of Behavior (zpr.io/3FuKZyu2bgwE)
Lisa Diamond - Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women’s Desire and Love (zpr.io/cj3ZSLC2xccJ)
Edward Stein - The Mismeasure of Desire: The Science, Theory, and Ethics of Sexual Orientation (zpr.io/UQfdNtyE3RtQ)
Chandler Burr - A Separate Creation: The Search for the Biological Origins of Sexual Orientation (zpr.io/GKUDhyfNacUf)
Jacques Balthazart - The Biology of Homosexuality (zpr.io/um6XMmpfkmQS)
Anne Fausto-Sterling - Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality (zpr.io/rWNrTYLeLZ3s)
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Guests in this episode include: Dean Hamer, Joanna Wuest
Photo illustration Jared Bartman
