5 Podcast Recommendations Celebrating Disability Pride
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5 Podcast Recommendations Celebrating Disability Pride

It's Disability Pride Month, and this year marks the 35th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, signed into law on July 26, 1990. The landmark civil rights legislation ensures people with disabilities enjoy the same rights as everyone else and prohibits discrimination in employment, transportation, and public facilities.

The episodes below take you behind the protests that led to the bill's passage, introduce you to a woman sometimes described as the Martin Luther King of the disability rights movement, and explore how the fight for equal opportunities continues.

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5 Podcast Recommendations on Confessions, Sex, and Relationships
Arielle Nissenblatt Arielle Nissenblatt

5 Podcast Recommendations on Confessions, Sex, and Relationships

These five podcast episodes dive into the wild, hilarious, and deeply personal world of sex, relationships, and kink. Whether you're here to feel seen, learn something new, or just enjoy a filthy good time, this playlist has you covered. Desire is never one-size-fits-all — and these conversations celebrate the messy, curious, no shame truth of it all

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5 Podcast Recommendations for Teacher Appreciation
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5 Podcast Recommendations for Teacher Appreciation

May 6 is Teacher Appreciation Day. To celebrate all of those brilliant teachers out there and to highlight the complex realities of public education, here is a list of podcast episodes by, about, or for teachers. These episodes explore everything from school violence to curriculum control to the joy of inside jokes only teachers will understand.

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6 Podcasts on Reproductive Rights
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6 Podcasts on Reproductive Rights

Whether we’re talking about the right to access abortion or gender-affirming care, the right to receive evidence-based sex education or choose the birth control method that works best for you, the ability to afford necessary healthcare, or access a clinic nearby—this battle is enormous. It will take a united community to ensure we can all freely exercise our right to bodily autonomy.

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Racial Justice Through the Lens of 'Happy Forgetting': An Interview with Ruxandra Guidi
Arielle Nissenblatt Arielle Nissenblatt

Racial Justice Through the Lens of 'Happy Forgetting': An Interview with Ruxandra Guidi

Happy Forgetting is a collection of six personal and opinionated audio essays and documentaries reminding us that progress isn't linear, in part inspired by the ideas of 20th-century French philosopher Paul Ricœur, who argued that there are certain memories which humankind has a duty not to forget — yet has often had the impulse to obscure or erase. 

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