Family Proclamations: Rethinking Relationships, Gender, and Sexuality
There are so many ways to be a family, and every kind of family has something to teach you. Family Proclamations is all about the history and evolution of relationships, gender, and sexuality. Award-winning journalist Blair Hodges talks to best-selling authors about dating, marriage, divorce, single life, parenting, childlessness, gender identity, human biology, sex, and more.
Episodes
![All the Closets (with Jessi Hempel)](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog12726734/29_300x300.jpg)
Tuesday Feb 20, 2024
All the Closets (with Jessi Hempel)
Tuesday Feb 20, 2024
Tuesday Feb 20, 2024
When Jessi Hempel came out of the closet she had no idea her whole church-going family had been hiding in there with her. And things got complicated fast when the closet door kept swinging open.
About the Author
Jessi Hempel is author of The Family Outing: A Memoir. She is also host of the award-winning podcast Hello Monday, and a senior editor-at-large at LinkedIn. Her features and cover stories have appeared in Wired, Fortune, and TIME. She has appeared on CNN, PBS, MSNBC, Fox, and CNBC, addressing the culture and business of technology. Hempel is a graduate of Brown University and received a master’s in journalism from UC Berkeley. She lives in Brooklyn with her wife and children.
REFERENCES
Jessi Hempel, "My Brother’s Pregnancy and the Making of a New American Family," TIME (Sept. 12, 2016).
Full transcript available here (familyproclamations.org).
![Won't Someone Think of the Children (with Adam Benforado)](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog12726734/30_300x300.jpg)
Tuesday Feb 06, 2024
Won't Someone Think of the Children (with Adam Benforado)
Tuesday Feb 06, 2024
Tuesday Feb 06, 2024
One hundred years ago, a bright new age for children was dawning in America. Child labor laws were being passed, public education was spreading, and more. But Adam Benforado says America stopped short in its revolution of children's rights.
Today, more than eleven million American children live in poverty. We deny young people any political power, while we fail to act on the issues that matter most to them: racism, inequality, and climate change. That's why Adam is calling for a new revolution for kids.
He joins us to discuss his book, A Minor Revolution: How Prioritizing Kids Benefits Us All.
About the Guest
Adam Benforado is a professor of law at the Drexel University Kline School of Law and the New York Times best-selling author of A Minor Revolution: How Prioritizing Kids Benefits Us All and Unfair: The New Science of Criminal Injustice. His research, teaching, and advocacy is focused on children’s rights and criminal justice. A graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School, he served as a clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and an attorney at Jenner & Block in Washington, D.C. He has published numerous scholarly articles, and his popular writing has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Post, Scientific American, Slate, and The Atlantic. He lives in Philadelphia with his wife and children.
Full transcript available here (familyproclamations.org).
![Healing From Family Trauma (with Mariel Buqué)](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog12726734/31_23vena_300x300.jpg)
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Healing From Family Trauma (with Mariel Buqué)
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Tuesday Jan 23, 2024
Your family is...loving? Your family is...hurtful? Your family is...all this and more? If you feel overwhelmed when you think about your family, this episode will help you understand your anxiety and give you evidence-based tools to repair it.
Dr. Mariel Buqué is a leading specialist in trauma psychology. She says our physical and mental health challenges can be rooted in family trauma passed down through the generations—not just culturally, but even biologically.
We're talking about her new book, Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma.
About the Guest
Dr. Mariel Buqué is an Afro-Dominican psychologist who received her doctorate in counseling psychology from Columbia University, where she also trained as a fellow in holistic mental health. She is a world-renowned intergenerational trauma expert.
Full transcript available here (familyproclamations.org).
![Meet the Eves (with Cat Bohannon)](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog12726734/32_3qv24i_300x300.jpg)
Tuesday Jan 09, 2024
Meet the Eves (with Cat Bohannon)
Tuesday Jan 09, 2024
Tuesday Jan 09, 2024
Cat Bohannon says for far too long the story of human evolution has ignored the female body. Her new book offers a sweeping revision of human history. It's an urgent and necessary corrective that will forever change your understanding of birth and why it's more difficult for humans than virtually any other animal species on the planet.
Her best-selling book is called Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, and we're talking all about it in this episode.
About the Guest
Cat Bohannon is a researcher and author with a Ph.D. from Columbia University in the evolution of narrative and cognition. Her essays and poems have appeared in Scientific American, Mind, Science Magazine, The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Georgia Review, The Story Collider, and Poets Against the War. She lives with her family in Seattle.
Full transcript available here (familyproclamations.org).
![Introducing Family Proclamations - Trailer](https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/ep-logo/pbblog12726734/FP_Cover_v2_tiny_2ckzda_300x300.jpg)
Friday Jun 16, 2023
Introducing Family Proclamations - Trailer
Friday Jun 16, 2023
Friday Jun 16, 2023
Dad, mom, two kids, a white picket fence, and everybody knows their role. It's the classic nuclear family. I grew up believing this was the one right way to be a family—until I started getting to know real people who didn’t fit that mold. Now we're watching this old nuclear family model explode in real time, but we don't need to hit the panic button. We can let curiosity lead the way.
I'm Blair Hodges, host of Family Proclamations. I'm on a quest to find out everything I can about family, gender identity, and sexuality. I want you to join me. On this podcast I'm talking to best-selling authors about marriage, divorce, cohabitation, single adulthood, parenting, childlessness, adoption, fostering, gender identity, human biology, and lots more. We'll learn more about different families and identities, past, present, and future. So please get ready to surrender old stereotypes and embrace new perspectives.
There’s no single way to be a family. And every kind of family has something we can learn from.
Family Proclamations arrives in January. Follow for updates on IG @famprocs.