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
Tuesday Jan 09, 2024
How the Female Body Drove Evolution (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).
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.