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Slate Gender and Society

Seth Rogen’s Love/Hate Letter to Hollywood

A feed drawing from Slate’s podcast network, including The Waves and Outward, featuring episodes that take a critical eye to the world around us, how we define ourselves, and how gender itself is defined.