Nine Billion Names of Fear Katie Muggli
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- Society & Culture
Nine Billion Names of Fear is a podcast exploring fear and how it informs our daily lives and experiences. From the academic realm to the personal, from the individual and collective experience, from compartmentalization to candid conversation, each new episode will mine for a new understanding of this basic human emotion. Host Katie Muggli examined fear throughout graduate school, culminating in her M.A. thesis. Now almost a decade after graduation she’s reexamining it in the face of COVID-19.
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Episode 2 — Gaslighting
In this episode Katie lays the groundwork for exploring gaslighting, and why this form of manipulation is so important to understand. She walks through where the term originated from, her experience with gaslighting in an interpersonal relationship, and the implications of gaslighting on a larger level. At this pivotal moment, we have the opportunity to see the implications of gaslighting as a tool that aids in the marginalization of voices.
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Episode 1 - Recalibrating
In this episode Katie shares how the podcast came into being, and shares some of the text that she is revisiting and seeking to build on. The title of the episode comes from precisely what she is trying to do in the midst of Covid-19—recalibrate and account for the new information coming in.
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Introducing Nine Billion Names of Fear
Introducing Nine Billion Names of Fear, a podcast exploring fear and how it informs our daily lives and experiences.