You Sound Like a Girl

Colleen Hughes, Emily Rose Prats, Rachel Levens
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You Sound Like a Girl explores how cis and trans women engage with their own voices to build identity and exist in the world.

Episodes

  1. 07/01/2021

    When we want to change how we sound - Voice coaching and identity in 2021

    In this episode we speak with Joy Lanceta Coronel, a speech and dialect coach, about the intersection of vocal coaching and identity and how she works to honor people’s identities and provide each client with the tools they need to confidently use their voice. Links from our conversation: Amy Berryman: https://www.amy-berryman.com/ Walden: https://sfp-reemergeseason.com/the-plays/walden/ In the Dark: https://features.apmreports.org/in-the-dark/ Madeleine Baran: https://twitter.com/madeleinebaran?lang=en APM Reports: https://www.apmreports.org/ Emerald Fennell: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2193504/, https://twitter.com/emeraldfennell?lang=en Promising Young Woman: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7i5kiFDunk8 Find our guest online: Joy Lanceta Coronel: https://www.joylanceta.com/ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23268263.2020.1760492 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/23268263.2018.1441099?journalCode=rvsr20 Find You Sound Like a Girl online: www.yousoundlikeagirl.com yousoundlikeagirl@gmail.com @yousoundlikeagirl - https://www.instagram.com/yousoundlikeagirl

    41 min

  2. 06/17/2021

    How social media platforms silence women and femmes

    In this episode, we talk with two LinkedIn thought leaders -- Madison Butler, the Blue Haired Unicorn, and Emily O. Weltman of coFLOWco -- about how the big tech companies behind social media platforms like LinkedIn, Facebook & Instagram, and Twitter silence women and femmes -- especially women and femmes of color. Links from our conversation: Arlan Hamilton: https://www.itsaboutdamntime.com/arlan Emily Weltman on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilyoweltman/ Sonya Renee Taylor: https://www.sonyareneetaylor.com/ Amanda Montell: http://amandamontell.com/wordslut/ Find our guests online: Madison Butler: https://www.bluehairedunicorn.com Emily Weltman: https://coflowco.com Rage 2 Rainbows: https://www.rage2rainbows.com Find You Sound Like a Girl online: www.yousoundlikeagirl.com yousoundlikeagirl@gmail.com @yousoundlikeagirl - https://www.instagram.com/yousoundlikeagirl

    38 min

  3. 05/20/2021

    From the vagina dentata to pleasure activism

    In this episode, we speak with Valentina Ortiz Pandolfi & Kait Scalisi about the myth of the Vagina Dentata and the connection between the voice and sexuality. Valentina shares a traditional story from the Ponca tribe & sex educator Kait of Passion by Kait weighs in. Note: You Sound Like a Girl acknowledges that not all women have vaginas & that g******s do not equal gender. This episode will focus on folks with vaginas, but as always, You Sound Like a Girl invites cis & trans women, as well as non-binary & gender non-conforming people who are comfortable in a space that centers the experiences of women, to join the conversation. Learn more about what we talk about in the show: The myth of the Vagina Dentata - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagina_dentata Learn about Argentinian singer, composer, and educator Hebe Rosell - https://www.milenio.com/cultura/transformar-un-pais-da-miedo-hebe-rosell Read Paul Lafargue’s “The Right to be Lazy” - https://www.marxists.org/archive/lafargue/1883/lazy/ Love the idea of pleasure activism? Adrienne Marie Brown wrote the literal book on it - https://www.akpress.org/pleasure-activism.html Women and femmes who are speaking to us: Follow @haylawong - https://www.instagram.com/haylawong/ Listen to Leika Mochán - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsuxDgX62u4 Explore Audre Lorde’s “Uses of the Erotic” - “In order to perpetuate itself, every oppression must corrupt or distort those various sources of power within the culture of the oppressed that can provide energy for change.” Listen to Lorde read the full text - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWmq9gw4Rq0 Read the full text yourself - https://uk.sagepub.com/sites/default/files/upm-binaries/11881_Chapter_5.pdf Watch “Pride” on Amazon Prime & read more about Sian James - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/aug/31/pride-film-gay-activists-miners-strike-interview Find our guests online Valentina Ortiz Pandolfi https://www.youtube.com/user/valentinacuentos www.valentinastoryteller.com Kait Scalisi www.PassionbyKait.com https://www.instagram.com/passionbykait Follow the #freedominpleasure hashtag Find You Sound Like a Girl www.yousoundlikeagirl.com yousoundlikeagirl@gmail.com @yousoundlikeagirl - https://www.instagram.com/yousoundlikeagirl

    59 min

  4. 04/29/2021

    Her voice saved her father's life

    "Bad things happen with you don't speak up." In this episode, we speak with Alice Herb about saving her father from the Gestapo and escaping the Holocaust, emigrating to the United States, and how we can use our voices to stand up for those more vulnerable than ourselves. Links to topics we talk about in the show: Kristallnacht - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht The Holocaust - https://www.ushmm.org/learn Women and femmes who are speaking to us: Listen to Michelle Obama’s Becoming - https://becomingmichelleobama.com/ Check out the Mob Queens Podcast about Anna Genovese - https://podcast.mobqueens.com/ Read an excerpt from Jeanette Winterson’s Poetics of Sex - https://granta.com/the-poetics-of-sex/ Find You Sound Like a Girl at: www.yousoundlikeagirl.com yousoundlikeagirl@gmail.com @yousoundlikeagirl - https://www.instagram.com/yousoundlikeagirl

    35 min

  5. 04/09/2021

    Exploring gender identity

    In this episode, we speak with Evie Dumont (she/they) about gender identity, pronouns, imposter syndrome, the joy of the gender journey, and how art and creativity can help us find ourselves. Content warning: You’ll hear some terms that, while originally homophobic, have been reclaimed by some members of the LGBTQIA+ community. Learn more about gender with these resources Evie shared! Genderflex from The Queen’s English by Chloe O. Davis - https://www.thequeensenglishus.com/meetchloe AE Osworth - http://www.aeosworth.com/ Matisse Dupont - https://www.tiktok.com/@mxmatisse/video/6942834786213924102?lang=en&is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v3 Follow the folks Evie shouted out! River Stanley - https://www.instagram.com/c.untryqueer/ Afternoon T - https://www.instagram.com/t42time/ Matisse Dupont - https://www.instagram.com/matisse.dupont/ Basit Shittu - https://www.instagram.com/basitcom/ Alok Vaid-Menon - https://www.instagram.com/alokvmenon/ Women and femmes who are speaking to us Ruby Hamad’s White Tears, Brown Scars - https://books.catapult.co/products/white-tears-brown-scars-how-white-feminism-betrays-women-of-color-by-ruby-hamad Deb Habib and Ricky Baruch’s Making Love While Farming - https://makinglovewhilefarming.org/ Eddie Izzard - https://youtu.be/xxX7QCll3oc Park Cannon - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/04/lawmaker-park-cannon-georgia-voting-law Find Evie online @dumontevie - https://www.instagram.com/dumontevie www.evelyndumont.com Find You Sound Like a Girl www.yousoundlikeagirl.com yousoundlikeagirl@gmail.com @yousoundlikeagirl - https://www.instagram.com/yousoundlikeagirl/

    44 min

  6. 12/11/2020

    Women in movies - Molly's Game

    In this episode, we discuss the movie Molly’s Game with guest Alexandria Joesica Smalls. We talk about women’s representation in Hollywood; the Bechdel test; who gets to tell what story; and poker! Film resources and links from our conversation... American movies are full of women who don’t really talk (Quartz): https://qz.com/658693/american-movies-are-full-of-women-who-dont-really-talk/ 100 Women: How Hollywood fails women on screen (BBC): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-43197774 What’ the Movies Taught me about Being a Women (NYTimes): https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/30/movies/women-in-movies.html Molly’s Game: Movie vs. Real Life: https://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/mollys-game/ Whiteness as Property by Cheryl Harris: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1341787?seq=1 The Bechdel Test: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bechdel_test, https://bechdeltest.com/ Women’s voices that spoke to us this week... Kamala Harris & Ruby Bridges illustration - https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/politics/he-story-behind-that-viral-illustration-of-kamala-harris-and-ruby-bridges/2467730/ Cheryl Strayed (Read Tiny Beautiful Things!!) -  https://www.cherylstrayed.com/ Louisa May Alcott - https://louisamayalcott.org/ Find our guest on the internet... Instagram - @alexamuneca Twitter - @AlexaSmalls Find You Sound Like a Girl online... Visit www.yousoundlikeagirl.com Email us at yousoundlikeagirl@gmail.com Follow us on instagram at @yousoundlikeagirl

    52 min

  7. 12/04/2020

    Trans femme gender queer empowerment (Community, liberation, education thru song)

    In this episode, we hear from and talk with Reverend Yolanda about the relationship between the voice and gender identity. She shares how art and specifically music have helped her to find a community, to process her relationship with herself and the world, and to connect with young people. Reverend Yolanda (she/her/hers) is a trans femme gender queer singer/songwriter and interfaith minister. Excerpts from her song “Nice Girl” serve as the You Sound Like a Girl intro and outro music. Gender Identity & Voice Resources... The Trevor Project on Trans & Gender Identity: https://www.thetrevorproject.org/trvr_support_center/trans-gender-identity/ Gender Affirmation: A Framework for Conceptualizing Risk Behavior among Transgender Women of Color: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3667985/#:~:text='Gender%20affirmation'%20refers%20to%20an,et%20al.%2C%202009). “Voice training for transgender women is about more than adjusting pitch: ‘We’re changing how they express themselves’” in The Lily: https://www.thelily.com/voice-training-for-transgender-women-is-about-more-than-adjusting-pitch-were-changing-how-they-express-themselves/ Women’s Voices that spoke to us this week... Doreen Younglove: https://www.facebook.com/musicdoreenyounglove/ Sarah Cooper’s Netflix Special “Everything’s Fine:” https://www.netflix.com/title/81314070 Roxane Gay’s “I Am Shattered but Ready to Fight” (formerly titled “This is America”): https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/05/opinion/trump-supporters-election-2020.html Find our guest Rev. Yolanda (and buy Queero and the YolandaNanda EP!) at https://yolandananda.net/ Find You Sound Like a Girl at: www.yousoundlikeagirl.com yousoundlikeagirl@gmail.com @yousoundlikeagirl on Instagram

    34 min

  8. 11/12/2020

    Code switching

    In this episode, we hear from Shallion Dixon and Alessandra Ruiz on code switching -- what it means to them and how it’s impacted their voices; how it's a form of erasure; and how a person can both use it to their advantage and reject it as a form of oppression. Links from our discussion! Define and dig deeper into code switching -  https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/code-switching  https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/04/13/177126294/five-reasons-why-people-code-switch Dare greatly and get vulnerable with Brené Brown - https://brenebrown.com/ Check out Jamella Jamil's I Weigh podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i-weigh-with-jameela-jamil/id1498855031 Watch Katherine Ryan's Netflix comedy special three days straight - https://www.netflix.com/title/80238020 Cheer on Lizzo on Letterman - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3gPY9XjHpM Read Adrienne Maree Brown's book Emergent Strategy (and then read Pleasure Activism!) - https://alliedmedia.org/speaker-projects/emergent-strategy-ideation-institute Subscribe to Beth Pickens's Mind Your Practice podcast - http://www.bethpickens.com/mind-your-practice Find our guests online... Alessandra Ruiz - http://www.alessandraruiz.com/ Shallion Dixon - @shalliondixon - https://www.instagram.com/shalliondixon/?hl=en Music from Rev Yolanda! https://www.yolanda.net/buy-music-here Find You Sound Like a Girl! www.yousoundlikeagirl.com yousoundlikeagirl@gmail.com @yousoundlikeagirl on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/yousoundlikeagirl/)

    18 min

  9. 10/29/2020

    Voting, Running for office, How local governance works

    Welcome to You Sound Like a Girl, a storytelling project that explores and elevates cis and trans women’s stories about our voices. This episode we talk about how to use our voices as voters. Katherine Walsh, NY State Assembly candidate, shares why it’s important for women to vote and run for office, and we learn how we can get involved and use our voices to make change locally. Links from our discussion! Learn more about our guest, Katherine Walsh - https://www.katherineforassembly.com/ Elect Democrats with Sister District - https://sisterdistrict.com/ Unbought and unbossed. Learn more about the amazing Shirley Chisholm - http://chisholmproject.com/who-was-shirley-chisholm Learn more about prison abolition and the discipline of hope with Mariame Kaba - http://mariamekaba.com/ Check out Jennifer's Body by Diablo Cody - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer%27s_Body (And Morbid Podcast does a great rundown of the case that inspired the film and the film itself! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/morbid-a-true-crime-podcast/id1379959217?mt=2 ) Music from Rev Yolanda! https://www.yolanda.net/buy-music-here Find us on the internet! www.yousoundlikeagirl.com yousoundlikeagirl@gmail.com @yousoundlikeagirl

    24 min

  10. 10/29/2020

    What is You Sound Like a Girl?

    Welcome to You Sound Like a Girl, a storytelling project that explores and elevates cis and trans women’s stories about our voices. We aim to explore the social norms around cis and trans women’s voices by investigating what it means to sound like a woman and what it means for women to use our voices. In our first episode, we talk about the origin of the project and what you can expect from the podcast. Links from our discussion! Julie and the Phantoms on Netflix Megan Thee Stallion on SNL  Music from Rev Yolanda! https://www.yolanda.net/buy-music-here Find us on the internet! www.yousoundlikeagirl.com yousoundlikeagirl@gmail.com @yousoundlikeagirl

    17 min
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You Sound Like a Girl explores how cis and trans women engage with their own voices to build identity and exist in the world.

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  • Creator
    Colleen Hughes, Emily Rose Prats, Rachel Levens
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2021
  • Episodes
    10
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Colleen Hughes, Emily Rose Prats, Rachel Levens