You Sound Like a Girl

Colleen Hughes, Emily Rose Prats, Rachel Levens
Podcast de You Sound Like a Girl

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

Episodios

  1. 20/05/2021

    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 genitals 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
  2. 09/04/2021

    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
  3. 11/12/2020

    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
  4. 04/12/2020

    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
  5. 12/11/2020

    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

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