99 episodes
Heterodorx Nina Paley
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4.8 • 99 Ratings
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Heterodox dorks Nina Paley and Corinna Cohn talk about whatever they feel like. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/heterodorx/support
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Speaking and Thinking with Helen Joyce
Helen Joyce is a journalist, former writer and editor at The Economist, and author of TRANS: When Ideology Meets Reality. She joins the Dorx to discuss what is and is not Worthy Of Respect In A Democratic Society, the importance of free speech to free thought, the stupefaction of political polarization, differences between TERF Island and the USA, Left-wing “discipline,” splits in the gender-critical movement, and more. Nina is such a drooling fangirl she barely flinches when her work is compared to painted stones and crocheted vulvas, and Corinna asks refreshing questions.
Links:
Website: https://www.thehelenjoyce.com/
Twitter @HJoyceGender
TRANS: When Ideology Meets Reality: https://www.thehelenjoyce.com/trans-news-and-reviews/
Sex Matters: https://sex-matters.org/
Compliance Comix: https://www.heterodorx.com/compliancecomix/
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The CAIS Files
Fetishized, minimized, and co-opted: Is it an identity? A “gotcha”? A political football? Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (CAIS) is in fact a serious medical condition, vanishingly rare yet disproportionately discussed by everyone with an agenda in the gender wars. Jo, a.k.a. CAIS Files, is a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, adoptive mother, and adult with CAIS, who eloquently sets the record straight on what Disorders of Sexual Development (DSDs) are and are not. Just like sex is a material reality rather than a feeling in a fantasist's head, so are the numerous conditions (mis)labeled "intersex". Enjoy the edifying wisdom and common sense of this long-overdue, much-anticipated episode.
Links:
CAIS files on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CAIS_Files
The Dreger-Wright debate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2aKX8Mcz9Q&ab_channel=CorinnaCohn
Carole Hooven: http://www.carolehooven.com/
TERF-Tranny Alliance: https://www.heterodorx.com/terftrannyalliance/
DSD Families: https://www.dsdfamilies.org/charity
Differently Normal blog: https://differently-normal.com/blog-2/
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How to Speak, How to Listen, and How to Comply
Corinna has been VERY BUSY speaking out against medically harming children or in favor of genocide (depending), including delivering this excellent 3-minute testimony supporting Indiana SB 480. Nina grapples with the Kafkaesque nightmare that is Indiegogo. Corinna encounters some activists from Planned Parenthood giving free advice on “blocking that legal stuff.” We’ve missed posting podcasts regularly; between all the travel, testifying, day job (Corinna) and weeping in despair (Nina), we just haven’t had time. So please enjoy this unedited quickie we recorded this morning.
Links:
Corinna’s testimony for Indiana SB 480: https://youtu.be/wYhMejWA_zg
FOX59 news coverage of that same session: https://youtu.be/P_nP-bVyfMQ
How to Speak, How to Listen by Mortimer J. Adler: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/How-to-Speak-How-to-Listen/Mortimer-J-Adler/9780684846477
Compliance Comix: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/compliance-comix/
Agents of H.A.G.: https://www.heterodorx.com/hag/
The Witch Trials of JK Rowling: https://www.thefp.com/p/the-witch-trials-of-jk-rowling
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The View from Canada with Stuart Parker
Canada, which National Lampoon once called “The Retarded Giant on Your Doorstep,” is just as affectionately known today as “Tranada.” It’s also the home of lifelong leftist, environmentalist, activist, prolific writer, and shape-shifting space lizard Stuart Parker. A former child-star-activist à la Greta Thunberg, Parker tells all about Canadian eugenics programs, Wallace Wong, “supportive housing”, the post-political era, Big Pharma, liberal nationalism, multi-culturalism, TERF blacklists, Morgane Oger, the role of mascot enforcer, total social immunity, getting canceled, and more. The Dorx are frequently shocked, and not just because Parker’s sarcasm surpasses Corinna’s.
Links:
Stuart Parker on Twitter: https://twitter.com/stuartlosaltos
Parker's website: http://stuartparker.ca/
Los Altos Institute: https://www.losaltos.ca/
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No-Makeup Tips with Holly Lawford-Smith
Nina is both lazy and unafraid to look bad, as she fails to prepare a proper intro for magnificent political philosopher, author, and Quillette columnist Dr. Holly Lawford-Smith. Those same qualities are why Nina doesn’t wear makeup; Lawford-Smith shares some of her own. Even token tranny Corinna has some no-makeup tips, such as waiting 5-7 years between applications. Then Lawford-Smith answers, and asks, some profound questions: Is makeup attractive, or a signal of compliance? What counts as philosophy? Is long hair radfem? What is Gender Critical Feminism? Does bullshit emanate from the Anglosphere, or from France? Is buying sex wrong? Prepare to be dazzled by beauty, intelligence, and humor that are anything but skin-deep.
Links:
https://hollylawford-smith.org/
https://quillette.com/author/holly-lawford-smith/
https://twitter.com/aytchellesse
Books: https://hollylawford-smith.org/books/
The Radical Notion: https://theradicalnotion.org/
Nina’s twitter makeup polls: https://twitter.com/ninapaley/status/1613321903846068225
and https://twitter.com/ninapaley/status/1613540702356471808
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Elaine Miller: Behind the Merkin
Elaine Miller is a pelvic physiotherapist, award-winning comedic performer, women’s rights campaigner, and now Edinburgh council candidate. She recounts how she became the infamous “Holyrood Flasher,” scandalized her children, and taught much of the ignorant world what a merkin is. She also discusses why male people cannot have periods, “gender difference,” comedy, fetishes, organ transplants, incontinence, the Bristol Stool Chart, bumholes, and much more. All in a lovely Scottish accent that melts the hearts of Amerkins like Corinna, who has NO REGRETS, and Nina, who reveals some very personal lady issues and clenches her Kegels through the entire interview.
Links:
Elaine’s web site: gussetgrippers.co.uk
Twitter: https://twitter.com/GussieGrips
The Naked Athena of Portland: https://www.artdealerstreet.com/single-post/2020/08/21/the-vulnerable-warrior-of-portland
Dave Chappelle’s show The Closer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Closer_(2021_film)
Bristol stool chart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_stool_scale
Tampax sponsors Dylan Mulvaney: https://www.newsweek.com/boycott-tampax-trends-company-slammed-trans-sponsors-1761556
Merkin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkin
'Flashing' feminist Elaine Miller to stand in Edinburgh council by-election: https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/flashing-feminist-elaine-miller-stand-29057411
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Customer Reviews
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Helen Joyce is so fun and interesting. She is brave, logical and compassionate. Great podcast hoterodorxians😊
Amazing Episode with Helen Joyce!
All of your shows are terrific, but I was totally blown away by this episode with Helen Joyce. I loved her advice about how to talk with friends about this “third rail” issue. The topic and all of its troubling aspects has been at the forefront for me for months now, but I’m still reticent to broach it with friends. I also found it so helpful to hear her perspective on the idiosyncratic shape the trans issue has taken in the US (e.g., the troubled racial legacy of separate but equal, etc.), and why the issue has unfolded differently in England versus Scotland versus Ireland. You two ask such great questions and have really thoughtful insights. I’m definitely buying Helen Joyce’s book after listening to this podcast. Corinna, I recently donated to your nonprofit, Gender Care Consumer Advocacy Network. Keep up the great work. So Nina - how can I support you and your efforts to fight back against cancellation? Please let me know, as I can’t figure out how to do that. I really appreciate everything you two do!
HEROIC
Maybe it’s the Midwestern vibes connecting and rooting me; maybe it’s me being a Big 10 alum the same age as Nina; maybe it’s my dream of one day playing euchre with Corinna… but these people give me hope that normies will prevail. Keep going.