The Pressure to Be the Perfect Black Father
After a panic attack nearly made him lose control on the highway, Mark Anthony Neal continued to bottle up his anxiety and pretend everything was fine. Years later, when he secretly started therapy, h...
5 Aug 44min
LST FAVES: How To Not (Accidentally) Raise A Racist
What's the best way for white parents to talk to their kids about race? We called in Dr. Brigitte Vittrup, who studies children's racial attitudes, to help us out—and to answer questions about cringew...
29 Juli 50min
Jamilah Lemieux on Black Single Motherhood
Jamilah Lemieux’s greatest fear was becoming a single mom. When she found herself pregnant without a partner, she panicked and tried to convince her daughter’s father to get back together with her. Bu...
22 Juli 44min
LST FAVES: The Secret Life of a Deaf Superhero
Cece Bell lost her hearing at age four. In this interview, the Newbery-award-winning author and illustrator talks about how she's used her hearing aid for good ... and evil. ⭐️ This episode originall...
15 Juli 43min
Even Sexperts Struggle with Intimacy in Motherhood
As curator of the Museum of Sex, Sarah Forbes was an expert on kinks and turn-ons. But motherhood taught her that sex is more complicated than attraction — and that something as unsexy as her partner ...
8 Juli 40min
Getting Kids to Bed with Naturepedic's Arin Schultz
As the father of four boys, Arin Schultz treasures his sleep… and because he works at a mattress company, he spends most of his waking hours thinking about sleep. In this episode, sponsored by Naturep...
1 Juli 34min
Preventing Teens from Joining the Manosphere
Most consent education focuses on survivors, and rightly so. But that leaves perpetrators without resources to repair harm. Drew Davis, a die-hard feminist, aims to fix that with a new online tool. …...
24 Juni 42min
LST FAVES: How to Not (Accidentally) Raise a Rapist
Consent education in school is mostly insufficient or non-existent — even when it’s required by state law. An organization called SafeBAE is trying to change that by training teens to teach each other...
17 Juni 46min
