Shows
HeterodorxThe Academic Freedom Closet with Cory ClarkThe Dorx experience a proliferation of Cories as behavioral scientist Cory Clark shares fascinating observations about victimhood strategies, punishment, tribes, norms, taboos, hyper-cautious conformity, the ambition of academics, scrutiny of unpopular papers, self-censorship, socially costly beliefs, tenure, reputational threats, and socially desirable empirical conclusions that turn out not to be true. Nina signals her victim status as a canceled artist while morally judging cowards; Cori (Cohn) notes how errors in academia spread through society; and Cory (Clark) confesses she is a confessor to many a guilty and frightened professor. It turns out everybody wants power and status, even scientists...2024-10-211h 16
UnMuted: the TransMuted PodcastUnMuted episode 16, featuring Meghan DaumI was not quite three sentences into my Substack writing career when I made this admission: “I get stupidly star-struck, when the star in question is someone I believe to be famous for being very smart.” At the time, I was referring to Chris Hayes of MSNBC, who didn’t deserve the praise, but you know who does? Today’s guest, Meghan Daum!Meghan has written for magazines ranging from Vogue to The New Yorker. She’s been a columnist at the Los Angeles Times, and she’s the author of six books, including most recently the...2024-10-191h 49
HeterodorxLeft Wing Heresy with Lisa Selin DavisProlific writer, researcher, thinker, and close personal friend of the Dorx Lisa Selin Davis is an old-school Leftist who developed an “exciting new interest in reality,” subsequently putting her on the wrong side of many a Brooklyn dinner party. We ask: What does it mean to be on the Left? What is Feminism? Do Gender Critics engage in “hugboxing"? How does one remain curious and empathetic while talking to ignorant a-holes? Do Conservative women give fewer effs? Is Corinna wearing “woman-pit”? What is Lisa’s next book about? It’s a party in the rabbit hole as 3 disagreeable friends agree on just...2023-08-231h 15
Year Zero with Wesley Yang"We're giving these girls mastectomies. You have to be curious about what's going on."Year Zero is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.A small group of writers attended two conferences on gender held concurrently in Killarney, Ireland in April. One was the annual meeting of the European affiliate of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health, known as EPATH. The other was the first gathering of an upstart organization called Genspect, which declared itself a rival to WPATH by scheduling a conference right down the road. Genspect urges an open-ended and exploratory...2023-06-091h 10
BROADVIEW PodcastHeterodox Trans People #3Happy New Year to you all! For my last post of the year, I’m sharing a conversation with one of my favorite friends that I’ve met by way of looking at gender issues from a heterodox viewpoint, Corinna Cohn. Corinna is co-host of the wonderful podcast Heterodorx, in which she speaks with people from all over the gender and ideological—and gender ideology—spectrum with co-host Nina Paley. She’s also the co-founder of GCCAN, a consumer-advocacy group for those partaking of gender care. And she’s a “disenchanted” transsexual, immune to pronouns (use whatever you like—I’m jus...2022-12-311h 16