Today’s show is an exploration into sex and gender with Kathryn Bond Stockton, author of Gender(s). What do cake, gender forts, Lil Nas X, dolls and surprising dresses at the Oscars – have in common? Osha Hayden & Kathryn Bond Stockton explore the surprising field of gender and discuss how it's not as simple as it might seem.
Osha's guest is Kathryn Bond Stockton, Distinguished Professor of English and inaugural Dean of the School for Cultural & Social Transformation at the University of Utah. She is the author of numerous books including Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame: Where Black Meets Queer, The Queer Child, or Growing Sideways in the 20th Century, and Making Out, among other books. Her newest book, is Gender(s).