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Mar 18, 2021
Parenting and Personal Life in Academia
A Conversation with Kyl Myers
Summary
Welcome to The Academic Life. You are smart and capable, but you aren’t an island, and neither are we. So we reached across our mentor network to bring you podcasts on everything from how to finish that project, to how to take care of your beautiful mind. Wish we’d bring in an expert about something? Find us on Twitter: The Academic Life @AcademicLifeNBN.
In this episode you’ll hear about: navigating academia, gender creative parenting, and a discussion of the book Raising Them.
Our guest is: Dr. Kyl Myers, author of Raising Them: Our Adventure in Gender Creative Parenting. Kyl is a sociologist, parent, partner, professor, and advocate of gender creative parenting. Kyl’s work has been featured on social media, a TedX Talk, and in numerous articles. She can be found at raisingzoomer.com and at kylmyers.com.
Your host is: Dr. Christina Gessler, a historian of women, gender, and sexuality.
Listeners to this episode might be interested in:
- TheybyParenting.com
- Parenting Beyond Pink and Blue, by Christia Spears Brown
- Gender Revolution, Documentary from National Geographic
- Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon
- Raising Them: Our Adventure in Gender Creative Parenting by Kyl Myers
- Raising Baby Grey, video and story from The New Yorker
