015 - The Sex and Gender Binary and the Spiritual Community

Mind Less

“You’re not a feminist if you deny someone the ability to have agency over their own life.”

Last time we left y’all with a dense topic like this we got down and dirty into sexuality, sexual orientations and gender identities - so we figured it was time for a little bit of context! This week Kelly takes us into a brief overview of some history on the sex and gender binary (with loads of help from Alok V Menon's book reports on instagram).

The episode starts with some deep-diving into some terminology to help us get our bearings; Kelly goes over what social constructs are, why they are important and why their influence is valid before giving us a lil mini education on the differences between the terms race and ethnicity.

After we’ve grounded ourselves in a bit of formal understanding on the topic, Kelly expands on these ideas and how they’re culturally relevant to our lives today, particularly in reference to the rise in TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminism) ideology, incel (involuntary celibate) culture, and what biological determinism and essentialism has to do with any of it.

Finally, the episode wraps up with Lorena getting into how she believes these binaries and their historical construction have affected the spiritual community, both online and offline. Meanwhile, Kelly waxes poetic about their utopian ideal of a world without binaries and how to them it offers us a world without limitations.

TW/CW Femmicide and mentions of such, misogynist violence, discussion of racism and racial violence, transphobia and terf ideologies // Contact us for questions on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mindlesspodcast // Contact us for questions on Instagram: @mindlesspodcast // Music: Bad Snacks - Summer in the Neighbourhood; Andrew Langdon - Keys // Tarot readings with Kelly: @pathostarot on Instagram & Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pathostarot // Coaching & Breathwork with Lorena: https://www.lorenaschuth.com // Check out Alok on insta: @alokvmenon