The Self-Care Stuff: Parenting and Personal Life in Academia

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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

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