We are all fried. Doctors, teachers, therapists, activists and even white collar workers and podcasts hosts are working longer hours and smashing into a wall of depletion. But what does it mean to be so burnt out, even if you have a job where you just sit in front of a computer all day? What if you’re feeling burnout in a job you’re supposed to love? And is there any way to break free? Host Avery Trufelman sets out for answers, guided by a Japanese novel, a mastermind of self care, and the one a...
Sep 01, 2021•29 min
With this past year being one of loss, the Cut’s B.A. Parker seeks guidance in grief. Author and journalist Kat Chow discusses her new memoir "Seeing Ghosts." After the loss of her mother, Kat discovers the depths of family history that lie just beneath the surface. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Aug 25, 2021•23 min
The choice to wear hijab is a personal one, but oftentimes, it's also something you need to square with the people in your life. The Cut producer Noor Bouzidi talks with Maryam Jones about being a hijabi influencer and then removing hijab, and with Radiolab's Sarah Qari about the baggage that comes with shifting your identity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Aug 18, 2021•31 min
In this episode of In Her Shoes, The Cut's Editor-in-Chief Lindsay Peoples Wagner sat down with actor and director Sanaa Lathan. Born and bred in New York City, Sanaa started out as a teen guest-starring on sitcoms like Family Matters and Moesha, before becoming a staple in rom-coms like Love And Basketball, The Best Man, and Brown Sugar. She also has appeared in blockbusters like Blade and Alien Vs. Predator, where, as she’s pointed out before, she is one of the only Black women to save the wor...
Aug 14, 2021•33 min
The Cut’s Jazmín Aguilera and B.A. Parker stop by Vulture’s podcast Switched on Pop. Jazmín and Parker help Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding break down the connections between festival fashion, music, and culture. We discuss how festival fashion came to be just as important as the music itself, and whether that's a problem for the real music heads. And, of course, we all discuss the iconic looks -- and performances -- of the festival to end all festivals: Coachella. Learn more about your ad choice...
Aug 11, 2021•27 min
In the past year, we've seen at least three high-profile Black women -- Simone Biles, Naomi Osaka and Megan Thee Stallion -- talk publicly about the mental health strain of their lives in the public eye. It’s shed light on how Black women are targeted both in real life and online. The Cut’s B.A. Parker talks with Moya Bailey and Zeba Blay about the mental health impact of misogynoir and what it means for the future of Black women online. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com...
Aug 04, 2021•32 min
Finding stories in pop culture about transracial adoption are few and far between. But finding characters and storylines that reflect the complexities of growing up in white families is almost impossible. Cut producer Schuyler Swenson talks with writer Rebecca Carroll and consultant Angela Tucker about why it’s so rare to see narratives of adoption that feel accurate and how they’re bringing their experiences as transracial adoptees to the screen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastc...
Jul 28, 2021•33 min
Long before Britney Spears’s shocking testimony, her diehard fans had been sounding the alarm. For years they made hashtags and videos demanding the courts to “Free Britney" while the rest of the world just walked on by. But now those fans -- and maybe Britney herself-- are finally seeing redemption. The Cut’s Jazmín Aguilera and Angelina Chapin tap into the Britney fandom and explore how its devotion turned to activism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 21, 2021•24 min
A lot of people have been sweet on Olivia Rodrigo’s new teen breakup album “Sour.” The Cut’s B.A. Parker finds a teenager who created a way to appreciate the album through a fake relationship, and reminisces about the teen heartbreak music that makes her nostalgic for being a sad girl with big feelings. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 14, 2021•23 min
From a home video locked in a safe, to an industry of performing our most intimate lives online, host Lux Alptraum traces how the heist of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee's sex tape in the mid-90s forever warped the culture. The first episode of Tabloid: The Pam and Tommy Sex Tape, a series from Luminary and New York Magazine, is out now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 07, 2021•24 min
A few months ago the Cut's Jazmín Aguilera talked with NY 23 Congressional candidate Jaslin Kaur about what it's really like to say "fuck the old white guy political establishment," and run for office as a woman of color. Now, in the midst of New York City's rank choice electoral purgatory, we're revisiting that conversation and updating with what it's like to crash toward a finish line and just suddenly... have nothing to do but wait. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/a...
Jun 30, 2021•34 min
Gaby Grossman is no stranger to weight gain. From her childhood stint at a fat camp to the daily struggles of daring to wear a (gasp!) cute shirt in public, she's never been allowed to get totally comfortable in her body. That is until she tried one last thing: not trying to lose weight at all. As many of us emerge from quarantine a few pounds heavier, Gaby tells us what she's learned about gaining weight and loving herself. Check out Intuitive Eating Dietitian Nicole Grohman @thehungryclementin...
Jun 23, 2021•28 min
This week on In Her Shoes, Executive Producer of the Vox Media Podcast Network Nishat Kurwa sat down with acclaimed actor Katey Sagal. A fixture on prime time TV for more than thirty years, Sagal began her reign with Married Children, one of the longest-running sitcoms on Fox. In her most recent leading role, she played the title character of the Erin Brockovich-inspired ABC drama “Rebel.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 19, 2021•17 min
For the Cut's B.A. Parker, the pandemic was going to be the time to learn to play the guitar or do yoga or study French...but how do you even start? For the past year especially, it's felt impossible to try. Parker talks to an Olympic skier who went viral for being a perpetual trier, and a friend who tried all the way to a baking competition on national television. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 16, 2021•24 min
In this episode of In Her Shoes, New York Magazine Editor at Large Stella Bugbee sat down with Crazy Ex Girlfriend star Rachel Bloom. The American actor and comedy singer/songwriter spoke to us about motherhood, writing a memoir in quarantine, and why she hates when people call her show *MY* Crazy Ex Girlfriend. Here’s how it went. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 12, 2021•41 min
John Paul Brammer isn't your typical advice columnist. As Hola Papi, he answers questions like "is space gay?" and "I saw my manager on Grindr, do I say something?" But what started out as a spoof became a source of joy, comfort, and commiseration for so many. The Cut's Jazmín Aguilera sits down with John Paul Brammer to discuss the powerful nature of advice and who, if anyone, is qualified to give it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 09, 2021•27 min
They say in life you gotta know when to hold 'em and know when to fold 'em. But like... could you be more specific? This week, the Cut's Jazmín Aguilera talks to professional poker player Melanie Weisner about approaching life with poker strategies, and when to walk away. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 02, 2021•27 min
In a lot of ways, things are kind of starting to look up. The summer is here and so is the vaccine. The world is coming back... for better and for worse. This week, for her last episode with The Cut, Avery Trufelman revisits what it means to be optimistic, with the help of a Palestinian peace activist who can’t help but look on the bright side. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
May 26, 2021•33 min
Like many people during lockdown, the Cut host Avery Trufelman thought she’d emerge extremely buff. That this time alone would be a moment to do pushups, or start jogging. But the motivation just wasn’t there. So what does it take to work out? And why do we work out in the ways that we do? These are the questions cartoonist Alison Bechdel seeks to answer in her newest book, The Secret To Superhuman Strength: an autobiography told through decades of workout trends and exercise. Learn more about y...
May 19, 2021•29 min
Some people just know if they want to grow up to have kids. And there are those who never want to entertain the idea. And then, there are some people who are strictly, truly, exactly on the fence about parenthood. The Cut host Avery Trufelman is one of the undecided people, and this week she collaborates with Anna Sale, a mother and the host of the podcast Death, Sex, and Money. Together, they explore the decision whether or not to have children, and how it balances with creative ambition. Learn...
May 12, 2021•28 min
Michelle and her mother were nothing alike. Now the lead singer of Japanese Breakfast, Michelle Zauner grew up as a little punk kid running around the Pacific Northwest wearing Daniel Johnston T-shirts and patched overalls. Her mother was glamorous, refined, and secretly homesick for her hometown of Seoul, Korea. The bridge between them, however, was their shared love of adventurous eating and Korean food. Although Michelle only realized how significant this connection was once she had to learn ...
May 05, 2021•31 min
As soon as producer Jazmín Aguilera got vaccinated, she felt like she could daydream again. The possibilities for a life post-vaccination seemed endless. A summer of love! Debauchery! Parties! Travel! Jazmín finally felt there was a light at the end of the tunnel. And so she followed that light to somewhere she never expected to go. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 28, 2021•23 min
When producer B.A. Parker was looking to decorate her apartment, she wanted to buy a poster of one of her favorite films from 1943. And upon revisiting the poster she realized... it was just a little more racist than she felt comfortable with. So what do we do with the problematic art of the past? B.A. Parker goes in search of answers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apr 21, 2021•27 min
We are all fried. Doctors, teachers, therapists, activists and even white collar workers and podcasts hosts are working longer hours and smashing into a wall of depletion. But what does it mean to be so burnt out, even if you have a job where you just sit in front of a computer all day? What if you’re feeling burnout in a job you’re supposed to love? And is there any way to break free? Host Avery Trufelman sets out for answers, guided by a Japanese novel, a mastermind of self care, and the one a...
Apr 14, 2021•29 min
Lindsay Peoples Wagner's meteoric career in fashion and media is impressive. She was the youngest Editor In Chief of a Conde Nast publication while Editor In Chief of Teen Vogue magazine. She is an ASME Next Winner and a Forbes 30 under 30 recipient. She authored the highly acclaimed piece on The Cut "Everywhere and Nowhere: What It's Really Like To Be Black And Work In Fashion" and started The Black In Fashion Council with Sandrine Charles, a nonprofit dedicated to holding the fashion industry ...
Apr 07, 2021•40 min
No matter who you are, inevitably there is someone telling you to “be nicer” or “stop being so nice”. Girlbosses preach that nice girls don't get the corner office, and yet Instagram slogans plead to "be nice." But what is niceness? Is it a virtue? A defense mechanism? A personality trait? And how can one try to be nice in a mean world? Host Avery Trufelman turns to Jonathan Van Ness for answers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 31, 2021•27 min
There is so much to say about Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters. Lauded as the first book by a trans author to be released by a major publishing house, Detransition, Baby is a novel about queerness, motherhood, mothering, and, ultimately, the way we all present our genders. This week, Torrey speaks about how the Kardashians have “transitioned” from female to female, the impossible performance of womanhood, and how the common feeling of “failing at gender” can bridge divides between cis and tra...
Mar 24, 2021•23 min
U.S. politics are starting to look a little bit more like the United States itself. More queer people, women, and POCs. People who have never worked in politics before, have no corporate backers and are running campaigns out of their kitchen. So, what about you, or your friends? Producer Jazmin Aguilera tests whether she could actually run and what she would have to give up in the process. Writer Brock Colyar profiles Sarah McBride. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adch...
Mar 17, 2021•40 min
It's been an awful year for almost every single person on the planet. And at the one year mark of the pandemic, Cut producer B.A. Parker decided to try to escape the stress and trauma by getting out of her own head. But it turns out getting out of your own head is a real mindf--k. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 10, 2021•25 min
When Avery Trufelman was a pre-teen, the film 13 Going on 30 was like a roadmap to everything she wanted to be as a grown up: "thirty and flirty and thriving." But as Avery enters her third decade, she revisits the movie and grapples with what 30 means today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Mar 03, 2021•34 min
