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Relationscapes

Relationscapes

De: Blair Hodges
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We’re exploring the shifting terrain of relationships, gender, and sexuality with the best writers, thinkers, and creators. Join award-winning journalist Blair Hodges to learn more about who we are and how we connect with each other in order to build a better world.Copyright Fireside Podcasts, 2025. All Rights Reserved. Ciencias Sociales Desarrollo Personal Filosofía Relaciones Éxito Personal
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  • Breaking Down Yellow Fever and the Asian Fetish (with Kaila Yu)
    Aug 19 2025

    What if the image the world loves you for is the one that’s destroying you?

    In her memoir Fetishized, Kaila Yu deconstructs "yellow fever," exploring how pop culture and Western beauty ideals shaped damaging stereotypes about Asian women—and how she once embodied them herself. After spending years in the pinup and import modeling world, auditioning for film roles steeped in dehumanizing tropes, touring globally with her all Asian American girl band, and altering her body to match impossible standards, the emotional costs became too much. So he began a new journey to reclaim her identity, beauty, and self-worth.

    Full transcript available at relationscapes.org.

    About the Author

    Kaila Yu is author of Fetishized: A Reckoning with Yellow Fever, Feminism, and Beauty. She is a freelance writer for the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, the New York Times, Business Insider, Conde Nast Traveler and more. Formerly, she was a model and the lead singer for the all–Asian American female rock band Nylon Pink. Fetishized is her first book. You can find Kaila online @kailayu.

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    1 h y 9 m
  • Eat the Damn Peach, and Other Love Stories (with Mary Catherine Starr)
    Aug 12 2025

    In this candid and funny conversation, artist and author Mary Catherine Starr talks about her viral comics on motherhood, marriage, mental load, and more. From the story of the infamous peanut butter jar to the deeper patterns of household inequality, Starr explores how social expectations, internalized roles, and everyday choices shape parenting partnerships. Through humor and heartfelt honesty, she reveals why moms need to "eat the damn peach"—and why it's never just about the peach.

    Complete transcript available at relationscapes.org.

    ABOUT THE GUEST

    Mary Catherine Starr is an artist and graphic designer. Her popular Instagram account @momlife_comics explores motherhood, marriage, and the double standards of parenting through funny, relatable, and sometimes maddening comics. She lives on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, with her husband, their two children, and her son’s large collection of plastic dinosaurs.

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    1 h y 4 m
  • Dead Dads Club (with Maddie Norris)
    Jul 29 2025

    Most people who experience the death of a parent come to understand that grief isn’t something you get over—it's something you try to learn how to live with.

    That's what author Maddie Norris discovered after losing her dad at seventeen. Instead of looking away from the pain, she studied it—through the lens of her father's own work as a medical researcher on the science of wounds.

    Maddie joins us to talk about her debut book The Wet Wound: An Elegy In Essays, weaving together the history of wound care and the rituals of mourning. Maddie challenges the idea that healing means letting go. She asks: what if grief is more like tending an open wound—something tender, and ongoing, and sometimes even joyful?

    Complete transcript available at relationscapes.org.

    ABOUT THE GUEST

    MADDIE NORRIS is author of The Wet Wound: An Elegy in Essays. She is a visiting assistant professor at the Davidson College in North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her award-winning work has been named as notable in Best American Essays.

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    1 h y 10 m
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