The Self-Care Stuff: Parenting and Personal Life in Academia
An interview with Kyl Myers
New Books in Education · Marshall Poe
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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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