197 - We Have a BIG Announcement!

Gender: A Wider Lens

Sasha Ayad and Stella O'Malley

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, Mental Health

4.6 • 961 Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Nearing the podcast’s 200th episode just around the corner, Stella and Sasha mark the 4-year milestone of Gender: A Wider Lens! Together, they reflect on the show’s remarkable evolution and its impact on their respective journeys. With a vast catalog of episodes filled with profound insights, transformative stories, intriguing interviews, and relentless curiosity, the show has progressed alongside the ever-shifting landscape of gender and the ripple effects of the medicalization of youth.

In this episode, they share insights into both the psychological and societal shifts surrounding gender identity and reveal a BIG announcement for what listeners can expect in 2025. Looking back on the development of the podcast, they express gratitude for their listeners and the incredible community that has grown around them.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Stella O'Malley, a psychotherapist in Ireland.
0:04.0	And I'm Sasha Ayyad, an adolescent therapist in the United States.
0:08.0	And this is Gender, a Wider Lens, a podcast dedicated to the shifting concepts around gender in our contemporary culture.
0:16.0	Through in-depth interviews, personal stories, and psychological exploration, we seek to open up the discourse
0:22.7	around this hot-button issue. Join us as we look at gender from a wider lens.
0:32.3	Hi, Stella. How's it going, Sasha? We have news.
0:38.2	We do.
0:44.0	I think we're both a little bit anxious to share this, but we are also excited.
0:48.3	We are going to be shifting gears a little bit.
0:58.6	And at the end of probably January or February 2025, our our weekly Wider Lens episodes will be coming to close.
1:00.8	Yeah, the end.
1:03.0	We have projects on the way, but this particular era of Gender Wider Lens will be finishing.
1:14.3	And it's bittersweet, it's sad, but also it's kind of exciting and invigorating because we've got ideas as well. Yeah. So in this episode today,
1:20.5	we're going to be explaining everything. We're going to share what's on our minds with you. And we're
1:25.8	going to tell you about the new solo projects we have
1:28.4	coming up as well as something special we're going to be doing together. But we started this
1:34.4	podcast in 2020 and we have four years worth of, you know, a body of work that we're both
1:41.3	really, really proud of. And as we'll explain today, we do
1:45.0	think it's time to bring the weekly episodes to close and shift gears. Yeah, yeah. Bittersweet kind of
1:54.2	feelings here. You know, when we first started in December 2020, as far as I remember, it was COVID. It was a different time.
2:04.8	There was so little content. There was so few resources. There was nothing. It felt like there was
2:11.1	nothing out there. And we kind of thought we'd begin this podcast, which felt very random and we'd have, you know,
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