Welcome to our gender episode were Kat and Val discuss what gender is in our culture and other cultures. We explore how the term cis gender, (identifying as the gender you were assigned at birth), feels resonante or not with each of us and how this is different than sexual orientation. Oh, and we also accidentally hard core matched in electric blue, the day we recorded this episode. Check out our Instagram for our adorable pictures!

• Welcome and overview of how we understand gender (0:35)
• Exploring that is limiting about how we "perform gender norms" within capitalism (2:59)
• Reconciling attributes we both possess that have typically been understood as masculine (5:00)  
• The feminine urge to apologize, and other critiques of cultural gender expectations (6:35)
• Kat shares about their sexual identity and gender exploration (7:57)
• Exploring the gendered cultural expectations on being a "mother" (12:43)
• Kat explains what feels like joy as it relates to gender (19:45)
• What we are learning through exploring gender (24:02)

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Val's offerings:
So This is Love Club
Reset Yourself for Love Program
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Kat's offerings:
Fat Liberation Art -Fat Mystic Etsy Shop
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Additional resources/definitions referenced in this episode:
Enneagram
The Four Tendencies
Myers Briggs Personality Profiles
Highly Sensitive People (HSP)
Fat Liberation Movement
Lipedema
Exvangelical/deconstructing from Christianity
ADHD